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Let's look at stores and shops! Remember, these are object descriptions, not room descriptions, so these are the storefronts, the exterior views.)
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Arborea (2022)
> x store (@ Palm Tree Plantation (Entrance))
It's quite a low building. You reckon that, with a ladder, you could probably reach the roof.
> x store (@ Pirate Shanty Town)
A rickety wooden building with the words "general store" painted on it in white paint. The general store door is [open or closed].
Beat the Devil (1999)
> x restaurants (@ Food Court)
Except for the name, and some of the ingredients, these restaurants could be carbon copies of the fast-food places you know. Not that that inspires any more confidence in their food.
> x storefront (@ Outside Wrong Aid Drugstore)
Fake brick tends to make me want to vomit. You?
> x storefront (@ Outside Acme Novelties)
Some things are just too tacky for words.
Beneath: a Transformation (2007)
> x shop (@ Sidewalk, Downtown)
It's the front of a coffee shop.
> x pet store (@ Sidewalk, Downtown)
It's the front of a small pet store.
> x gas station (@ Sidewalk, Downtown)
The gas station consists of a small convenience store and one old pump.
The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes (2006)
> x market (@ The Town)
The marketplace looks dense with shoppers - you can hardly see the surrounding buildings.
The Bibliophile (2014)
> x store (@ Outside Bookstore)
It was once a townhome, like the buildings flanking it. Maybe its guise as such is one reason your business isn't doing so well. Either way, the building is a narrow, stately affair of smooth gray brick.
> x store (@ Outside Photography)
This corner store is one of a seemingly dying breed except for within art communities: the film store. You're sure they specialize in selling and developing film in this ubiquitously digital world.
Birmingham IV (2018)
> x shop (@ Outside the Shop)
A small house, not very different from any other in the village.
Bobby and Bonnie (2017)
> x magic shop (@ Country Fairs)
A brightly-decorated shop advertising all sorts of mystical treasures.
> x flea market (@ Country Fairs)
A disorganized array of tents and tables.
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (2015)
> x flower shop (@ North Saguaro 200 Block)
A cozy two-story building rented by Jenny's family, with a flower shop on their ground floor and their apartment above. All the flowers seem to have been sold, but you can just make out something glowing inside.
> x five and dime (@ Main Street)
A bright-looking variety store that sells all kings of things. The door is open, but you can't see anyone inside.
> x store (@ Main Street)
A bright-looking variety store that sells all kings of things. The door is open, but you can't see anyone inside.
Buried in Shoes (2008)
> x shop (@ The Street)
The shop is broken. Its windows are gone.
Catventure (2019)
> x ice cream shop (@ Main Street)
They sell ice cream, a frozen food, typically eaten as a snack or dessert, usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours.
> x clothing store (@ Main Street)
Clothes for men, women, and children (but not cats). The store is clearly closed. You can see a dress, shoes, and a top hat through the display window.
The Colour Pink (2005)
> x shop (@ The shop entrance, at the base of a hill)
The shop is labeled "Stegosaurus Supplies" and can be entered to the north.
Crocodracula: The Beginning (2020)
> x store (@ Outside the Thrift Store)
Streaks of dirt run down the cracked walls of the thrift store. Sitting here on the edge of town, the building looks like it's first in line to be swallowed up by the wilderness.
Danny Dipstick (2021)
> x store (@ Outside Acacia Fashions)
This store sells designer clothes, which are very hip...and very expensive. Obviously, you're not a regular customer. You're not even an irregular customer. It's dark inside, except for a dim security light.
Everybody Loves a Parade (1997)
> x repair shop (@ Gravel Float)
It's open for business! Come on in!
> x shops (@ Minimall Entrance)
I'd describe the shops, but I don't want to spoil all the fun.
A Freak Accident Leaves Seattle Pantsless III: Endgame (2000)
> x shop (@ Sidewalk, Lincoln Avenue)
El Fin de los Dias.
Fætt Tiw (2007)
> x bakery (@ Eldritch Storefront)
YE ECCENTRIQUE BAKERY SHOPPE
Vorn the Unsqueakable, proprietor
Genie (2002)
> x store (@ Outside Store)
Judging by the sign, it's a drinks store.
Grooverland (2021)
> x snack bar (@ Melancholy Mall)
The snack shop to the north is decorated as an enormous gingerbread house.
> x gift shop (@ Melancholy Mall)
This gift shop is stylized to look like a cottage covered in thorny, blood-red roses.
The Holy Grail (1989)
> x shop (@ Cobbled Path)
The shop lies immediately to your south.
> x shop (@ Exit From Village)
The Magick Shoppe lies to your north, [either] but the door is closed [or] the open door beckoning you [as appropriate].
The Horste (2017)
> x store (@ Outside the General Store)
Just the place to shop for toothbrushes, hair pomade, condensed milk, fatback, fattack, tackback, fatfat, and whatever other things humans need to feel human.
Igor's Quest (2020)
> x store (@ Road)
To west.
> x store (@ Stationery Store)
Not moving.
> x haberdashery (@ Road)
To east.
> x haberdashery (@ Haberdashery)
Sewing stuff.
> x store (@ Camping Store)
Camping stuff.
> x dry cleaner (@ Road)
To north.
> x dry cleaner (@ Dry Cleaner)
Looks clean.
The King's Ball (2023)
> x shop (@ Street Outside Butcher's Shop)
This is the shop next to yours, but it's closed at the moment.
Nowheresville (2022)
> x candy shop (@ Commerce Street North)
The storefront to the east is painted with red and white stripes. Red letters on the front window read "CANDY".
> x toy store (@ Main Street South)
East is a storefront painted bright red. Yellow letters above the entrance read "TOYS".
> x diner (@ Main Street South)
To the west is an oblong building with a design that must have once been considered very 'modern,' but now looks terribly old-fashioned. Anything that isn't glass or metal is painted mint green, and a red neon sign above the entrance reads "DINER".
> x restaurant (@ Union Street North)
A narrow stone building with an awning that reads "RESTAURANT". Aside from the generic name, it looks like a pretty swanky place.
> x grocery (@ First Avenue West)
North is a wide brick building with illluminated letters above the entrance reading "GROCERY".
> x dressmaker (@ Union Street South)
Here is a cozy-looking little storefront with a sign that reads "DRESSMAKER". You can see colorful dresses through the window.
> x clothing store (@ Third Avenue West)
The sign on the storefront reads "CLOTHING STORE". Judging by all the suits you see in the window, you get the impression they specialize in menswear.
> x butcher's (@ Commerce Street South)
East is brown building with lettering above the door that reads "BUTCHER". Through the glass, you can see every imagineable meat.
> x pharmacy (@ Commerce Street South)
West is a narrow building with a neon sign shaped like a mortar and pestle, which reads "PHARMACY".
The Quest of the Golden Banana (2004)
> x shop (@ Road)
The damage to the shop, probably a grocer, looks substantial; not only have the windows been blown in but much of the surrounding brickwork with it. From the outside, at least, the shop looks abandoned.
Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone (2020)
> x store (@ Parking Lot)
There were streaks on the glass door, that kind of residue that makes you think "oh sure, someone did try to clean this, at some point." It almost made the place look abandoned.
Wearing the Claw (1996)
> x shop (@ Dusty Road)
The doors and windows of this neglected shop are barred with thick, heavy boards.
You Are A Chef! (2000)
> x x shop (@ Outside SHOP)
The SHOP is known as 'End of Days'. It is however entitled 'A Freak Accident leaves Seattle Pantsless' due to a strange experience in aught-six.
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