The stock

The showroom’s furniture, the kind that moves when it shouldn’t.

The display models, flatpacks, swivel chairs and price guns that fight in the showroom in Always On. Everything is on display and nothing is in stock, and the stock would like to keep it that way.

Whether the Assistant is stock is not on record; the staff say it isn’t staff. The stock is a faction the codex has proposed.

As a faction Proposed

Creed: “Everything’s on display. Nothing’s in stock.”
Wants: To be on display for ever, and for nobody to take anything home.
Because: A showroom is perfect as long as nothing leaves it.
How: Standing very still, then not.
Has: The showroom, the price guns, half-price stickers, and floors that keep going.
Blind spot: It can only move when nobody is looking, so it never quite gets anywhere.
Never: Be in stock.
Alignment: draughty (lets it gutter), lidded the axes
Leader: Nobody has said. See the Assistant, below.
Members: Display model, Flatpack, Swivel chair, Price gun
Maybe: The Assistant not on record
Symbol: A half-price sticker
Found in: Always On: the showroom’s fights; Backrooms: the showroom that doesn’t end; Maze Chase: the stock that mustn’t notice you; Falling Blocks: seven shapes of flatpack; Hot Desk: a swivel chair down the open plan

wary Staff only: The Assistant has asked for a staff vest in your size. Nobody has provided one.
wary The office supplies: Swivel chairs end up in the open plan. Nobody says how.
rival The household: The apprentice walked out of the showroom with the lamp glass. The display models tried to stop it. (the household: wary)
rival The four coworkers: Model 7 retired from the shop window and went to work in an office. Still posing. (the four coworkers: wary)
unaware The tin: Nobody has ever returned a sea.
unaware The company: Theatre people have their own furniture.
unaware The escaped batch: Slop isn’t stocked.
unaware The draughts: The Assistant doesn’t mind the dark.