Ichiban Market Golden Week Lottery!

[all_wound_up]

Who: Nano Shinonome, Nikolai Volkov, Akane Awakusu, and YOU!
Where: Ichiban Market in the Virgo Ward
When: Saturday and Sunday
Summary: The market is closed for Golden Week, but it's running a lottery promotion on the sidewalk.
Warnings: Gratuitous use of action brackets in a log post.

[The Ichiban Market from Nano's home world always closes every year so that its employees have more time to enjoy Golden Week and to restock the store, but there's also usually some sort of special sidewalk promotion designed to drum up more business when they reopen. Nikolai is the day to day manager, but Nano's stayed on as kind of a consultant since she's from the same world, and so she's spent the past week or so organizing a storefront lottery for the store to get rid of overstocked merchandise and stuff nobody ever buys anyway give away some fabulous prizes and appreciate their customers!

Nano herself is wearing an apron with the store's name on the front, a pair of cosplay cat ears from her other job, and is manning a Japanese style revolving lottery machine with multicolored marbles corresponding to each prize.  She's joined by store manager Nikolai, wearing his usual business attire, and also their newest employee - a ten year old girl by the name of Akane Awakusu.  She's decked out in a happi coat and a white headband, waving advertisement flyers and handing out promotional packs of tissues to anyone who lingers in front of the store for long enough to listen.  There is a sign set up next to the table they're all standing near announcing the lottery, with big bold text: GRAND PRIZE!  ONE NIGHT TRIP FOR TWO TO THE AMAGI INN!

Anyone is free to step up and try their luck!]

((OOC: To play the lottery, go to random.org, generate a number between 1 and 100, and put it in the header of your tag to find out if your character wins anything.  Please check the thread to see if the number you got has already been taken, and roll again if that's the case.  You can also just show up to talk to Nano, Nikolai, or Akane by putting one of their names in the header.  The only way to find out what the prizes are is to play!))

Comments

[all_wound_up]

These?

[Nano blinks, raising a hand to touch the ears.]

I need them for my other job at the cosplay cafe...

[electricyousei]

"Oh. I see. They are cute."

She ponders a bit.

[all_wound_up]

Would you like to have a try? A lot of the marbles are prize winners!

[electricyousei]

"Oh. All right."

She blinks and looks over the everything.

[all_wound_up]

Go right ahead, then! Turn the crank, and if the ball is anything but black, you'll win a prize!

[electricyousei]

She turns the crank.

"What happens if its black?"

[all_wound_up]

The consolation prize is a pack of tissues.

[But out rolls a brown ball!]

But it looks like you won a prize instead!

[Nano walks over to one of the boxes where they're storing their prizes, fishing out a waffle iron and setting it on the table in front of Ruri.]

Congratulations, Ruri-san!

[electricyousei]

She blinks and looks at it.

"What is it?"

[all_wound_up]

It's an electric waffle iron. Now you can have delicious waffles for breakfast every day!

[electricyousei]

There comes a second when she almost frowns, then looks down a little.

"I see. Well thank you. Do I need to buy anything?"

[all_wound_up]

Um... no, but is something wrong?

[That disappointment was pretty unmistakable.]

[electricyousei]

"I haven't had breakfast that wasn't out of a box in a long time."

She shrugs a bit.

[all_wound_up]

If you'd like me to cook for you sometime, I wouldn't mind...

[electricyousei]

"No. I used to work as the flutist for a dinner cart. Sometimes I just miss it. I joined the military about 6 months after that happened and haven't cooked since."

[all_wound_up]

Well, now you can at least make breakfast in the morning!

[electricyousei]

"....No, I don't want to take Akito's job. But I'm sure it will look nice in the kitchen if anyone else wants to use it."

[all_wound_up]

[Now Nano kind of feels sad and awkward.]

...That's right! At least it will be there, just in case.

[electricyousei]

She nods a little.

"I'll put it next to the spice rack."

[all_wound_up]

A-all right.

[electricyousei]

"You're welcome to stop by and use anything in the kitchen of the Nadesico."

Ruri just looks down a bit at the iron and lets a small breath out.

[all_wound_up]

I'll cook for you sometime, then, if that's all right.

[electricyousei]

She nods a little.

"If you'd just like to use it. Sometimes I wonder if the equipment is in need of repair because I don't know how it works."

[all_wound_up]

I don't know how to fix it if it is, but I can at least make a meal if everything is working.

[electricyousei]

"I'm sure someone can be hired to fix it. Its just a cafeteria kitchen. Just knowing how to make edible food is a skill I never cultivated. All I can make is what Yurika called food..."

There is a distinct pause and a slight green twinge to her pale face at the thought.

"Made with love."

[all_wound_up]

...with love?

[Oh.

Oh.

Okay, she gets it.]

Hahaha... I understand.