Event | Yard Sale!

[ironwood]

Characters: Come one, come all!
Date: July 21st - July 27th
Location: The City of Keeliai
Situation: The rationing is officially lifted and the kedan are celebrating by conducting one citywide yard sale! Think big! Think small! Think tribbles! Think all!
Warnings/Rating: Tribbles. Lots of tribbles. Please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

The morning of the 21st kicks off with heralds roving about the city of Keeliai to declare that the rationing edict has been lifted and that citizens no longer have to contribute one-fifth of their productions (juulan or physical goods) to the communal stores maintained by the police force. These announcements trigger a state of celebration across the city as kedan drag months worth of hoarded items to the street to sell, steal, or trade in a wave of mercantile goodness that stretches for nearly a week. Not even the rising tide of tribbles seems to dampen their spirit, with kedan citywide finding new and inventive uses for the fuzzy paperweights.

Characters are free to do as they will during this event, with police oversight relaxed in the aftermath of the long rationing and strained relations. Impromptu sales out of suites will rarely be inspected and purchase made elsewhere are no longer monitored. Everyone is taking a breath of fresh air, so to speak, and most do not want their first fun in months to be ruined.

OOC: See the OOC announcement for details and this post for subheaders in which you may wreak havoc celebrate the lifting of the rationing. Feel free to start your own thread header if you like! <3

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Comments

METAL SECTOR

[ironwood]

[Technological trinkets flood the streets within the first day to the point that some kedan can be seen disputing tickets with the local law enforcement. The charge? Littering. The evidence? Whole roadways stocked with parts, tools, and inventions that have been raring to see the light of day. 'Functional' best describes much of what's on offer (the eccentric nose-scratching machine aside) and those from a technologically inclined world are apt to find many things of interest here, from salvaged spectre technology to melted down goo collected from consoles that were tampered with by Foreigner arrivals.

Tribbles are oddly under control throughout a good portion of this sectior, largely in part due to the availablitily of technology and the fearless application of it that many kedan have employed. Dozens of air-cooled pens are scattered about the sector and serve as petting zoos for the younger populations to enjoy. Meanwhile, a half dozen truly inspired kedan have been rolling tribbles up -- quite literally, in some cases -- and placing them into spherical containers. Their goal is to generate electricity from them, though via static or the rotating motion of a hamster wheel remains to be seen.]

Pepper Potts

[the_other_eight]

[After spending time inside her own sector she heads to the metal sector. She knows they've been squirreling away tech (it's what any self respecting scientist would do after all) and she's interested in finding out what they've done with it. She's careful in her examinations, and anyone who she thinks has a decent SI level of ability is offered a card and invited to come view the facility in the fire sector. Parts are, of course, purchased and shipped to Stark as well as a few interesting odds and ends that are kept for inside the apartment. Anything that looks like it could be useful in Bruce's project for Jack is shipped to his office with a note attached.

She pauses to take in their ingenuity in handling the tribble problem. She had a small team working on it in the labs, but these ideas were wonderful. She carefully takes down a few sketches and the names of those who had invented them (offering jobs when she can) and files it away to be brought back out once the festivities are over.]

[zinthosmantra]

[ Raven moves to stand beside the redhead woman for a better angle to watch the tribble energy generation, offering an idle comment. ]

Makes you wonder what would happen if they grew larger.

[the_other_eight]

In theory the electrical output would be greater.

[She glances over at the - ok, seriously? The grey faced girl with short purple hair? Really, after Bruce turning into the Hulk and Jack Frost being her friend and all the other millions of weird things that she's had to deal with in her life, THAT makes her do a double take. She purses her lips a moment, doing a quick digestion of these facts before continuing.]

Have you seen them bigger?

[zinthosmantra]

No, they're all about the same size. But supposedly they breed this fast because they're trying to do so before they get eaten by predators. In the absence of predators, are they going to keep growing?

[the_other_eight]

That depends on their genetic make up.

[She's taking a bit of a shine to the one they're looking at.]

Determining that would require extensive testing that we don't have.

[zinthosmantra]

Or adaptive abilities.

[ Raven nods at the sketchbook that Pepper has. ]

You're going to build something from that?

open | a mechanic's!

[escarabajo]

[One of the shopkeeps in the Metal Sector opening their doors is that of a kedan mechanic's shop. Prices for repairs are discounted to very reasonable prices, and the owner has set a collection of shining instruments and machine parts on a blanket out front. It's all very attractive stuff, even the salvage.

The owner's inside with the customers, though. Jaime Reyes, sitting in the shade of the shop's roof, is polishing some of the goods with a rag. He's also people-watching greeting folks as they pass by. He'd rather be out shopping himself, but hey-- gotta actually make money first, right?]

[zinthosmantra]

[ Raven's come wandering through the area, a few books in her arms already. She's done browsing for herself and is now scouring the Metal Sector for things that might be useful if her teammates show up, particularly Robin or Cyborg. Given the strange variance of universes alike but not her own, she couldn't say for sure if it might be her Robin or Cyborg arriving -- but she figured, they couldn't be so different from the ones she knew to turn down pieces of usable tech. ]

[escarabajo]

[Oh, hey, a customer! Jaime sits up a little straighter (and tries to pretend his eyes weren't nearly glazed over thirty seconds ago) and smiles brightly up at Raven.]

Hey! You looking at anything in particular? I'm kinda new to kedan tech myself, but I'll help out however I can.

[zinthosmantra]

Just browsing.

