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 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:37 am
Shoebox Apartments
These are the living accomodations for most people living in the hills. This apartment building is managed by the landlord Joseph Shoebox, a nice enough guy if you pay your rent, but he is a real grouch if you fall a day behind. That nice guy is also a drug dealer so watch your step so you don't spend your rent when you intended to pay it.
The apartments usually consist of one or two bedroom, without a lot of space, a cramped living room, bathroom, and kitchen if your lucky otherwise there is a community on the floor, but don't leave anything in the community frig if you intend to eat it yourself.
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:20 pm
It had been a long trip across the sea. Although Meris had taken a great deal of money from the ringmaster, he couldn't waste a dine of it untill he and Uni were set up with some kind of a home and a means of taking care of themselves.
Erebus hill had sounded like a nice place, but it wasn't what he had wanted. Instead of trees it was building and more buildings. "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Uni."
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:26 pm
Uni looked around slowly, he himself was expecting mostly hills and maybe few tree's or other such things, but he was proved wrong as well. He than looked to Meris and gave a small nod, "This isn't exactly.. What I was expecting. But its better than nothing." He smiled lightly, though it fadded as he stated looking around once more.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:11 am
((I am jinx, at least once every time I come home the power goes out.)
"I looks like a rough neighborhood." He replied, glancing around the dirty city. "I wish we had enough cash to get back on the boat, but we don't.. we might have enough to get a small apartment, but we're going to need some income if we are going to make it to the country." He said looking in the money purse.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:00 pm
Uni nodded slightly as he continued to look around slowly. "Maybe we should.. get jobs or.. something..?" Uni asked slowly. The last 'job' they had, had ended up in them having to run away and travel accross the desert for days.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:16 pm
"It might be easier than picking pockets." Meris said looking over the crowds. Most of the people didn't looked like they had anything to pick, besides now that he was an adult it would be easier to get a job. "But I think first we should find a place to stay... It looks like meager accomdations are all that's available around here anyways." He said tippin his head back in his looked up at the shabby apartment complex.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:22 pm
Uni nodded slightly as he looked to the apartment complex Meris was looking at. It seemed meager and looked like a dump, but it was still better than anywhere he could acctually remember living in. "Well than.. Do you want to try here for an apartment?" There were other apartment complexes nearby, but this did seem the cleanest at an outward look.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:50 pm
Meris smiled at him and took his hand as he went inside, looking for the manager. He finally found him, a toothy old balding man with a bat, studded with rusty nails which he was brandishing at a man who was running away with a handful of stuff.
"And stay out Ya Deadbeat." He hollered as him, untill Meris tapped on his shoulder and got his attention.
"Sorry but I was wondering if you had any vacancies." The raccoon asked eyeing the bat.
"Your in luck I just had an one open up."
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:04 pm
Uni stared almost wide eyed at the man who was brandishing a bad with rusty nails, and he backed away. He watched with something like fear as Meris went to the man and started speaking to him. Uni paid no mind to what they were saying. He obviously thought this man to be someone who would try something funny. Meanwhile, where Uni stood in the dirty appartment complex, it was starting to get somewhat clean. The dirty floor was turning back to its orignal, clean, colour.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:15 pm
Meris and the man talked for a while longer untill the man picked up a key out of the dirt where the man had dropped it and pressed it into Meris's hand in exchange for some money. He quickly hurried back to Uni and took his hand. "Don't worry, he won't bother us as long as we pay the rent." He whispered and lead him inside and up a stairway. "We have apartment nine." He added shooving the key into the lock and giving it a twist.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:33 pm
Uni nodded to Meris as they moved past the man and went up the stairwell. Uni looked around at everything slowly, this place did look better on the inside, though only slightly. As they entered the room, Uni looked around vaguely. The place was filthy and there were emtpy bottles of alchohol on the strewn accross the floor.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:50 pm
"I suppose we should clean this place up." He said scratching his head as he closed the door and started picking up empty bottles and old newpapers. "I'm get to picking up and you can clean as you better at it than I am." He laughed at little knowing to well about Uni's uncontrollable cleaning habits.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:36 pm
Uni smiled slightly to Meris. He gave another quick look around the apartment before he went back to the door. That was the most logical place to start cleaning after all. He placed his hand on the door and it slowly started to turn from a murky brown to a more natural wooden colour. Uni watched the door become clean momentarily before closing his eyes and concentrating. He pressed his hand harder against the door and the dirt and grim on the whole wall by the door was fading rather quickly.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:23 am
((Sorry!! gaia ate my post. T-T ))
Meris continued with the rest of the trash quickly. Maybe in was his inner raccoon or years of scavanging as a kid on the streets but he was quite good at telling what was good and reused if fixed slight or clean and what was garbage. He ended up making alot of trips up and down the stairs to empty the garbage cans he was was excited about have a home again with Uni.
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:43 pm
[No worries xD]
Uni cleaned the room, quite quickly, as thats what he was generally good at whether he wanted to be or not. He had finnished the walls and most the floor on the last trip down to the garbage Meris had taken. He was now cleaning a couch, though it was slow work as the couch was quite disgusting.
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