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Who: Wander and you
What: Wander trying to make extra buying money for his present
When: Month 10, days 2-8
Where: Various locations in town
Notes & Warnings: Will match for action or prose

If he was going to get a decent gift for the Secret Santa event, he would need more money than what he could get just from his new job. This week, he went around town looking for odd jobs and errands he could do and make a bit of cash here and there.

A - On the major roads.
He had been going door to door of all of the stores, offering to make some deliveries, organize the stacks, anything the owners needed assistance with. The majority refused to let an outsider help with their business, but a few recognized him as that nice fellow that greeted them all the time. In some small stores, Wander is out in the front, cleaning up displays and organizing the shelves, or outside, taking some garbage out.

B - Outside the resort building.
It was time to put his craft skills into good use: if there was anything cheap people would buy, it would be felt star-shaped accessories. He laid out brooches, pins, and stuffed stars on a blanket in front of him and walked around it, calling to those passing by to take one for only a few credits.

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Wander re-organizes a row of the stars and looks up to see one of the new arrivals he spoke to before.

"Oh, hi Elle!" He gives her an energetic wave. "I sure did! Do ya like 'em?" He spent hours this week sewing them together and making emergency trips to the craft store, and just getting compliments on his work makes him feel like it was all worth it.

"Would ya like to buy one? Not only are they cute, but they're also real good at cheerin' you up!" He picks one up to give to her. "Here," he says, smiling at her with the biggest eyes he can manage.

Oh, no. She's doomed. She can feel it already. Look at those big eyes...

Slowly, Elle reaches down to take the star from him. "It really is cute..." She gives it an experimental squish between her hands, then brings it up to squeeze it against her chest. She really does like it. She was interested even before Wander gave her the big eye treatment. So she doesn't have to try to talk herself out of it.

"How much are you asking for 'em?" Elle is the easiest sell ever.

Fortunately for Wander, Elle was a softy. Folks usually ignored him when we was trying to look adorable, but then again, he typically pulled the "look I'm adorable" card on Sylvia when convincing her to do something. It almost always worked then.

But Elle getting excited over the little stars was enough to convince him to lower the price, just for her.

"Well, right now they're all one hundred emeralds, but if you really want this, I can give it away for jus' fifty." He takes one of the stars near him. "I can hold onto one if ya'd like!"

Elle wants a star and by golly, he'll make sure she gets one!

Oh, no. Oh, no no, he's being so nice about this, too...

A look of apprehension comes over her face. "I'd hate not to pay you the full price..." But. She doesn't have a whole lot of money just yet, because she hasn't been here for all that long. She purses her lips as she thinks. "Would it be okay if I give you the rest later? Or, pay the other half in a favor of some kind?"

Because. She does really want it. And he's so excited that she's interested, she can't turn around and change her mind now.