8975/Shopping

Shopping
Date of Scene:	27 August 2019
Location:	Mutant Town (Popup Clothing Store)
Synopsis:	a little publicity and a little meeting with the wierd Alek
Cast of Characters:	Ivory, Smart Alek

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Ivory has posed:
Close to Mutant town, a couple of stores change hand so often, that they usually are only used for popup stores by this time. One of them had just omce more changed who used it, the back wall still carying most of what the previous one had spracpainted there, then overpainted in the center with a white persian cat. The counter carries an old register, the side walls, behind the rags still show the tags that the back mural hides, and a couple tables and racks offer the shirts, pullovers and trousers as well as converses, painted by some artist. An open sign gleams in the window, but there's nowhere to be seen in the shop for the moment.

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek is walking down the sidewalks of Mutant Town, his dimly glowing blue eyes give the obviousness he's a mutant.. but in this part of town it's almost expected to see such obvious mutants. He seems to be running a finger along the side of the buildings and shops as he goes. A touch or such per shop he's walking by. His eyes are turned slightly downward. He talks to himself, "Bakery.." as he goes by a John's Bread store... "Shoe Shop" as he passes New Legend Shoe Store.. and as he touches the glass to Ivory's place, he pauses a moment, "Should have been a Restaurant... It's a ... clothing store." as he looks up and into Ivory's popup store. He wanders into the door, "You should be a restaurant.." he says to noone inparticular.

Ivory has posed:
"I'll be with you in a moment..." A voice from the back answers the sound from the front, then some moments later Ivory exits from behind a screen that hides the doorframe to the back room. "I am sorry, what did you say?" they ask, sorting the scarf around their neck with an off hand as they slip behind the counter, smiling. "Can I help you with anything?"

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek wanders the clothing, "This is ... was a restaurant. It served pasta with a trace bit of ammonium dioxide, it was different then others." he touches each piece of clothing as he seems to almost unable to help himself... his eyes glow a bit brighter blue, "These feel very... unique, I've never experienced these before."

Ivory has posed:
The clothes are all at least modified by the store owner, the T-Shirts getting prints while the pulloers were made almost from scratch, the trousers were altered... and all of them with the intent that there was no gender that they were made for. Which also showed in how the whole store was sorted - no gender line between the stacks, just sorted hy size nd what they were. "Oh, eh... The restaurant closed... uh... something like three weeks ago? Last week some artist was in here, leaving the tags on the wall, I only rent since monday. If you'd like to try something on, I have a changing booth over there."

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek pauses a moment on one particular piece of fabric, "It seems one person did alot of this work.. You make these yourself or you by them from someone? I... don't buy much myself, not much money really."

Ivory has posed:
"Well, it's pretty much a popup store to get my designs onto the streets, but yea, I do work on all that stuff. Printed, embrodied, painted." Ivory explains, leaning just a little onto the counter.

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek says, "Just updating memories.. I like to make sure everything is cataloged well." he kinks his head a bit, "Well.. If you needed help to be known.. I can easily post your stuff on the web if you'd like. Not sure how detailed you'd like to make the postings but.. I can easily post everything I've touched so far and can make sure search results end up having them popup." he looks over a particular piece of fabric, "I like unique stuff and anything here in Mutant Town needs support too.""

Ivory has posed:
"Oh, that's... well, I have a couple influencers and bloggers that like my stuff, but if you want to join that group, sure, why not? Just have to dish out a deal or something. I mean, I get some PR from you, what do you get from it?" Ivory asks, searching for their laptop under the counter and opening it to get some generic contract for PR onto the screen that is usually used or bloggers.

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek says, "Nothing.. Are you a Mutant? I mean.. if I can ask." if she left any DNA on the clothing, but he probably got a large number of samplings on the clothing so it would be hard to correlate exactly whose DNA is what unless he was to touch her at the moment. He's willing to let her be honest with him, "I want us all to do well.""

Ivory has posed:
They washed the clothing before putting them on display, but there seem to be twins working on the backend of the store, as there is a male and a female version, sharing the whole DNA but for one chromosome being different. And the X gene? Totaly lacking. "That's nice of you..."

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek shrugs a bit, "I want us to do well for ourselves. It seems the world likes to pick favorites, why can't I help in their selection." he smirks.. he wanders over to Ivory, "I hope your doing well? Don't want to have to keep updating this shop in my map."

Ivory has posed:
"Well, I don't actually plan to keep the shop too long. I mean, I am designer first, so I try to find a distribution network, so I can concentrate on that. And to that point, I run a popup shop some times to get more onto the street." Ivory exlains, tapping on the laptop to get her portfolio out on the screen.

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek reaches to the touch the screen of the laptop almost out of reflex.. "Well, I can easily get the word out. Nothing has to be brick and morter for long nowadays to get people to buy your stuff indeed." he nods in agreement.

Ivory has posed:
Ivory blinks as he reaches for the screen, but in this city of flying bricks and monsters in the harbor, it's better to just watch at times. "If you want to, sure."

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek grabs his hand before touching the laptop with his other hand, "no Alek... privacy.. you shouldn't go about memorizing everything..." He then closes his eyes.. if Ivory has a facebook page or any sort of social media type outreach, she should be getting a few 'pings' perse right now. Alek's eyes look like he's in REM trance of some sort as he stands there.

Ivory has posed:
Besides facebook, a blog, an instagram, twitter and some more pp up with messages and Ivory turns the screen to try to read them, or at least see what the conundrum of signal tunes is about. "Hmmm..." they mutter, skipping through the tabs that open.

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek opens his eyes up after a moment, "Done. Just created some traffic and posted your creations.. and directed the traffic to your sites."

Ivory has posed:
Ivory Valentine blinks another time, eying the numbers on the screen. "Well, it did ping a lot, but what of that is your work and what actual traffic?" they ask skeptical, tilting the head some as they watch Alek carefully.

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek says, "Anything from here on out.. will be real.. I just seeded it." he shrugs, "People don't generally care about the quality of subscribers much.. just that your sites have people there. I can get rid of them if you don't want them." he raises a cell phone from a pocket, "It's a knack.. I can communicate with electronics if I'm touching them.. at speed of thought." he nods."

Ivory has posed:
"Nothing bad about having some traffic." Ivory notes, shrugging before she puts the computer back under the counter, leaning onto it afterwards. "Though I can't help you with having to remap the street next week. I mean, I can't maintain a shop and do the work on the clothes and design them. It takes time to do all."

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek nods, "Well.. it's okay.. keeps me busy. I have the map of new york back to when it was new amsterdam, some periods of time I have small gaps but I have decent coverage of the layout of the city." He nods, "I spent a lot of time in libraries touching everything..." he taps his head, "all memorized in here now. It's useful in online trivia games mostly."

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek seems to glance outside a second, "The tournament is started.. I need to go. If you need me, I'm listed as 'Smart Alek' on your followers page. Sorry to pump and run, but I need to dish out some payback online."

Smart Alek has posed:
Alek offers a smile and a wave as he heads for the door, "It is a nice place you have here though, lots of unique stuff."

Ivory has posed:
"I try to do my best. But your maps will always be somewhat out of date, you can't keep them updated 24/7" Ivory notes with a wave as he leaves.