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Entry tags:
- %event,
- post: npc,
- thread: anton shudder,
- thread: aya,
- thread: china sorrows,
- thread: deon wilson,
- thread: erskine ravel,
- thread: gene khan,
- thread: jackie ma,
- thread: midii une,
- thread: pepper potts (imaa),
- thread: raine sage,
- thread: shay cormac,
- thread: skulduggery pleasant,
- thread: solomon wreath,
- thread: tony stark (imaa),
- thread: yami no bakura,
- thread: zatanna zatara,
- † aqua,
- † aunt cass,
- † hiro hamada,
- † jack frost,
- † tadashi hamada,
- † thread: arno dorian,
- † thread: dove,
- † thread: duke pantarei,
- † thread: enjolras,
- † thread: yuri lowell,
- † toph bei fong
[EVENT] YARD SALE
Characters: Come one, come all!
Date: June 3rd - June 8th
Location: The City of Keeliai
Situation: To welcome the warm weather, the kedan are hosting a city-wide yard sale! Buy, sell, trade, haggle to your heart's content.
Warnings/Rating: Shouldn't need any, but please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.
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A few tenured Foreigners might remember the last instance of a city-wide yard sale from three years prior, but to most, this will be new. In an effort to raise spirits, capitalize on the near-perfect weather, and just make a few spare juulan, the kedan are turning the city into a maze of hastily erected stalls and tables, where everything from kitschy handcrafts to illicit illustrations, to nebulous inventions that may or may not actually do anything, are being sold. In a way, it's a little bit of clearing the air between kedanese neighbours.
Despite the currently cool view on the Foreigners by the kedan, they'll be able to get fair prices and full selection all across the city for the Yard Sale, and they'll be just as encouraged to set up a spot and sell something of their own, even if it's simple.
It's the spirit of the thing, after all.
FIRE SECTOR
The extravagance of the Sector remains evident even in something as low-key as a street sale, and because of that, many an enterprising kedan are flocking to the district to see if they can score some really high-end items for very little cash - items such as jewelry, merchandise from the spas that dot the Sector, and many other luxury items. Some of these are bought up with the likely intention to be resold at higher rates later, but no one seems bothered by that probability.
Some of the numerous brothels have placed scantily-clad "saleskedan" outside their doorsteps, who are surprisingly glib about advertising their services. It's widely understood that it's a look-not-touch demonstration though, and anyone who makes an unwelcome move is likely to get a headslap from the nearest person. Liquor houses, on the other hand, are offering finger shots of their prized blends, with bottles available for purchase as well.
Haggling over prices is expected here and approached with the excitement of a gambling challenge! In fact, some sellers may just bet the purchase on whether you can guess the correct outcome of a coin flip, a high-or-low card draw, or even something that looks like roulette, except with a rainbow of colours instead of numbers.
EARTH SECTOR
Clothing and textiles are the key items being sold in this district, with a special emphasis on detailed beadwork, leather tooling, and precisely coloured weaving. A few of the clothing merchants are holding a competition of "who can copy a Foreigner's outfit most exactly" and the wise would encourage this, if only to get a copy or two of hard to replace items. The results will be sold at a discount to interested parties, but tipping for acknowledgment of their skill is generally expected and widely appreciated.
Other types of items being sold are pottery, of both the functional and decorative types, and stoneware like statuary. If you're looking for a replica of a carved idol back home, this is the place to commission it.
The kedan here are less receptive to haggling, simply because their stubborn natures clash with the objective. They'll budge a little, but underbidding them by too much will turn them sour and grumpy.
METAL SECTOR
Here is where the majority of quirky inventions are showing up, some useless and some genuinely helpful. The Metalworkers have already cleared everything being sold here as non-proprietary, so there won't be anything groundbreaking as far as technology goes, but a lot of the items are more geared toward personal conveniences than anything really high-tech.
For some bizarre reason, the most prominent thing for sale in the Metal Sector are clocks. Every kind of clock one could think of has found its way to the streets and stalls. Clocks for every occasion: a clock that will chime only once every fourth Tuesday but otherwise keeps perfect time. A clock that will chime in the morning if it's going to rain, or at night if you should drink an extra glass of water before bed. Clocks that are counting down to the next time you're going to have a streak of bad luck. And newly popular, clocks that are counting down to the turtle's sinking.
Kedan in this Sector are fairly ambivalent to haggling; they will, but they don't usually initiate it. They are pretty defensive of their inventions however, so calling their wares useless or similar will probably end up raising the price, just so they can try and make it go to someone who'll appreciate their genius!
