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watch out, tumblr. i'm in the mood to go into random writeblr's inboxes and asking questions for no reason other than to hear them yap about their books

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watch out, tumblr. i'm in the mood to go into random writeblr's inboxes and asking questions for no reason other than to hear them yap about their books

EDIT: there are a lot of people interacting with this post, so if you’d like me to target your inbox, please make sure your blog intro or something on your page has your wip info so i know about your project to ask questions!!

Oooh this is a cool idea, @thecomfywriter!!!! I'll go with Ilya Nikitinov and Gemma Arwyll from Grim City Chronicles - since they're (respectively) a con man and a talented thief who more often than not specialize in improvising lol.

Okay, let's see how they handle this (I'm assuming this is a heist where the characters want to get some sort of information/money or an Important MacGuffin from a secure location. Let's pretend they're stealing something from the Main Villain's manor in the story, just because it's more realistic for them, and it's the only thing I can think of lol - since they would never rob a bank)!

Part 1 - The Distraction

After making sure the dark mage is not home, they sneak in at night, after stealthily climbing over the high, vine-covered metal fences surrounding the manor's lands, and making their way through the cursed orchard toward the house proper, they devise a plan to distract the mage's enthralled servants - and given that some of those servants are undead, a simple distraction would do quite well to get them out of the way while the duo gets in and out. Using the book, Ilya ties the string around it, before drenching the book in oil and securing the fueled lantern to it. With one of the matches, he lights the improvised fuse (the string) on fire, and throws the contraption through a strategically chosen window - the book's weight will be heavy enough to break the glass, while the oil drenching it and the field lantern will ensure that a considerable fire spreads out once the lit fuse reaches it, which would hopefully keep the undead servants of the dark mage occupied for a while.

Part 2 - The Theft

While Ilya prepared the distraction for the servants, Gemma located a wall - on the opposite side of the manor - close enough to the room where they'd been told the vault was and started digging a hole in the wall using the enchanted shovel. Once it was done and big enough for both of them to climb through and the distraction was already in action, she beckons Ilya to follow her as they sneak into the actual manor through the hole she dug. Once inside, the duo silently make their way through the twisting maze of corridors made to confuse any and all outsiders in the manor and avoid any of the cursed furniture and living traps that might notice the invasion and consider them a threat. Finding the dark mage's office, they notice it remains guarded by two skeleton guards, who apparently hadn't moved from their stations even with the fiery distraction the duo caused across the manor. Ilya carefully throws the cup to cause noise in the far end of another corridor, and one of the guards goes to check it out, while one remains, though looking in the noise's direction. Twisting the Henley into a rope-like shape and stealthily sneaking behind the remaining guard, she swiftly wraps it around its bony neck and with one swift motion, snaps its neck and head clean off. She doesn't feel bad about it - for one, this is a corrupted skeleton working for their archnemesis, for two, it probably will get restored and "revived" later when its master returns. Meanwhile, Ilya quickly locked the door to the room the second guard had walked to, trapping the skeleton inside (and since these skeletons can't speak or scream, it won't alert the others). With the two guards out of the way, the duo rushes to pick the lock to the dark mage's study room. It takes a bit of hasty team effort, but eventually, they're able to turn two of the remaining wooden matches into improvised lock-picking tools but are unable to open the door - finding that the lock has been enchanted with a warding spell. Running out of time, they choose to use the enchanted shovel instead to carve a hole in the wall of the room, beside the door, and walking in.

Within the macabre study room, which is filled with specimens preserved in alcohol/chloroform, skulls, bloodied tools and creepy sigils & an undeath tome, the duo eventually finds the safe. It seems locked with a spell, but it is thankfully small enough that the two of them can realistically carry it. It takes them a lot of effort to pry it off the wall, eventually using the enchanted shovel to carve the metal safe out of the wall it had been embedded into, without damaging it. Outside, they can hear the trapped skeleton slamming against the door of the room it was locked into, the the groans of the other approaching undead servants getting closer - their distraction must have been dealt with. Gemma puts on the gloves - as not to risk touching something rotten or just getting into raw contact with dark magic - and also picks up the mage's undeath tome, placing it atop the safe they've just pulled from the wall so they can steal both things.

