[network] @Ecks, a shrewd businessgolem | text/video, evening 147 [open] [discussions of safe sex]

[ecks]

I have something I do not need. I will accept a trade for these. Make offers. I want useful things and also knives.

[And thereafter follows a very brief video in which the tablet is pointed at the floor in order to show three little packets laid out there, which many will recognize as condoms.]

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@dissect; text

[circumsutus]

Do you have anything else valuable? [Because so far, Stein ain't getting any.]

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[ecks]

Yes but I am using those things.

I have a corkscrew. Also a nightgown but I will not trade that except for something very good.

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[circumsutus]

If you find cigarettes, let me know.

@Spoiler ; private text

[spoileralert]

[ Oh. Oh my. Well Steph refuses to make her trip take any longer than she has to, but. ]

I have a butcher knife. Where are you?

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[ecks]

I am near the clinic. Will you show me the butcher knife?

[spoileralert]

[ She turns the video on long enough to display the knife. It hasn't seen a whole lot of use. It isn't terribly sharp, but it is huge and pointy. ]

I can sweeten the deal. I'm two days in the wrong direction, and I don't want to turn back.

@enhance; text

[plundering]

Your salesmanship could use some work, Ecks.

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[ecks]

I do not think so. I am going to get a knife.

[plundering]

Congratulations. Do it with a little flair next time. It's more exciting.

@zd; text

[swatsflies]

HEY! You're normal again. :)

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[ecks]

I am! Today I understand again and it is good.

["Normal" might be a little generous....]

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[swatsflies]

That's really great!

Oh! Are you worried about defending yourself?

@ASolomons; audio

[devoutish]

Fucking hell. I never thought I'd say this, but you're easier to talk to this way.

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[ecks]

I understand you now. It was more difficult before.

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[devoutish]

You weren't so easy to understand yourself, Ecks.

@makeme; video; private

[coyoteking]

[... Hmm. It hadn't actually occurred to Charles that people would be trying to get their bone on in the middle of nuclear winter, but you know. Huddling for warmth and all that. And in that case, condoms could be kind of a goldmine. Worth having, even if you don't intend to use them. Especially if you don't intend to use them.

Time for Business.]

Hey, how about this?

[In the video feed, Charles is sitting on a couch, holding a bread knife up near the right side of his face. He waves it a little, turns it around. Gives her a good look at it.]

I stole it from a vampire if that sweetens the deal.

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[ecks]

It does not particularly but that looks like a good knife for cutting.]

[Not good for stabbing, which she's better at, but neither is the butcher knife on offer and there are uses for knives beyond violence against other people.]

I have also been offered a butcher's knife. Can you sweeten the deal?

[Look, she's getting the lingo down and everything!]

[coyoteking]

[Hm. He's strangely fond of the fact that she's haggling, but he also wishes she wouldn't. Whatever, he can handle it.]

Butcher knife, huh? Well, this would definitely be better for a fight, see the serrations? Those'll do a lot more good than a dull edge.

But I get it, you want a little more compensation. I got an extra belt if that strikes your fancy, or I got tape, or I got some pills. What kinda "useful" are we talkin', exactly? I might have something else.

[And maybe it'll even be something he's willing to give up. He doesn't wanna tip his whole hand yet.]

@zachtastic, private; text

[majorlazer]

[Well. Well.]

I've got painkillers. An axe's head, too, if you look through the rubble you can probably find a handle for it.

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[ecks]

I also have painkillers. I have been offered a knife by one person and a butcher's knife by another. Those have handles already attached and those are better. Do you have something else?

[majorlazer]

[Goddamn, people, stop being good.]

are you only interested in weapons?

@prettypinkflowers; video

[lacecase]

Oh no...I don't have anyone I could even use those on anymore!

[A sad, woeful sigh. She even still has six coming her way from when Fiona was auctioning them off a couple weeks (months? time flies) back.]

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

They are also good for waterproofing.

[lacecase]

Like, put them on my feet? But I have rain boots!

[Condom shoes...what an amazing concept!]

voice @Enoch

[warriorscribe]

[That was entirely unfair. Here he was just trying to see whether they were still available and he hears this...]

Ginger... You could use them for other things, too. I used the ones I had for carrying water.

[And for handling exposed wires underground, which pretty much ended that bit of usefulness. The point is he sounds a lot sadder than someone just giving advice, soft and attempting to rein in his own emotions.]