Help wanted

[poorlittleblueburdie]

*The video feed turns on, but instead of showing the person speaking, it shows a table filled with items, and more piled up around and behind it, and on stacks of boxes... clearly, far too much for the part of the room it's been stored in. Of what's visible, there are lamps, stained glass, hair clips and pins and what look like they could be chopsticks, and carved, beaded, and braided jewelry, wind catchers and chimes and all sorts of pretty things.*

*Judging by that sigh they let out, whoever it is holding the watch away from them, pointing it toward the items, seems a little nervous.*

I'm hardly much good with figuring out how to start, so I'll get right to the point. Is anyone interested in helping me sell these?

I've already a job during the day, and spend much of my time after that making more items, but I've almost finished making the arrangements for a shop in one of the markets from which to sell them... and I'd need someone to mind it for me. To keep it all organized, and actually... sell the things, and let me know what I need to make more of, if I haven't made more yet, and... things of that sort.

I've set money aside to pay for someone to mind the shop, but if it helps any... if you'd like something from among the wares yourself, I'm certain we can come to an agreement.

Please, let me know if you're interested!



((ooc: tossed up a small discussion on Plurk here, too. To sum, Virgo's the obvious district to put it in, but if there's other ideas, why not, right? And he can take requests, if people want something custom. Especially if they want to help him with the shop. Plus, hiring multiple people could easily be a thing; it's a chance for extra CR, especially with overlapping shifts and giving each other breaks or days off or something, right?))

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[poorlittleblueburdie]

"...Under glass? But it isn't... it's stained glass and lamps and jewelry and things like that, mostly."

He was quiet for a second as he had another bite of his ice cream, playing with the chocolate sauce with his spoon. "What about... ah...." Another pause, ideas still not quite coming. "Well, what about a name that plays off of the Human Citadel, or Nosgoth, or--"

He was about to say something else, but closed his mouth again, some thought stopping him dead right there. "On second thought, I ought not to. If anyone else from Nosgoth were to show up... I don't know that I'd want to advertize my presence, or where I'm from. Or what I am." He made a bit of a face at that.

[unbroken_chain]

Kotoha shrugs a little, savoring a spoonful of her ice cream. Once she's finished, she offers another suggestion.

"Glass Heart?"

[poorlittleblueburdie]

"It's funny to me, because this would be easier back home. Most of the shops in the Citadel merely had pictures of things to illustrate what they were; most didn't have the words themselves, or even names to shops like the ones here do. Were I to do this back home, the sign for it there would probably be a bit of stained glass, or... a painting of a brush, hanging out from the top of the--"

Oh.

He pulled his pencil and a small sketchbook from somewhere under the table (did his robes have pockets after all?) and opened it up to a blank page, where he started sketching, quickly, a heart shape interrupted by some words overlapping one of the sides.

"Stained Glass Heart may work quite well... I could have exactly that for a sign above the front, outside, and light it from behind.... Oh, that would be so pretty while it's dark out, too!"

Ideas, Kotoha. You're giving him some.

[unbroken_chain]

Kotoha will just enjoy her minty goodness until he gets all the ideas down on paper.