Yes! And! Precisely, @Mastodon King! Let us respond to these sigils and enter into the sacred contract with the Fine and Goode People and take up a Fairy Franchise of our own!

But, I must admit, I am not fluent enough with their symbols to communicate with the Wee Folk through their own language. Perhaps we should reach out to @Harlow or even to @Petajoule66 or @Serafina Wolfsbane for their expertise in communicating in this fashion? Undoubtedly there are students with experience in this language that can assist us in this in this application process? And do we have the requisite Fairy ID on hand?

Those aren't the sort a sigils the Joule Crew uses, @Alphonse Peru, but we've been seeing them around more and more.  Tiny silver ones, right? Near the bottom of dumpsters and alley walls? The Little Crew, we call 'em. They've been moving into our territory for awhile. We're thinking they might have been involved in the disappearance of @Karin Blentzsen and the Ol Dirty Walnut (Floating Amphitheater #3), since you know what happens if you travel to their commonwealth and eat their food.

I might be able to shed some light on the situation, my third cousin three times removed on my mom's side is familiar with such sigils as these, and I'm sure that they wouldn't mind helping. I will contact them at once, and we can all hope that the translation will be done with speed.

Through the aid of @Basilton Pitch’s third cousin three times removed on his mother’s side, we have successfully completed the complicated and arcane ritual application process for a fairy franchise! Hurrah! 

There was one sticking point, which was the necessary Fairy ID. However, as a benefit of @McQuestion’s continual lurking around convenience stores, he was able to put us in contact with a kindly leprechaun named Zag, who, for what I can only assume was a fair and reasonable price, has sold us a Fairy ID from the “fae market.” How exciting to be in business with the Goode and Faire People! What could possibly go wrong?

Zag has also set us up with a prime piece of fairy real estate, a fire hydrant near 5th and Main. Apparently there’s a good amount of foot traffic there. We’ve mortgaged the Irrational Student Lounge to cover the cost (which Zag is helpfully handling for us as well). 

The final piece of our entrepreneurial puzzle was who exactly will run the store? I had been imagining myself proudly working he till, assisting sprites and brownies with their purchases, but how on earth would any of us possibly fit inside a fire hydrant? In this situation we have also been provided aid by the kindly leprechaun Zag, who, for a nominal fee, has offered to manage the staffing for our little fairy shop as well. 

Congratulations, everyone! We are now the proud owners of our own fairy franchise, Lucky Mart #11113b! 

I got bit by our fire hydrant today. I was examining it, trying to figure out where the door was, and it took a chunk out of my finger.

Yes @Mastodon King! In fact we made 10 Shadecoins on that transaction!

Do you see? This is how the New Economy works! As the reach of the Good People grows, the more Shadecoins we acquire. In this case, Lucky Mart #11113b reached out and actually bit you, and in that cross connection of our two universes the Shadecoin value increased by 10. Of course that number comes before expenses, but we’re in fine hands with Zag the kindly leprechaun doing our accounting.

We should encourage all of our friends—and engage them in social media—to let everyone know to depend on Lucky Mart #11113b, the fire hydrant at 5th and Main, for all their eerie, otherworldly, and otherwise paranormal experiences! We’ll be rich! Rich beyond our wildest dreams!!

Uh oh! Looks like we've got some competition:

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Hauntings! Possessions! Levitations!

MIDNIGHT PRANKS AND HI-JINKS!

Come to CONVENIENCE CORNUCOPIA    

(conveniently located under the bulging crack in the sidewalk just outside the First National Bank) 

and enjoy 50% OFF all extra-normal occurrences 

WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
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Noticed a teeny little flyer with that printed on it stuck to a garbage can downtown.

Ah, yes @McQuestion, that could help explain some of these numbers we're seeing.

Now, we all knew that we wouldn't be making a profit right off the bat. Certainly not if you count our upfront investment. But apparently fairy items like Enchanted Donuts and Tiddlysparklypop have a VERY short shelf-life, and Zag, the kindly leprechaun who is acting as our store manager, says he still needs to get used to the rhythms of this particular location before he can fine tune our supply chain logistics. And costs. And losses.

As a result, Lucky Mart #11113b is severely behind in payments, not only to our suppliers, but also to the staff Zag has employed to run the shop. In order to keep the store afloat, I have taken a second mortgage out on my family's summer home on Lake Hali. And put the summer home in Zag's name. He assured me this was inline with GAFAP (Generally Accepted Fairy Accounting Principles) and the best way to ensure the success of Lucky Mart #11113b!

But this big sale at Convenience Cornucopia can't be helping. Can we cut prices any further? How else can we gain dominance of the fairy economy?

Could this affect us?

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GENERAL ENCHANTED CONVENIENCE STORE WORKERS STRIKE

Changelings and Brownies! Ballybog and Banshees!

Nyads, Dryads, Tylwyth Teg and Bendith y Mamau!

Kelpies, Slekies, and Pixies!

STAND UP FOR YOUR RITES

Do you work long hours behind the counter, serving up all kinds of toxic glamours to dangerous characters, and make no more than the Eldritch Minimum Wage? Unpaid overtimes lasting for eons? Time-shifting schedules and Trolls for bosses?

STRIKE NOW

Members Meeting of the Enchanted Convenience Store Workers Local 23 TONIGHT

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Well, between the Enchanted Convenience Store Workers' strike and our mounting debt, I've had no choice but to sign over Lucky Mart #11113b to Zag, the kindly leprechaun, till this all blows over. As part of the bankruptcy settlement that Zag has arranged, I'll also need to to indenture myself to him for a little while.

Zag says about 100 years should do it, so he's sealed me inside the fire hydrant to work the counter for the length of my term. It's more roomy than you'd think! There's the security camera feed to watch, Elven muzak on the speakers, enchanted slushy machines to clean, and even the occasional customer. I just know that will a little elbow grease, we're still going to be able to turn this thing around and become WILDLY rich!

We just need to figure out how to share these shifts for the next 100 years. Who wants next year? Guys? Are you still out there? Hey! Lemme know! .... guys?