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EVENT LOG: PLEADER

EVENT LOG:
PLEADER

characters: everyone.
location: the floating night market, docked at the harbor.
date/time: december 12-16.
content: the night market arrives.
warnings: n/a.

yo voy a volver tu vas a ver.

In the wee hours of December 12, the lights return, appearing just under the waves in the harbor, approaching the dock, until the lights surface entirely. They're submarines, glowing a dim blue now that they're up out of the water, and the fleet is three vessels strong. They've brought with them a floating bridge system to attach to the harbor's main dock to allow access to all three submarines, and they start to unpack...

By "morning", under the light of the full moon, the Night Market is open for business!

This time, it's three vendors that arrive: Aaravos, an expert in all things magical; Michelle Cheung, master of papercraft; and Pluto, the Night Market's leader, who rolls out of her submarine in a custom-built wheelchair. They've brought a handful of helpers with them to set up the market and run the various booths and games. Though they have no torches among them, the docks are lit with the blue glow of the submarines, their lights rippling slowly in intricate patterns and shapes, reminiscent of carnival lights.

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Accepted currencies at the Night Market include: Building and scrap materials, old tablets, old lanterns, captured forest spirits, torches, information, and most importantly... Plutonium. Of course, attempting to barter is always an option... but these currencies are your best bet for dealing with the various vendors offered by the Night Market.

Here are the vendors and their inventories for the current Night Market visit:
PLUTO
Special orders - Pluto can procure items just like Rastus, but she can get you specific goods from homeworlds. The more specific the request, the more it will cost. Items ordered through Pluto will arrive on the next ferry.

Heals - A borrowed gun-looking device allows Pluto to heal even the most grievous of injuries. This item doesn't belong to her, though, so... results may vary. If you want proper healing, you'll have to wait until the Night Market's medical unit shows up in the future.

GPS coordinates - Looking to discover more locations and resources out in the forest? Pluto can hook you up with hints to do just that.

Lantern charms - These charms can be attached to your lantern to provide BENEFITS as well as DRAWBACKS. The following charms are currently on display, with these labels attached: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, Intelligence, Charisma. You'll be given instructions for use at the time of purchase, or you can try asking Pluto for more information.

AARAVOS
Drugs - You want it? He's probably got it! Cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol, and pretty much whatever else you can dream up is worth inquiring about.

Magic potions - These potions last for no more than 24 hours unless otherwise noted. The following potions are currently on display, with these labels attached: Hair change, genderswap, body swap, love potion, luck potion, night vision, weather in a bottle, fake an injury, invisibility potion, furry shit, daemon shit. What does all of this crap do, exactly? You'll be given instructions for use at the time of purchase, or you can try asking Aaravos for more information.

Lantern charms - These charms can be attached to your lantern to provide BENEFITS as well as DRAWBACKS. The following charms are currently on display, with these labels attached: Disguise, Energy Boost, Charmer. You'll be given instructions for use at the time of purchase, or you can try asking Aaravos for more information.

MICHELLE
Handcrafted paper contraptions - Michelle can craft nearly anything out of paper, and don't let the lightness fool you—she can make her paper sharp and solid as steel. As long as you keep it out of the water (or do something to protect it from water damage yourself), your one-of-a-kind paper contraption is built to last! (She'll accept the typical Night Market currencies, as well as payment in the form of books. Any book will do! She'll even provide something to help you if you chose to go on a mission to steal a book for her from the library. These library stealth missions can be handwaved while making purchases from Michelle; just let us know in the form below if you'd like to pursue this.)

DR. SCHICKSAL'S HINT-O-MATIC
AMA - Does your character have any burning questions they just need to have answered? Dr. Schicksal's Hint-O-Matic is a phonebooth-looking device with a screen prompting the user to input a question. When a question is asked, Dr. Schicksal's Hint-O-Matic will spout out an answer! Questions can be typed in via keypad or spoken aloud, and answers will be automatically read aloud for characters that can't read the screen. These answers are always true, no matter what the question, but this information comes at a cost—your character will be blessed with a random status effect for the remainder of the month. We will check permissions posts before issuing a status effect, so there's your hint for what to expect. 😃 And, yes, you can literally ask anything.
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Other than the vendors, the Night Market has brought with them the following attractions:
COFFEE CART - The coffee cart offers every variety of hot drink a person could fathom, and it's complimentary! A few small tables have been set up in front of the cart around an outdoor heater, glowing happily as it warms this little section of dock.

CANDY SHOP - Sweet treats offered at the candy shop are also free for the taking, but be careful—some treats carry with them a random status effect that will last for the next hour. The treats and resulting status effects are left entirely up to you players, so feel free to create your own hijinx! This is us trusting you not to break the game, so don't abuse this privilege, and feel free to ask us if you're unsure about limitations! Not all treats will produce an effect, but those that do will have no tells, meaning characters will not be able to strategize when eating the candy. (In meta terms: if you want your character to engage in wacky bullshit, but they're a party pooper and hate fun and wouldn't willingly indulge, this is your opportunity to trick them into shenanigans.)

