Needful Things; Tuesday [01/30].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Either someone must have recently unloaded a lot of old retro diner stuff, or Summer was just noticing them more as she was thinking about her potential after-graduation prospects and considering that specific aesthetic if she ever did decide to go open a jello-centric restaurant in space. Which sounded ridiculous when she put it together like that, but it was still her best option, unless she wanted to just stay here, sweeping around massive armoires and questionable knick-knacks for the rest of her life.

Pass. Hard pass.

Especially now that all this old diner stuff was giving her some ideas. Until she finally went over and flipped over a price tag and nearly shot her eyes out of her head from how much they opened. She carefully flipped the price tag back.

Maybe she should shoot for something a little more...austere, instead. Understated.

Cheap.

Needful Things is open!

Fantasy Costco | Tuesday

[taakosgoodhere]

Taako had fallen down a (metaphorical) Kardashian hole and was now spending his shift researching them with the voracity of a graduate student writing their thesis. He must find a way to meet his new heroes.

Welcome to Fantasy Costco
Item of the day
Lens of Straight Creeping
A monocle that once a day allows the user to see the footprints of a specific person or creature that has been in the area

[OCD-free]

Covent Garden Flowers, Tuesday

[shiroi_tiger]

Nathan just wanted to make arrangements, damn it. He wanted nothing more than to settle in and select nice roses and carnations, pick decent sprays of baby's breath, and start getting to work with organizing whatever supplies they were going to need in order to meet the Valentine's Day rush in a couple of weeks.

But the phone. Would not. Stop. Ringing.

One person wanted a full arrangement for everybody they worked with, another wanted to know what it would cost to order in a literal truckload of roses to just give to everyone in town. Nathan had to explain in small words that they would have to arrange for pickup at the causeway themselves, as the streets weren't exactly suitable for vehicles. Somebody else wanted to know if there was some way they could work with the animal shelter to get some sort of 'cats and carnations' deal if people gave both to their significant others, and Nathan had to explain the multiple ways that was likely a bad idea, including most notably the fact that carnations were poisonous to cats.

One person wanted to send an arrangement to try to appease the gremlins that lived in their walls. Another one wanted them to literally fashion a giant teddy bear out of flowers. Nathan didn't ask why, but he made a note of it asking Peter to come up with a quote for something like that. Then there was the person who wanted to know if they had bouquets that included sex toys... That one went on another, slightly more hastily scrawled note to Peter, yes.

Nathan was pretty certain he wasn't going to be getting to actual flowers, today.

[OOC: Open!]

Furnado Animal Shelter, Tuesday

[puppy_fair]

Zack came in to work today to see the vet on staff looking slightly harried. They had just gotten in several litters of kittens all at once, and while they were all certainly adorable and perfectly adoptable, the vet was... iffy... about advertising kittens for adoption so close to Valentine's Day.

Zack buried his face in his hands.

"Why are there so many gift-giving holidays on this world?!"

There was a sign in the window today, reminding people that a pet was a commitment, and that puppies and kittens grew up. There was another sign in the window imploring people to not surprise loved ones with an animal for Valentine's Day- a bouquet of roses said the same thing without the unexpected responsibility. And there was a third sign in the window simply stating NOW HIRING.

Maybe he'd leave a note to his employees saying that they were putting a hold on adoptions for the week of February 11-17, unless the person who was going to be keeping the pet came in personally to choose it. Anything to mitigate the heartbreaking rush of surrenders that usually came in the weeks to follow.

[OOC: Open!]

Parking Lot at the End of the Causeway; Tuesday Afternoon [01/30].

[died8yearsago]

The situation might have been lame as hell, but the ride down here had been freaking great. A few hours on the road, just her and her bike, had actually put Rosa in a halfway decent mood when she finally hit the island and rocketed somewhat recklessly down the causeway, thoughts racing through her mind. If she could handle a short time in prison, she could handle a short time on some random island.

She slowed when she reached the end of the causeway, taking note of the parking there before glancing over the cobblestones of the streets ahead of her and the town spreading out in front of her. Yeah, she'd take it on foot from here, give the bike a rest, taking a second to pull her phone from her pocket to remind herself of where her the new apartment she'd arranged was located.

She changed apartments a lot. She'd gotten pretty good at it. And she only had to take a few steps and a glance to her left to already find the building she was looking for. She snorted slightly; that was easy. And then she glanced to her right to see what she was dealing with across the street and noticed what looked like it was probably a bar.

Bike. Apartment. Bar. Bike. Apartment. Bar. A perfect trifecta of everything she'd need just a shuriken's throw away from her escape route.

Maybe it might not be so bad here after all.

[[ i spent way too long just pouring over the map last night like a nerd. But it's open, come say hi! ]]

Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Kitty was back in town, for real, and she was kind of thrilled about it. She didn’t really want to be at home right now, though she was still helping in getting things settled, and it just felt really good to be here, doing normal things, and not having anyone try to kill anyone else for now.

Of course she said that, and found Zombie Yoko attempting (and failing) to hit the drummer over the head with her own arm, but you know what, it was still sort of... okay no, it wasn’t normal for anyone.

“Tino, can you put her arm back on before she gets zapped into the lake?”


[open, no OCD. Gonna be slow but for the love of god please distract me from work.]

Groovy Tunes, Tuesday

[tigerundercover]

Raven had actually spent the night in town last night after Kathy's anniversary dinner. She was proud of herself, but it meant she was feeling a bit restless at the music store today, resulting in her idly shifting forms about once an hour. She was going mostly for human forms, since she did animal ones all the time out on the preserve. Her old customary disguise was starting to feel almost weird now, like she was dressing up like her teenage self.

The stereo, in fine form today, managed to completely ignore her mood and was playing upbeat musical soundtracks.

"Is this from the show about the plant that eats people?" she asked it. "Because I feel like that's just egging the island on."

The stereo didn't seem to care.

[open!]

Luke's, Tuesday

[battlewithstyle]

Mitsutada was working extra hard today. He'd missed a shift last week due to being called back to the Citadel, as Sada-chan had finally arrived. But alas, his time back with his fellow danshi was short, as he was sent back on his special 'mission'.

So he was trying not to be grumpy about things by keeping distracted with fancy cooking.

Today's Specials
Unagi Don
Takoyaki
Tamagoyaki
We promise none of the yaki are yucky!

The staff were not approving of Mistutada's pun.

Luke's was still open.