the saddest yard sale advertisement you will ever see [video]

[ka_sera_sera]

[Roland sits amid wood, nails, and wire, scattered in a few small piles across the overgrown back yard. A little ways behind him, eagle-eyed viewers might notice a chicken in the process of laying an egg.]

Fiona Gallagher's... gone home. She, ah-- [He shakes his head, starts over, nodding at the house his camera's not at the right angle to show.] Anything in there's fair game. Odin 107, I mean. I won't be needing any of it. The door'll be open. Probably food and furniture, mostly - anything in the cupboards or refrigerator, anything not nailed down, bar the refrigerator and stove. I think the place came with those. [He shakes his head again, realizing he might be starting to ramble.] Doesn't matter. Corn, beans, squash plants in the back. Take them. Can probably see 'em behind me somewhere.

[Another chicken starts to peck at his sleeve and he lifts his arm, blinking at it.]  Ah. Couple chickens, if you can catch them. Is that all? I think... I could probably use a couple extra hands to get all this wood and a couple of these plants over to Freyr district. And I... to be honest, I could probably use the company.

Bowls. I'll need a few of the bowls to transport these plants in. Other than that... Plates, silverware, clothes, bedding. Doesn't matter. I'll be leaving once it's empty. If I'm not here, don't take any of the magic plants. I'll find you. [The tone of that last is too absent for it to sound like a threat. It sounds, if anything, like an afterthought.]

The door's open. Have I said... [He has, probably. Roland shakes his head again, grimacing at himself, and cuts the feed.]



(ooc: If your character would drop by, this post doubles as a log post. Either prose or this format works, I'm comfortable with either.)

Comments

[samantha_grey]

Mark the cases each creates, so we have a record of who made what. It simplifies things without making it obvious. If there's a problem, it gives us a starting point to check.

[ka_sera_sera]

Yes. Since you're in charge of those things I'll leave it up to you. Seems you have it well in hand.

[samantha_grey]

I'll do what I can, but it does kind of look like I've taken over coordinating some of the supplies, so it's probably a good idea to keep it up and consistent.

Private

Sort of funny. My shop still sells stuff that's illegal where I come from. Getting used to running smuggling's a pretty good way to know how to handle this sort of thing.

private

[ka_sera_sera]

I was having thoughts in that direction as well. Fiona, um, she's had one or two dealings with Asgard's 'black market' or I wouldn't have wondered. [Which doesn't have much to do with his actual question, but the statement had already started coming out before that'd occurred to him and so he'd soldiered bravely on through it.] Do you know if the supply coordination people have at least considered working with that black market? I don't know if they need to right now, but there may come a time when it'll hurt everyone not to pool all our resources.

Re: private

[samantha_grey]

It barely exists any longer. There's still smugglers in town, but I cut ties over the last bit. Between the formation of the patrols and the loss of Utgard, the smugglers are getting to be a bit of a desperate lot.

[She grunted and looked away.] And, while I'm pretty open-minded, I started cutting ties with that sort of thing back home too after a while. That doesn't mean they couldn't be useful, but their resources are a lot less these days.