First Possibly-But-Not-Necessarily-Annual Milliways Yard Sale!

[hangingoutwithcrows]

Huzzah, hurray! It's not raining on the day of the yard sale. Flea market. Rummage. Whatever you want to call it! Event where you can sell stuff and buy stuff and generally wander around poking at things.

So Ursula has hung up more signs, directing people to a big grassy area, where she's begun setting up blankets and tables. Come on down!


((Yard sale! Party-style rules apply: thread-hopping encouraged, open indefinitely, make your own fun. I'll set up some organizational threads below.))

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Sales and Refreshments

[hangingoutwithcrows]

There are already some blankets and tables set up for people to claim, or you can bring your own.

((Please set up your sales here, with a general description of what you've got. :D ))

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[hangingoutwithcrows]

Ursula has a few things to sell herself, which she spreads out on one of the blankets. It's mostly books, an old map or two, some small paintings, and a few odds and ends she's accepted as payment or just picked up over the years. An old pair of snowshoes. A very nice sweater that never fit her. Some inherited dresses that are so not her style. A set of painted wooden horses. A teapot. Stuff!

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[fieryface]

Jamie, wandering through, notices the horses before he notices the woman selling them-- though once he has, he offers a slightly shy smile.

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[heatherandsteel]

Some of the dresses look like they could almost be May's style and he loves the book collection. His disguise is down and he's yawning as he checks out titles and nods to her whenever he looks his way.

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[auxin]

Auxin, who has been manning a stall of wooden objects around the other side, pauses to have a look at her painted horses.

"These are nice." he says. "What sort of paint did you use?"

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[pierregringoire]

Gringoire is mostly eyeing the books-- those clothes are pretty obviously for people from a very different country.

But he's not closely eyeing Djali, who has wandered off towards Ursula, with a vague sense that this was a human who knew the proper behavior with a goat.

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[hecu_marine]

Shephard's been sorting out his hunting trophies, if you can call them trophies. They're not things you keep for display so much as things you keep because there's good use for them.

If you're him, anyway. We're talking alien hides tanned into leather, devil bunny pelts of all colors with the fur still on, bone and ... well, it looks like ivory, but not really any kind of recognizable Earth ivory ... carvings, things like that.

A small sign on the table indicates that all the items on offer are 100% guaranteed not to come from any known endangered species.

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[likeroaringlions]

William's been strolling and gawking cheerfully; now he strolls and gawks his way over to the familiar face. "None of your beasts with you today? Well--not alive, anyway?" He gives one of the hids a tap: not alive.

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[heatherandsteel]

That's a really assorted mixture of stuff, he wonders what the Duke would think of them. Quentin peers at everything, "Did you do all of this yourself?"

His disguise is down and while he's up early, a good rummage sale is worth it.

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[cook_the_rude]

Dr. Hannibal Lecter is wandering around, eyeing the wares.

"Interesting. What kind of ivory is that?"

Milli-Scouts Lemonade Stand

[sunbaked_baker]

Last night, ten-year-old Rae Seddon had gotten ingredients for cookies and lemonade from the Bar (as well as a receipt), and made snickerdoodle and chocolate-chip cookies under the watchful eyes of the waitrats*, and many pitchers-worth of lemonade. Sweet and tart and deliciously cold.

This morning while the dew is still on the grass, she sets up the table she and Autor and Fry built. It's a fairly sturdy, if plain, table of smooth wood painted a pale yellow. She brings out a banner of white paper too, attached at each end to the end of a long dowel rod. The two rods are set into half-inch deep holes at the front corners of the table, so the banner is held up and spread between them. "LEMONADE AND COOKIES" it reads in all caps, each letter encircled by a drawing of a large, yellow lemon or the circle of a brown cookie. Just below, smaller by the necessity of limited space, "All proceeds will be donated to the Bound Patrons/Kids fund."

Once the table and banner are in place, Rae can be seen ferrying plates of cookies, a couple of pitchers of lemonade, and stacks of paper plates and cups out to the stand. The last trip out, she carries a couple of folding chairs and - precariously held against a chair seat by her arm - her receipt book.

Once the chairs and stand are set up and the is food out and ready, Rae takes her pen from where it was tucked behind her ear, and smiles. Okay. She can do this. It's just

"Lemonade! Lemonade! Fresh, cold lemonade! And cookies! We've got snickerdoodle and chocolate-chip! All proceeds go to a good cause!"



*No one said the adult supervision had to be by human adults.

(ooc: Mun will be in and out all day, but will tag when she can. <33333)

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[i_am_your_host]

Sitting behind a table all day is exhausting work, and Emcee has run out of gin.

So at some point, he sucks it up and approaches the little redheaded girl at the lemonade stand.

"Hallo, Fraulein," he greets her, because calling a little girl Miss is charming? "How much for a cup of your finest lemonade and- um- what is a snickerdoodle?"

He speaks English with a German accent, he's wearing red lipstick and a black leather coat, and those heart-shaped sunglasses are silly but he thinks they're cute.

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[runningred]

"Hello, Sunshine." Jay waves, "The stall looks great."