WATER SECTOR
It’s almost possible to have a full meal in this Sector without spending a single julaan, such are the free samples on every corner. The delicious smells encompass hundreds of different types of food, simple or complex, prepared or fresh, all sold from market stalls lining the streets and canals. If a particular specialty takes your fancy, you can always buy a large amount at a low price to take home - or you can eat it right there. It’s not uncommon to see families of kedan holding impromptu picnics in parks, or even occasionally in the middle of the streets.
Foreigners will be welcomed here, as chefs and bakers leap on the opportunity to test their delicacies on Foreign tongues and palates. Some chefs might even offer Foreigners the chance to work for them for the day as glorified food-tasters, making sure whatever they cook is suitable for selling to other Foreigners.
With so many free samples available (and almost forced on to unsuspecting passersby), haggling is seen as bad form in the Water Sector. It’s certainly possible, but don’t expect to make any friends while doing it. Oh, and watch out for the sea prunes. They may smell divine and cost a single julaan for a full bag, but they taste disgusting and will result in minor cases of food poisoning for the Foreigners.
WOOD SECTOR
Like in the Water Sector, a lot of the market stalls lining these streets sell food. Unlike the Water Sector, this food is rarely prepared. Most of it is produce either bought from, or being sold by, the Woodsmen - fruits and vegetables grown outside the city. Some of the Foreigners might recognise it as a kind of outdoor grocery store or a large farmer’s market.
Also being sold in Wood Sector is furniture, usually carved from - you guessed it - wood. Some of it is crudely carved, made to look natural and to add a touch of the outdoors to any kedan’s home, whereas others are very delicately and intricately carved to mimic interesting patterns or perhaps even particular animals and places in the city. Chairs, boxes, chests, figurines, tables, shelves, even small beds - these have all been made with long hours and large amounts of skill, making the practice of haggling a delicate one, and not undertaken lightly.
There are also a disproportionate amount of stationary stores selling things like black charcoal, blank journals and books, and thick parchment. They’re willing to sell entire batches for ridiculously low prices.
SKY SECTOR
The newly built Sky Sector has been quickly establishing itself as the art hub of Keeliai, angrily dismissed by those kedan who consider the worth of craftsmanship to be in the usefulness of the finished product, and happily embraced by those kedan with self-described ‘old souls’ and the ability to see life in a slightly different way. The new art studios in Sky Sector are using the yard sale to advertise; they’ve set up a large and grandiose outdoor gallery to show off the various types of art, ranging from small abstract paintings and jewelry to large statues and dedications. The smaller objects are frequently given away to anyone admiring them; many might leave the gallery with a small pair of free earrings or a frame carefully wrapped in paper.
These kedan will quite happily haggle over any of the larger pieces, and they seem to have a particular interest in doing so with Foreigners. They almost make a game out of it; talking as fast as if the gallery was an auction, deliberately trying to confuse and obfuscate. They’ll be delighted by any Foreigner capable of keeping up, and may even gift them the piece in question with no further haggling required.
CENTRAL KEELIAI
The center of Keeliai is, in many ways, a mish-mash of everything all the other Sectors are selling, with one notable exception: coupons. Businesses across the city make sure to have a table or a stall in Central, where their advertisements can reach a greater number of people - and one of the easiest ways to advertise is to hand out free coupons! These coupons vary as widely as the businesses handing them out do, but they all give the bearer discounts on the stated goods/services, and all coupons remain good for weeks after the yard sale ends. A single twenty-minute walk through Central can net you enough coupons to fill a decent-sized book.
In the spirit of neighbourly forgiveness, a small group of kedan are walking through Central and offering coupons good for an entire Sector, or for a particular chain of restaurants across the city, rather than just one business. They’re loathe to offer these to Foreigners, but will reluctantly do so if pressed. Unfortunately, if Foreigners try to use these coupons after the yard sale ends, they’ll quickly discover not all of the ‘participating’ businesses were informed of their participation - though most store and restaurant proprietors will honour the coupon anyway, just so they don’t develop a reputation of going back on their promises.
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OOC: The descriptions of the various sectors are only a guideline, and many other items can be found for sale all over the place. The only thing that's definitively banned everywhere are the sales of weapons and drugs.
If you haven't posted to and been approved on this thread regarding your character finding a possession of theirs, please do so before having them (or someone else, whichever way you want to do it) discover the object(s)!
Date: June 3rd - June 8th
Location: The City of Keeliai
Situation: To welcome the warm weather, the kedan are hosting a city-wide yard sale! Buy, sell, trade, haggle to your heart's content.
Warnings/Rating: Shouldn't need any, but please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.
