-->Anyway – back to Retail Time! And to the infamous lag on this lot, unfortunately. :( Based on what I saw today, it seems to be primarily tied to Sims actually BUYING stuff, as it seems to happen most often when people are waiting to be rung up or right after they’ve been rung up and they still need to grab their item. Maybe it's because I have a lot of mod-added items for sale? *shrug* Fortunately it wasn’t too bad today, with only a few significant instances, but still – meh.
Despite the game doing its best to stop them, though, the trio persevered, chatting with various customers and doing their best to get them to buy stuff – and succeeding pretty admirably! Victor talked a guy named Patrick into buying a block of beeswax for $18, then immediately rang up visiting teenager Ren for the same thing, while Smiler helped a kid named Wren buy a small $5 lettuce and some dude named Aarush grabbed an avocado from the veggie stands for $25. Alice, meanwhile, was working over an elder named Samuel – but as he found her unattractive (as per Wonderful Whims), I don’t think her attempts to get him to buy stuff worked very well. :p She thus went to ring up Agnes Crumplebottom for a $68 bag of fresh bread instead – fortunately distracting the woman from noticing Smiler lay a cute cheek kiss on Victor. XD Smiler then headed to the center aisle and let off a happy blast to try and improve everyone’s moods –
-->And at this point, everything started getting a little chaotic, as a bunch of people suddenly wanted to be rung up at once! Alice took care of a lady named Giovanna despite the lag’s best efforts, ringing her up for a $70 jar of honey, while Smiler discovered Alice had been more successful at convincing Samuel to buy than she’d realized and rung him up for a box of blackberry jam for $455. They also went around and rung up a kid named Taka for a box of vegetarian MREs for $482 (must be buying them for his parents). Victor, however, was the real winner of the selling spree, managing to sell a Happy Scent perfume to a “loiterer” named Joey (who REALLY had to go to the bathroom) for a cool $1,174! Maybe I should keep that in mind when I think about the future of the store...
-->With that taken care of (and a lady named Fetia snagging herself a $5 Cereberry in the background), Victor went ahead and did some more Scruberooing of shelves and fridges while Smiler and Alice kept attending customers – Smiler ringing up the kid Pierce for a $206 box of canned green beans, and Alice (after an ANNOYINGLY long wait) teen Sofia for a $517 box of strawberry jam. Alice then headed into the break room to make some hamburger sliders, as she was feeling hungry, and I noticed that Victor kind of needed to pee and sent him into the bathroom –
Only for another wave of “hey I would like to buy things” to hit the store! I quickly had Alice stop her sliders (though she DID insist on taking the cutting board all the way down the stairs...then all the way back up again -.-) and Victor stop his attempt to use the toilet and sent them out to help Smiler on the selling floor. Between the three of them, they managed to get Javier a $44 jar of mayonnaise; Liberty Lee an $86 butterscotch cupcake; the returning Ren a $734 chocolate pie; and Makoa a $29 jar of mushroom conserve. Oh, and Aarush came back and bought a plasma fruit for $10. XD Talk about a last-minute rush!
