fandomtownies | Turtle and Canary; Wednesday [ 03/14 ]

Especially while Turtle's in class.

On his lunch break from the clinic, Wilson headed down to Turtle and Canary to pick up some of the supplies he'd need to get started later this afternoon.

He did need to get some direction from Apu as to where exactly he could find the gardening section of the store.

Now she's wishing something did happen to the register so she could cash in on that warrenty after looking over it again. Wonder if 'sledgehammer' was covered?

Rikku peeked in, recognizing Turtle and waving. "Oh! Hi!"

"So, uh, is this the place to get general stuff? I'm not sure what I'm looking for." She fidgeted.

Turtle smiled, recognizing Rikku, and waved back. "Hello! And we sell everything. What can I help you with...Rikku, right?"

"Yup!" Rikku grinned. "And you're Turtle? I mean, I'm guessing that's not like your real name. Unless it is. It's a totally cool name, I mean."

She shook her head. "Er, anyway. The thing is? I'm totally bad at gifts. And I need something for someone. Maybe I get a few things, for some people back home, too, now that I'm here? But I don't know what. Like I said, bad at gifts."

Turtle tried to hold down her smirk. "Okay. Gifts. We've got a starting point. Gifts for who?"

"Okay, one's for ... this guy. Y'know. I mean." Rikku blushed a bit at that.

"And I wanted to get something for Yunie, because she's awesome but she's stuck on Besaid and that's depressing, and she totally shouldn't be sad. You know? And something for Lulu because she'd like something unusual and she rocks. And maybe I should get something for Pops but he's lame."

Turtle rolled her eyes for the guy, grinned a little about who she assumed were friends, and then outright laughed at the part about Rikku's Pops. "Okay, that's a start. What kind of gifts were you thinking? What kind of messages to send and what are they into, things like that?"

Rikku giggled. "Messages? OK. Well. The guy is into skateboarding and stuff? And it's just supposed to be 'hey, you rock.' And Yunie, she's not from here, so it's not really the same, but I want to get her something fun. Or sweet. That says 'stop sitting around and do something and go and have fun and do something already.' But that's kinda hard 'cause her boyfriend's dead. But he totally wouldn't want her to sit around and mope, right?"

She took a (much-needed) breath. "For Lulu, something ominous and magic-y, 'cause she's all dark and powerful but really awesome. And for Pops, I guess something with a lot of gears in it so he can sit and poke at it. He really likes machina, like me. Machines, I mean."

She nodded. "That's, uh. I'm really bad at this whole gift thing."

Very quickly in, Turtle realized she should be taking notes on this, reached for her little notepad, and started carefully doing so, struggling to keep up with Rikku. Once she was sure she was finished, she tapped her pen thoughtfully on her chin as she looked the list over. She was sort of feeling she had a nice, easy, big sale awaiting.

"Okay, let's see. We...don't actually have a lot of magicy stuff here? So this Lulu present might be difficult. What else might she like if not something magicy?"

Rikku chewed her lower lip. "I'm not sure what else. Oh! Really creepy cute little stuffed animal dolls that have kinda dead eyes. And the color black."

She stopped for a moment. "Oh, crap. If I'm sending stuff to Pops, do I gotta send something to my stupid brother?"

Rikku was apparently unaware that she was painting "RIP ME OFF" on her forehead in day-glo letters.

And Turtle was loving every minute of it.

"Well," she said thoughtfully, although she wasn't putting thought into it at all, "you don't have to, but it would be rather uncouth if you didn't. What sort of things does your brother like?" The pen was poised and ready.

"Oh, darn it, you're probably right," Rikku sighed. "Wouldn't be nice. He is my stupid brother after all."

"What does he like? Being lame." She made a face. "Oh! Wait! Some kind of an English dictionary? He's trying to learn. You guys probably don't have English-to-Al Bhed, but something basic might help him." She rolled her eyes. "He's really bad at it right now."

Turtle nodded, already getting an idea and scribbling it down and then looking over the list again. "Okay. This guy. Skateboarder? Jude?"

Rikku nodded, blushing a bit. "Yeah. You know him?"

"Nothing too much or anything, I just wanted to - something, you know?" She shook her head again. "Sorry, I told you I was bad at this."

Turtle both smirked and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I know him," she said, making a few more notes and then, finally, took one last look over her work.