---
A few tenured Foreigners might remember the last instance of a city-wide yard sale from three years prior, but to most, this will be new. In an effort to raise spirits, capitalize on the near-perfect weather, and just make a few spare juulan, the kedan are turning the city into a maze of hastily erected stalls and tables, where everything from kitschy handcrafts to illicit illustrations, to nebulous inventions that may or may not actually do anything, are being sold. In a way, it's a little bit of clearing the air between kedanese neighbours.
Despite the currently cool view on the Foreigners by the kedan, they'll be able to get fair prices and full selection all across the city for the Yard Sale, and they'll be just as encouraged to set up a spot and sell something of their own, even if it's simple.
It's the spirit of the thing, after all.
FIRE SECTOR
The extravagance of the Sector remains evident even in something as low-key as a street sale, and because of that, many an enterprising kedan are flocking to the district to see if they can score some really high-end items for very little cash - items such as jewelry, merchandise from the spas that dot the Sector, and many other luxury items. Some of these are bought up with the likely intention to be resold at higher rates later, but no one seems bothered by that probability.
Some of the numerous brothels have placed scantily-clad "saleskedan" outside their doorsteps, who are surprisingly glib about advertising their services. It's widely understood that it's a look-not-touch demonstration though, and anyone who makes an unwelcome move is likely to get a headslap from the nearest person. Liquor houses, on the other hand, are offering finger shots of their prized blends, with bottles available for purchase as well.
Haggling over prices is expected here and approached with the excitement of a gambling challenge! In fact, some sellers may just bet the purchase on whether you can guess the correct outcome of a coin flip, a high-or-low card draw, or even something that looks like roulette, except with a rainbow of colours instead of numbers.
EARTH SECTOR
Clothing and textiles are the key items being sold in this district, with a special emphasis on detailed beadwork, leather tooling, and precisely coloured weaving. A few of the clothing merchants are holding a competition of "who can copy a Foreigner's outfit most exactly" and the wise would encourage this, if only to get a copy or two of hard to replace items. The results will be sold at a discount to interested parties, but tipping for acknowledgment of their skill is generally expected and widely appreciated.
Other types of items being sold are pottery, of both the functional and decorative types, and stoneware like statuary. If you're looking for a replica of a carved idol back home, this is the place to commission it.
The kedan here are less receptive to haggling, simply because their stubborn natures clash with the objective. They'll budge a little, but underbidding them by too much will turn them sour and grumpy.
METAL SECTOR
Here is where the majority of quirky inventions are showing up, some useless and some genuinely helpful. The Metalworkers have already cleared everything being sold here as non-proprietary, so there won't be anything groundbreaking as far as technology goes, but a lot of the items are more geared toward personal conveniences than anything really high-tech.
For some bizarre reason, the most prominent thing for sale in the Metal Sector are clocks. Every kind of clock one could think of has found its way to the streets and stalls. Clocks for every occasion: a clock that will chime only once every fourth Tuesday but otherwise keeps perfect time. A clock that will chime in the morning if it's going to rain, or at night if you should drink an extra glass of water before bed. Clocks that are counting down to the next time you're going to have a streak of bad luck. And newly popular, clocks that are counting down to the turtle's sinking.
Kedan in this Sector are fairly ambivalent to haggling; they will, but they don't usually initiate it. They are pretty defensive of their inventions however, so calling their wares useless or similar will probably end up raising the price, just so they can try and make it go to someone who'll appreciate their genius!
WATER SECTOR
It’s almost possible to have a full meal in this Sector without spending a single julaan, such are the free samples on every corner. The delicious smells encompass hundreds of different types of food, simple or complex, prepared or fresh, all sold from market stalls lining the streets and canals. If a particular specialty takes your fancy, you can always buy a large amount at a low price to take home - or you can eat it right there. It’s not uncommon to see families of kedan holding impromptu picnics in parks, or even occasionally in the middle of the streets.
Foreigners will be welcomed here, as chefs and bakers leap on the opportunity to test their delicacies on Foreign tongues and palates. Some chefs might even offer Foreigners the chance to work for them for the day as glorified food-tasters, making sure whatever they cook is suitable for selling to other Foreigners.
With so many free samples available (and almost forced on to unsuspecting passersby), haggling is seen as bad form in the Water Sector. It’s certainly possible, but don’t expect to make any friends while doing it. Oh, and watch out for the sea prunes. They may smell divine and cost a single julaan for a full bag, but they taste disgusting and will result in minor cases of food poisoning for the Foreigners.
WOOD SECTOR
Like in the Water Sector, a lot of the market stalls lining these streets sell food. Unlike the Water Sector, this food is rarely prepared. Most of it is produce either bought from, or being sold by, the Woodsmen - fruits and vegetables grown outside the city. Some of the Foreigners might recognise it as a kind of outdoor grocery store or a large farmer’s market.
