The Visitors | Chapter 1 Post

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Friendship Bracelet - A childish friendship bracelet, although it’s been made with love. Purple string covered in white beads, with a single “K” on one of them, creates a simple design.

Deluxe Helmet - A brand new hard hat, complete with integrated headlamp usable at three different brightness levels.

Letter Opener - A bright red letter opener, sharp enough to tear through envelopes with ease but not so sharp you’ll hurt yourself. Not without trying very hard, at least.

Expensive Figure Collection - A large number of expensive anime figures from all kinds of popular anime. Each figure retails at about three to five hundred dollars each.

Doctor’s Note - A handwritten piece of paper stating that (blank space) is of sound body and may resume daily activities. Signed by a Dr. Seth.

Bonus: Singed Crane Plush - A cute little plushie of a crane bird that looks like it’s seen better days… it almost looks burnt… There’s a little slip of paper attached to its ankle, which is also mostly burnt, but you can make out ‘Love Hikishun’ written on it.

Viper

Roadie 🪶Jack “I mean, I’ve only gotten to try it once…”

“Only once? My dude, you are MISSING OUT!” Viper hands him her last five quarters without much consideration, but she does hit him with a- “I ain’t no charity though, you gotta earn some more pocket money.” She grins at him with a little wink, before heading back to nosily watch Abel pull in the gacha.

And boy does she not regret it

Narrator Expensive Figure Collection - A large number of expensive anime figures from all kinds of popular anime. Each figure retails at about three to five hundred dollars each.

Abel Lazarus So be it. It’s better he doesn’t like this stuff. He’s ready to turn to leave. (unaware someone seems to want something of his)

“NO. WAY.” Viper- you’re yelling at the poor guy. “Whoa-whoa-whoa! Don’t go, please!” Viper is determined to get those figures by any means necessary- she could be a material gworl when she wanted to be. And for her anime waifus, it was worth it.

“You gonna keep those figures?! ’Cause, like, they’re SO cool. I, like, totes need those for my collection at home. If I get outta this place, they’d fit right in.” …She’s not mentioning anything about the resale value. Not that she would resell. But… the option was there.

Vinzent Mayer

Vinzent, in all honesty, wasn’t sure what more he’d expected after getting more money from Viper.

But maybe time is important and well. More items?

Vinzent slides in (total) 2,50$ and makes the maximum number of pulls possible. Bye money-

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Vinzent Mayer

Lightly Worn Rabbit Plush - A blue and white plush rabbit that looks a bit loved. It smells faintly of an expensive cologne and is very soft to the touch.

Screwdriver Set - A package set of four brand-new screwdrivers, each with a differently shaped bit: flathead, Phillips, torx, and hexagonal. Talk about multi-purpose fixing!

Sterile Packets - A packet containing several smaller, sterile packets of gauze pads and sutures, including a specialized sewing needle.

Icing Carrot - A plastic squeeze tube painted to look like a cartoon carrot. Full of sparkly, pink icing that seems extra sticky.

Sunglasses - A pair of somewhat large sunglasses with a blue streak. Apparently they’re some kind of ultra designer brand, though they seem pretty plain.

Bonus: Height Sign - A very large label with an exposable sticky backing. Features an arrow beside the text “You must be this tall to enter” and a little bit of opaque white above and below the text.

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R.N.A. Upon spending their quarters from Viper…

Sugar Cubes - A small box of crunchy sugar cubes. Each is the perfect size to cradle in your palm.

Creature Treats - A cute little see-through bag with a label proudly announcing its name. Despite the title, it seems to be full of pet grooming equipment…? Well, maybe it’s just a different kind of treat.

Leopard Print Fur Coat - An extremely expensive fluffy coat smelling of an expensive perfume. It’s very warm to wear.

Whiskey Bottle - The only actual label is “XXX,” but it does smell like whiskey. Despite being an animation cel instead of the real thing.

Cologne - A bottle of cologne for men from a popular brand. According to the label, it’s composed of a high concentration of smoky and woodsy scents.

Bonus: Hummingbird Feeder - A delicate, almost crystalline-looking fillable hexagon specially designed for hummingbirds to be able to feed in privacy. But doesn’t that defeat the purpose of hanging up a feeder…?

Abel Lazarus

Ah, yeah. Not so much interesting stuff. He really doesn’t get the appeal of gambling. He doesn’t throw anything away this time but he’s already thinking of how to pawn most of it off on other people. The letter opener is interesting, though. Pretty thing. He likes things like this.

So be it. It’s better he doesn’t like this stuff. He’s ready to turn to leave. (unaware someone seems to want something of his)

Abel Lazarus

Viper “You gonna keep those figures?! ’Cause, like, they’re SO cool. I, like, totes need those for my collection at home. If I get outta this place, they’d fit right in.” …She’s not mentioning anything about the resale value. Not that she would resell. But… the option was there.

The resale value matters not to him. He could probably buy several and not even put a dent in the family fortune.

“These?” He gestures towards them. “I don’t really want them.” He definitely Could try to drive a bargain but he doesn’t really have the physical Ability to lug this around for several cars or anything-

And also just. Really doesn’t care about Anime. Sure Cain would likely like them if he made it home to offer them to his brother but. Again. He can easily buy them at their exorbitant resale price.

“Take them.” He hands them over without much care. “They’re not of use to me.” And he feels, literally, much lighter for it.

Roadie 🪶Jack

Viper

Well, Jack wasn’t so broke that a buck and change was a great haul, but sometimes you simply took what you could get.

Viper “I ain’t no charity though, you gotta earn some more pocket money.”

“Understood. I’m sure I can find a way to… earn some more.” By which he meant swipe that $50 bill illegitimately at some point. But anyway.

He’d had enough to carry from the start, but he figured one more gacha pull was probably fine. Especially with someone else funding it.

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Roadie 🪶Jack

Stick Jesus - A wooden figure with an uncanny resemblance to the Lord and Savior Himself. Feels like it was crafted by a small child at Catholic school.

Roadie 🪶Jack

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“……”

Taken with even less comment than the micromicrophone.

Viper

“(FRICK) YEAH!” Viper takes the figures, “Thank you SO MUCH!” …Her bag is getting too full for all of this crap she’s collected. Oh well. She’s going to have to start unloading her junk at some point. For now, she’ll take whatever physical strength penalty she gets for carrying around all of her stupid stuff.

Viper promptly empties her bag, shoving as much as humanly possible into her bag… it looked stupid, yeah. Especially because she was using the oar like some kind of walking cane, and carrying some of her miscellaneous paper-based goods… but she could wait to get rid of her junk, surely!

….

The sound of the gacha machine draws her attention.

Holy sh-t. What is that.

It’s beautiful, in the ugliest way possible. Viper… she… she feels the need to have it. That’s…. she’s making a note of where Jack puts it, because oh my god. It’s so…iconic. She has plans for stick jesus.

Vinzent Mayer

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Well. Finally? Something helpful? Even if Vinzent wasn’t trusting himself with the equipment, he knew there’s someone else more suited for that. And the other items… Well. He’ll think about it later but now, he’ll go toward the group that is taking care of Abel, to give them the sterile packets. At least they’ll have something finally useful to help him.

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