"Okay, I think I got some ideas. Ready?"

"You bet!" Rikku bounced.

"Okay. Here we go."

"Jude: I can whip up some coupons for free Squishies, 'cause I know he likes those. Maybe...enough for eight? An impressive number, but not too much if you're worried about going overboard. An' you should throw in some Westing Paper Product napkins. Trust me; it'll be funny."

"Ummm, your Yunie friend, I'm thinking something fun that reminds you of Fandom, so you can sorta share it with her a bit, but she can still enjoy it. I'll leave that to you to personalize a bit more, but I do suggest you include glitter in there."

"Okay, Lulu. We've got some pretty weird lookin' stuffed animals in the toy section to check out, definately. I think we got a Gremlin. I think that especially would be apt."

"Your dad. So many electronics, but I think we just got a shipment of bot-building kits that could be pretty cool. Might want to check out Sparky's Repairs, too, if you're interested in machine stuff." Since Sparky's hooked them up with the SquishyBot, Turtle felt no remorse giving them a little advertisement at the sake of a sale.

"And, for your brother, one or two of the many English language instruction books that will give him excersizes to help improve his skills. And get a notebook and some pens with it, too, so he can practice. And, since getting just books and stuff for a gift is kind of lame, throw in maybe some candy and sweets? From what you said, it sounds like you're definately from a different place, so different things to send him might be really cool for him."

Beaming at her assessment, she awaited Rikku's response excitedly.

Rikku stared at the other girl for a few minutes. "Whoa," she said. "That's awesome."

"Okay. I like the Squishy idea. I've been meaning to try one, too. I've heard they're awesome. Oh! Hey! Do you have, like, skateboard repair kits or something?"

"Yuna ... hmm. She's awesome and sweet and she kinda saved the world. That makes it hard." She scratched her head. "I like the glitter idea. Maybe I just send her pictures. Oh! Maybe a knickknack of some kind. She likes pretty things."

"The gremlin! That's perfect! Maybe she can even use it to do spells!" She bounced. "And the bot kit, you really have one?! That's awesome!"

"A couple books, totally. So long as they're really easy, he's kinda way at the beginner level. Are there sweets here we wouldn't have?" She thought for a minute. "Yeah, our world isn't anything like this. You have machines everywhere. It's so cool."

"He doesn't need sweets, he should just be happy I'm sending him anything, the jerk. But totally add some sweets on there, because I forgot Wakka anyway and he'll get a kick out of it." She beamed. "This is fun!"

Turtle definately had to agree with Rikku about the state of fun for this activity. This was going to be one heck of a sale! Turtle quickly wrote out a more final list for Apu, handing it to him so he could go find all the things for Rikku because she figured he'd be able to do it quicker than it would take Rikku to find them all. "He should be back with all the stuff in a second. If you wanna try a Squishie while you wait, go for it. It's on me, for you being such an awesome customer. Today? I suggest the Red, which I usually wouldn't, but she picked some interesting flavors today."

Rikku clapped her hands. "Really? Awesome! Thank you!" She looked at the sign. "Whoa, yeah, weird flavors. I don't think 'Plankton' is my type."

She giggled. "You guys really do have everything here! Pops should send me money more often."

Turtle chuckle a little. "He definately should; I agree. Gotta keep my family fed, after all."

Rikku laughed. "I should get a job or something, so I don't have to wait for him to send me money. And grenades." She considered. "No, I'd probably have to get the grenades from home anyway."

"Grenades!" Turtle suddenly called out and lightly bopped her forehead. "That's something we could probably stand to stock that I don't think we do. Especially," she chuckled, "around here."

Apu had, at this point, returned with all the things. "Ooh, yay!" Turtle said as she quickly started to ring them up.

The beeping of the register still made her giggle with glee, too.

Rikku bounced. "Ohhhh. Dude. Do you buy stuff, too? I have some interesting grenades, like, unusual ones. And if you stocked them, I'd totally need to come around for them. Grenades rock."

Rikku stared at the stack. "Whoa. I hope I've got enough left to mail them out. Should be okay, right?"

"Well, what we could do," Turtle offered after a moment; bartering wasn't so much her thing, but Rikku was cool and this was a pretty big sale as it was, "is sort of have some of those grenades cover some of it. A trade, then. And future grenade trades could maybe go into a credit account, or something. We do have a credit system, although currently, only one person is on it."

