I do a lot of reading, for the most part. There are a few things that C'kayah does which I also do (C'kayah's a surprisingly good cook, I was a sous chef years ago; I've done enough classical fencing to be dangerous to myself with a sword, C'kayah's about as skilled as I am), but for the most part, I just do a lot of research. I used to play this geopolitical forum RP called 21c, and I got into the habit of doing massive amounts of research into really oddball things, and that habit has really stuck with me. It lets me fake it with C'kayah in all the areas I don't know: I've never been a smuggler, a womanizer, a crime lord, etc.
