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Post by Black Star Shenron on Jun 18, 2009 14:35:38 GMT -5
A desert planet, filled with crazy greedy merchants. Every street you walk through will involve about 15 pick pocket attempts... 10 attempts to sell you something ridiculous and useless... and 5 attempts to come straight out and attack you for your money. Of course, these are rough figures, but outsiders are treated as nothing but a source of income. And the inhabitants are ruthless when it comes to acquiring that income. 2 Black Star Dragon Ball Upon landing on this planet, everyone on here will be unable to leave for 24 hours counting from the arriving post.
Around the end of those 24 hours, a merchant will actually offer up this Dragon Ball! It will cost 5000 zenie at the very least, though... but his starting price is 20'000 zenie!!! How will you ever barter this down to 5000?"Done." Shiro says, dropping character and replacing the urchin-creature-thing on the counter. He reaches into his pocket, pulling out 5000 zenie, slapping it on the table. "Let's go Gozu." He said, searching for a ki signal in orbit around them.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 23, 2009 23:00:45 GMT -5
Gozu's ship lands in the middle of a desert on the planet. But everyone on the ship is sleeping so it'll be several hours before any of them realize that they've landed. But such is life they'll find out when they wake up.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:05:31 GMT -5
Shiro was the first of the group awake. He got out of bed, yawning and stretching, realizing that the ship had landed. He took out his radar and checked, seeing a signal only about a mile away.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:06:41 GMT -5
Why do you choose now to work? He thought bitterly, before looking up. He heard... something coming from outside. It sounded like... voices? Shouting? Fighting?
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:09:25 GMT -5
Curious, Shiro walked to the airlock and opened it, stepping outside. He squinted, bringing one hand up to block the rays of an abnormally bright sun, and frowned at what he heard. "I hear 30,000! 30,000! Any more offers? 31,000! 31,000, any higher, any higher? Come on, people, you don't find a, ahem, giant hunk of metal like this everyday!"
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:11:38 GMT -5
When Shiro's eyes adjusted, he found himself standing on a stage, surrounded by a large group of people wearing large, draping, flowing robes covering their entire bodies. One of them was standing on the stage as well, behind a podium and holding a gavel in his hands. He was the one doing the talking.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:13:55 GMT -5
The man on stage stopped talking suddenly, having noticed the people pointing behind him, and turned. He glared at Shiro and marched up to him, hitting him on the head with the gavel. "What do you think you're doing!? Get off the stage! Off, off, offoffoffoff OFF!!" He said, shooing Shiro towards the edge of the stage.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:16:52 GMT -5
Shiro didn't seem to feel the gavel blow as he yawned again, still a bit groggy. Stage, audience, gavel, loud annoying guy. Huh, this looks like an auction. He thought. About five seconds later he was alert enough to connect the last dot. THEY'RE AUCTIONING GOZU'S SHIP!?
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:18:47 GMT -5
Shiro felt the gavel hit his head again, but there wasn't enough force behind the blow for it to bother him. "GET OFF THE STAGE! IF YOU WANT THE GIANT HUNK OF METAL YOU'LL HAVE TO BID ON IT AND HOPE NO ONE OUTBIDS YOU!!"
Shiro, frowning, glared at the man. "You do know someone already owns this, right?"
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:21:03 GMT -5
The auctioneer shrugged. "So what? They left it, I found it, it's mine! Now get down there and bid, boy!"
Shiro facepalmed, catching the gavel as it came flying at his head again. "The owner didn't leave it, he's sleeping inside."
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:23:20 GMT -5
"Even better." The auctioneer said, before walking back to the podium. "Attention, ladies and gentlemen! I've just learned that inside this steel egg is a man-"
"Two, actually." Shiro said, recalling Gozu mentioning someone named Tyler or something.
"-two men who, should you purchase this marvel, shall be your ever obedient slaves!"
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:25:24 GMT -5
Shiro gaped and watched for a moment as people suddenly started bidding anew. After only ten seconds, the bid had risen to 100,000 zenie. Wow, I could make a fortune selling those two. Shiro thought, before shaking his head. "Uh, the 'egg' isn't for sale."
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:26:36 GMT -5
There was stunned silence for a moment, before everyone burst out laughing. What in the world's so funny? Shiro thought, before turning to look at the ship. And how in the world are those two still asleep?
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:30:11 GMT -5
The auctioneer, still laughing, walked over to Shiro and draped an arm over his shoulder. "Forgive my assistant here." The man said, still laughing. "He's got a bit of a problem upstairs, if you know what I mean." Then, still chuckling, the man whispered to Shiro, "Don't say such stupid things. Everything's for sale, don't you know that?"
