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Wei Ying (魏婴) | Wei Wuxian (魏无羡) ([personal profile] weifinder) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2021-04-06 12:05 am

voice: old dog turning new tricks | set after everyone's things have been secreted back to them

( this, sadly, starts with a moan. a very protracted one, where someone starts to speak when the moan seems done, and then: nope. onward it goes. there's an audible sigh, tapping of something against wood, and when the interference finally ends, Wei Wuxian speaks. )

Aside from a few voices advertising one means of obtaining coin, here's my question for the rest of us on this voice communication: who has anything they're willing to part with or make to sell at auction? For exaggerated stories about their origins, of course. I have somewhere lined up to store things leading up to, and there are people to try and talk with if we want to get anything into an exclusive auction. If we can invent a convincing enough background for something to make it.

( he pauses for long enough it seems like he might just have ended his talking there, before waiting for anyone to speak back. instead, he eventually adds: )

Is there, ah. Hmm. Anyone willing to help with posing for a few paintings? I'm a decent enough artist, but I've never been great at drawing from imagination, which is that or memory, really old memory, not going to cut it for what I'm thinking!

( what he's thinking: sex sells. can a guy get some clothed models for unclothed artwork, thanks? also he's not painting Lan Zhan for this, he would rather walk out into a blizzard filled with undead, thanks. )

( ooc: this is all optional for responses, but here's an ooc thread for anyone wanting to submit something for auction! i'm collecting a possible donation list (things characters can make count as donations!) so i can get it submitted for an idea of what might get bankrolled out of playing the auctions in the end! )
downswing: (一)

username: heart-fluttering... hummingbird

[personal profile] downswing 2021-04-06 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
'Invent.'

Deceive.
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[personal profile] downswing 2021-04-06 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
'Do not lie.'
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[personal profile] downswing 2021-04-06 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You ask to condone.

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un: Taste of twilight’s trickled honeydew

[personal profile] pinkxeno 2021-04-06 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh-oh-oH!!

I have something! My acid! [ if this was video, Mina would be waving her hands. But alas ] I even have the best story for it!

[personal profile] pinkxeno 2021-04-07 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ohoho mina claps her hands ]

The story I made up is that a sailor was travelling through the ocean with his ship and crew, when suddenly a HUUUGE storm hits. He loses all of his crew and nearly drowns, but he is saved by beautiful women who actually have their lower half bodies like a fish! [ GASP. MERMAIDS. She continues her tale ether Wei Wuxian knows what mermaids are or not ]

They bring him back to his ship and they decide to gift him with a special liquid that only mermaids know where it's locate, and so he brings it back to land, where he sells it and becomes rich!! [ there is a pause, as if Mina is expecting some clapping, but she quickly adds ] - oh yeah, the liquid is acid.

[personal profile] pinkxeno 2021-04-13 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly! I think sailors like that sort of thing a lot, right? [ they can make use of that, if the merchants are sailors, she imagines ]

Well, maybe the mermaids are nice and are making up for him having lost his ship, so he can buy a new one! But your version of the story is super cute!! I like that one too. [ she squishes her cheeks together even though he can't really see her doing so ]

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un: dappled pearl of the parted seas

[personal profile] beitangmoran 2021-04-06 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Let's ignore the .... ahem, background noise.]

I do have a silver hairpin with a pearl on it. I would be loath to be parted with it, but it is not more important than our lives. If it can fetch a good price, I'll give it up, Master Wei.

I am a decent enough artist, as well. Or I could pose, if drawing your own likeness would not bother you?
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[personal profile] beitangmoran 2021-04-07 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's do that then. I can entrust it to you. I am sure you can come with a very convincing backstory for it.

I am better at calligraphy than painting, but I am not too shabby if I do say so myself. Maybe I should have Xunxian pose for you.
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[personal profile] beitangmoran 2021-04-12 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Xunxian is from the same place I am, yes, and also my most trusted friend and confidant. It is a relief to have him here, to tell the truth.

He's also familiar with racy books. he's written a few himself.

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un: undaunted snake in lonely gardens

[personal profile] descendency 2021-04-07 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Might you pass along that if anyone as an item they think would fetch a fair price they would prefer not part with, I can make a fair replica in exchange for a length of pure silk cord and a cut of the profits? Length of silk cord dependent on size of item.
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[personal profile] descendency 2021-04-07 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maybe he just wants people to bring him bondage supplies, A-Xian. Ever think of that? ]

Not indefinitely, but until the item is destroyed. It would have to be damage to the 'core' of the item, such as splitting it in half. My replicas can take cosmetic damage without issue.
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[personal profile] descendency 2021-04-07 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wei Wuxian you are living in a brothel. ]

Would you like to run some tests? You still have to provide the cord and a fee.
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sweet lily of the hidden valley

[personal profile] bearshermark 2021-04-07 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
I have a set of differently colored uh, stone eyes? ..They aren't really eyes, but they glow and look valuable.

[Fun fact: he has no idea what they actually come from and offers his favorite theory]

They could be said to be from some exotic, mythical creature?
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[personal profile] bearshermark 2021-04-07 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
..Yes, I am.

[No need to ask where Wei Wuxian is]

I'm back in the servant's quarters. I just finished going through the rest of my things. I have a few branches of pink pine, but I don't know how to sell that as really valuable.

[He'd feel a little bad about it too, considering how little value they actually have in his own world]
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[personal profile] bearshermark 2021-04-12 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eleven can be found easily, settled on one of the cots and surrounded by a full set of metal armor, a pair of swords, and a glint of a few of the orbs he mentioned from beneath a sheet. He looks up from examining a pink twig to find a searching face and offers a smile]

Are you looking for me?

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