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[photosympathies]

I need advice!

( Hello network, here's your friendly neighbourhood Stampede about to fully launch into something with no forewarning and no introductions. It's how he makes friends ... and also enemies, don't worry. ) So, we have to get jobs, right? But I'm not exactly sure what I'd be good at. I usually just do whatever people need around the towns I'm visiting, which means I know a little of most things. But I figured this place was new and people might be a little more cautious about that. So I made flyers!

( In one hand - metal, blue sometimes sea green - Vash holds up a stack of leaflets. )

Only when I was trying to give them out I got a lot of dirty looks so can someone tell me what I've done wrong! I really want to be useful while I'm here.

( Turning the flyer around so that his ( unfortunate ) captive audience can see. The design is obviously home made, and probably in a rush. On the paper it proudly proclaims

VASH THE STAMPEDE
RENT BOY
WILL DO WHATEVER YOU NEED
COST: ???
Below that is a crude drawing of the man himself - a stick figure with a triangle body ( his coat, sadly missing ) and a mass of spiky hair. It has a crude beaming smile on the circle of a face. )

Is it the drawing? I could have done better I guess, but I was in a hurry. ( A pause, a slow dawning realisation. ) Aw, shoot. It's the name, right? I didn't use my civilian name! Crap, that's probably a no-no.

( Nothing else could be the issue.

... Right? )

Comments

[photosympathies]

I've never really thought about it. I mean don't get me wrong, I work, but a lot of the time it's just doing whatever needs done. And you're right about the more hands-on jobs here being mostly automated? Which is really cool! But I bet I'm not the only one who has those kind of skills looking. So I don't want to take work from someone who really needs it either.

( A gusty, dramatic sigh. )

I wonder if LILITH would tell me if I just told them I hadn't been paying attention? That feels kind of bad though, sorry guys you wanted me to help but I was too wrapped up in my own stuff to notice?

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[peoplewatch]

[ Not wanting to take up work even if he's broke right now just in case someone else needs the work more? Vash, you are pushover. Kabru feels like he'll need to keep an eye on him because scammers and unscrupulous people are going to play him like a fiddle. ]

LILITH surely keeps a file on us and our skills. But it's not like they're easy to contact.

[ Or Kabru would be sending them many strongly worded letters. ]

[peoplewatch]

I know! We could make it a project!

[ Find out what Vash wants to do! Try many things to see if Vash likes them??? It'll be fun and nothing will go wrong. ]

[photosympathies]

( Please keep an eye on him Kabru, he'll be so poor in no time. )

Huh. I wonder what mine says. ( Hopefully it's nothing to do with all the death and destruction that follows Vash in his wake. But there's notoriously close to some of the things he's ignoring and so he blithely carries on, spirited by Kabru's idea. ) A project? What kind?

[peoplewatch]

A project to find the best job that suits you here!

[photosympathies]

Yeah? You wouldn't mind doing it with me?

( Because he gets distracted. )

[peoplewatch]

Of course. It'll be fun! [ Kabru is just a hyper social little man and hanging out with someone is the most fun thing ever. ]

I'm looking for work in a local nightclub. Maybe you could come along and see if you like it as well?

[photosympathies]

I'd love to! That way I'll know where you work too, just in case you want someone to walk with you after a long shift.

What do you do there?

[peoplewatch]

I drink with people and make them happy.

[ maybe he's trying to make it sound more scandalous than it actually is ]

[photosympathies]

Huh.

( Absolutely zero judgement from Vash "rent boy" Saverem. )

I think that sounds like a good job. Lots of people just need a willing ear to vent to, right? At least that's what I've found in bars.