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!))

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[blessed_by_the_world]

It's a lottery! You should try it.

You might win a prize!

[darkens]

I see.

[Hoshi passively eyes the lotto machine. Well, if it's just for shits and giggles...] How much?

[blessed_by_the_world]

It's free! We're doing it to advertise for the store.

[darkens]

Free? Well... [She arches an eyebrow, surprised - she'd been expecting to pay a small fee, at the very least. But the fact that she doesn't have to means that she might as well. It's a clever business tactic.]

All right.

[So, with a shrug, she steps forward and turns the crank. She isn't expecting to actually win anything - she's not all that lucky, now that she thinks about it - so this is just a silly whim, really.]

[blessed_by_the_world]

[There is a rattling sound and a small black ball falls out. Akane looks a little disappointed.]

Aw, too bad.

[Not lucky at all. She does hand her a packet of tissues though, which is the consolation prize.]

But here, you can have one of these.

[darkens]

[It's hard to be disappointed when she knew all along what was coming. Shrugging, she accepts the pack of tissues and tucks it in her pocket.]

...Oh well. [She bows awkwardly. Herp.] Um, thank you.

[blessed_by_the_world]

You're welcome.

[She bows politely]

Please remember us when you do your shopping.