-->And it was indeed the last-minute rush, because I looked over at the retail UI, realized the shop had been open nine hours, and decided it was probably time to close up. So, after an aborted attempt to get Smiler to befriend a customer so she would let them have her plasma (they now know that Kasandra likes the color green), I had them shut up the shop while Alice went and finished her sliders and Victor finally got his bathroom break. By the time they closed at 6:30 PM in-game, they’d made a nice profit of $4,174 on everything they’d sold! :) Yeah, I know Alice and Smiler can make more than that just in royalties on their books and videos, but it’s still pretty good considering I have everything on "sale" prices. Anyway, Alice called everyone down to the basement to eat, and she and Victor enjoyed some sliders while Smiler had a plasma fruit and bred some frogs to create an additional plasma pack to drink. Alice then went to clean up her plate –
And for some reason headed upstairs to do so. Following her, I realized that what she was doing was clearing some rotten raw meat out of the “butcher” display – and that a lot of the remaining meat was ALSO going rotten as she did so. D: Cue me trying to coordinate her and Victor’s efforts to clean up all the spoiled food from both the meat display and the fridges (which lead to a lot of "placing a pile of dirty dishes on the nearest consignment shelf," annoyingly) while Smiler went around and removed a bunch of the “out of stock” signs from the shelves. Eventually, though, everything was cleaned up, with Victor and Smiler finishing things off while Alice caught a few winks on the break room couch (her werewolf instincts were demanding a nap) –
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@sliding-into-space said: The doors to the gas station open and a young boy in a red hoodie calmly walks in and disappears down one of the aisles. About two minutes later he appears with a green slushie the color of radioactive slime and a huge armload of snacks that he dumps on the counter. "I've never seen a place with so many rare snack foods." He grins up at the worker, his face now clearly giving away his robotic nature. "You got a favorite?" He asked, rocking on his feet as he looked around, his eyes letting out a soft glow of light.
(to Jack in Main verse!! HAVE A BORG CHILD ON A SNACK RUN >:) )
It’s around the middle of the afternoon, about halfway through Jack’s shift, and today has been going pretty well, at least for the most part. He’s had a few rude customers, but no one’s raised their voice and no one’s pulled a weapon on him, so he is tentatively counting today as a success, all things considered.
The only real damper on his mood so far is the fact that the new part-timer, a nervous girl named Allison, hasn’t come in to work today. It’s not anything unusual, all things considered, but Jack isn’t exactly looking forward to taking over the rest of her shift until Jerry can come in this evening. Maybe he’ll try to call her later, make sure she’s okay.
By the time the boy comes in, a little after 3:45, Jack has settled in to read the new book he picked up the other day (a riveting post-apocalyptic thriller about a vampire hunter). He hasn’t had a customer in a little over an hour, and he’s already cleaned and straightened up the store as much as he can right now. Right now, he’s mainly focused on keeping himself entertained.
Eventually, the door chimes to announce the arrival of a new customer, and Jack lifts his head to greet them. Then, he pauses, blinking in surprise, as a young boy in a red hoodie calmly walks inside.
Even at a glance as he watches the boy walk down the aisles, there’s something clearly not human about him. He can’t tell what it is right away, but the boy isn’t making any effort to hide it. More importantly, though, the boy very clearly is alone, with no adults to be seen.
Should I call someone? Jack wonders. The kid doesn’t seem to be in any distress, so he doesn’t think he necessarily has to, but it’s not good for a kid to wander around alone, right? Jack needs to be the responsible adult here, right? Shit.
Soon enough, the boy approaches the counter, arms full of snacks and a green slushie, a wide grin on his face. Yep, this kid definitely isn’t human. Jack is a little surprised that the boy isn’t trying to hide it or anything, but... well, okay, maybe the kid’s just a really good cosplayer, and regardless he isn’t causing trouble.
So, instead of pointing out the obvious, Jack smiles hesitantly back at the kid as he sets his book aside. “Oh, yeah, we’ve got some interesting ones,” he agrees with a snort. “We’re not exactly the biggest store out there, but we’re located close enough to the highway that the owners try to make sure we’re stocked with at least some exciting snacks.” When he looks back at the boy, he realizes the kid’s eyes are glowing.
Okay. Probably not a cosplayer. Alright.
Well, whatever’s happening here, Jack knows better than to pry into a stranger’s business.
So, instead of saying anything, Jack hums thoughtfully. “Y’know,” he says, “I’m not sure if I do. I mean, I’ve tried a lot of the snacks here, but I don’t know if I have a favorite, per se.” He starts to ring up the snacks, then, looking them over as he does. The kid did grab some good ones, and in a pretty wide selection--Jack nods unconsciously in approval. “What about you? You got a favorite?”
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