Dite's Decadent Delights [Tuesday]

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Of all weekends to explore the mainland. Of all weekends.

Irene had figured out how to download old radio broadcasts to her phone, and had spent the morning putting away her new clothes (Sherlock had marvelous taste, of course, but she did like to go shopping on her own) and listening. The stories she'd heard of collective insanity were clearly true, and while she was mostly concerned about what had happened to her own shop (and how anyone had gotten a key in the first place), she had to admit the whole thing amused her more than it should.

Possibly because she hadn't been involved. She might have found it a lot less funny if she'd been afflicted.

Once she arrived at the shop, Irene set to work trying to see if anything had been disturbed this weekend -- so far, nothing, but she also knew better than to think that what she was seeing superficially was accurate. She was already planning on spending the afternoon checking what sorts of calls had been made from the phone, whether the cash drawer was off, and checking the inventory. (Particularly the edibles, since that sounded like what had been used this weekend, if anything from her normal inventory.)

Honestly, she was already a paranoid sort of person, and her new shop being affected by some sort of oddness and Irene herself being unaware of it put her ill at ease, even in the wake of how funny she found all of this.

[open shop is open!]

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Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

She's double-and-triple-counting the money, just in case.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[teashopconman.livejournal.com]

Since he had little else planned for today, he thought a visit to this particular establishment might be both informative and enjoyable. Wonderland definitely did not have shops like this though Hatter really wished they had.

He stepped in, sipping some tea, and took a look around.

"Counting your riches?" he asked as he wandered closer. "Are the sex starved teenagers finally paying off?"

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"Checking for theft," Irene corrected, looking up from counting a stack of twenties with a small smile. "I hear we might not have all been ourselves this weekend."

This just meant that she was going to get it doubly bad next time something happened, but she didn't know that.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[teashopconman.livejournal.com]

"Ugh, don't remind me," Hatter said, giving a rather dramatic full body shake. "I have been doing my level best to further ruin my mental health by repressing that."

And he hadn't even had it that bad. He just thought he did because he was melodramatic and not fond of not being himself.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"Tell me," Irene demanded, leaning forward on her elbows eagerly. "What sort of person were you? What devious deeds did you get up to? Did you lurk in the shadows, a vigilante to deal with the seedy underbelly of society?"

She'd gotten the gist of what sort of weekend it had been, yes, if not all the details.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[teashopconman.livejournal.com]

"No, I was none of that and it was terrible," he said, waving a hand around and shaking his head. "I was bloody good. I wore a tuxedo."

He rubbed at his neck in remembrance of that awful bow tie. "All I did was run a terribly named restaurant, that ended up being set on fire, and get threatened because all I was completely on the up and up. Honesty, morality and loyalty. That was me and it was bloody awful."

He gagged again and tried to soothe his pain with another sip of the tea he'd brought over from his restaurant.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"What terrible traits to have," Irene said dryly. "You ought to call your mum so she can be properly ashamed. But more importantly -- first off, is your place still on fire? Because you probably should see to that. And secondly, have you got any photos of yourself in this tux?"

Because she was curious.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[teashopconman.livejournal.com]

"My mum is dead." Or so he assumed. There hadn't been a lot of contact there in...forever. "And my place is definitely not on fire. That was the first thing I checked when I came back to myself yesterday."

He'd had curtains and tables replaced anyway because he didn't even want to take a chance of fire damage being found by some overly observant eye.

"As for photos of myself in the tuxedo, unless some roving reporter snapped one when I was flailing about like a fish trying to put the fire out, I don't think I have one, no. Why are you asking?"

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"Because you don't seem like the tux type, normally, and I'm very sad to have missed that," Irene said, deciding that was the easiest bit to respond to. "How bad was the fire?"

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[throughaphase]

Kitty had meant to see how Irene was doing, and doubly so after the weekend.

Also she was supposed to look for stuff but first things first.

"So, welcome to Fandom, we're really weird," she greeted her.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"So I hear," Irene said with a bright smile. "I'm afraid I missed out, though."

She paused, making sure her twenties and tens were in nice stacks, and added, "I'm really very broken up about it." Obviously. "Anything happen to you?"

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[throughaphase]

"Nah. Well, not aside from the cops trying to bust my bar and then hauling my bartender down for questioning in the murder of someone who wasn't actually murdered," Kitty said. "Where were you?"

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"Baltimore and Washington," Irene replied easily. "I've never spent much time in the States before, and I wanted to get some shopping done. Figured I'd make a weekend of it."

But where she had spent her weekend was much less interesting than what Kitty had said. "Were we not much for following actual judicial procedure, this weekend? It sounds like everyone was a bit...reactionary."

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[throughaphase]

"Going by my radio yesterday, that's the most polite word that could be said about it," she agreed. "By Sunday I hid out with Clint where everything was normal and my chances of getting shot and stuffed in a dumpster were nil."

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"At least there doesn't seem to be any lasting permanence to it, though if someone shot me and stuffed me in a dumpster, I think I'd rather have a hard time looking at them the same way ever again. Who's Clint?" Irene asked, tilting her head curiously.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[throughaphase]

"My boyfriend. Blond, great arms, world's best dog? You might've seen him," she said.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[justlurkinghere]

Supplies were necessary in Casa de Creepy. Which meant there was a surly looking werewolf in the shop now, eyeing the varieties of personal lubricant with a keen eye.

He eyed the woman at the counter for a moment suspiciously. Because he was Derek, okay?

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"We just got a new one that's raspberry-flavored," Irene offered, glancing over with a smile. "And it's not too sticky, too."

She could be helpful when she felt like it.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[justlurkinghere]

...raspberry would be an interesting change.

Derek frowned still, but it was slightly less suspicious. "Does it wash out of fabric?"

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"I haven't tested it, but I think so," Irene said, wandering over to look at the bottle. She gave him a coy look, and added, "Might want to put down the messy sheets, just in case."

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[justlurkinghere]

They were all messy sheets at that point. Derek tensed at the coy look, eyes firmly on the bottle instead. "You're new in town."

It was not a question.

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

"I've been here a few weeks," Irene told him, leaning against a shelf and fluttering a wave at him, even if he wasn't looking. "Hi. I'm Irene. And you are...?"

Re: Talk to Irene [07/15]

[justlurkinghere]

"Derek." The chattiest person you'll ever meet! "They given you the whole warning about this place?"

Mod your shopping [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

Enjoy the sex toys without talking to the dominatrix.

OOC [07/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

I really don't want to drink a second cup of coffee but I think it might be tragically necessary.