Abra-lute Territory

[Micah]

You finally enter Celedon itself. You wander around for a bit getting a feel for the place. There are three pokemon centers, an enormous shopping district, a buisness district, a game corner a pokemon gym and a lot of urban homes. Its not as big as Saffron, but its still a pretty big place.

[onidrill]

Celadon was a pretty little gem of a city. As it appeared on the surface, anyway, Leona reminded herself. Cloud had since relaxed once no signs of random punch-happy pedestrians showed for an hour or so of walking, and they safely reached the shopping district with little incident. She had a little spending money in her pocket, and shopping areas were always great sources of gossip for whatever might be going in the city at the time.

[Micah]

The shopping district has pretty much everything in the handbook available for the normal listed price, plus some stuff for cheaper if you really look around. The general talk of the town is positive. There are not many complaints, and most people feel blessed to live in a place like this one. There is a lot of talk about the game corner's pokemon battle's which are supposed to be amazing and the rare pokemon porygon that they sell. There is a lot of praise for the gym leader. Still, there is talk of people being attacked in the south part of town by some sort of enormous rat, the size of a dog or larger. The place is also not without crime. Large shopping districts lead to large amounts of pickpockets and there is talk of some sort of organized crime getting developed in the city.

[onidrill]

The giant rat piqued her interest. If it were a Pokemon that didn't normally get to such a size, capturing it on film could definitely score her a little pocket change. Before taking off to search for the creature, she asked around for where a photographer might sell copies of her photos for a bit of spending money, flashing the picture of the stampede from near Vermilion she'd taken if ever anyone was interested.

[Micah]

You get a few answers to your question. If you are trying to sell your photographs as art, there are several galleries in the business district that display and sell photographs. If you are trying to sell them as entertainment or postcards or whatever then setting up a little stall in the shopping district might be the way to go. If you basically want to do the later but don't want to spend the time on it then there are other photograph vendors in the shopping district, and they often will buy photos from people for cheap, hoping to sell them to others for more.

[onidrill]

A little open air stand selling copies of her photos sounded like a good way both to pass time, make money, and hear gossip, but that was something that could wait - for now, she headed in the direction a passerby had told her to reach the giant rat, camera at the ready. She could never have too many photos, and certainly never enough of the rodent problem that seemed to follow her everywhere in Kanto.

[Micah]

The word on the street is that the giant rat largely hunts at night and in alleyways in the south half of town. So far it has claimed at least two human lives. In any case, no one has ever seen it during the day.

[onidrill]

With an annoyed huff, followed by one of frustration when she realized she was, in fact, not at all possessed of much in the way of pocket change Leona decided she'd bide her time by finding a means of copying her photos, if at all possible. If not, she'd opt to only attempt to sell the stampede picture and the view of Vermilion's port. After a half hour or so of preparation, she found an open spot frequented by passerbies and shoppers, placed down the worn out table she'd found next to a nearby restaurant, topped it with a faded black tablecloth, and laid her open album atop it for the world to see. and used an old wet floor sign Cloud had painted over with distorted, impressionistic versions of her two key photos. Notably, the water was a pale green in the Vermilion portrait. In between waving and beckoning to potential customers, Leona decided to do what she did best and photograph whatsoever was the most interesting person and/or Pokemon to pass by.

[Micah]

You find a copy shop that will make copies of photos at various sizes. They charge .1 pyen per square inch.

[onidrill]

Leona bought 10 12 x 12's of each of the pair of photos she'd intended to sell. Her pocket change was rapidly transforming into pocket lint, but you had to spent a little to make money in this day and age - hopefully, it worked out for her all the same. 

[Micah]

How much are you charging for the photos, or are you just taking offers?
#Sorry this is taking a few posts. I figure if I just tell you how many people will buy pictures at different photos then the only thing to do would be to pick the one that makes the most money, so having you pick the price ahead of time is important.

[onidrill]

#For the stampede pic I guess 500, and the Vermilion scenery 250.

[Micah]

As you sell your photo's, you get a couple of buyers. Two trainers buy your stampede picture and one gets the Vermillion Scenery. A lot of folks are interested and stop to look, but it seems like the pictures are way outside the price range of non-trainers. As far as interesting pictures of folks, for the most part their seems to be a lot of generally fairly nice looking folks, but not much in the way of unique looks. There is a girl leading a group of eggsexute down the street that was kind of amusing looking, and then their was a man who must have come from Fuschia city, because he was dressed in full on ninja gear, just sorta walking down the street.

[onidrill]

The Exeggecute girl may have simply been a trainer leading her Pokemon off to who knew where, but it was a funny sight all the same. For that period of time, Leona snapped a picture, and continued to sell what she could until the evening hours when she was most likely to find the giant rat.

[Micah]

You manage to sell another Vermillion photo, but no further luck in the remaining hours of daylight. Eventually the sun begins to set and the other street vendors start packing up their stuff.