Also being sold in Wood Sector is furniture, usually carved from - you guessed it - wood. Some of it is crudely carved, made to look natural and to add a touch of the outdoors to any kedan’s home, whereas others are very delicately and intricately carved to mimic interesting patterns or perhaps even particular animals and places in the city. Chairs, boxes, chests, figurines, tables, shelves, even small beds - these have all been made with long hours and large amounts of skill, making the practice of haggling a delicate one, and not undertaken lightly.
There are also a disproportionate amount of stationary stores selling things like black charcoal, blank journals and books, and thick parchment. They’re willing to sell entire batches for ridiculously low prices.
SKY SECTOR
The newly built Sky Sector has been quickly establishing itself as the art hub of Keeliai, angrily dismissed by those kedan who consider the worth of craftsmanship to be in the usefulness of the finished product, and happily embraced by those kedan with self-described ‘old souls’ and the ability to see life in a slightly different way. The new art studios in Sky Sector are using the yard sale to advertise; they’ve set up a large and grandiose outdoor gallery to show off the various types of art, ranging from small abstract paintings and jewelry to large statues and dedications. The smaller objects are frequently given away to anyone admiring them; many might leave the gallery with a small pair of free earrings or a frame carefully wrapped in paper.
These kedan will quite happily haggle over any of the larger pieces, and they seem to have a particular interest in doing so with Foreigners. They almost make a game out of it; talking as fast as if the gallery was an auction, deliberately trying to confuse and obfuscate. They’ll be delighted by any Foreigner capable of keeping up, and may even gift them the piece in question with no further haggling required.
CENTRAL KEELIAI
The center of Keeliai is, in many ways, a mish-mash of everything all the other Sectors are selling, with one notable exception: coupons. Businesses across the city make sure to have a table or a stall in Central, where their advertisements can reach a greater number of people - and one of the easiest ways to advertise is to hand out free coupons! These coupons vary as widely as the businesses handing them out do, but they all give the bearer discounts on the stated goods/services, and all coupons remain good for weeks after the yard sale ends. A single twenty-minute walk through Central can net you enough coupons to fill a decent-sized book.
In the spirit of neighbourly forgiveness, a small group of kedan are walking through Central and offering coupons good for an entire Sector, or for a particular chain of restaurants across the city, rather than just one business. They’re loathe to offer these to Foreigners, but will reluctantly do so if pressed. Unfortunately, if Foreigners try to use these coupons after the yard sale ends, they’ll quickly discover not all of the ‘participating’ businesses were informed of their participation - though most store and restaurant proprietors will honour the coupon anyway, just so they don’t develop a reputation of going back on their promises.
---
OOC: The descriptions of the various sectors are only a guideline, and many other items can be found for sale all over the place. The only thing that's definitively banned everywhere are the sales of weapons and drugs.
If you haven't posted to and been approved on this thread regarding your character finding a possession of theirs, please do so before having them (or someone else, whichever way you want to do it) discover the object(s)!
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Aaaand it looks like they're going to have to use some of that precious gas already. Tadashi follows Hiro's gaze to the shop door, frowning at the angry merchant he sees there before complying with his little brother's shoving and swinging himself into the driver's seat. Time to start this baby up and hope he's not aiding and abetting.]
I swear, if we end up in jail again...
[And VROOM, they're off.]
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Except we won't, because I didn't actually do anything wrong, and that guy just doesn't like foreigners. Have a little more faith in me, bro.
[More like that guy doesn't like weaselly foreigners with too many coupons; Hiro has a handful of these instead of cash this time, and while he's thrilled and grinning just over the scooter he's also flipping through coupons checking addresses.] Hey wait! Take a left here, there's this shop I wanna try next -
[Yeah not really getting the concept of "we have limited gas and this is not your chauffeur service."]
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BUT he scoots them right on out of there, frowning all the while. The situation just feels a little too familiar for his liking, but he follows Hiro's instructions... for a moment. He takes the left carefully, checks to be sure they're far enough out of the range of any angry shop keepers or foot traffic, and then abruptly stops the scooter so he can reach back and try to pull Hiro into a headlock.]
One! Stop antagonizing the locals. Two! If I see that gesture again I'm taking your tool set away. Three! Show me where the nearest gas station is and then I'll think about being your personal taxi service.
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Hey, hey, what—!
