(Open) But Why Tho [Backdated to Early November, Hybrid Log/Network]

[infrastructured]

Who: Steven and YOU!
When: Throughout November
Where: Around town, mostly in shops.
Summary: Steven tries to figure out why Black Friday starts before Thanksgiving now
Warnings: Whining

It's bizarre. The flyers come non-stop. There's not any other active apocalypse, but this is suspicious, so this MAY require some investigation... And for once he has time.

Steven spends the weeks leading up to Turkey Day investigating stores. Seeing standees. He doesn't buy anything he doesn't really need, because this is bizarre even for this place.

Why the everloving fuck is Black Friday starting early?!

He'll ask anyone even marginally familiar he bumps into. "Hey, is this.... normal?"

Who: Steven and YOU!
Username: GhostGuru
Warnings: None

[A text post on the network.] Is anyone else weirded out by capitalism?

Comments

[infrastructured]

Not if you're an employee just trying to open the store.

No, it's really a bad time.

[aelwyn_aberration]

Yes, they're deserving of sympathy, certainly. I've never worked retail, but I can't imagine it's easy dealing with a ravenous horde with no regard for anyone or anything other than getting their fill of loot.

[infrastructured]

Sounds like zombies, doesn't it? Except for deals, not brains. Or whatever zombies go for. I've never met one.

[aelwyn_aberration]

Flesh in general, I believe. I've no idea where the brain rumour came from, they're much too stupid to go for such a specific target.

[infrastructured]

... I guess you've met some?

They're supposedly fictional in my home earth. Now, mummies are close, and ghosts and spirits are very real, but I've never met a zombie.

[aelwyn_aberration]

Necromancy is a very common, if under-appreciated form of magic. I've seen some, and made a few under controlled circumstances.

They're very useless as far as arcane thralls go.

[infrastructured]

So you're some kind of mage? They exist back home, but I didn't know many.

[aelwyn_aberration]

A wizard, specifically. Of the Abjuration school of magic. Protective wards, anti-magic, that sort of thing.

Was your world also Earth? Or did you just happen to also have this Black Friday?

[infrastructured]

It was an Earth. Different, but Earth. And 13 years ago.

[aelwyn_aberration]

I see, so capitalism has grown in so little time...

What a tragic state of affairs!