Rikku bounced again. "Ooooh, that sounds awesome!"

She reached into her pouch and started plopping what appeared to be randomly-colored unpolished gems on the counter. "I have all kinds of fun stuff. Wait, is this dangerous? I mean, selling them to people."

She shrugged. "Ah well. I've got enough gil anyway, I think. Er, do you take gil, or do I need to get it changed?"

[[totally okay, night!]]

Turtle stopped to stare at Rikku for a moment. "Okay, I'm almost afraid to ask. What's gil?"

"Money," Rikku said, pulling a handful of gold-colored coins out of her pouch. "Oh. Where do I go to get it swapped to, uh, your kind of money?"

Turtle's head tilted as she took one of the little coins and inspected it carefully. "...Where did you say you were from again?"

"Spira!" said Rikku cheerfully. "I don't know how you get here from there. It's still money, right?"

"Uh, maybe? I don't think I've seen an exchange rate for money from Spira before." Turtle's head tilted. "I did accept gold coins from Pippi, though, so really, it's all about what kind of metal these are made of, and I can easily figure it out. So....what do you make these with?"

Rikku looked at the coins for a second. "Pretty sure they're a gold mix. I mean, what else would they be? Most other metals aren't really worth anything, are they?"

"Oh, almost all metals have some sort of value," Turtle said, "just some more than others. Y'know, how about we do this? I'm gonna take one of these and get it appraised or something and find out what it's made of, and, from there, I can figure out how much it's worth compared to American money, work out an exchange rate and then exchange it for your myself. For right now, I'll just put all this stuff on a tap, or something. Here. Lemme go print off something for you to sign so that I have verification that you'll pay me back as needed, or vice versa. Not that I don't trust you, of course, but you have to do these sorts of things in a proper manner."

Rikku did one of her usual bouncy dances. "Sounds great! I can come back in a day or two, and you can let me know, or - I mean, if it's gonna take longer or whatever, if you need to find me, I'm in room 308."

"I get it, it's not a trust thing, it's business, yeah?" She laughed, rolling her eyes. "Rin was selling us weapon upgrades while we were saving the stupid airship he was standing on. Nothing personal, he said. What a guy."

"You sure it's okay to just take the stuff, then? I mean, with signing things, you don't mind?"

"With signing things, no, I don't mind at all," Turtle said, grinning things. "With signing things, I could sue you and get a lot more back than what these are worth. Hold on just a second, and I'll go print something off."

She disappeared into the back room, returning a few moments later with a sheet of printed paper and two sheets of carbon copy paper She slipped them under the initial sheet, and slid it across the counter toward Rikku. It announced simply the situation, with a promise that, once the gil was appraised, Rikku would agree to supply the proper amount to cover her purchases for the day of March 13, 2007, at Turtle & Canary, Fandom Island, Virginia. It even had the approximate time in which the sale was made.

"So, if you could just sign here..."

Rikku laughed. "Thank you very much! I'll make sure everything squares up, honest."

She took the pen and signed "Rikku" with a big flourish, then, noticing all the extra space on the line, added, "(of the Al Bhed Tribe)".

"Sorry," she explained. "I've only got one name."

Turtle smirked a little. "Oooh, like Madonna, or something. That's cool. Different cultures and all that." She nodded as she quickly added her own signature. Her real name, too, but it was done in a manner that you could only really notice the T and a bunch of stuff following it. After making sure it went through on the carbon paper, she handed a copy over to Rikku.

"There we go. All set."

"Yeah! I guess it's just - you know. The Guado were all Whoever Guado, and the Ronso were Name-Thingy Ronso, but everybody else just had names and titles." She shrugged. "Maybe it's a smaller world."

She started scooping up items. "Thank you so much! This is gonna rock. I can't wait to send stuff home." She bounced a bit.

Turtle also bounced a little because she got to do exchange rates! Exchange rates were so much fun.

"You're totally welcome, Rikku," she grinned. "You'll have to let me know how everyone likes all their stuff."

Anytime someone gets Plankton, SquishyBot informs everyone that she went to college.

Yes, SquishyBot's a she. She's has a female gender chip, anyway.

I was thisclose to forgetting this today. :O

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