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ᴋᴀᴍᴜɪ ᴜᴇʜᴀʀᴀ ([personal profile] metafictions) wrote in [community profile] citylogs2023-08-19 09:55 pm

(open mingle) it's not the mall without a spencer's!

WHO: Kamui ([personal profile] metafictions), Wrench ([personal profile] wrenchedup), and you!
WHAT: A very silly mingle for hunkering down in the Spencer's.
WHERE: the city mall
WHEN: sometime during the August event
WARNINGS: Suggestively shaped bachelorette party items, will update for anything else.




After some hours of confusion in the dark, it becomes clear that they're all going to be stuck in the mall for a while. Naturally, the need for a safe home base arises next.

Enter: the Spencer's Gifts on the mall's second floor. It's near enough to emergency lighting to almost be visible, but more importantly, it's full of enough food and supplies to… sort of make it work, when it comes to hunkering down for a bit. Far preferable to sleeping on one of the mall benches, anyway.

The shop is stocked like pretty much any other Spencer's in the mall in 00's North America:

  • Cases and rows of alternative fashion, from spiked wristbands and chokers to body jewelry and gauges, line the shop. If you're especially enterprising they could be repurposed as a makeshift weapon. Orrrr you can just keep your cash in that chain wallet
  • Pop culture merch is also highly represented at the Spencer's. There's stacks and stacks of anime t-shirts, funny graphic tees, and novelty bobbleheads and other figures.
  • Careful going to the back of the shop, though: that's where all the adult items are kept though a whole lot of it might be already raided by Wrench, ask about that later.
  • Most importantly is the construction of what has been lovingly (oocly) dubbed as… ~ The Naruto Fort ~ or The Nort for short:

  • Welcome to The Nort.
    Whether you’re helping construct it, stock it full of goodies, protect it from things that aren’t actually there, or just paying a visit or coming to sleep for the night The Nort can be found occupying one of the aisles close to the entrance.

    The tent walls are crafted by strung together nondescript anime t-shirts and weird goth costumes and probably at least one tie dye pot leaf flag. There are tons of novelty pillows in all sorts of odd shapes (yes, there’s probably one that looks like a butt) for you to rest your weary head. There might even be a few throw blankets of everyone’s fav emo band, My Chemical Bromance.
    coolerjunpei: (011)

    wildcardish, eventually horks??

    [personal profile] coolerjunpei 2023-08-22 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
    [Of course there's a goddamn Spencer's, why wouldn't there be—no shitty neon store has ever been a bigger bastion of safety and comfort in a haunted mall, in Junpei's humble opinion. Finally... he's home.

    Or rather: he's been standing in front of one of those static plasma balls for like, ten minutes now, because coping is getting to play with funny lamps even if they don't work. He sees the Nort. He admires the dedication to the anime shirt bit. For now, he's keeping himself sane out here with the lamps.

    To wit, once he spots Wrench gathering his weaponized dick candies or whatever he's going around doing:]


    Hey, you ever pour all the goo out of a lava lamp?

    [he has Always Wanted to do this!!!]
    Edited (not me forgetting the silly lamps wouldn't work either....just junpei being weird at a glass ball now) 2023-08-22 01:53 (UTC)
    wrenchedup: (🔧 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚕)

    HORKS HORKS HORKS

    [personal profile] wrenchedup 2023-08-23 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ So glad they're on the same page. Honestly, Wrench could very well have ventured out to try and fix whatever was going on here. He had the skills. He was a fucking engineer. And maybe eventually he might try and take a look at whatever though also there was a piece of him that thought it might be like the whole Kiosk situation and have zero logical sense to it. Anyway, he'll do that eventually. For now, though? Absolutely chilling in the fucking Spencer's. Safety in shitty teen memories.

    Wildly enough, at some point Wrench had become so entrenched in trying to fashion (hah, fashion) some kind of actual semi legit DIY weapon or several kinds that he didn't notice Junpei trying to play with the not-on-plasma-ball until the guy spoke up. ]
    Oh, hey man! [ The LEDs were bright in the darkened store. He's like a god damn flashlight. ] Uh, no actually. [ He sounds surprised at himself because honestly its exactly the dumb kind of thing he WOULD do. ] I haven't but.... I DO NOW. [ Up Wrench gets from the floor. ] Let's do it!
    coolerjunpei: (013)

    [personal profile] coolerjunpei 2023-08-24 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
    Hey.

    [Sup buddy. Junpei might be a dim outline by the lamps but Wrench is a fucking lighthouse going around with his usual LEDs, so what's really been going on here is Junpei has just been staring. Just looking at a lamp that doesn't turn on.

    He's had weirder days. Now he's about to have a super excellent day, with Lava Lamps.]


    Hell yeah, let's get messy. Grab a normal-sized one first and we'll work our way up to the big hog.

    [Here in the dark. He'll get his phone out of his pocket for the flashlight, so they can actually see their great experiment.]
    wrenchedup: (🔧 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚠)

    [personal profile] wrenchedup 2023-08-30 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ Here be Wrench for all your lighting needs! Just point him in a direction, man. He's happy to help. Let him just get around this here counter first though and out into the great beyond. Also known as a few steps outside of the counter where they keep the lighting shit.

    They've all had weirder days lately. Well, maybe some people haven't had weirder days and frankly Wrench believed that those were the real weirdos. ]
    You got it, boss.

    [ Okay, uh. Hm. What color does he want. Oh, green. Yes, green. Grabbed it. Turned to Junpei, nope wrong direction, turning again. There he is. ] Ooh I just love smashing things!!! [ ^ _ ^ ] So, uh. So what, are we throwing them on the ground like adults or are we going to be lame and responsible?