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

[zinthosmantra]

You're welcome. That's an impressive tower of-- did you say Dorian Gray?

[depicted]

[There's a pause and a smile, as if he gets that question a lot.] I did, yes. You're a reader, then?

[zinthosmantra]

Yes, I am. Very much so.

[ ahem ]

You... aren't just named after that person, are you?

[depicted]

[He doesn't waver in his lightness of tone.] You could say he was named after me. Oscar and I were good friends.

[zinthosmantra]

My name is Raven. It's very... nice to meet you.

[depicted]

I sense some reservation.

[He doesn't sound offended. It's good humour, if anything, and resignation.]

[zinthosmantra]

No, it's just--

[ She stops herself before she speaks her mind. ]

You're very famous. Even with the collected people here, I didn't think I'd meet... someone like you.

[depicted]

Of course. [He doesn't quite buy it, but it's fine.] Well, Raven, thanks for catching my book. I appreciate it.

[zinthosmantra]

[ Raven had been going to use a much more lavish term, in truth. But she didn't want Dorian to know she was flustered. ]

You're welcome. I mean, of course. It's-- you're a classic.

[ wow that sounded miles short of what she was intending ]

[depicted]

A far cry from what the press was saying when Oscar first published, but I will take the compliment on his behalf.

[Also on his own behalf, vanity is sort of a thing, but really he's just in too much of a good mood.]

A student of literature, then?