Remember that in the dark your peripheral vision is better at seeing movement than looking dead on.
Don’t wear black. I can tell you this from experience in live-action role-playing-games. Wear grey, and not too dark, either. Seriously: you’re a LOT harder to see in medium grey than in black.
If you want to go farther, you might experiment with camo patterns, to break up your silhouette. I don’t have any personal experience with this, however.
I like Pirates!
(And my advice was actually somewhat serious: if you walk into a place with confidence and an air of authority, people will tend to assume you belong there. This, too, I have personal experience with!)
Trinopus
Put the damn pebble in your pocket.
In his writings William S. Burroughs (sp?) gives the secret to invisibility. What is it? I’ve probably given too much of a hint already, what with the internet search engines and all.
My ninja tip straight from a security guard at the Sackler Gallery. The easiest way to be invisible in a busy place is to simply stand very still against the wall. That 300-pound guard would nonchalantly wander out of my field of vision and then park right next to me, just waiting to see how long he could loom there without me noticing. He claimed sometimes I never did notice him before he left again. It was really pretty impressive.
The dude claimed that there is a real art to standing still. The two important things I can remember are controlled breathing and not moving one’s head while looking around, which is apparently difficult to do. People are very sensitive to head movement.
Another ninja-like maxim a former veteran once told me: “never, ever go out the same way you came in.”
…Which is also apparently difficult to do. I once asked a police officer what he did when he lost someone in a car chase. “I just pull off the road and wait,” he told my friends and me. “They always come back.”
More proof that I don’t read threads carefully enough. I saw a program in which a former member of the Skunk Works explained that the reason that stealth fighter-bomber was shot down over Serbia (Kosovo?) was because the macho military wanted a macho color like black instead of a stealthy color like grey (maybe pastel grey, IIRC).
Also, rub dirt on your face to remove any shine.
Everything I need to know about being a ninja I learned from the Ninja Turtles.
If all else fails, playing it bogart usually works.
Thanks a lot guys.
You should all expect visits from me now-but don’t look too hard.
For some strange reason, I feel compelled to post in this thread. Hmm. Curious.
glad to help, but my friend’s blood brother the hippo will be waiting for you,
If you tape a few branches and leaves to your ninja outift, and then tell everyone who comes near that you are a hedge, you will escape detection. Or so I read somewhere.
Also remember to paint your butter. Gotta be grey… that bit of yellow in the dark could give pirates the very chance they need to finish you off…
they don’t carry butter naked silly, they’re all wrapped up…
what do you get when the ninja uses the butter as a projectile weapon?
slips out quietly