Shops Anthology

==Possible titles==
*Shops Between the Lines
*Between the Lines
==Potential stories==
*Untitled con-artist story (2012)
**A developing Shops Island is full of hopeful visionaries and opportunists. What happens when Donho establishes a shop of his own, selling knock-offs and low-quality products for a high dollar? How does the small developing law-enforcement/government handle this situation, if at all?
**Takes place so early on in Shops's history that Ben is still in power at this point, or that Chill recently just became president
*Alliances (could have a better title) (Early 2012 - Sep 2012)
**Details the time Bro and Brook first met, and sort of cuts to "key moments" of their early history together, cultivating in Chill's resignation via blackmail and Bro's rigged election to the presidency.
**wow Brook's character in a thing that takes place before the future!
*Untitled Golden Crisis story (May 2012)
**A random citizen of Tomville going about their day, when suddenly the Great Golden Crisis strikes
**At the end of the story, the citizen chooses to migrate out of Tomville along with the other vast majority of citizens
*Responsibilities (Late 2012)
**Details how unhappy Arkay was during the presidency and how he contemplated its growing responsibilities and roles, specifically after the failure of Operation: Landmass
**Possibly ends with Arkay walking the streets of Club Penguin alone at night on New Years
*Untitled story about Chill's kidnapping (March 2018)
**Strike goes to Chill Island under the guise of wanting to capture the Fry Thief, though secretly analyzes the security around Chill. Surprised to see that he has none, he easily kidnaps Chill for his employer who simply wants to get even with Lavender for some reason.
**The way this story will go solely depends on who Strike's employer is.
*Untitled story about Lavender's attempted assassins (June - Dec 2018)
**Would explore the idea of getting into the heads of the one of the two "literally who" citizens learning of the Penstubal Post and slowly turning to extremists with a plan to kill Lavender.
**Potentially explores how their background as Acadian/Duck Islander influenced their actions
**Maybe as time goes on, they begin to see Penstubal as a sort of savior of their peoples "oppressed" by Shops's capitalistic society
*Untitled undercover Penstubal Post investigation
**LMGT or Lavender assigns an SIA agent to infiltrate the Penstubal Post and study their threat head-on.
**Not sure how this would end, maybe leads or ties into Gone Rogue somehow? (if Bro wants to exist any time this decade smh)
==Random ideas to be toyed with/Might not make good stories==
*Untitled Penquino and Brookelas story (Early 2012)
**In early Shops, Penquino and Brook go from good friends to bitter rivals.
**Shows how Penquino began to see through Brook's own greed and desperation.
*Untitled farmlands story (March - May 2012)
**Something about the early farmlands and why Farmer Ted chose to leave for better conditions at the United States of Antarctica, maybe he was underappreciated by the government?
*First Death (Early 2013)
**Brief story discussing how the first death of a Shopper president impacted the nation, maybe has Arkay's funeral
**Issue is, do citizens really care about Arkay/would be impacted by his sudden youthful death? Might not have much to say at all
**Potentially has Chill slowly lose any hope that Arkay could still be alive at all, ending with him receiving a holographic message seemingly out of nowhere. He pushes a button on it, and turns it on and smiles
==Character ideas==
*Passér Donho - Former pirate captain, who ended up seemingly left behind a life of thievery and conquest and settled down for a Shops Island business. In reality, the shop was used to launder money as he used his experience as a criminal to grow one of the first Shopper black market shops. Always tries to push the boundaries of what he can get away with legally, such as selling faulty low-quality products in first years. He is highly charismatic though still carries a commanding presence, basically like Hondo.
*Strike - Bounty Hunter character. Former SIA agent who was hired during the unusual transitional phase in which new recruits were trained as both undercover covert agents and brute military recruits. Was good friends with General Broseph, and was even involved helping plot out the plans described in the Broseph Leaks. Was left behind during the Frosian War, presumed dead by everyone including General Broseph after his body couldn't be retrieved for whatever reason. Tested out one of the prototype heavy-duty radiation-proof uniforms described in the leaks, which he later personally modified in order to survive. Came to despise Lavender, as well as the Shops military for leaving him behind. Personally sees the Snoss bounty hunters as less skilled than himself, and calls them snot.