un: eudaimonikos; video | backdated to early November

[eudaimonikos]

Good morning, Trench! [Michael seems pleased with himself today!] I'm here to announce the grand opening of a brand-new boutique - the ~Garb Place~!

[He claps his hands together and then spreads them, creating a little shower of golden magic sparkles. The camera swings around briefly, showing a panoramic view of a small shop interior, before returning to Michael.]

That's right! I've decided to use my incredible reality-bending abilities to make clothes! All custom orders, so literally whatever you want. Within reason, I guess, but I've still got enough power here to make that a pretty broad category. Ah, and I've also got some jewelry I made when I was bored, and some drinks and small cakes.

[The camera turns briefly - oh, it looks like there's just a little area in the boutique to Chill. Including, yes, small cakes.]

Those are...I don't know, those are free if you want to just hang out. I'm a little bored here, and I feel like having a shop does mean being in the shop for large portions of the day. That's a little weird...

Anyway - I feel like this city really needs a little brightening up. I understand if people want practical clothing, but it doesn't need to all be black. And hey, it's fun! Check this out!

[Time to view some ads! These are all just pictures of Usagi in flashy, fancy dresses. Very couture. It's not actually very much like a traditional fashion shoot - Michael really doesn't have or understand that whole male-gaze-y affair - but it does look like they had a ton of fun taking the photos! She's probably stage-fighting with swords or something in some of them. It was a whole thing.]

Now - for this month, I'm offering a special discount on full-coverage outfits. They're very in right now, apparently due to all of the potentially deadly mushroom spores floating through the air. I've even made a few hats!

[The camera turns about to show off a few fancy veiled hats, except that the veils are clearly designed to cover the entire face, and are rather more like sheer fabric than netting.]

Honestly, if you don't have anything good to wear, just let me know and we'll work something out. Sounds like it's getting more dangerous out there. Cover up, stay safe. And drop by if you want to look at clothes and eat little cakes!

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Video | Clickclickbloom

[onekindsoul]

Hey hey hey!

Hold up a second there.

Black can very stylish if you give it a chance.

...But I say this as the person who was wearing a ton of black before we ended up in her dream goth world.

Okay. I'm starting to see your point here.

[eudaimonikos]

Back when I worked in Hell, all we were really allowed to wear was black, shades of grey, and sometimes puke green if you were lucky. I'm a little over it.

[like, it's fine if you want to, but there should be options]

[onekindsoul]

Okay yeah. I could see that getting a little tiresome.

Have you ever considered making a technicolor dream coat? That could be fancy. You could make it all of the colours!

video; un: doublehedgedsword

[laminae]

Wow, this is really cool! And Usagi looks great, you guys should be real proud of yourselves! If you need any flowers or whatev for decoration lemme know.

[And then he switches over to private, because this is making him realize something important!]

[Private]

Can you make sweaters? Like a whole bunch of fancy sweaters?

private

[eudaimonikos]

Sure, I could make sweaters. You could come by and touch my fabric samples! Since everything's just made out of nothing, I don't have many clothes here, but I did whip up a few sample things for people to look at.

video | un: P.G.

[possessum]

( Of course Paimon is drawn to this like a moth to flame. His Dear Demon Friend seems to be doing well, he's making any clothing a person could desire, and he provides little cakes....! This is very exciting!

If it wasn't already obvious who was at the wheel by the way he isn't blinking, as soon as he opens his mouth, it's definitely Paimon. )

Hello Michael. Your store is very pleasing.

( Though his voice is perpetually kind of lacking in emotions, Paimon's eyes are sparkling like he's just seen the eighth wonder of the world. )

I have nothing good to wear, so I would like to order some clothes. ( Peter's clothes suck! He wants nicer things. )

And I would like to have some little cakes....

[eudaimonikos]

Paimon!

[Michael lights up. He's chatted with Peter, and things were a little ambiguous early on, but he feels like he hasn't really gotten to properly talk with Paimon in a while.]

Hey, sure, come on by! We can have some little cakes and talk about what you want - I figure I'll draw some pictures before I make anything, and you can touch all the fabric squares.

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh wow, that's so cool! Think of what you could make there! I have a friend who's also thinking of doing this!

Heh, Usagi looks great in these!

So what do you take for compensation?

[eudaimonikos]

Whatever, I guess. Seems like there's more of a bartering system around here than the whole money thing - I have to say, it does make sense to me. I'm willing to talk it out.

[Frankly, he doesn't have a ton of personal needs himself, so he's probably gonna be lowballing a lot of this.]

video; un: ushiromiya

[entreats]

[ Aw. It's kind of nice to see Michael doing something for himself - even if he still seems to be struggling a little with the actual shopkeeping part of.. having a shop..

But despite how pokerfaced she usually is, Ange can still smile a little when she sees those ads. Swordfighting to display the clothes? Really? It's kind of stupidly amusing. ]

It looks like you two had a whole lot of fun with making the photos. [ Understatement of the year. ] At least it makes your ads stand out.

[eudaimonikos]

Sure! But it's relevant, too - combat is an important part of Sleeper life!

[or something like that!]

voice; un: givemeyourown

[unsheathedfromreality]

I am very interested in your jewelry but must ask a question first:

[The voice on the other end of the Omni sounds direly serious.

Also, riddled with static.]

Can you see ultraviolet?

[eudaimonikos]

Of course!

[What is he, a person with human eyes?]

un: lumine

[traversal]

[ she finds it fascinating, even if she's happy as it is with her current clothes. ]

Since you're making clothes out of essentially thin air, does that mean they may disappear at any time?

[eudaimonikos]

Nah. Not that I've been here long enough to know the limits for sure...but other Darkbloods don't seem to have that problem. Pretty sure they make most of the stuff around here, all the buildings and everything. I'd actually considered going back into architecture, but...well, I've done a lot of that.

[Seemed fun to try a new thing!]

video; un: wulala

[royalfling]

[ Michael gets a little strangled noise through the omni, then the feed cuts.

Then comes back a moment later with a slightly more composed Wu starring at him with the biggest eyes and the brightest smile ]

You can make clothes?

Any clothes?

Any clothes?!

[ Don't mind him, he's just very, very excited about this. ]

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael chuckles a little.]

Sure!

video; un: Dr. Disraeli

[delilahs_death]

A delightful idea for a business indeed. And useful, I imagine, since I am sure monsters and such will be doing quite a number on the clothes we brought with us.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, I went through so many shirts back in Deerington. All the blood and gunk...

[.....]

Anyway, it seemed a lot more interesting than trying to pick up bartending again. Might as well make stuff, if I get to keep my powers - but "I can make anything" is a little broad for a business description.

Video; UN: Cuddlebunny

[lightthedarkness]

10 out of 10 would totally recommend again and again!

[eudaimonikos]

Thank you! Please leave a good Apocalypse Yelp review!

[there's probably not yelp here, right?]

audio, un:yuuki

[siriusly]

Uoh...Michael, you did...all of that yourself?

[eudaimonikos]

Yep! That's what I've been doing for the past while - you were dead for a bit of it.

Video; un: darkness

[survivalthroughhate]

Hmmm, several people have been telling me I need more clothes...

[Usagi and Lucille chief among them. This is what Maul got for being friends with some of the worst clothes horses in Trench.]

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael looks Maul up and down for a moment.]

I am willing to work in black.

[You know, if he must.]