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Lash ([personal profile] thewunderkind) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-08-08 07:22 pm

The Awesomeporium is Open for Business! [Open]

Lash couldn't complain about her life on the ship. In fact, if asked, she might have regarded it as 'pretty good'. In the time she had been there, she had become a Power Ranger (in the brightest of yellow colors), become friends with a rather colorful cast (not that she'd admit it out loud) and even really, really liked a guy (not that she'd admit that out loud either).

During the attack on Galilee, Lash and Zetta had used the distraction to go around and steal--er prolong borrowed some of the items in the nearby shopping mall. It was only fair, considering what they had been put through! Not that neither really cared about morals anyway.

After taking their share, they found themselves with a rather large amount of items and strange knicknacks that might interest the rest of of the ship's fine citizens. Maybe not enough clothing to dress everyone up or to give them a pair of fitting shoes, but she was sure someone could appreciate a new shirt or two, or use them for rags or other creative uses they could find. Therefore their next part of the plan came into motion; if they built it, the others would come.

One of the city's many abandon buildings had been getting fixed and patched up the last few days since their arrival, an old store getting a second lease on life. Only, you know, this one involved demons and afro girls and stolen merchandise. But it was okay! This wasn't going to be a purchasing store, but a bartering one. In between their talks, meets and crashing a prom in the best of ways, they'd managed to get a very crude and badly painted "THE AWESOMEMPORIUM" in dripping red paint over the building front. One of the windows also had the rules, also painted with the same brushstrokes;

1) Find stuff you like
2) Exchange it to us for stuff and service you have
3) We have the right to refuse any deals
4) No Zedds allowed

Truthfully, both Wunderkind and Overlord had very little use of extra materials they might get in return, being people of simple needs. However, just giving items away would label them as being too nice. Turning stolen goods into a store and hiding behind a bartering system? Now that was much more devious. Besides, maybe they'd end up with some pretty cool items and tools in exchange, or having half of the ship owe them favors. Both were prospects interesting enough to follow.

Inside, the store was brightly lit thanks to Lash's repairing skills and Zetta's Merchant Minions (which Lash fondly liked to call Sonja Jr's) walked around the shop, tending to to the shelves and making sure everything looked presentable. Everything was in sections, with the same red paint just put on the shelves (lacking proper materials for labeling) so people would know what they were exchanging for.

Most of the time, Dog, Lash's alien green caterpillar dog was in the store, being lazy behind the counter. Dog was looking abnormally fat lately, barely moving around. The counter sometimes had Lash standing there working on fixing an item, a book lazying around, sometimes the both of them, or sometimes just a merchant minion standing there when neither of them where available. Rest assured, they'd find out what you traded when they were gone.

And just to make sure it could easily be found, one of Galilee's fabulous floating fountains now stood in front, hovering for no real reason that it was built that way. Sometimes you could find Lash was riding in it on a good day or early in the morning.

[[OOC info - this is the list of things that Lash and Zetta have available (one item is slightly unsafe for work). The list will be constantly updated depending on what your characters want and what they exchange for it. Sometimes the bartered stuff might end up on the list if neither of them have use for it.]]

[identity profile] andyallgrownup.livejournal.com 2011-08-10 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Andy blinked, looking at the giant fountain that was floating around outside Lash's... store-place thing. Maybe he should see if there was anything there that he could use.

Not that he had anything to really trade for, other than some of the stuff he had bought during that shore leave, but hey, he could figure things out later.
badassfreakingoverlord: (asleep dammit)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-08-11 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Inside, the book waited imperiously on the counter -- eyeing the customer out the front window.

[identity profile] andyallgrownup.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Andy shrugged, heading inside to take a bit of a look around, not saying anything just yet. It looked like Lash might not have been here right now, but that wasn't much on an issue. He could always talk to her later.
badassfreakingoverlord: (animated laughter)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-08-12 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Welcome to the Awesomeporium!" Zetta said, with an air of malefic pleasure that pretty much spelled out he had come up with the name (no matter how quickly Lash had approved it).

[identity profile] andyallgrownup.livejournal.com 2011-08-12 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Andy couldn't help but laugh at that, heading over towards Zetta. "Nice name. How's everything been going so far?"

badassfreakingoverlord: (Standard Zetta)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-08-15 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pretty freaking sweet, of course," he said, with the utter confidence only being Zetta could bring. "We provided needed goods and profit on the exchange. Finally, some freaking capitalism in this ship!"

Because their barter-based transactions really qualified, right?