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initiates NPCs ([personal profile] initiatesnpc) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2012-08-20 07:26 am

OPEN: get in the car we're going shopping

Date & Time: 8/21-8/23 daytime
Location: Outside a civilian residential apt building
Characters: BIG SPENDERS or anyone really just tag your butts in and go to town
Summary: Yard saaaale. In the street. Because what is a yard in the future.
Warnings: Blood spilled over ShamWow??


What had begun as the idea of two became the realization of at least seven — all landlord approved and with nods of approval from neighboring apartment buildings. It didn't even take up a full block, but it was full enough to attract attention of passers-by on the morning hustle to work, saddling them up with something worth spreading to others along the grapevine throughout the day.

Mostly clothes and household items easily given up, but here and there a few gems. A would-be Initiative member had no need for old board games or a guitar or two, and there would be no time to take care of a pet, even one so curious and darling as Blinky. Now and then, its soon-to-be-ex-owner cast a sorrowful glance its way, only to get a slow, out-of-synch blink in response.

Oh, Blinky.

Parting woes aside, business wasn't bad! With the shabby state of affairs in Exsilium, the chance for something new, even a hand-me-down, always sparked interest. And with so many strange, new recruits, there was bound to be someone curious enough to drop down the cash for the most absorbent fabric ever made (those Germans made good stuff)...

And so, after the work buses left the area, the tables went up and the wares were put out until the workday would come to a close and force the tables out of the street. Someone was bound to score something worthwhile in that time over those three days...!


REFERENCE: Stuff for sale

[personal profile] gamblinman 2012-08-23 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nick takes Alistair's hand and shakes it -- an honest, open, friendly... conman's handshake.

"I'm Nick, and you shouldn't be so hard on yourself; you might be smarter than you think."
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[personal profile] woahwoahawkward 2012-08-23 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Alistair laughs, wondering whether he should say that being smart probably doesn't have too much to do with actually winning Nick's games. He's in this for fun and information, after all.

"Have you been around here for long, Nick? I can only guess you're a transport, since I haven't seen you around the city and we don't get many new arrivals from the locals."

[personal profile] gamblinman 2012-08-29 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Nick goes back to shuffling his cards. "Only been here a few days, actually. Still trying to feel my way around things."
woahwoahawkward: (Was that an actual compliment?)

[personal profile] woahwoahawkward 2012-08-29 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
"...right, well. Have you been finding everything all right? Nobody's tried to pin you down and implant a tracking chip?"

It's funny, the way that he says that -- it doesn't sound like a joke...

[personal profile] gamblinman 2012-08-30 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Nick gives Alistair a strange look, not sure if they guy is joking or not.

"No, can't say anything like that's happened to me. I'm pretty sure I'd remember that."
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[personal profile] woahwoahawkward 2012-08-30 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
He furrows his brow.

"Well, be on the lookout for that. It was a problem when we first arrived here."

...yeah, he wasn't joking.