DE: Finders Keepers

[yakalskovich]

 What is your characters' attitude about taking things they find, beachcombing, or liberating property for the revolution?

This DE is brought to you courtesy of two beautiful and derelict blue Electra bikes.




I often noticed these bikes on my way home in the last few weeks, and they seemed abandoned. I went to inspect them with a friend today, and we found them locked after all. I found out what bike rental they belonged to (there was a number on the lock which suggested they were rentals), called the company, and told them where their property was (I suppose they were abandoned by some tourists who had got drunk at the nearby huge beer garden). When I came by again, they had already collected one of the bikes. Oh, and even though they are beautiful Electra bikes, the company sells them for very little money in autumn, after tourist season is over, so I am going to get them, or some just like them, after all.

Comments

[street_sparrow]

The economy of the Underside seems to pretty much run on trading lost and forgotten objects from Above (or favours) for whatever it is you want to buy (other lost and forgotten objects, services, or craftwork). Gavroche took to it like a duck to water.

[likeroaringlions]

Djehuty would probably give you payment and a receipt and a note of apology for taking a kleenex without asking.

Bossuet is entirely down with liberating property for the revolution, assuming there is actually a revolution. And he has a cheerful sense that things like food should be available for sharing, public spaces are meant for the public to do whatever they want in, and the best friends are friends that don't keep too close an account of who ow(n/e)s what.

William Douglas is all for liberating English property for fun and for profit.

Gredya disapproves of the concept of claiming ownership of anything you can't defend yourself.

[camwyn]

Quicksilver is canonically addressed as 'you little kleptomaniac' and has a reputation for taking things that aren't his that drives his mother up the wall. I forget what constitutes the majority of the piles in his basement living quarters; I've decided that at least half of them are microwave ovens, because I am easily amused.

Ellen is from a heavily scarcity-bound society and does not approve of taking stuff that belongs to people, since people in general have very little that's really theirs. On the other hand, scavenging is a completely normal part of life, since there's so much stuff out there that belongs to people long dead. There's also nothing wrong with taking things off dead people, particularly if you killed them in a fight, unless there are kin or companions living who have prior claim. Digging up graves is uncool, though.

[just_cant_lose]

'MINE.'

[just_cant_lose]

(Which is to say, he doesn't collect much stuff at all, but if he sees something he wants, it's his.)

[cottoncandypink]

It depends on how incriminating it is for the other person. Wilford will gleefully take a person's journal (and read it on national television), and not even think twice about it. But he's not just going to steal something because he wants it. Then he'd be no better than the low-lifes he reports on.

[feminine_menace]

If YT finds a wallet full of cash dropped on the sidewalk, she will return it to its owner without touching their money. She is actually very respectful of people's stuff.

She has a different attitude towards certain public or semi-public spaces, however. At least, spaces that are good skating territory. Like all dedicated thrashers, she will skate on things, grind on things, or jump on/off things over the owners' objections, and feels perfectly justified in doing so.