Part 3 - The Escape

Pushing the small but heavy safe closer to the room's window, Ilya uses it to brace himself in order to kick the window out. After one kick, the glass began to crack, and with a second and third kick, the window flew out in shatters. With the servants getting ever closer, the duo starts to lift the safe - though with considerable difficulty - until it is at the same height as the now broken window. With a combined effort, they place it on the windowsill and push it out, letting the armored safe tumble into the dead grass below. Despite it being a big fall, the metal safe remains unscathed. Now onto the tricky part. Having run out of their limited supplies, they must figure out how to get out through this window before the servants reach them. Gemma then has an idea! Running to the dark mage's creepy wooden desk, she picks up two sturdy-looking daggers, apparently reinforced with magic as well, and climbs out of the window - the plan is for them to use the daggers as tools to hold onto the cracked stone wall until they're close enough to the ground to jump down. She gives the daggers to Ilya, who goes first - climbing out of the window, he takes a second to steady himself, before nailing one of the daggers to a crack on the wall, and then the second one. He does this again and again like a rock climbing spider, before reaching the point where he can rip out both daggers and fall to the floor unharmed. Once there, he throws the daggers into the window where Gemma is waiting, and she climbs out of the window, using the daggers to climb down just as he did. Discarding the now-damaged enchanted daggers on the floor, the duo picks up the heavy safe and the undeath tome - and then scuttles off in the direction where they first came from, into the cursed orchard and then through the iron fences - with some difficulty given the carried weight - and then out of the manor ground and towards the grey beaten dirt street where their friend, Phyneas, is waiting for them in his dad's automobile, as their getaway driver. After shoving the enchanted safe into the car and clambering in, the group drives away, quickly leaving behind the cursed manor.

Tagging (in case they wanna try this out!) - @kaylinalexanderbooks, @oh-no-another-idea, @littleladymab,

@winterandwords, @eccaiia, @the-letterbox-archives, @the-golden-comet,

@clairelsonao3, @eccaiia and OPEN TAG

🦹‍♂️GAME- morreial's heist supplies 🦹‍♂️

While I lay there, waiting (I really did want those fruits), I scoured through my drawers, looking to collect all the necessary materials for this operation: a piece of string, a lantern, oil, matches, a book, a cup, an enchanted shovel, and a pair of gloves. And, of course, my navy blue Henley I found Caramel napping in the other day.

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tagging the TCW crew and all my followers to ask yall a goofy question: bolded above in blue are the tools Morreial uses in chapter 18 of Throne of Vengeance (ToV) to commit a heist of an armoured vault.

My question to y'all is-- how would you (or your ocs) use those supplies to commit the heist?

lmao this is so silly, but i'm curious, because editing me is reading this for the first time in months and i'm genuinely curious on how this man managed to pull this off when THIS is what he put in his toolbox.

Have fun!

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🎭every artist writer has a… tag game!🎭

Thanks for the tag, @thecomfywriter (here)!

I'll go with some of the characters from Scrapyard Boys & Supernova Initiative for this one!!! <3

Rules: for your wips, and/or ocs (if you don’t have multiple wips), answer which one would fit the following nominations, if voted by your audience: the popular one (wip and oc), the fan favourite, the experimental one, the cult classic, the best of all time, meh

Every writer has a ...

... popular OC

Luke from Scrapyard Boys

Vesper from Supernova Initiative

... the fan-favorite OC

Jack from Supernova Initiative

Valen from Scrapyard Boys

... the "experimental" OC

Noctus from Supernova Initiative

Josh from Scrapyard boys

... the cult classic OC

Adrien from Scrapyard Boys

Artemis from Supernova Initiative

... best of all time/cinnamon roll OC

Meridian from Supernova Initiative

Heidi from Scrapyard Boys

... the meh OC

I'm not sure lol

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