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:35:57 GMT -5
Shiro frowned, but before he could do anything else, the bidding started again. He watched for a moment as the bid rose; 150,000, 230,000, 278,000, the number just kept rising. These guys like to buy things, don't they? Shiro thought, entertained by the competition.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:47:39 GMT -5
Shiro watched as two particularly rich people started to compete against each other. One would bid, and the other would bid only 100 or so above the first. They had been going at it for so long that the auctioneer had stopped repeating the bids and simply watched, along with everyone else.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:51:15 GMT -5
Eventually they both stopped and glared at each other, looking for all the world as if they were about to kill each other. Then, as one, they snapped their fingers and two large, muscular men stepped forward, and the crowd around them backed away into a circle. The two muscled men stared at each other, then started to fight.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:52:35 GMT -5
You know you've got too much money when you can pay to have someone fight for you over an auction. Shiro thought, shaking his head. He took out his radar and looked at it's screen, only to have it snatched out of his hands.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:56:09 GMT -5
The auctioneer looked at it, a jeweler's magnifying lense held up to one eye. "Yes, this'll fetch a nice little sum. Thank you, assisstant, for finding such a wonderful little trinket." The man said, smirking at Shiro and walking back to the podium. "Well, while the bidding on the egg waits for the end of their little match-" The man gestured to the two rich men and their fighters, "-why don't we start the bidding on something else?"
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 15:58:59 GMT -5
"This little device is-" The auctioneer cut off as Shiro, standing behind him, lifted him up by his head, other hand sticking out past the auctioneer's side, palm open and up. "What do you want, boy? Oh, I suppose you expect payment for this, right. Okay, sure, here you go." The man said casually, tossing something into Shiro's hand.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 16:01:06 GMT -5
Shiro pulled his hand back and looked at what fell into it. It was a single zenie. No, it was one THIRD of a zenie. Are these guys really that greedy? Shiro thought, as he flicked the zenie into a nearby boulder, the force turning the rock to dust.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 16:03:57 GMT -5
Apparently, no one noticed, as the auctioneer went back to peddling the radar. With a low growl, Shiro, patience gone, tossed the man into the air, causing him to drop the radar, which Shiro caught. Then, while the bidders where still stunned, he turned, powered up a bit, and lifted the ship over his head with his other hand, carrying it with him as he followed the signal.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 24, 2009 20:43:07 GMT -5
Gozu wakes up feeling his ship moving slightly but too slow to be flying through space. What is going on Gozu thinks sleepily as he rolls out of bed and looks out of the window and sure enough his ship is moving but more at a walking pace.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 24, 2009 20:44:57 GMT -5
What is going on? Gozu thinks again as he looks down at the ground which is moving slowly beneath him. Gozu gets dressed quickly and quickly walks towards the air lock and steps out...but of course he's several feet off the ground and Gozu ends up falling and faceplanting as Shiro walks on.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 20:47:51 GMT -5
Shiro doesn't notice the slight shift in weight caused by Gozu moving, or hear him falling out of the ship. He looks up from the radar and sees a small village coming up. Dragonball must be there. He thinks, picking up his pace slightly.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 24, 2009 20:50:07 GMT -5
Gozu quickly gets up and brushes himself off. He turns around to see Shiro walking fairly quickly towards some village which Gozu can just make out in the distance. "Hey Shiro! What's going on?" Gozu says as he jogs to catch up with Shiro.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 20:56:07 GMT -5
Shiro turned to see Gozu running at him and rose an eyebrow. When'd he wake up? He thought before saying, "When I woke up there was a group of locals bidding on your ship, so I decided to bring it with me when I searched."
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Post by Gozu on Jul 24, 2009 20:57:59 GMT -5
"Oh...that's odd...hmmm...well I guess we need to find a place for Tyson so we can capsulize my...or..." Gozu says a childish gleam in his eye. "We could capsulize the ship with him in it." Gozu says with a chuckle not all that fazed that his ship was almost sold.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 24, 2009 21:00:41 GMT -5
Shiro frowned and looked at Gozu, suddenly curious. "Can you actually do that? Capsulize a ship with someone in it?"
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Post by Gozu on Jul 24, 2009 21:03:31 GMT -5
Gozu shrugs. "I don't know. All the stuff in there shrinks and goes into the capsule even things that weren't part of the ship like clothes and such so I think it would work in principle...and would be kinda funny too."
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