The Newcomer Business Convention

[excellentviolet]

Who: EVERYONE EVER. OOC coordination post is over here
When: April 20-23, all day.
Where: Somewhere around the Newcomer Community Center.
Summary: Violet Systems gives Newcomer Businesses a chance to shine at a convention of their own. Exhibitors from all industries, as well as fellow newcomers looking for job opportunities are welcome! Also-- there will be a big MAN protest on Saturday.
Warnings: Nothing yet.

Visitors who stop by the great white tent that had gone up near the Newcomer Community Center will first notice a large LED sign before the entrance with a detailed list of participating exhibitors as well as activities for the day. Inside the tent, booths are arranged in rows, where everything from food businesses to the most sophisticated enterprises were on display for everyone to explore.

Get ready to come home with lots of sample products and brochures, guys.

Thread List/Convention Schedule: (To be updated as new threads are made, let me know if there are any mistakes. Feel free to add whatever to the whole event!)

Events
Friday - Job/Product Fair
Saturday - Grand MAD Protest
-- Momo Hinamori (Open)
Sunday - Job/Product Fair
-- Zoomers from Violet Systems
Monday - Discussions and Talks on running businesses in the Port

Exhibitors
Violet Systems
Newcomer Greeters/Greeter Protection Project
Newcomer Political Party and Newcomer Community Center
Newcomer Clinic (?)
Brooke's Restaurant, Brooke's Music Emporium and Pop's Dairy Farm
Imperial Finance
Lion's Gate
Mugshots
Felton Theater
Siren's Flowers

Other/Mingling Threads
Lee Chaolan
Takuto Hasegawa

Comments

Lion's Gate Club

[rapturescreed]

While Raul isn't at the booth, he has a few people milling around and working the crowd. Lion's Gate is a Neutral club, and has a habit of hiring Newcomers for important jobs. The club is a high class club, with an observatory attached to it, so that people can dance under the stars without worrying if they're going to be attacked.

The club is hiring:
Waiters/Waitresses - Need to be able to work nights. Busboys included.
Singers/Bands - Sometimes they like to change it up. Usually it's a small band or a string quartet.
Security Guards - Need to work 3 nights a week and 2 day shifts.
Computer Guards - Experience with computers and security cameras needed.
Bartenders - Need to work 3 nights a week and Saturday or Sunday.
Kitchen Staff - Need gourmet chefs, assistant cooks; must work Friday and Saturday nights.
Public Relations Staff - Works in the office during the day promoting the club.

To show off the club, everyone who visits the booth will receive a ticket for a free dinner on any night of their choosing. Since plates usually go for $200 or more, this is a very exciting deal.

[plum_that_snaps]

[Hinamori will be picking up one of those tickets. But hell if she wants to go alone, and she's not about to make someone pay $200 a plate to go with her. :/]

[rapturescreed]

[He gives her a small nod.] How are you, today? Having fun at the convention?

[plum_that_snaps]

I am! It's exciting to see all these people so excited about their various ventures! Everyone's in such good spirits, and willing to talk about the things they do... it's hard to imagine that all these people are from different places. They just seem like... they sort of belong here.

[rapturescreed]

That is exactly what we want. This is as much our home as it is the people who have been born here's home. I hope that one day both Newcomer and original Citizen will live together in peace. And this convention is a great step towards that.

[plum_that_snaps]

Mmhm. [She smiles and nods, looking thoughtfully out at the rest of the convention. There's a lot more behind that answer that she's not willing to tell a stranger. Like the fact that she doesn't want this to be her home. That she hates this place and would rather see it burn to the ground than 'take steps' toward anything.]

I'm Hinamori, by the way; I don't believe we've met.

[Well, except for that time when she told you off for yelling at teachers, but we won't mention that.]

[rapturescreed]

A pleasure, Hinamori. I'm Raul Creed. [Raul nodded, giving a small smile as he reached out to shake her hand.]

I do hope this convention will help others. And if not this one, then when it happens again.

[plum_that_snaps]

The same to you, Mr. Creed.

It's hard to be ripped from your home and transplanted somewhere foreign like this—it's best if everyone helps each other get through it in anyway they can. And a job is just as important as anything else.