Quickly.

Since you were all travelling by foot, and it was getting late, none of you wanted to carry much.

Heading to the shops, most of the small ones had shut down already, but the department stores remained.

This was just a flying trip for the very bare essentials: pajamas, toothbrushes, tooth paste, towels, soap and a change of clothes for the next day.

While there you figured to grind Theft. You picked up 2 copies of 2 different puzzle books (one Sudoku and the other a Word Search) and sent the bottom ones to your inventory. You did the same with a pack of lead pencils.

New Skill: Shoplifting LVL 1 (15 MP)
If you want to steal from shops, you will have to be very careful. You will need to make a DEX check against the PER of all possible witnesses, including camera. This is just to conceal the fact you tried to hide something.
Failure will lead to evidence of something going missing being left behind and the goods being able to be found on your body.

Not quite that was expected, but interesting

Now to cover it for when Lisa sees you using the books latter. $2.50 wasn’t much for covering his tracks. He got crossword book to hide what he was looking at.

You know that speed wasn’t just for getting to the shops before they closed, and you needed to get out ASAP.