trans_9 | Free ice cream! [open]

Alex sat beneath the shade of a large tree in a decent sized park. Those familiar with New York might recognize the sky scrapers in the distance, even if they didn't recognize the park itself. Parked on a small service road was an ice cream truck with a merry vendor, who claimed that it was customer appreciation day, and was thus giving ice cream away for free.

Alex was already enjoying a chocolate and strawberry cone covered in sprinkles and caramel syrup, wondering if anyone would bother showing up to spend time with him, or even be interested in sensorium ice cream in the first place.

Either way, Alice seemed thrilled, as she pulled what appeared to be pink chocolate chips from a jar labelled "Yogis". Reaching out to pet Alice, Alex laughed a bit, "Don't get used to eating s-so many." sensorium food might not mess with her health, but once they got home, it would be the real thing once again. He figured that she deserved the treat as much as he deserved the ice cream anyway.

[OOC: Post to Alex or to other people if you'd like.]

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Alex looked around a bit nervously, as if he was looking for someone else that Albert could be talking to. Finding no other possible target, he laughed at himself a bit and said, "H-hi, I'm Alex. N-nice ta meet you!"

"Nice to meet you Alex, mind if I join you for some ice cream?" Albert asked, while reaching his hand out to shake Alex's hand. He hadn't see many people that looked about his age since The FAYZ, most were adults that he passed in Stacy's corridors.

"Oh, by the way, here is my card." He pulled out his cardboard business card with his other hand.

"S-sure!" Alex hesitantly took the hand, keeping it as deep in his sleeve as he could to try to hide his scars. He had gotten pretty used to seeing other teens. Being with the Outsiders helped a lot in that regard.

With a bit of confusion, Alex took the card. "U-uhhh, th-thanks?" He pocketed it in his jacket pocket, with the other things Alice liked to put in there as nesting material and toys.

"You are welcome." It took Albert a second to register the confusion, " Oh, Just in case you need me, to start up a business or something. It has my credentials and everything," Albert explained. Making business partners was easier for him than making friends.

"What kind of ice cream they got?" Albert hadn't had ice cream in a long time, since that was the first thing to go in the FAYZ. Though he was aware that this ice cream still wasn't real ice cream.

Business partners, friends; they all involved social interaction, and Alex was only starting to feel halfway competent in that department.

Shrugging Alex said, "E-everything r-really. I-if you w-want it, he's g-got it. It's c-customer appreciation day or s-something like that after all." It was easier for him to think of all this as being real and not letting it devolve into a visual representation of what he imagined the binary to be if he gave things that weren't particularly realistic reasons behind them, even if they weren't the best reasons.

He hadn't had ice cream in such a long time, before the all of the adults poofed. The first thing to go in The FAYZ was ice cream, that also meant a lot of upset stomachs for a bit. It didn't matter to him that the ice cream wasn't real, it tasted real.

"Oh, that is a good gimmick, drawing in customers by giving them a free sample so that they can return later. I will have vanilla ice cream," Albert decided out loud. Vanilla was a classic. He took a mental note of that business strategy.

There should be a manual for how to successfully make business partners, did business partners eat ice cream together? Or was that too informal. Could business partners be friends? Yup, he would go to the library again later.

"Y-you're r-really inta the whole b-business thing," he said as the ice cream man got the cone for Albert. Alex had never been a business man. He knew how much the programming work he did was worth, and that was it. He was happy to get a fair price, though his idea of a fair price wasn't always what everyone would think was fair when it came to selling to certain businesses.

He saw no need for anything of the sort though here. There was no money that could be exchanged. Everything was on a barter system, or done for free, and Alex rather liked it that way.

Albert nodded and accepted the cone from the ice cream man, thanking him. "Business is important." He was kind of sad that there was just bartering here, but it did provide some amount of necessary transactions that helped his comfort level aboard Stacy.

"I-is there a reason you like b-business so m-much?" It seemed like an odd thing to focus on to Alex. He couldn't even begin to figure why he might consider business so important.

"Business involves the exchange of ideas and commodities. It is all about supply and demand and incentives. It is a natural part of society." Albert replied. "What about you, what do you like?" Albert was slowly starting to get used to socializing in a normal fashion.

"C-computers! P-programming m-mostly, though I'd l-like ta learn about m-making c-computer parts. I-if I have the right p-parts I c-can put one together, b-but that c-comes with the territory."

"You may get along well with an acquaintance of mine from The FAYZ. He went by the name of Computer Jack. If you couldn't tell by his nickname, he loves computers and is a basic computer genius. If he pops I will be happy to introduce you to him." He read about this, this was known as making connections, or also known as networking.

Alex smiled at that, "It's a-always nice ta have another c-computer wiz around!" The only networking Alex was used to doing- or any good at- could generally be accessed through menu windows on a desktop.

Albert's forte was not computers, but he understood how nice it would be to have someone around with the same interests. He just hoped that he could find someone who could at least help him improve his business-savy. "In that case, I will definitely keep an eye out for him. Unfortunately, I don't know much about computers, so I can't really talk computers with you."

Alex smiled and shrugged, "I-It's ok-kay. I'm used t-ta that, really." Neither Loretta or Mikel knew computers, and neither Katara and Luna were computer savvy in the least. Billy knew them well enough at least, which was a nice change. "What do you now a-about?"

Free ice cream! [open]

If the stutter bothers you to read, we can just pretend it's there.

Nah, the stutter doesn't bother me

Okay!

(a copy of the card is on his page)

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Sorry this took so long!!! Midterms/exams :(

It's fine. I'm starting to just go slower in general. Trying to get more writing done.

Re: It's fine. I'm starting to just go slower in general. Trying to get more writing done.

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Midterms are over :D

and here I was going to drop this whole post, getting sucked back in <3 >_<

haha, sorry about that x.x

It's fine I guess. I blame my compel to reply to every tag in my inbox. I had to delete to stop >_<'

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using the old name since he doesn't know that she's technically someone else yet.