Shoplift

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Shoplift
Command information
GP Cost 45
Learnt At 15 covert.manipulation.stealing
Skills Used Covert.manipulation.stealing
Items Needed N/A
Guild Available to all

Shoplift is a covert command used to steal items from shops.

The following places absolutely prevent shoplifting:

Note, however, that you can shoplift from NPC shops (those you can steal from otherwise) without the shopkeeper present, and it may even be easier, but you must already know what goods are for sale, as you cannot list them without the shopkeeper.

Skillchecks & Difficulty

Each attempt must pass a check of the skill Covert.manipulation.stealing, and calculating the difficulty of the attempt involves your strength stat and the value of the item being shoplifted. Items of higher weight and/or higher value have a higher resistance to being shoplifted. As described below, other factors may make shoplifting less successful.

Security

A shoplift attempt--whether successful or not--will raise the shop's security and make it more difficult to shoplift things from it.

There are two levels of security in each shop: personal security which only affects the thief who made the steal, and overall security which affects the shop and anyone else who attempts to steal from it. Shoplifting increases both levels, with personal security increasing faster. Personal security will max out quickly, and seems to increase exponentially after the fourth shoplift.  research If this has been marked on a page, it's because there was something that probably isn't known, that the person who edited the page thinks could be found out. Perhaps you could figure this thing out, and be famous evermore. 

Messages

Success

You steal the <item> from <shop>.

Failure

You tried to steal the <item> from <shop>. You hope nobody noticed you trying.

Out of Covert GP

You cannot focus enough to shoplift.

Example

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See also

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