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(open) i've had just about enough
Characters: Padparadscha and you!
Date: Various parts of April
Location: Aifaran streets, Dreaming Bridge (Breakwater Wing)
Situation: April affinity shenanigans, specifically Commerce 1, Sci-Tech 4 and Meta 5.
Warnings/Rating: None yet.
[A: April 12th-13th, Aifaran streets]
[Apparently it's a good week for overpriced beauty sales carts, because Padparadscha has been seeing a lot of the weird little things spring up. And the owners have taken a very weird liking to dragging them across to their carts to try and test out a stunning range of their products.
It usually stumps the salespeople a bit when they touch "skin" and feel something vaguely powdery over rock. Padparadscha, for their part, is taking it with good grace, laughing lightly as they take their arm back.]
Hey, maybe you should try it on someone with real "skin". Like them. [Congratulations random passer-by with skin, you're getting pointed out.]
--
[B: April 10th-19th, Dreaming Bridge Breakwater Wing]
[Apparently at least one of the researchers has noticed the amount of time Padparadscha's been spending around the city's scientific communities recently, because there's an odd little garden set up in the Breakwater Wing common room. A "hydroponic gardening unit" had been as good as gibberish to them until the scientist explained it, but after getting a better idea of what it was, Padparadscha accepted readily. It'd be interesting to keep some plants, with their short lives and fragile beauty, and it's mostly flowers that are taking up the unit.
There are a couple of fruit and vegetable plants too, though, because even if Padparadscha can't make use of those, some of the others might be able to. Still, they're only in the process of growing, and sometimes Padparadscha can be found leaning over the setup with yimo in hand and a faintly petulant look.]
Rutile really was better at this sort of thing, huh...?
--
[C: April 15th-19th, Dreaming Bridge]
[Padparadscha definitely doesn't remember entering any kind of raffle - or knowing what that is - but it seems like a waste to turn down the prize on offer. Though they don't really have much need of enchanted household items, there are certain ones that can be of use to them otherwise.
The one they've chosen is a thick, heavy cleaning cloth, the kind of thing that would be used to go over smooth, polished surfaces. It's also quite happy to keep floating around and doing that all by itself, which has prompted a bit of an idea from Padparadscha.
They can't remove their powder still, but that isn't going to stop them from sitting around in various parts of the Dreaming Bridge and letting the heavy cloth work through polishing the different locks of their gem-like hair. It lingers on a single area long enough to leave it shimmering before moving on, though Padparadscha looks a little bit bored despite the fact that they're still wearing an amused smile.]
Don't make me sit here all day, okay?
--
[D: Wildcard]
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Date: Various parts of April
Location: Aifaran streets, Dreaming Bridge (Breakwater Wing)
Situation: April affinity shenanigans, specifically Commerce 1, Sci-Tech 4 and Meta 5.
Warnings/Rating: None yet.
[A: April 12th-13th, Aifaran streets]
[Apparently it's a good week for overpriced beauty sales carts, because Padparadscha has been seeing a lot of the weird little things spring up. And the owners have taken a very weird liking to dragging them across to their carts to try and test out a stunning range of their products.
It usually stumps the salespeople a bit when they touch "skin" and feel something vaguely powdery over rock. Padparadscha, for their part, is taking it with good grace, laughing lightly as they take their arm back.]
Hey, maybe you should try it on someone with real "skin". Like them. [Congratulations random passer-by with skin, you're getting pointed out.]
--
[B: April 10th-19th, Dreaming Bridge Breakwater Wing]
[Apparently at least one of the researchers has noticed the amount of time Padparadscha's been spending around the city's scientific communities recently, because there's an odd little garden set up in the Breakwater Wing common room. A "hydroponic gardening unit" had been as good as gibberish to them until the scientist explained it, but after getting a better idea of what it was, Padparadscha accepted readily. It'd be interesting to keep some plants, with their short lives and fragile beauty, and it's mostly flowers that are taking up the unit.
There are a couple of fruit and vegetable plants too, though, because even if Padparadscha can't make use of those, some of the others might be able to. Still, they're only in the process of growing, and sometimes Padparadscha can be found leaning over the setup with yimo in hand and a faintly petulant look.]
Rutile really was better at this sort of thing, huh...?
--
[C: April 15th-19th, Dreaming Bridge]
[Padparadscha definitely doesn't remember entering any kind of raffle - or knowing what that is - but it seems like a waste to turn down the prize on offer. Though they don't really have much need of enchanted household items, there are certain ones that can be of use to them otherwise.
The one they've chosen is a thick, heavy cleaning cloth, the kind of thing that would be used to go over smooth, polished surfaces. It's also quite happy to keep floating around and doing that all by itself, which has prompted a bit of an idea from Padparadscha.
They can't remove their powder still, but that isn't going to stop them from sitting around in various parts of the Dreaming Bridge and letting the heavy cloth work through polishing the different locks of their gem-like hair. It lingers on a single area long enough to leave it shimmering before moving on, though Padparadscha looks a little bit bored despite the fact that they're still wearing an amused smile.]
Don't make me sit here all day, okay?
--
[D: Wildcard]
[[Feel free to hit me up at
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[There's definitely some tone of amusement to Padparadscha's voice - despite their lack of skin making them a bad target, they have still seen the general aversion passers-by seem to have to these cosmetics hawkers. While the idea of cosmetics isn't unfamiliar to them, these ones seem excessive, and also overpriced despite their limited understanding of economy and barter.
The salesperson is practically jumping at the chance to sell to someone who isn't a weird rock, though, and definitely looks like he's about to start extolling the virtues of every single product in his hands to Eve if he's not stopped.]
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[Eve shakes her head, waves invitingly at the tall... reddish person.]
That's very considerate of you. Why don't we have this discussion about skin or lack thereof somewhere else.
[At the risk of disappointing local merchants, she's been to enough malls to know she doesn't want to get sucked into this one.]
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Sorry, then, I suppose I have plans now, right? [The shopkeeper still seems a little too confused to argue, so Padparadscha takes the opportunity to wander off past Eve, combing their shards of hair back over their shoulder with one hand with nails that shine like gems.]
What kind of "somewhere else" were you thinking, little one?