Ichiban Market Golden Week Lottery!

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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

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[Nano gestures to the lottery machine.]

All you do is turn this crank here. A colored ball will come out of the machine, and depending on what color it is, you might win a prize!

[primordial]

The crank?

[He follows her gesture, before giving a nod. Ah, seems simple enough.]

I can just go and turn it, right? I don't have to pay to get a try or anything?

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That's right. And it's to promote the store, so there's no charge to play. We hope you'll give us your business in the future, though!

[primordial]

Erm. Sure...

[He doesn't care about that, he's more interested in the prize. he reaches out and gives the crank a twirl once, before expectantly staring to see what number will come out.]

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[The crank turns, moving the wooden box and mixing the marbles around as they rattle about inside. After a few moments, a black one comes rolling out of the hole in the front.]

I'm sorry, but that isn't a winner. But please accept these as a consolation gift as thanks for playing and for your continued patronage.

[Bowing politely, Nano hands over a small pack of tissues with the Ichiban Market's store logo on the outside of the package.]

[primordial]

[Ugh. Sam frowns, obviously disappointed, and the tissues just add insult to injury. He takes them anyway, giving the little girl a smile and nod.]

Oh well...once a loser, always a loser.

Erm, what do you guys sell anyways?

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Groceries and household appliances. Mostly things for the kitchen, but also vacuum cleaners and things like that.

[primordial]

That sounds useful. Not that I need any of that. But still...pretty useful.

You all sell fish, right?

[all_wound_up]

Yes, there are fresh fish in stock every day, as well as a small made to order sushi stand near the back of the store.

[primordial]

Oh, good. I-I like fish.

[This is a prime place to steal fish from, then. Good.]

Anyways...how did you get the job? Did you just apply, or what?

[all_wound_up]

[nooooooo how could you theft hurts grocery stores' profit margins so much ;u;][She points at Nikolai.]

That's him over there. His name is Nikolai-san, and he's very good at balancing the books!

[primordial]

[LIKE HE CARES ABOUT YOUR PROFIT MARGINS]

Ah. Nikolai...I think I know him, actually! He seems like a nice guy.

[all_wound_up]

He is. He's been very nice and helpful.

[primordial]

[An attempt at a smile. It's rather pathetic on his face, but at least he's trying.]

How did you get to know each other?

[all_wound_up]

[Huh, the middle part of my earlier tag where she was supposed to have originally explained this got fucked up and eaten somehow. Weird. Whatever, rollin' with it!]

We met on his first day in the city, and when the market appeared, I offered him the job since he was looking for one.