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[coral_sandhu]

"Can I help?" Coral asks, running her finger across the word 'Snickerdoodle' on the sign trying to read it.

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[cook_the_rude]

"How can I possibly resist?"

That is Dr. Hannibal Lecter, wandering up towards her stall.

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[i_am_your_host]

What Emcee has for sale is laid out on a table and on a blanket on the ground.

The table is laden mostly with magazines and books. Lots of books. The books are mostly hardcover, some leather-bound, written in German but some in English: poetry, literature, Greek classics, Shakespeare (with both original English and German translations). Some of the slimmer volumes are erotica, which Emcee keeps closer at hand because there are children around. Which then leads to the magazines, which are partially covered because there are naughty pictures in them, at least according to 1930s standards.

But not all of them! The magazines most prominently displayed all have images of 1920s and '30s starlets on the covers. There are huge stacks of them. Gossip, pulp fiction, some Time and Life issues as well.

Propped up against the table legs are records that Emcee was willing to part with, only because he knows he can get 'digital' versions of them now. Classical, opera, jazz, mostly by German artists, others by British and American.

Everywhere else are bits and bobs, used and worn but in good condition. A pair of women's dance shoes, studded with black sequins. A pair of gloves, with silver sequins. A bowler hat, with a band of red sequins. (There are a lot of sequins involved in his line of work, okay?) A waistcoat made of dark blue satin. What looks like a pile of feathers is actually several boas, pink, white, and green. More feathery and sequined items, like headbands and fascinators, fill a little basket.

There are other random things like an alarm clock (the kind of you have to wind up), a Kodak camera, a tin hip flask, a couple of lighters with art deco designs on them, small but ornate brass picture frames.

Emcee is sitting back on a lawn chair, a glass of gin in his hand, and since he's outside and it's daytime, a pair of plastic heart-shaped sunglasses on his face. The sunglasses are not for sale.

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[fieryface]

Jamie drifts towards the sight of another person he recognizes, but before he can offer Emcee a proper greeting, he's distracted by all the glitter.

"What's this?" he asks, picking up the sequined gloves.

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[just_cant_lose]

Jim was not planning on going anywhere near something as awful as a humble sale, because ugh, really? He only came this close because he's restless, and Emcee is usually fun to mess with in one way or the other.

But then he sees the camera, and tilts his head. He could actually get some use out of that, and being from actual 1930s Berlin makes it more interesting than any replica.

'Have you got film for the camera?'

He looks normal today. Studiously so, as if he's never looked insane or frightening in his life. All the manic energy is packed neatly away, where it can't be seen.

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[isawit]

Selina comes wandering by. She's already looked things over as she approached and while the old timey girlie mags could potentially buy her some favors on the streets, she knows stuff like that's too easy for kids to get their hands on. Plus, she doesn't want any of the boys to associate those kinds of things with her, thank you very much.

Those magazines with the old starlets though, those remind her of the magazines her mom used to collect and read her. Those she has her eye on.

"Hey," she says by way of greeting. Shoving her hands into her back pockets so as to not seem too interested, she makes a show of looking over the items on the table.

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[runningred]

Jay and the drones have a tasteful - small gadgets, each labeled with an explanation of what they do. Simple things - directional devices with tracking tags, small area EMP suppressers, that sort of thing.

The drones have beautiful things made of glass. Kaleidoscope light catchers, 3D fractal shapes, little trinket boxes that seem to glow from within.

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[makesthings]

Sameth saw the sign and at first wasn't sure what was going on until he saw people with all their stuff.

Soon he has a table set up with small scale automaton cricket players, a few knives, coins that spin or float, a mixture of jewelry and other projects that he hasn't known what to do with. Also a few of his books from Somersby, hard cover boys adventure books and other odd things he's picked up but never used.

He likes the feel of this sale, it reminds him of bazaars that they sometimes ran at school.

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[auxin]

Auxin has a wide variety of whittled objects - toys, basic musical instruments, and some wooden beaded bracelets and necklaces. The toys are all based on a world without cars or trains or electricity, so they are mostly horses and carts and soldiers and even little watchmen.

He also has a wood burning tool with a sign: 'Names on objects, no extra cost'.

Wandering and Shenanigans

[hangingoutwithcrows]

Just browsing? Hanging out? There's plenty to see!


((If you want a thread of your character just generally hanging out, post here! Talk amongst yourselves! :D ))

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[heatherandsteel]

(OOC: I'm traveling so will be slow but wanted to get him here.)

Quentin learned about rummage sales when he spent his time at a mortal high school, going to flea markets and thrift stores was something everyone did.

This has some of the same feel, it sucks that its during the day so he's yawning and sipping a coffee from Bar along with a bagel as he wanders. His disguise is down and he's wearing his Pleasant Hills High School shirt.

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[livinginmyglass]

With no wish to spend money and nothing of value to offer in trade, Viola is content to just wander through the stalls looking. Milliways is strange, of course, but there's a different kind of strangeness in seeing bits and pieces of other people's worlds-- her pace is slow, her eyes wide.