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Yes!
YES!
YES!!!

I managed to do the lockpicky thing in Kingdom Come!
Ooof, that was hard and frustrating. Now come on, back to the Miller with the loot...

 

Yikes! That's the guy I just stole from walking back.

 

Look innocent, Henry. Look innocent.
And now save and exit, damn it. SAVE! *phew*

Progress never felt so good.
 

Krosis is back from the dead!

 

No, he isn't really. It's just me wearing his face.
It's a nice bit or armour really, almost as good (and as heavy) as my steel helmet and it boosts my archery stats a bit.
I also got another set of nice armour later. Some more bandits had moved back in to Valtheim Towers, they've been there a while demanding some kind of toll payment for anyone passing and I usually just intimidate the one on the path rather than fight them all because they're clearly tougher than the ones that were there before, but I thought it was time to get rid of them. And after killing them all I found that their leader had a full set of Nordic armour which is better than my current outfit. It is a bit chunky though and I felt like an American Footballer with those heavy shoulder pieces and the bear helmet.
And of course I was over-encumbered again.
So I guess I'll stick with my usual stuff until I sort out my Inventory.
I should get a bit of my carry weight back after I return Grimsever to Mjoll back in Riften so that is where I'm slowly going now.

Valence wrote:

No, he isn't really. It's just me wearing his face.

TV interview with neighbours: "Valence seemed like a nice guy, always a little quiet, kept to himself mostly..."

Now that I've got past the tricky lockpicking thing in Kingdom Come I can now move on to the pickpocketing bit...

 



And when my time was up I tried to pickpocket the guard who was releasing me and then got some more jail time.
And after that time was up there were TWO guards to escort me out.
So I tried again and went straight back into the cell.

Then I attempted to pickpocket a woman on the street but walking and pickpocketing is awkward and she got too far away from me and realised what I was doing so she ran off screaming for the guards. Then everyone ran away screaming for the guards, all shouting "Thief! Thief!" Even the guy who taught me how to pickpocket wanted them to come and arrest me.
I think I've spent a month in jail just during the last hour.

You should probably not quit your day job...

also, next time they start screaming thief, just join in the running and screaming and they will think you're another victim.

I did try joining in with the running.
It was when my pickpocket tutor started shouting for the guards. I felt somewhat betrayed by him and thought that if he's gonna flee then I will too!
Didn't work.
And now my reputation is so bad that guards stop and search me all the time for no reason. Well, I say, "no reason" but you know what I mean.

Unfortunately Henry doesn't have any other income at the moment so his "day job" is to get better at this.
And speaking of day jobs, I almost got one in GTA. I'd stolen a taxi and decided to do some of the fares that came over the radio. In the end I spent 45 minutes just taking paying customers around the city and it was quite an entertaining way to pass the time.

Charlotte wrote:

also, next time they start screaming thief, just join in the running and screaming and they will think you're another victim.

TV interview with Charlotte's neighbours: "She always seemed so nice, a bit quiet, kept to herself mostly. We had no idea she was a criminal mastermind."

After having so much fun with my taxi job I decided to go back for another day.
I thought I'd take my dog Chop with me because that would be fun for the passengers to pet him and I'd be everyone's favourite taxi driver.
Unfortunately as soon as I clicked the button to ask for a job Chop opened the door (somehow ) and got out of the car.
Apparently you can't have passengers and dogs at the same time.
I should have known really because whenever Chop gets in the car you do get a message saying that you can no longer pick up prostitutes in this car. (Banj will say something about the neighbours again now, won't he? )

Anyway... without Chop in the car I started picking up my passengers and collecting my fares...

 

That woman wasn't too impressed with my driving though and complained throughout the journey. Admittedly, I was crashing a lot and did take a few wrong turns that I corrected with a bit of cross-country rallying. And straight away after that there was another job nearby so I picked him up and took him to his destination too and... he ran off without paying!!
Not on my watch!
I got out of the car and sprinted after him and... he was actually quite fast. Don't know why he needed a taxi he could have got there quicker by running. But I persevered and kept pumping that A button. Sprinting is actually hard work in GTA and after a while of hammering that button with my thumb I started to regret getting out of the car. But then I saw a motorbike parked nearby so I ran for that, stole it and used it to run the guy over!

 

I collected my fare off the dead body and... oh, wait. The police are after me now.
But I wasn't the thief this time!