Saturday, February 15, 2025

The Toyota Rav 4 Front Passenger Door of Beer Transfiguration

On the Shelf:

Behind the Counter:

₵$49 Ghost Tobacco (20)

₵$110 Anti-Flimflammatory

₵$20 Bloody Mary

₵$6 Extrasolar Teas Box

₵$50 El Dorado Green (1/4)

₵$4 Rare Minerals (g)

₵$8 Black Meat (g)

₵$16 Fine MRE Spice (g)

₵$1 Slut Root (kg)

₵$10 Magic Coat Hanger

₵$30 Marital Aid Potion

₵$46 Cleansing Ale

₵$35 Quetzalcoatl Feathers (doz.)

₵$292 The New Shampoo

₵$5 Blue Roses (doz.)

₵$410 Four Pack of Beer

₵$31 Mythril (oz.)

₵$20 Democracy Honey

₵$4 BZTCN

₵$20 Level Up Fig

This Week's Special:

Jack 'Cheese' Hoffman is the voice on the insurance claim phone line and that voice is Casey Mongillo's. It is work, money is solid, it is not a company that necessarily tries to wriggle out of payments. There are KPIs but Cheese listened, in perverse fascination, to customer's belief that their totalled car had magic front-passenger door. Cheese white-knuckled an interstate drive over the weekend and found said car door amongst the lilly pillies.

The Toyota Rav 4 Front Passenger Door of Beer Transfiguration has a window. A carton of beer, when viewed through this window, appears like a different carton of beer. Tapping on the glass will transform the beers into the visualised alternative. The operator must be wearing sunscreen for this to be successful.

Cheese does not believe it and wants this car door gone. The market for this product is somebody enthusiastic about beer and appreciative of casual opportunity to add, or sneak, value. The door can be left at home but that sorta' defeats the purpose. Cheese keeps an eye out for Rav 4s and occasionally leaves a handwritten note under windscreen wiper. The market response is typically to nod, smile and back away slowly.

Unless that market is Nathan.

Nathan chose pizza shop work to network but now said network orders pizzas delivered specifically by him. Only once was that, gloriously, for sex. Usually it is because some dark lord or another is hosting a casual shindig in underworld and their assistant has Nathan's phone number. One such shindig was nightmarish, inhuman intelligences rending one another's flesh. A beer keg, full, was mangled into a bong. Anime music was playing. But party is party, Nathan stayed for a drink, met interesting people, met entrepreneurial types, left with ten Bomb Begones.

A Bomb Begone operates similar to a Catnip Page - it is a blank scroll rolled around a complimentary cigarette. The cigarette's smoke spreads words across the naked page, options which can be selected with a stab of dart's ember. The first question:

Do You?

Want a bomb defused

or, Want to defuse a bomb

Selecting the former leads to questionnaire regarding bomb details and payment method. Selecting the latter provides list of local bombs to defuse and corresponding rewards. Bomb Begone is essentially Uber for bomb disposal.

Nathan wanders ten A.M. streets with lit catnip and tobacco, wonders how to sell these Bomb Begones. The market is not the taxi driver degraded into using their own car, it is someone who fills spare time opportunely. It is someone who has seen 'The Hurt Locker' and related. It is someone completely civilian, bored and willing to risk life for shits, giggles, profit and the greater good.

That market is Cheese.

 

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