Groovy Tunes, Thursday

[okteiviakom]

It was Octavia's first shift.

Ever, on any job.

Just another thing to adapt to, she guessed. Jono had left her a note with instructions about running the store, and she was quietly grateful for it. Right now, she was learning to work the till – while shaking her head at the whole idea of it. Exchanging pieces of paper and bits of metal for plastic discs to take them home.

This was going to take adjusting to.

She was still wearing her tough leathers. She was yet to start feeling comfortable in anything else, at least anywhere in public. Maybe that's why the stereo was behaving itself, and actually playing the Elliot Smith compilation she'd wanted it to play.

Groovy Tunes was open and there was a Grounder behind the counter.

[ooc: Open, no OCD!]

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[okteiviakom]

"With the stereo," Octavia said, nodding towards the piece of tech in question. So far behaving itself. "Do you want me to show you how?"

It was perhaps the only thing she actually knew how to do, here.

[magnusrushesin]

"Sure," he said, also adding 'fantasy' in front of that in his head. "Is it mechanical or magical?"

He was being totally serious about that question too.

[okteiviakom]

"... Mechanical," Octavia said, slowly. "Unless I don't know what you mean by magical."

[magnusrushesin]

"You know... magic." He twirled his finger in the air like that helped. "I can't, like, do any. But I know people who can. Usually with some competence."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia wasn't going to tell him magic wasn't real.

She was just going to think it.

"Right," she said. "Well we use tech here."

[magnusrushesin]

This was going to be another 'Skeletons can move in this game, Justin!' situation.

"Works for me. No spells here." He held up a hand for a high-five.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia recognized that for what it was.

She also gave it a look of 'really?'

And possibly 'why?'

And then she went over to the stereo. Jono's note had said nothing about high fives.

[magnusrushesin]

Which is why Magnus gave her the saddest of looks before manfully clearing his throat. "Okay, cool. Not much of a talker. Or high-fiver."

[okteiviakom]

Just wait 'til the next invasion, Magnus. Maybe then she'd feel like there was anything to high-five about.

Because right now it wasn't happening, no matter how much that look did vaguely make her feel like she'd been more rude than intended. "Do you want to learn about the stereo or not?"

[magnusrushesin]

"Sure, I guess." He was just deeply saddened. See if he showed you Stephen now.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia didn't care.

She just went about showing him how the stereo worked, explaining about how the music was on the discs, and how you put the disc into the slot, and which buttons did what.

"-- and that's basically how you listen to music in this time."

Well. She'd only barely heard about streaming.