IC | Dread Spider Fashions | VoidTreckers

[kumoko]

[ Pinned to the ICPs on most of the more frequented carriages is a new poster!

Tired of your train uniform?, it asks.

Want to look super cute? Want to wear something that isn't a hoodie?

Commission an outfit from Dread Spider Fashions

See Dread to discuss prices!

Magical enhancements available.

Along the base of the poster, a series of perforated tabs offer Special Newbie Voucher: one outfit for one bag of snacks! Only available for new heroes! ]

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[rookiemistakes]

[A few hours after Reno makes his order, a petite woman with short, blonde hair pokes her head into the dining car. Reno had talked the spider up, but it’s still a giant spider who is somehow going to be measuring her and making her suit. With magic.]

Uh...hello? My name’s Elena. My colleague, Reno, sent me...?

[kumoko]

[ Watching a giant spider eat, even if the spider in question is white and pink and fluffier than usual, is definitely something out of a horror film. She's already made most of Reno's suit, which means her proteins are depleted, or her stamina... or whatever passes for SP in this world.

Point is, she needs to eat. So, an alarming amount of bacon and eggs and lentil soup is all disappearing into her maw.

It's definitely a maw, rather than a mouth, at the moment. Slurp. She types something out with one arm and one eye's worth of attention. ]

Nice to meet you. You wanna look like a badass lightning god too?

[rookiemistakes]

[Elena can feel her breakfast rise churn violently in her stomach as she watches the spider eat, but she’s a Turk, goddamn it, and she isn’t going to let a monster put her off.]

Reno’s the lightning god. I’m backup. Same suit as his, only I actually believe in using buttons.

[kumoko]

[ What does 'backup' look like? She glances over properly, and blinks. Huh. Backup looks cute, apparently. Very prim. ]

Scanning okay?

[rookiemistakes]

[Elena pictures something along the lines of an assess materia, and figures it sounds pretty harmless. Plus, Reno had come through all right.]

That's fine.

[kumoko]

[ SURE it's basically that.

Except where it's actually her making a perfect 3-D model of your body.

Shhhhhh. Scanning now. It doesn't feel like much of anything, but this time she constructs a small-scale magical version of the data, like a teeny tiny Elena doll hovering above the table. Reno got a kick out of it, maybe his friend will, too. ]

[rookiemistakes]

[Well that's...different.

Elena watches, fascinated, as the spider finishes scanning her and projects a little Elena with the data. Much cooler than an assess materia.]

Do you make the clothes the same way?

[kumoko]

[ Ah, delicious validation. Or, that's what she's assuming the staring is about. She very obviously just hits a pre-written line instead of typing, next. ]

All Dread Spider clothes are woven from spidersilk. Strong, enchantable, and soft! Order to-- [ Whoops, cuts that bit off late. The Minilena, now finished, does a cliche victory pose, and disappears in a buzz of magic. ]

[rookiemistakes]

[Well, as long as she's getting her uniform back she doesn't really care what it's made of. Elena feels rather naked without her black suit.]

Is that all you need from me? Do I pay you?

[kumoko]

Reno paid. [ It's not that she wants to get back to eating, but...

No, she totally does. But, she's polite... she'll just sit there. And stare at Elena until she makes some indication that the conversation is over. ]