Shopping

So Gwen is in Eas, she has some supplies to pick up for her time here and eventual way back. She was whistling in a slightly off key tone. She was bouncing along a bit clad as Ashes Nei today and seemed to be in good spirit as she made for one for the merchant stalls...

    Merek is walking about Eas, taking his time to explore. Eventually, he does come across Gwen, nodding a bit to the woman. "It's been a while, are you doing well?" he asks, lifting a wave. He does take a look about all of the stalls.

Chikako is out and about as well, having been up to Eas to make certain reports to certain people. She's dressed 'casually' for the day, a black and red kimono with matching leather pants and boots. Because an Oni has to look bad-ass. She spots Merek and Gwen amid the crowd and angles towards the familiar faces, pausing to buy an apple from a stall and take a big bite from the fruit, crunching it noisily as she walks.

Gwen will pause pick up Merek if he lets her and give him a hug the moment she gets close to him. "It's been forever! You also have been successful at not dying more!" She holds him up in the hug a moment longer if she's allowed before she'll let go. She'll then take note of chiako and grins at the Oni.

"Hello! Looking for something new for yourself as well Chikako?!"

    Merek lifts up with that hug, and nods a bit to Gwen, "Thank you. And ya, been trying to be careful, especially after we learned what it takes from people." The man notices Chikako and waves. "Your clothing business going alright?" he asks the woman, smiling. "I might need to make a few orders."

Chikako nods and shares a wide grin with Gwen. "Indeed! This Oni grows bored, and everyone knows what danger a bored Oni can be! And so I determined that it was time for the Oni to visit the Market!" She chomps another bite of her apple, still grinning.

Gwen Says "It's going well I even had time to train both physically and magically." She grins flexing a b it and then looks over to the Oni for a moment. "Indeed I can get that, how about you get something new to look imposing to your foes as well? As for you Merek the coffee keeps comming so I take it things are well there?"

    "Ya, the taxes are paid into the Kingdom and it means that I'm making enough to keep the alchemist place open," Merek admits, while he brushes a hand along his spiky ponytail, then he smiles to Chikako, "I'm Merek," he says, probably having met her, though he's met plenty of people in his travels, a nod along to Gwen, "I will keep that in mind, likely something proper for a Merchant. I plan to expand my business to the Ninetail."

Chikako nods as she returns Merek's smile. "Chikako Douji, Oni. Pleasure to meat you."

She nods to Gwen's suggestion. "Indeed, that was my intention! Something in a lovely crimson, I should think, alike to my proper form's hue, yes?"

Gwen looks to Merek for a moment "You should consider moving out here perhaps or to your own alliances city no?" She grins tilting her head. "I need to expand my business at this point now that I think about it. Get a few people to teach and work under me."

She looks to Chiako for a moment.

"Yes you need to work with the colours right? Or you'll end up like a 90s G2 Transformer...."

    "I have thought about Shibuya. If I do, I would need a way to bring in more Lander merchants, as well as to keep the profit going to the Kingdom generally. I like to keep those business relation things." Then he nods to Chikako, "A pleasure!"

Chikako nods. "Yes, colors. Something to go properly with my regal vermillion, yes?" She chomps at her apple again, then - noting a trash can by one of the market stalls - tosses the core away. "Black goes well, of course, and gold...."

Gwen Says "There would need to be a guarded trade route for that. At the very least the locals could make a lot of coin selling raw materials and other things like that there." She nods to Chikako for a moment longer. "Red black and gold humm? Going for the big boss look?"

    Merek nods a little bit to Gwen, "Aye, that will likely be the best. I'll keep that in mind, although I will need to find people for it," he admits. Then he's looking about the place, "I need to get more cities a lamp," he says, while he thinks about it.

"Oh, what else would be worthy of an Oni, hmm?" Chikako grins wider, and then offers a nod to Merek. "Haven't been to Shibuya in a while, I have not. Not since before the Palace Landers. How fares the city these days?"

Gwen says "You could start next by the city that Crescent Burger is located in it is a port city and could pread word of such creation to the world at large." She looks to the Oni thinking "It may take some time for me to think of something fit for you."

    Merek nods, while he thinks about it. "Thank you," he says. Both hands move to his pockets, while he looks about the village. "Things are calming after the war went to the mainland of theirs again. All the same we need to keep that in mind that they still have a lot of people that don't like us." Then a nod to Chikako, "It's doing well!"

Chikako grins again for Merek. "Good to hear, good to hear. I'm going to take a quick look around some of these little places, see if there's any interesting fabrics in." She waves cheerily and paces off to one of the aforementioned stalls to start her search. "Chim me if you find anything!" she yells back to Gwen.