fandomhigh | Young Entrepreneurs Club; Thursday 2pm -- 11/13.

There were the usual treats and coffee waiting for everyone, although Turtle was watching how much she ate because she knew there's be treats at the newspaper meeting, too.

"Okay, guys! We're looking good for our tents; today, let's work a little on getting some more put together and start thinking about packaging. The next step, I think, would be to get the spells on them, so, Dor, do you think you can have that by next week?"

"Mostly today, though, I think we could just have some fun." She hopped off the desk, moving to the blackboard, and wrote in big letters the word MONOPOLY. "Now," she said, "as entrepreneurs, you should know this word. Monopoly means that you pretty much have a hold on everything; no one else can compete with you because you're that powerful. Governments say this is bad; I say it's only bad if you're being a dictator with your monopoly." She shrugged. "It's up in the air, I guess. I mean, let's say that Turtle & Canary was the only place to get something on the island. Clothes, for example. If Turtle & Canary was the only place that sold clothes, then I would have a monopoly on it. However, since there's also Pixie Dust, I don't have a monopoly on it, and we're in competition...friendly, free-market economy competition...with each other, and people can choose if they want to buy clothes at Turtle & Canary, or go to Pixie Dust and pay way too much."

"What it also is," she continued, "is a game, so we're going to play some of that. Of course, Monopoly is a game that lasts forever and a day, so we're just going to play until the end of the hour and whoever gets closest to a monopoly will win!"

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Like you've just landed on Broadway and someone else has, like, fifty million hotels on it, although that never ever happens.

Take a few minutes to work on a tent, present some ideas for packaging, or talk about providing that invisibility spell.

Good? Bad? That guy in the game with the monocle give you nightmares as a child? Discuss it here!

Bested only by Risk as games that never end, find a partner or two and play a game.

Or at least see who gets first dibs on picking the little pieces.

When he pings in!

Let's stick him with playing the thimble! Mwa ha ha.

Sorry it was a bit late today!

I always liked playing the boot.

I take that back. I never liked playing Monopoly at all.

Ned

Ned knew he couldn't do jack squat with providing the invisibility spell but he could work on some packaging.

Attempt to work on some packaging.

He ended up sketching too stick figures on a sheet of paper. One with red red cheeks looking very embarrassed and the other inside a tent like thing looking safe.

He wondered if everyone would get that if it was slapped on the front of a package though. His stick figures were kinda bad.

"No diversity seems kind of boring," Ned said. "One company, one way, one really boring world."

Turtle was definitely playing the boot.

And she was going to insist on playing banker.

"Awww!" Turtle couldn't help snickering a little; a stick figure with embarrassed red cheeks was cute even if it was bad. "That's cute, Ned."

"Are you trying to suggest," Turtle teased with a grin, because she was in a good mood today, "that buying things from just me would be boring?"

"Maybe one day I'll learn to draw stick figures," he said. "A before and after seems telling for the tent though."

"Oh, no no no," he said hurriedly, waving a hand. "But, you're not really a monopoly. You don't own all the stores on the island."

Pause.

"Yet."

But... but! He liked the cannon.

This was his sad face.

"It kind of wants me to use it in advertising a little," she said. "Like on a poster or if I do an article before we release these things. Although maybe then you'll need one for yourself if we credit you for the artwork."

Turtle just smirked and gave an approving nod at Ned. For all his adorable doofishness, he definitely was a smart cookie, she'll give him that.

"I'll probably buy like eighty of these things," he laughed. "No need to credit me, though. I'm just pulling ideas from everything we've done so far. It's group thing."

Dick Grayson

Broadway? Do you mean Boardwalk?

.....

NOOOOOOOOOO.

Liz Sherman

"Monopolies are bad, of course. Competition naturally breeds more creativity and effort," Dick said. "It can be kind of tough to avoid once your business gets big enough, though. After a while, it can almost be like a punishment for being that much better than everyone else."

"But, at the same time, if you start ceasing to be creative and putting forth effort," Turtle offered, "then you lose your appeal and will cease to be a monopoly as well."

"Not if you take the monopoly thing as a challenge. You just need to figure out how you can encourage and support competition while not losing anything yourself," Dick said. "And that's when you really start to branch out."

Turtle nodded a little. "Like, for example," she said with a small smile, "a business owner who still manages to promote other competing businesses weekly in, say, an article or some such thing."

"That's one way of doing it, definitely," Dick said. "And while everyone's paying attention to that, you start selling comic books, too."

"Is that a hint?" Turtle couldn't help but wonder.

Even if they already did sell comics at Turtle & Canary. Granted, just the big, mainstream ones, but they were there!

"No, but I buy pretty much everything online, so it doesn't impact me much," Dick said.

"Boooo," Turtle wrinkled her nose at him. "Way to support your local economy, Dick."

"I never claimed I was a good consumer," Dick said.

Alice Liddell

Jack Burton

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