[And here he thought you were gonna take him shopping. Bro. Bro. His coupons scatter in favor of trying to pry his brother off him, with limited success. Tadashi's]
Oh, come on, I bet that guy doesn't even know what a middle finger means! He doesn't have the cultural capacity to be offended! [Grrrr he forgot Tadashi's better at this headlock thing than him. But he's bigger and more experienced, it should be a given.] And you can't seriously be telling me the universe sent you a scooter and not gas!
[Nah you know what if he can't break out he's just gonna. Casually slobber all over your arm.
Gross, Hiro.]
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I don't care if he doesn't know what it means. You know what it means and it's rude, so keep your finger to yourself.
[Hope the locals are enjoying this public chastisement. See, some foreigners know how to keep their fellows out of trouble... sort of. Maybe.]
I've got a full tank, but that's it until we find a fuel source or convert it somehow.
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[Instantly subdued by the firm grip on his ear, Hiro quits struggling and sags in his seat; the Kedan are certainly looking—and some of them are laughing quietly behind their hands. He can feel his face flushing and shrinks even more on instinct, letting out a low whine.
You win this round, bro.]
Fine. No more fingers. [He lapses into a genuine pout, eyes on his sneakers, somewhat put out by this and the fact there's no gas for the scooter. Not that it lasts long. Give him a second and he'll be looking up and making puppy dog eyes.]
Okay but I know where to get the sprockets you'd need to get started converting it.
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[That's what you get for being a butt, little bro. Once it's obvious that Hiro's given up Tadashi will let go. Not gonna embarrass him any more than necessary.]
We're going to need more than sprockets, so keep an eye out, alright? [Smiling a little.] I've never tried a conversion like this, but I'm sure we can manage it between us. What do you think?
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Duh. Of course we can do it. Between the two of us we could probably make it run on nothing but salt water.
[...Okay, so maybe they couldn't, but he's exaggerating; more an expression of confidence that, as long as his brother's around, there's nothing they can't do together. He cracks a faint grin.
He'd missed that feeling.]
Buuuuut maybe let's try electrical power instead.
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Tadashi laughs a little. An an exaggeration for sure, but hey, who knows? Lots of things have turned out to be possible that Tadashi wouldn't have believed before. Whatever happens, they'll figure it out together, just like they always have.
Feels good to be getting some of that back.]
Read my mind. This can be our new spare-time project... like the hovercraft.
... Without the crash at the end.
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...And a second later, his face splits into a bigger grin.]
Dude, the crash was the sickest part of that whole project. [He mops his hair out of his face, showing off the little white criss-cross scar right at his hairline, leftover from long-gone stitches.] I still have the battle scars.
But that was forever ago, we could probably do better now, if we can get the right parts. Speaking of which, that shop I was talking about...
[He waves a coupon in Tadashi's face. Will you take him now?]
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Instead he reaches up to give that scar a careful, but still playful poke while he tries to get a look at that moving coupon.]
How far is it? [Because he's not wasting gas if it's within a reasonable walking distance.]
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[He shrugs, leaning back and wrinkling his nose at Tadashi's poking. Baby bro may or may not have hit his head so hard he suffered some memory loss about the incident. And then filled in the blanks with only good things.
He points down the street in the direction they were going, before Tadashi stopped and....did all this.]
One block down, second shop on the right. [He sighs. He's not gonna get much of a scooter ride today, is he?] In other words, not that far.
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[Probably best he doesn't remember. There was a lot of crying from Hiro. And yelling from Aunt Cass. And then six weeks of Tadashi struggling to learn how to do things with his left hand.
Tadashi looks in the direction Hiro's pointing for a moment before fixing his little brother with a sympathetic expression that's not quiiite genuine.]
Just a block? Tell me you haven't gotten that lazy.
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Yeah right. Did you forget we've been walking everywhere for three months? [He gestures with both hands at the scooter.] And then this shows up. This shiny red bastion of civilization, pride of twenty-first century vehicular locomotion. Do you blame me for getting excited? Really?
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[No need to mention the little happy dance he preformed when he first found it.]
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[He shrugs, waving his coupons, brushing past his brother and on down the street.]
But at least they probably have the bits and pieces we need to make this thing functional. C'mon, there's buy one get one deals going on—maybe. I wouldn't put it past them to chase me out again.
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[A little optimism, please. Tadashi swings himself off the scooter and pushes it along as he follows Hiro down the street.]
You have to know when to stop pushing, Hiro. We're foreigners here. We have to earn their trust, not the other way around, you know?
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You mean we have to suck up to get anywhere. [How...blunt.] It's not like I asked to get marooned on an interdimensional turtle.
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... Maybe a little, but you have to remember that they didn't ask for us to get marooned on their interdimensional turtle either.
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clamps it shut again. Because he has no good response to that.
He just. Huffs loudly and folds his arms.]