[quote=@Stern Algorithm] In case you didn't see this, I think the location is now GM-approved. I'll modify Shizuka's CS to include the fact that she's working at Ink Sparks now. How long do you want her to have been working there? Long enough so that they sort of know each other, or just recently started so that we can RP 'getting to know each other'? [/quote] [@Dynamo Frokane] Firstly, thank you. I was thinking that Ink Sparks would be located on a slightly run-down side-street that actually ends awkwardly at one end of the mall parking lot in or around Shine Junction. It's one of those streets where the city planners goofed on the zoning and there's small residential, small commercial, and small industrial zoning all over the place. Ink Sparks is actually built on two lots that are zoned differently. The rear portion was originally, and still is, a warehouse. The front portion is zoned for a small company and so there is a small storefront and a wall separating the two businesses. You have to go outside to go from one to the other even though they share a wall. It's illegal for the two different zones to share the "same building". Usual legal silliness. Also, minimal parking, it probably only has room for three cars out front and the warehouse parking is in an even more poorly lit alley parking lot. [@Stern Algorithm] Thanks for the heads-up. I hadn't spotted that amid the rapidly fluxing currents of the ooc. As for Shizuka's date of hire, she probably would have started a couple months ago while Mr. Smith was replacing some of the shadier members of the staff. She would have been one of three new hires for the store, one for management and two clerks. I don't think it's likely that she would have applied for the management position but, if she betrays her competence a little too much, she might find herself promoted. There are many ways of removing NPC managers and Vern is unlikely to fail to notice capable people, especially when he only has one business to run.