Curiosities, Oddities and Antiques -- Formerly Things Reborn -- Monday

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

All right, if she could leave her hotel room to have pizza and watch terrible movies about killer fences, she certainly ought to be able to do her actual real job, and get down to the shop to look for new and interesting shipments. Of which there was one: a small paperback-sized box crammed full of diamonds.

Well. Definitely hot, then. This package was going right in her safe, until she got instructions on where these were headed.

And maybe she'd take them out now and then when no one was even in the store and let a few of them play in the light. Look, she was only human.

The sign in the store window still read:

CURIOSITIES, ODDITIES AND ANTIQUES
Specializing in Hard-to-Find Items
We Buy Your Rarities - Inquire Within

with the ever-present NOW HIRING sign beneath.

Comments

Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

Ask the supervillainess about the strange items in her store.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[flickofthewrist]

Flick hadn't been able to steal a lot of things while he'd been recovering over the past week. But, he'd built up a nice stash of stuff while in Italy and hadn't gotten a chance to sell those.

He'd been on his way to the mainland to find a fence when the sign in the shop window caught his eyes. Might as well give it a try. He didn't have to sell anything if he gauged the place too public.

So, he went inside, still limping, with a duffel bag over his shoulder.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to Curiosities, Oddities, and Antiques," she said, slamming the safe shut before she straightened up to look at her new customer. Good thing she hadn't been actually playing with the diamonds when he came in. She should be more careful.

"How can I -- are you limping?"

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[flickofthewrist]

Flick was going to be glad when he wasn't limping anymore. As it was, he just nodded and stopped a few feet away from the counter. He didn't even question the voice. Yet.

"Fell down some stairs," Flick said, using the excuse that Emma had given him awhile ago. "Texting and walking isn't a good combination. That'll learn me."

He shrugged and didn't care how obvious of a lie that was.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

Falling down the stairs ranked up there with tripping and hitting a doorknob, but really, she didn't need to press the matter. It wasn't her business, which was presumably his point.

"I get so clumsy myself at times," she agreed, waving it off. "Welcome to the store. We have all sorts of rarities and oddities. Is there anything in particular you're looking for, today?"

Considering the duffel bag, he might be here to sell, but she didn't want to ask the wrong question if he was just a student lugging around a bookbag.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Deet dee deeeee. Kenzi wandered in bearing an old-not-impressive jewelry box, and put it down on the counter while she wandered around. Nothin' to see here! Really!

"Hey, Doc."

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

"Good afternoon, Kenzi," Sheila said smoothly. She picked up the jewelry box, turning it this way and that. "Oh, this is a simply lovely antique. Were you bringing this in to trade?"

Presumably, it had some hot jewelry in it. But Dr. Girlfriend was going to wait until she was blocking the security camera a little bit better to risk cracking it open.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"If you think it's worth anything?" Kenzi gave her a smile over a less-tacky-than-just-shiny goldish looking tree sculpture. Not quite a Christmas tree ornament yet, thank everything. "Got it outta an expired storage unit. A friend of mine lets me look in the one that are past their payment-due date, off and on." There was actually a long story that went with this, and 60% of it was the truth.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

"Everything's worth something," she said, turning slightly and flipping open the lid. Oooh, watches, and were those real pearls in those earrings? They certainly looked like it. "The question is whether I think I could resell it, and I think I could. It seems like it would clean up quite nicely, with a bit of polish."

Don't mind her picking up her iPhone. Just needed to check the going rates for some of those watches.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[fix-it-guy.livejournal.com]

It turned out that Mike didn't feel like sitting around all day after all. He went for a walk to stretch his legs, and the sign in the window caught his eye.

With the wording, and call it a gut feeling, it was 50/50 the place was a fence. He didn't need a fence, but it couldn't hurt to feel out the owner. Networking. Sure, he was retired, but at the moment he had exactly 0 guys in the area, and that made him nervous.

So, with one hand in his pocket and the other arm in a sling inside his jacket, he strolled in and looked around.

After staring at one of the weirder oddities for a while, he turned and cocked his head at the looker behind the counter. "Think anyone's actually gonna buy something like this?" he asked, conversationally.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

"Some kid tried to buy a bunch of severed heads," she shared. "For orphans, to keep as toys. I don't even want to understand some people."

He should feel lucky she had hidden the embalmed fetuses.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[fix-it-guy.livejournal.com]

"Tried?" Mike asked, looking around some more. "You know, people might say what he does with them once he leaves is his own business. He gets his heads, you get them off your shelves, it's a win-win. A business transaction."

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

"Orphans," Sheila repeated. "He was going to bundle them off and send them to a bunch of depressed orphans to use as toys. I don't care much what people do with things after they leave the store, but kids living in some shithole orphanage don't need creepy severed heads showing up in the mail. They've suffered enough."

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal had promised he would stop by to help Sheila unload some more of the more outre objects in the store; this time he'd come armed with the names, requests, and interests of various medical professionals.

He pushed the door open and looked around to find her.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

"Well, hello again," Sheila beamed, leaning against the counter. "Have you come to rescue me from the doldrums of working retail?"

Today had actually been fairly exciting, as such things went; she'd made all sorts of interesting new contacts, and started actually fencing instead of just selling antiques. But retail was still retail, at the end of the day.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[sharp_as_knives]

"From that or from being buried under well-preserved dead things," Hannibal answered with a smile.

Re: Shop And/Or Inquire Within! - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

"Thankfully, I haven't been trapped in an avalanche of taxidermied squirrels," she shared. "Who is it that buys taxidermied squirrels, anyway? I mean, if you kill a squirrel and have it stuffed, that's at least a trophy, but someone else's dead squirrel is just, you know, a dead squirrel."

Mod Your Shopping - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

Avoid the supervillainess and pick out some junk yourself.

OOC - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the lurky, guys. N&I went on vacation for our anniversary and then OH YEAH, I SPENT MOST OF IT IN THE HOSPITAL WITH PNEUMONIA.

I am an expert at ruining vacations but this is impressive even for me.

Re: OOC - CUR

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

DUDE. I hate pneumonia! Have had it twice. It blows. *Gives you lots of drugs, popsicles, pillows, and tissues*

Re: OOC - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

This was my second time -- first was when I was four. It seems to be mostly over but I'm still exhausted and raspy and wheezy, which they said is going to take a while.

*takes the pillows and tissues zomg and builds herself a naptime fort*

Re: OOC - CUR

[sharp_as_knives]

eep!

*feeds you chicken soup (with totally NO PEOPLE in it)*

Re: OOC - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

Aww, man! What's a girl gotta do to get people soup around here!??

(♥)

Re: OOC - CUR

[sharp_as_knives]

Well, hey, if that's your thing! *adds people*

Re: OOC - CUR

[dr-manly-voice.livejournal.com]

I WILL CONSUME THEM AND ABSORB THEIR STRENGTH.

Or else just mix in some human blobs into chicken and stars, to make it Chicken and Stars and Some Guy Named Bob.

Guys named Bob always go best with Chicken and Stars. It's a scientifically proven fact.