An Abandoned Warehouse [Y's Private Training]

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And then...

I remember going out and finding another piece of paper of the right size. It was before the age of standardisation, so it wasn't that easy of a task. I found a paper that was close, and I realised that I could probably just cut it down to the right size. And so, with the blank slate of forgery purchased, I looked at the certificate I had stole and tried to figure out how it was cut. The edges were relatively clean in their cut, however, on one side I noticed a corner that implied shears to me. Because, when one is cutting with shears, a slight bump in the hand creates an angle and continues it along, and leaves a point where the hand was bumped. This was reinforced when I noticed a discrepancy in the cut, basically showing that somebody had moved their hand further out after a cut. I was sure that shears were the tool used for this one at least.

So, I 'borrowed' some shears and began to cut. I made a template of the exact same size I needed. That way I could overlay it on my attempted forgery without risking damage to my already good certificate. I cut slowly and carefully, meticiously. But, I did allow a small errror to be made. This mark would allow anybody who checked it to tell that shears were used; perhaps reinforcing the authenticity of it. I continued my cut, putting special emphasis on the corners, for their needed to be sharp so that the certificate could look new, but I might have to wear them down, or accidentally fold them. So I left a little extra meat on the corners as I finished the cutting of the paper for the time being. The blank slate was here. Now what?

[zarak729]

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Total 30/125 SP

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The next step, the way I saw it, was to work on handwriting. Handwriting is the heart and soul, the meat and potatoes of forgery. Every forger, when it comes right down to it, has had to do some work with handwritten documents. In our modern day there are computers and copiers and machines which copy down information, but in that day every document was penned or even chiseled by the hand of a scribe. Of course, a palace might have multiple scribes, so the handwriting on the certificate might be allowed to vary, but there was no point cutting quality now, was there? Might as well put in every drop.

I studied the letters on the certificate. The first thing I noted was that the passage was not long enough for me to get every letter. Normally, that would be a shame, but not in this case, as I only needed to copy down the handwriting, with the sole exception of the name. And if I couldn't come up with a good pseudonym using only 20 of 26 letters, I wasn't going to make it anywhere in the world of forgery.

I looked at the writing, noting things like the weird curly tails on the man's n's. I noted that the dots on his i's were slanted, and that the dashes he put on his t's slanted long into the next character. I began, slowly, and with ink that I had bought from a large supply warehouse which claimed it sold to the imperial palace, to copy down the exact text of the letter, with each and every finnicky detail and mistake. I started slowly, but I began to get the feel for most of the scribe's handwriting. We were getting there.

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