OPEN: get in the car we're going shopping

[initiatesnpc]

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

Comments

[ex_bandai157]

I usually find that it's preferable to find a couple of items that you really like rather than buying a whole wardrobe of things you don't feel as comfortable wearing.

[deadelfwalking]

As I have just the one suit currently, I think I do need to fill out my choices somewhat. [he pauses, then pulls down his sunglasses slightly, the cold, blue fire of his eyes illuminating the dark lenses.] You are Barnaby, correct?

[ex_bandai157]

[ He makes to answer the part about filling out choices - though considering he has a fairly set and limited civilian wardrobe it's probably just as well that he doesn't - but pauses as well at the recognition. ]

Yes, that's right. Deathweaver, wasn't it?

[ That...was the more memorable part of the name he was given. ]

[deadelfwalking]

[he doesn't much like the epithet, but he's not going to shy away from it--or deny that it's more striking than his actual name. His voice is nevertheless soft when he responds.] Yes, that I am.

[looking him over. So this would have been his opponent, had he come to town.] I'm grateful that we did not meet in battle.

[ex_bandai157]

[ He probably doesn't cut the most impressive figure, even if he's tall and in shape, fairly slender and with things like those curls detracting from any sort of menacing value. ]

I should say the same, especially since it's thanks to you we didn't. I take it you found another means to control it?

[deadelfwalking]

[Koltira's learned never to judge people by appearance--even people with frail, sickly bodies have the potential to wield great power. But he senses no magic in Barnaby, which does leave him wondering. At the question, he winces, and fixes his gaze on the table of merchandise.]

I found a lake, ideal for meditation. [and some guys may have found me and forced my hand on the whole thing, but no one needs to know about that.]

[ex_bandai157]

[ No magic at all - just a strange genetic mutation that grants him extra power for five minutes at a time, and he's learned to make them count. He notices the wince, but doesn't press that point. ]

Meditation. [ It's an echo, and then he nods. ] I wouldn't have considered that. Incense could help as well, in that case.

[deadelfwalking]

It would have to be quite pungent for any effect on me, I'm afraid.

[ex_bandai157]

[ ...blinks. ]

You can't smell?

[deadelfwalking]

The ability is not lost to me, but undeath has a way of altering the senses.

[ex_bandai157]

[ ...interesting. ]

It seems logical when you put it like that. There's no equivalent to your condition in my world, so it's still a little fantastic to me.

[deadelfwalking]

Be glad of it. It's not a state I would wish upon anyone.