exsiliumlogs | 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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Your surprise over the items they offer made it quite clear.

Perhaps you should purchase your own spot on the street and sell some of those kitchen appliances you've tinkered with. I'm sure the natives will be fascinated by an overheating toaster and aggressive blender.

Sell Tiberius and Leslie? Are you insane? They're practically part of the family by now.

I seem to recall an attempt to give them away not too long ago.

That was like, at least thirty hours ago. A lot can change faster than that. Leslie's in therapy now anyway; I don't want to be responsible for any backsliding she goes through.

You take awfully good care of your inanimate objects. [ ... at the very least your cars. ] Was Leslie the toaster or the blender?

Blender. Tiberius just has a little bit of a temper, but he's not quite on the 'murderous stabbity' level of things like she is.

I'll make a mental note to be cautious if I ever set foot in your kitchen.

Nah, these are in my lab. Kitchen's safe. I don't want to accidentally maim whoever moves in with me and the cripple.

[ well. ]

Turning tools in the kitchen into potential weapons can't leave many useful for cooking.

'The cripple'?

Like I said, kitchen's safe. I don't mess with those, I think she likes cooking. Maybe. I can't tell yet.

My roommate. Doctor type. I don't know.

It's already one blender and toaster short.

Does she have a name? You must've lived with her for quite a while now. Long enough for introductions.

They weren't from the kitchen. Mostly.

Dr. Gordon. Actually one of two that I know here, which is kind of weird. I'm always either surrounded by doctors or Gordons, apparently.

Edited 2012-10-14 00:04 (UTC)

I'm thinking you mean they simply weren't from your kitchen.

I can't say I've met her. Or any other Gordon, for that matter.

Well, probably, but I also mean they were only partially from my kitchen. I can't help it if nobody else knows how to make appliances efficiently.

Maybe the Initiative likes Gordons.

I wouldn't call a murderous blender 'efficient', unless its intended purpose was something other than making smoothies.

It seems they like doctors, too.

I don't know - smoothie in twelve seconds flat is pretty efficient.

Yeah, not as happy about that.

I prefer waiting an additional fifteen and keeping all of my fingers intact.

But you're happy about the Gordons?

Maybe I enjoy my appliances to have multiple, applications. Diversity is the word of the decade.

Gordons I can leave or take. Doctors tend to follow you around.

OPEN: get in the car we're going shopping

wow you're hurting their feelings

whoops?????

you made three-eyed baby fish cry!!!!

i reiterate, whoops?

soothes them gently

/prepares the grill

DSFJKLADSJAKLSD ARE YOU COMPLETELY HEARTLESS

not completely. /tink, /tink.

i'll protect the baby fish with my life

you have fun with that

are you going to put me on the grill

that's one way to have fun with a grill

sobs

i tried for so long to come up with a bend over + grill lines pun but failed

please don't bend me over the grill that sounds painful and dangerous

yeah see that was why it didn't work

i don't even know what's going on in this subject line conversation anymore

a distinct lack of subtlety