Garrett's Principle

[Mr Hero]

Console RPG Cliche #14 states:
Let's not mince words: you're a thief. You can walk into just about anybody's house like the door wasn't even locked. You just barge right in and start looking for stuff. Anything you can find that's not nailed down is yours to keep. You will often walk into perfect strangers' houses, lift their precious artifacts, and then chat with them like you were old neighbors as you head back out with their family heirlooms under your arm. Unfortunately, this never works in stores.

This has been an ongoing trend at my hotel. We have cubbards in the breakfast area that stores things like silverware and napkins when they're not being used during breakfast. People from the suckiest of suck to mostly tolerable would rummage through the cabnets looking for silverware or plates.

I don't mind if people ASK for certain items, but it pisses me off to no end when they just rummage through.

[Kogarashi]

You mean that isn't where you keep your Elixers?

[thehippie777]

I don't like when people rummage through our cupboards, either. Most of our stuff like plates, bowels, and plastic-wear are in plain sight...if we run out don't start looking like a theif up to no good by opening every bloody cupboard like you are casing the place.

Also, mind your young. It's not funny or cute that they are opening cupboards, throwing stuff out, and/or proceeding to leave all of them open...

[Darkforge]

Kids?

I've seen grown men and women do this before

[Imogene]

You mean that isn't where you keep your Elixers?

No, the elixirs are in the grandfather clock

[Geek King]

No, the elixirs are in the grandfather clock

You have to talk to the cat to get mine.

[Aisling]

Console RPG Cliche #14 states:
[I]Let's not mince words: you're a thief...

That's why I'm training my chickens to attack anyone wearing green on sight.

[Lusorius]

Hmm, well, if you have Garrett coming into your store, then all you need to do is turn off loot glint, and you should be fine

[An Haddock]

At least they're rummaging for stuff they might use to eat with. Check this out:

A few months ago my friend's dad was telling us about a guy who got arrested in his apartment building. The buildings all have these nice wooden and glass display case/hutches in the lobbies with a few random nice-looking china plates and vases for decoration. It seems some idiot who lived in my friend's dad's building moved their lobby's hutch away from the wall, pried off the back (anyone who has assembled those things knows that a lot of them have a 1/4" or so piece of fake wood covering the back, held in with a few nails) and tried to steal a couple of the decorative china.

In full sight of a security camera.

I believe it was a combination of destruction of private property, vandalism and attempted theft that they finally charged him with.

[Mr Hero]

You have to talk to the cat to get mine.

I get the grandfather clock, but I'm not sure I caught this reference. Chrono Trigger?

[Ironclad Alibi]

Console RPG Cliche #14 states:
Let's not mince words: you're a thief. You can walk into just about anybody's house like the door wasn't even locked. You just barge right in and start looking for stuff. Anything you can find that's not nailed down is yours to keep. You will often walk into perfect strangers' houses, lift their precious artifacts, and then chat with them like you were old neighbors as you head back out with their family heirlooms under your arm. Unfortunately, this never works in stores.

It's not just console RPGs, it happens in PC RPGs also. In at lease one, either Ultima 6 or 7, maybe both, if your character takes something from a house, the NPCs in the party complain about it. If it continues, they eventually leave the party. Sadly, we all know this wouldn't happen in real life.

[thehippie777]

Kids?

I've seen grown men and women do this before

I have seen adult men & women do the darnest things.... You're right. It's not just kids!

[Geek King]

I get the grandfather clock, but I'm not sure I caught this reference. Chrono Trigger?

Actually, so many of these are reused over and over, its hard telling.

I'm thinking the first Wild Arms, after you learn to speak to animals, one of the cats in a village says something like, "Even we animals are rooting for you!" and gives you on elixer, or somesuch.

[underemployeed]

I guess i know why people think it is Ok to steal, they can't figure out the difference between a real life and a game.