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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.
    matermali: (084)

    [personal profile] matermali 2023-08-30 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ 'Chick'? Wondering how anyone can mistake her for a youth, Vanessa slowly turns to see the source of the voice. 'Morticia'. She can guess, then, though the sight of him isn't what she had imagined. What had she imagined? Well, not a mask, and not one so...vivid. It's almost as entrancing as what decorates the shelves, where she gently sets down the container of bandages. ]

    Vanessa.

    [ If they are to continue speaking, he ought to know her name properly. ]

    Vanessa Ives. And you are...?
    wrenchedup: (🔧 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚊 𝚋𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚐𝚎)

    [personal profile] wrenchedup 2023-09-02 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ He's a lot of things and none of them are things that people expect until they get to know him. Some version of him, anyway. Just give him a moment to. Uh. Look. At her. Total witchy vibes. And her name was Vanessa. That's a witchy name. Wow. Okay, he's staring. He's just going to look away for a second awkwardly, ahaha. ] You really kinda fit in here, huh? Called to this place by the swan song of cheap gimmicks and pop culture?

    Oh— uh, me? I'm Wrench. Just Wrench. [ Is he— do they shake hands? Uh. He contemplates it for a second but then just kinda... fixes his hoodie. Ahaha. ]
    matermali: (159)

    [personal profile] matermali 2023-09-03 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
    [ The smile that forms is small, but knowing. The mask only hides so much.

    Pop culture? It's intuitive enough with context and a moment of consideration. Shifting her gaze to what little she can see in the dim lighting this rare sanctuary has brought, Vanessa does have to admit to a bewilderment that has nothing to do with past loves or bloody deaths. ]


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