[ The reply is as practiced as anyone used to shooing off over-enthusiastic salespeople, but she notices both from his words and his appearance that he's not a kedan and thus doesn't turn a glare on him for asking. ]

Have you got anything communications related?

Open

[andaway]

[Clark humiliated himself as Superman and he's... going to try to avoid being seen on public for a while as him, but that doesn't meant he can't enjoy himself around as Clark. He never got a work in the Metal sector so he never visited it much... and this was as good as chance as any.

The devices Bruce had come up with did their work so he could be near the tribbles and not act like he was on drugs. He can be seen next to the spherical containers, admiring the idea. The bust on the electricity supplies in such a clean way was welcomed, and Clark couldn't help but think it would come very handy for the radio.]

[raptorcanaria]

[Look out, Clark, Dinah is totally sneaking up on you. With exaggerated sneaky tiptoe motions and everything. Obviously this means she can totally take him by surprise when she appears at his side, throwing an arm around his shoulder and peering at the tribble-generators.]

Hi.



Do those things actually work?

[andaway]

[Of course Dinah could't actually sneak on him now that Clark's powers were slowly but surely coming back, there was only one person who managed to sneak up on him and he wore a cowl, not fishnets.

He turns to grin at her, amused.] They seem to, they keep using them. Interesting, isn't it?

[raptorcanaria]

Yeah.

[She leans over further, squinting at one of them.]

How long until there's one in every home, you think?

[Although the idea of one of these in his home is too terrifying to really contemplate.]

[andaway]

[The expression on Kal's face makes it very clear that yes, it's a really terrifying thought indeed.]

Over my dead body. [And then a little more hushed:] I've played dress up with them enough for at least three eternities.

[raptorcanaria]

[She places one finger over her lips, not to hush him, but to try and apologize for the smirk that's rising. Then she reaches into her purse and pulls out a tiny little Green Arrow hat.]

I've been carrying this around with me ever since.

Open!

[charmspeaks]

[If there's one thing that Piper can't stand, it's injustice. Her hackles are already raised over the whole tribble thing. Really, killing them, eating them, using them for whatever purposes they might suit? This is one of the reasons why she's gone vegetarian. The mistreatment of animals.

But right now, she's mostly just irritated at the way the local cops are hassling people for putting their wares into the street. She doesn't think they should be blocking roads, but she also doesn't think ticketing them for littering is right either.

And besides, she wants to flex her charmspeaking muscles, so to speak. She smiles at one such officer, placing a thread of power in her voice as she stands up for one of the kedan currently arguing over her ticket.] This isn't littering. She won't be dumping her items here for good; it's just for the moment.

[The officer hesitates only briefly before smiling back and nodding. The ticket is basically forgotten.]

[backwordscompatible]

[Zatanna sensed a disturbance in the force.]

[No, really. It was a thing of hers. She could never figure out exactly what it was, or how she was able to sense the thing she did. Nor was it entirely accurate. Then again, the smiling cop who suddenly politely walked away from the slightly older girl was a pretty big clue. Magic? That would be her first guess.]

You need to teach me your secret.

Last time I got caught by the kedan police, they basically grounded me.

[charmspeaks]

[Yeah, so she might have gotten a little carried away with the return of her powers, especially if she's letting herself get caught like that. There's a slight blush on her face when she turns toward the other girl, smiling awkwardly.]

It's not really a secret. Sometimes, you just have to make the right amount of sense. [And maybe have charmspeaking, yes.]

[backwordscompatible]

[Zatanna still didn't know exactly what she had done. Only that she figured magic had somehow been involved. If she knew the nature of her powers...well...that sort of thing was a bit of a sensitive topic these days.]

[Better stick with the joking to start.]

Guess I was never very good at doing that. Oh, well.

So, what'd they try to bring you in for?

[charmspeaks]

[Her nose wrinkles a bit.] Hey, persuasion and sense are just things that you have to work at, the same as anything else.

[Piper shakes her head a bit.] Not me, really. One of the vendors around here. Her wrenches spilled into the street, and like I pointed out, it's unfair to ticket someone for something that wasn't exactly litter.

Arthur's fine luxury items (wiiiiide open + bonus Ariadne per Laura's permission!)

[aloadeddie]

[Arthur, given his black market work, has been carefully hoarding a number of luxury goods - things that were hit hardest by the rationing, of course, things that aren't necessities so he never felt like he was depriving someone of a hot meal. The only people who bought from him were people who just didn't want to do without wine, cigarettes, or chocolate, and they had the juulan to pay for it.

Now, though, the rationing is over, which means prices will be dropping as these items come back into the market in larger quantities, so what's a racketeer to do except try to off-load most of his stock at once? Hence, the lower floor of his suite has been opened up into a makeshift store of sorts.

He invited Ariadne over to help him out, so she might be found around as well, sketching things.

Also, watch out for Milo the tribble. He is not for sale.]

[flamingshortshorts]

[Toro is lost. Completely lost. Even for his own time, he's not the most hip on technology. It's never been something he could wrap his head around. So all of the technology here might seem primitive to others but he's just flabbergasted by it. Why can't people just have simple radios? Radios are good.

He wanders through metal sectors, stopping to looking at just about everything. He picks up parts and pieces and turns them around trying to figure out just what they are and how they work. He might turn and ask the person next to him if they look like they understand better than he does. And he stops by one of the cooling pens to pick up a tribble and pet it. At least no one is going around killing them here like they do everywhere else.]

METAL SECTOR

[superoverachiever]

[Ava's mostly just curious to see what all the fuss is about. She kicks a couple tribbles out of the way when she sees them, and tries to keep her eyes open for any good deal she can find.]