Stark Industries [Wednesday]

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It was William's first day of work, so of course he showed up bright and early, tea and toast in hand. And much like yesterday, he was once again wearing jeans and one of the shirts Ariel had picked out for him. The fact that all the clothing he had arrived with was in desperate need of a wash had helped make that particular decision.

But enough about his fashion choices. William spent the day familiarising himself with, well, at least the locations of various items in the store.

Stark Industries was open! Enthusiastically, if not quite yet knowledgeably so.

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"Morning," Ender greeted, turning up at the store early. Not that he figured William would break anything - at least nothing that couldn't be rebuilt - but to take an interest in his employees. "Starting to get the hang of it yet?"

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"In a manner of speaking," William admitted with a slightly sheepish smile. "I've got the layout of the shop, at least."

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"I'll tell you what everything's for," he said, brushing past William. "Also, if fruit starts appearing out of nowhere - don't worry about it. It's just a trick Fandom likes to play on this particular store. Make sure nothing gets in the machines, and we're good."

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"...Fruit?" Eventually, he'd lose that tendency to react with everything he heard about this place with disbelief. Eventually.

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"This island thrives on whimsy," was all Ender had to say about that.

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"So I'm beginning to understand," William said wryly.

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Ender smiled at him, and pulled up a chair. "How are you settling in in general?"

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"As you can see, I've been convinced to adopt the local garb," he said, tugging a bit at the shirt. "Everyone's been so nice, I think it balances out things like the incredibly disturbing fish." Only the fact that he'd seen undeadfish gnawing on each other had kept him from going outside to capture one of them for further study.

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"That's a relief," Ender said, a little dryly. "I've been thinking about getting more defense systems installed in the store, just in case. Who knows what's going to attack next."

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"I feel like speculating on the matter would just serve to invite trouble," William observed. "Defense systems? More electronic wonders, I presume." Give him a bit more time and he'd be taking apart computers to poke about their insides.

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"Yes," he replied. "Some places in town are already rigged up to start shooting if anything violent comes near. We've got a lot of possibilities at our disposal these days-- I can show you a few schematics. Though 'security systems' aren't really my area."

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Shelley's iPod had stopped working. This made morning yoga much too quiet, so she needed to get it fixed. She just hoped this was the right place to get something like that done.

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It was, although the person behind the counter at the moment was likely not the one who'd ultimately end up fixing it.

"Morning, ma'am," he greeted as he saw her enter the store.

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"Oh, hey!" she replied, grateful she didn't have to stand around and wait to be acknowledged. She held up her iPod. "It's broken," she explained. "I tried to replace the batteries but, um, couldn't. I don't know if it uses them."

Shelley wasn't very bright when it came to technology.

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William... wasn't very experienced when it came to technology. Thankfully, there were other employees who could make up for that while he caught up with last century and a quarter of innovation.

"Can I- take a closer look?" he inquired, not actually all that sure what the "it" she was referring to was.

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"Oh, sure!" She handed it over. "I know it's an older model and all that, but I don't have my music saved on anything else, so it's kind of important that I get it working again, you know?" There was an edge of panic to her voice.

"I mean, it has the perfect playlist for trampoline workouts, and my friend Martin made it for me, and I don't talk to him anymore, so it's basically like not replaceable."

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Aha, so that was what an iPod was, William noted as he turned the device over in his hands. "We shall take good care of it here, ma'am," he promised. "And get it back to you as soon as possible. I wouldn't want you to be without your... playlist... much longer than absolutely neccessary."

[ooc: fleeing for rl-work now. back later!]

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There was a definite look of relief on Shelley's face. "Oh, thank you. I'm so glad you understand. Guys are just so good with electric thingies." She smiled, knowing men liked it when you complimented their know-how.