[BlackJax]

Hey guys,

I'm a bandit and I find myself terribly curious about what all the heavy duty locked chests in stores and houses have in them. Unfortunately, most have a person hanging out right next to them, making it impossible to sneak up and pick the lock. Of course, you could normally kill the person, but this usually isn't a good idea with merchants and other folks you might need to do business with in the future. (Plus, I'm always afraid that whomever I kill is going to be necessary for a quest I'll want to do in the future.) Of course, you could run and shred the locks, steal stuff, try not to get killed by the irate person or guard, and then pay off the bounty with the thieves guild, but that kind of defeats the point of being a professional thief, doesn't it?

Well, with the Telikenetic Safe Cracker, your problems are solved:

Here's the recipe:

Telikinetic Safe Cracker
1 Exquisite Ring (substitute Exq. Amulet if prefered)
1 Golden Saint Soul (or Ascended Sleeper) in a Grand Soul Gem (or Azura's Star)
1 Open Spell
1 Telikenesis Spell

Directions:
Go to your local enchanter and have him or her put Open 100-100 on target with 0 range. Next have them put Telikensis on Self for 6 seconds.
Cost: $35,000 - $40,000 (depending on your mercantile, it could as low as $25K)
Serves: 4 (each use depletes about 100 points of the 400 point charge of the Golden Saint)
Recharge Rate: Slow (After completely depleting the ring, a 24 hour sleep recharged it just over 1/2 way)

How to Use the Ring: Go to any house or business that has a tasty looking chest nearby and hide in a corner where you are out of site. Then fire your spell at the chest and immediately hit the open button ('A' on the X box). This will allow you to plunder the chest you just cracked open without moving from the safety of the corner. Since the open screen pauses time, if you're really fast, you can loot the treasure chest you aimed at and loot a couple of nearby bags or pots before your Telikenesis 6 second window runs out.

Warning: Make sure that wherever you cast this spell from, you are in sneak mode and that no one can see you. If you get cocky and fire this from out in the open, you will get a bounty put on your head.

While you're only going to get four uses out of this per charge period, the amount of stuff you can loot is pretty impressive. I ended up thieving from the chest of the Enchanter who had just created the ring for me and got enough loot to nearly pay for the entire enchantment in that one haul. This is so handy, you may want to make two of them.

Best of luck,

Black Jax