The Awesomeporium is Open for Business! [Open]

[thewunderkind]

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.]]

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[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl actually did rub her hands together a little bit here. She had been doing a LOT of looking into the kinds of strength she had at her disposal, and truthfully? She was learning the more she learned a little bit of this and a little bit of that, the more useful they were going to be in a fight.

"Trust me, I plan ti know a little bit of everything," she replied. "That way none of those demons get the drop on us."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Well, there's no limit to what you CAN know, but I'd advise you to specialize in something," he said. "Having backup tricks is all right, but nothing beats the raw fury of one ultimate attack."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl, at this point, met him with pretty furious, eager eyes. "I'll tell you what, Overlord Zetta. Just because I like to defy expectations, I'm going to make one up myself, ok? I'll show you how awesome I am."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Oh good! Now you're catching on to how this works!" Zetta said, proudly.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"I always intended to get my own finishing move!" Hit Girl said. "It's one of the best things about learning all of those fighting styles: your finisher gets to look real bad ass."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You probably want to pick up about three," Zetta said thoughtfully. "One of the first ones should be a powerful single-target attack, the next one should hit a bunch of people. The third one is the instant-win one, of course."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Wait, you can pick three different finishing moves?" This naturally piqued her interest. "How did you even learn how to do it, and when?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"It works that way for all story characters," Zetta saidl, unhelpfully. "You get them as you level up or story events unlock them."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"So you're saying I'm going to have to progress more," Hit Girl said. Well, she knew she could manage that much, although it was still weird to hear it in term that made it sound like a video game. "I dunno what story events would make that happen though."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You won't till they just happen. Something that brings out a measure of your true power or something. Hell, if nothing else, I got these sweet eyebeams out of becoming a book."

Zetta almost demonstrated, then remembered just in time that he was part-owner and -proprietor of this establishment and it would behoove him not to destroy it.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Well that was just frustrating. What the hell would bring her to go all out and lose it like that in a fight? That wasn't like her at all: usually she tried to be very collective and calm in a fight. It was Ruffnut who was more likely to fly off the handle and beat someone down.

"Well then I hope I find one," she said. "Because I don't see what situation would force that outta me."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"If you knew it, you'd have done it and gotten your inner power unlocked already," he said, as if that was completely obvious. "So if you don't unlock it by leveling and designing it, just be patient and you'll get it."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

More lessons, lessons she wished she would get to go and actually learn for herself soon. She could train and study and learn, but she knew, as clearly as he was saying it now, that she wouldn't be able to learn what she needed to inactive.

"This sucks," she said. "The last mission we have and I'm stuck being all careful. The situation just sucked, and we weren't even fighting the damn Ohm. I feel cooped up."

Never mind what happened to Ruffnut: that still bothered the hell out of her, facing all the clones by herself. Who prepared you for that?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Yeah, that whole thing sucked," Zetta agreed wholeheartedly. "Seriously, though. Don't get too worked up. Even I didn't become an Overlord overnight."

PRAM had, but she didn't count.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"I won't then," Hit Girl said, "but I'm not gonna take it too easy either. I want to be able to do my best, and I know that I'm not there yet. When I am, trust em, I won't be doubting what I can do."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hmph. Sounds like a bet I ought to take!" After all, he'd always be there, an insurmountable wall that no apprentice of his could overcome!

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Well, you do that," Hit Girl said. "I'm game for any bet you wanna make."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I'll think of something as soon as you have something I want!" Zetta said.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl opened her mouth, then closed it. Damn. He had her there.

"Bastard," she said, grinning. "I guess I should work on getting more material crap, huh?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Only if you care about that stuff," Zetta said. "You never struck me as the sort... which is gonna be interesting when you DO become an Overlord and the resources of a Netherworld are at your disposal."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

She had sort of that herself. Hit girl didn't want to just be some Overlord hoarding some little spot somewhere, fighting desperately to make sure that her little world was left unharmed. She wanted to be the best, and she would do whatever she needed to do to make sure she got there.

"When you see what I become as an Overlord, I doubt you'll be surprised," Hit Girl said. "I don't think I'll be changing all that much."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Maybe. Just remember, there's no point in being Overlord if you're not gonna enjoy the position!"

Hey, if your leader was expected to live it up, no one would get mad if he or she DID, right?

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'll be enjoying it, all right," Hit Girl said. "All that power, and no one trying to tell me what I can do with it? I'll be living it up for at least a few decades."

There was a time for organization and planning and stuff, but there was always time for fun. What that fun entailed she didn't know yet, but she'd find out son enough.