====== Tatters ====== =====TTI AUCTION: EVERYTHING MUST GO!===== >“You heard me! Exotic goods of all kind to be viewed this afternoon at the Oasis Central Market! Tatters of Tatters Trading Industry presents a not-to-be missed collection of unique Archaeotech finds, genuine Wastelander goods, and two mysterious Monsters who will //blow your mind// when revealed at 2pm! The auction will start at 3pm and will finish //late//, because my guts tell me that the bidding will be long and fierce for these treasures.\\ >Not to be missed – TTI won't be selling in Oasis for at least another year, so get yourself down there. Bids start at low low prices for priceless pieces!“\\ =====Receipt for Ancient Monster Horn, prime condition===== >//Received:// \\ >2 reinforced wheels. 3 Archaeotech charge packs. 1 crate rum 1 crate cereals.\\ >//In return for://\\ >1 ancient Monster horn. In pristine condition. Scratches along convex edge noted. All cracks original. Base rough and brick-like. Note pre-existing precarious base. Note the buyer agrees that item not degraded or damaged by excavation or transport.\\ >Business transaction concluded. \\ >//Tatters of Tatters Trading Industry (TTI). No money-back, no guarantees, no returns.// =====Safari Sighting===== >"As we now bear right, dear Ultimate Ventures™ Safarisplorers™, away from the stream's course, keep an eye out for a colony of marvellous yellow parakeets known to nest in this copse. This woodland is also known as a particularly prolific site for finding bird's egg-like Monster eggs, so fingers crossed! We mi – whoa! Hold up, hold up! What is //that//?” \\ >“It's a Monster!” \\ >“It's two!” \\ >“Two of the same! Wait, aren't the shapes are a bit different?” \\ >“THEY'RE THOSE ONES!” \\ >“No, no, no need to panic, we are a long way from Bastion and these can't possi–" \\ >“Run! Run! It's going to //scream//!” \\ >“STEP ON IT, driver!” \\ >“Oh god, oh no, oh no.”\\ >“My aunt heard it once, her hearing never fully recovered...”\\ >“Keep calm, dear Safarisplorers™, there are no Arena Monsters //anywhere near// here! Besides, the van can easily handle terrain like this. We'll all be f–"\\ >“THE SPIKES! THE SPIKES! They're following us!” \\ >“Aaargh!”\\ >“Aaaargh!”\\ >“Aaaaahaaaarghah....”