Thursday, April 30, 2020

Consumable

No time and in a hurry, need to get an outline down. 

IT Teja stroked at his beard under the mask, trying to wrestle it into place, an impossible task. He looked at his watch and waited impatiently for Arun to pick him up. Arun drove around in this orange Honda Jazz, that could be spotted from a mile away. It was hard to lose that car in a parking lot, or anywhere. IT Teja could see the road sloping downwards for almost three fourths of a kilometer, the distance from which Arun would turn around the corner and drive towards Teja. Arun was late and IT Teja was getting impatient. Finally, the twin beams of the vehicle turned the corner, and started making their way towards IT Teja. 
Arun stopped the vehicle next to IT Teja, pulled down his mask, beckoned him and said "Get in!". IT Teja slipped in without a word, and without touching his mask. "What do you want to do?" asked Arun. "Macha looks like there is going to be lockdown again. Have a bunch of things to do. First, need to score, then we have to visit Hamleys." Arun began to plan out a route, then asked "so MG road or Whitehall? We can pick up from civil hospital or Cox town on the way." IT Teja said "My dude's at MG road, he will get it all packed and ready, we just have to go pick it up." 
Arun floored it. 
They cruised lazily down the empty streets, bathed in the gentle warmth of sunlight filtered through trees, serenaded by emboldened birds. For some reason the conversation came around to NFTs. Arun was wondering what the value of an NFT was, and IT Teja was trying to explain that the value was what people were ready to pay. Arun's argument was that the price of a piece of art was because nothing in the world could reproduce it exactly, so what really was the worth of something that could be reproduced at will. IT Teja tried to argue that in fact, NFTs allowed the content owners to have a proof of ownership, and that art galleries were using NFTs for digital exhibitions. 
By that time they had ended up at the scoring point. IT Teja went in, fired a lamchi, and then came back out to the car. He might have got a few cats in with him. Next, Arun had to go to an ATM, and IT Teja decided to pick up some skins. IT Teja showed the special edition TumbaJamba skins, ones that converted to NFTs once you smoked them. The cover of the skin was also a special limited edition artwork, which you could save and use as a bookmark, or realistically speaking use up as roach. Either way, you owned a token of the artwork used on the book of skins in the end. IT Teja showed the skins to Arun when he came back with the money. 
Together, the two head to Hamleys. Once they were close to the mall, IT Teja called his guy. They picked up the package, which had hot wheels cars, and went home. 

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