Just Business [Salvage]

[Holly Mason]

The ruined city was full of interesting things, but Holly wouldn't have picked up that some of the junk out there was actually really valuable if it had not been for this strange blonde lady.  It pissed her off a little that she had to be told.  Holly considered herself a business woman, she was supposed to inherit her parents' company when they finally kicked the bucket after all.  Even without that, she considered herself good at figuring out how to make use of just about anything, so why the hell didn't she figure out that some of this scrap metal and other useless junk wasn't quite so useless?  It pissed her off even more that even knowing that she couldn't identify exactly what this stupid woman was looking for.  She had been keeping a good sized stash of stuff in her secret base under her bed for some time now just so she could analyze it and figure out what was so great about it.  All of her attempts ended in failure.  It was maddening.  Fortunately, she could at least get something out of it by selling it to the woman herself, but she didn't intend to give up on learning her secrets so easily.  She was Holly, she was bound to figure it out someday.

Holly decided to go pay the woman a visit with a large bag of junk after dinner.  It was a little dark, but it wasn't anything she couldn't handle.  Despite her irritation with the woman, Holly actually appeared quite happy.  There was no need to let such feelings get in the way of fair trade.  Perhaps one day the woman would be willing to explain what she was looking for if she liked Holly enough.  Yes, this was the time to make friends, not enemies, so being rude was just unnecessary.

"Ah, good evening, I hope I'm coming at a good time.  My adventures have been quite fruitful."  Without even waiting for a response she put the bag on the counter.  "I hope you find something useful."

[ChromaticTruthsayer]

Items Appraised!

Your money has been added.

[Holly Mason]

Another week another pile of junk for the weird lady.  This week, Holly actually found a lot of things that she personally would have a use for if the junk dealer wasn't interested in them.  Car parts, some computer parts, scrap metal, tires...of course there was still a good deal of completely useless junk she found laying around that she still hasn't been able to figure out this lady's use for.  But hey, if she was able to get a little bit of extra cash for picking up things that caught her eye in the outside there was no reason not to right?

[Erithania]

Money!



Pools of money!

[Holly Mason]

This week had been pretty uneventful in terms of gathering.  It was pretty much impossible to go a week without finding anything at all considering how much junk was laying around in the outside, it just felt so...routine by now that it was becoming uninteresting.  Still, Holly wasn't about to say no to free money (even if she didn't need it) and a potential ally if this woman would ever open up about anything.  

Holly walked into the place as quickly and forcefully as ever and dumped the contents of her collection sack onto the counter as usual.  "I've been having good luck finding stuff lately.  Does anything here catch your eye?"

[Erithania]

Money. Pools of money.



Enjoy the papercuts~!

[Holly Mason]

Holly was still less than impressed with her own ability to figure out what this stuff was used for and was getting increasingly irritated with the strange blonde woman's obtuseness.  She could understand wanting to keep some air of mystery around yourself, but this lady went far beyond enigmatic territory and was firmly in obnoxious territory.  If she really wanted to help them save the world why didn't she explain  more about what was going on?  Why wouldn't she share more about herself?  She kept finding herself getting more and more suspicious about the woman.  The extra cash was nice, she just sincerely hoped that she wasn't making the outer circle worse by giving this woman the random junk scattered across it.

[Erithania]

Money.



All the money. All of it.

[Holly Mason]

This week she had less variety than usual because she only went to one place.  Unfortunately, it seemed as though there weren't many places with strong shadows that weren't TOO strong, so she'd been forced to explore the mines repeatedly.  It was getting rather dull.  The mines at least had a fair amount of junk in them.  Holly managed to find some unknown metals, the remains of some broken down tools and what she was pretty sure was some kind of mine cart at one point among other things.  Considering all the useless junk this woman seemed interested in in the past she wasn't too worried about her finding something interesting here.

[ChromaticTruthsayer]

Items Appraised!

Your money has been added.

[Holly Mason]

It was that time of week again, and she still had been exploring nothing but the mines.  She swore if she ever went back into that place it would be too soon.  Her collection of goods was more or less identical to the batch she brought in last week.  It was unfortunate, but to be expected when she had been exploring the same place over and over.  As hilarious as it would be to see the annoying blonde woman get irritated by this, Holly honestly hoped she didn't mind.  Even if she wasn't sure if she could trust the woman, she was useful for the time being.  She didn't want that usefulness to suddenly vanish.

[Erithania]

Processing. . .



. . . complete~!

[Holly Mason]

This week, Holly finally had something to offer besides random junk from the mines.  Now she had...well some rocks and random junk found in a sinkhole.  The junk from the two areas wasn't as different as she would have liked, but it was at least a nice change of pace for her own exploration.

"Good evening.  I've returned with more goods.  I hope they're useful to you."

As usual, she didn't wait for a response before dumping her bag out.  Waiting was so overrated.  The pile was pretty big, bigger than what she'd normally bring.  Hopefully it'd get her something useful from the blonde woman, not that she actually counted on it.  That woman was so obnoxious.

[Erithania]

You gave us junk!



We gave you an Armor Mod: Null Light! . . . wait.

[Holly Mason]

It was that time of the week again, so it was time to visit a certain irritating blonde woman with a bag of useless stuff that Holly found laying around the outer circle.  It was times like this where her mind wandered and she wondered exactly what was happening to all this stuff.  She hadn't been able to figure out any particular purpose for a lot of it, but that blonde woman didn't strike her as the type that would collect stuff like this for no reason at all.  Something still bugged her about all this, but she didn't think she was about to solve the mystery any time soon.