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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2013-07-21 10:49 pm

Event | Yard Sale!

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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pandoricas: (repeat that again.)

[personal profile] pandoricas 2013-07-25 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Rory knows very well that the world doesn't revolve around him, tyvm. Its a fact he's reminded on a near-daily basis.

He rubs the back of his head, trying his best to be disarming and friendly too - no use getting on anybody's bad side when he's still lost on most of the things here.]


It's fine. [A beat.] We've both been busy trying to get used to it, I'm sure.
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[personal profile] ihope 2013-07-26 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, so far Lex has found out that Rory has knack for doing all the wrong things- like. Like, for example, here he is again standing with an expression of patience, like he's waiting for the man to continue, to give him some information he expected, and getting nothing in return. It's not malice on his face, not at all, but dry amusement may fit the bill.]

Here I was hoping you'd give me your name, but it's rude to ask without introducing myself first, isn't it? [So he extends a hand, because they're both trying very hard to be friendly and it's kind of obvious.] Lex Luthor.
pandoricas: (I need a moment.)

[personal profile] pandoricas 2013-07-26 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Hey nobody said that Rory was exactly the master of subltey. Still, he can guess that he's kind of irittating the other man, so he tries to make things better. Or as much as he can anyway; Rory doesn't really know what's up with the him.]

Ah--sorry. [Tries a smile one more time, reaching for the hand and then shaking it.] Rory. Rory Willams.
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[personal profile] ihope 2013-07-31 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Progress, small as it may be. And Lex hadn't set out this morning to bully anyone- he nods in acknowledgement too before he lets his hand slip away and he turns back to the wares displayed in front of them.]

What were you looking for?
pandoricas: (I need a moment.)

[personal profile] pandoricas 2013-07-31 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Rory looks at the other man - Lex Luthor - for a moment before he turns back as well, eyeing the things on display as well before he answers.]

Um, clothes. [Pause.] I don't really have any, and I came here in my PJs.
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[personal profile] ihope 2013-08-01 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He wants to comment--]

[But he probably shouldn't.]


Anything in mind?
pandoricas: (looking left.)

[personal profile] pandoricas 2013-08-01 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Shrugs lightly in response.]

As long as it's not eye-searing? I'm not too picky, honestly.

[Clothes are clothes. Rory is a practical man.]
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[personal profile] ihope 2013-08-06 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[There's your problem, Rory.]

Well, what are you working as?
pandoricas: (spying with my little eye.)

[personal profile] pandoricas 2013-08-06 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
[But he's just being sensible...]

A nurse.
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[personal profile] ihope 2013-08-07 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
At the Lantern's clinic?
pandoricas: (listen to me for once.)

[personal profile] pandoricas 2013-08-07 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[The... what?]

Uh--no. Back when I was at Leadworth.
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[personal profile] ihope 2013-08-15 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[That just makes it worse. He can think blues and the color may even be flattering on the man, but—and he moves around the stall. Kedan fashion was strange enough.]

Yes, but here? What keeps you busy? [They’re new, he knows. It’s no excuse to not have found a job or made a business yet. The hosts seemed set in their ways of work or starve. He wonders faintly what the emperor’s hand played in this all.]
pandoricas: (I need a moment.)

[personal profile] pandoricas 2013-08-15 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Always used to following strange people, Rory more or less ends up trailing after Lex, wondering awkwardly for a bit just what he is getting himself into here, if he is getting into anything at all.]

Just... trying to settle in, I guess. Get used to the place. [Pause.] Things have been kind of strange for me recently.

[Strange being an understatement, of course.]