CARNIVAL GAMES - The small section of carnival games includes ring toss, skeeball, balloon darts, a shooting gallery, a fishing game, a plinko game, and an RC racing game with toy vehicles. The rules are all somewhat nebulous, but feel free to play out your characters interacting with these games on your own! They're all free to play, and prizes include knitted forest spirit plushies, wind-up goldfish that float through the air, and buckets of those plastic spider rings and finger topper guys that cost like one ticket apiece at Swings-N-Things.

WHACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MEN - They are also here, and they have a jukebox with them with an unfathomably large selection of songs. This area of the dock is probably meant for dancing.
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Finally, though you can trade with the various NPC vendors in this log, check out the new Night Market Purchases page for fast-tracked transactions.

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Coffee Cart - Dec. 12 & 13

[It should surprise absolutely no one to find Will sulking around near the coffee cart. If he drinks dozens of cups a day of the swill the Invincible offers, then of course he'd be first in line when something better shows up.

It's free, it's actually good, and it doesn't do anything to him aside from help keep him awake. He knows he shouldn't trust it, but he also knows that positive things are so few and far between here that he needs to take full advantage while he can. Still, there's something distinctly fishy (no pun intended?) about these "Night Market" people, and like most of his emotions, Will's misgivings are written clearly in his expression.

Come gossip and complain with him, or join him in trying as many different coffee drinks as possible. Or you could try to convince him to eat some of that weird candy or something. Good luck with that one.]

Elsewhere - Dec. 14-16

[By now he's figured out that the Night Market isn't poisoning their drinks and that they aren't secretly spirits in disguise. Probably. He certainly doesn't trust them, but they've definitely got a good thing going here. He's started to indulge in some, er, other vices, outside of the coffee. Alcohol for sure, but it's possible he's on something else at the same time.

Whatever he's drinking or taking, its effects are notable. His normally rigid posture is a lot more relaxed, and he seems generally less uptight and irritable. You might even catch a smile or two. It's unsettling.

Even more eerie is when he stumbles into you near the edge of the pier and doesn't immediately cause a scene.]

Watch yourself. [For perhaps the first time since new people started arriving in Beacon, there's no malice in his voice.] You trying to put us both in the damn lake?

[The second half of his sentence drops from his usual sharp accent into something low and blunt, the verbal equivalent of throwing a heavy sack of flour at a wall.]

[The market is strange as hell and Rosinante still isn't entirely sure what to make of it. He swings by now and then, hoping to pick up on whatever new tidbits of information people might have learned, and occasionally hoping to barter more information out of those running it, but he does have other things to do too, like helping Mary with the ongoing project of painting murals on the boarded-up windows and barricades of The Invincible's interior. Or toying with makeup because this place gives him more of an excuse to bother. Thick, winged eyeliner? Neat, crisp, boldly-colored pink lipstick? Hell yeah.

Still, okay, the lights and music are kind of fun, the drinks are good, and this time he's even dared himself to pick up a handful of candy and maybe try a few. In a bit. He's contemplating one with a bright silver wrapper when someone knocks into him. He turns, but the voice registers just as quickly as sight does, though said voice is... off, isn't it.]

Hey, Doctor- no, I've had enough of it for now. The lake, I mean.

[Stumbling around is not like Will, but he wouldn't be the first here to take advantage of some of the items on offer. It's probably fine, though maybe they should get away from the edge of the pier before Rosinante falls in of his own accord.]

Enjoying yourself?

[Oh, it's Rosinante. Is it just Will, or is this guy very bony when you run into him? He's never had a reason to touch him before, so it's not like he would've noticed. Whatever, his brain's not in the best shape to draw any connections.

Even when he himself speaks the words that would help him make it.]

Oh, that's right. [He stops to clear his throat, and when he starts again he sounds just like he normally does.] Saw you on the obituaries. Meant to ask how it happened. That's your second, isn't it?

[He's never one for tact, but especially not now. Oddly enough, he seems to give some actual thought to Rosi's question.]

Am I ever really enjoying myself? It's all just temporary, you know. Have to get it while it lasts.

Second, yeah.

[Bit of an actor too, is he? That was certainly a shift. He'll let it go for a few minutes as he waves Will along to join him as he walks down the pier, guiding them both a little farther from the water. Just in case, you know. In any case, he's not pleased about dying twice here, but he acknowledges the comment casually. It happened, he's not going to deny it.]

No reason not to take advantage of what they bring here, I suppose. Good to give everyone a mental break from what just happened. Keeps morale up so they don't just give up on holding it together. What's your temporary fix of choice?

[He's keeping an eye on you down there, Will. Walking all right? In a mostly straight line?]

Second one. Right.

[He squints, looking Rosinante up and down (mostly up), scrutinizing. But whatever he's searching for, and whether or not he finds it, he doesn't say. He just scoffs at the question.]

You're implying I have to choose one.

[Will has for sure been double-dipping.

He follows Rosi without much prompting, only swaying a little bit. It's fine. He manages not to fall into the water, at least.]

They're not doing this for our sake, of course. [He's just going to slide right on past that question about what substances he's been consuming.] They need what we offer them. But that's how it should be, I suppose. Mutually beneficial.

[And before anyone has time to read anything into that statement—]

What about you? Get anything good?

[Will doesn't need to say what he's looking for. Rosinante can guess easily - he's looking for the lingering effects of the death. Fine, look all he wants, he won't find it so readily.

He also notices how Will doesn't answer his question but simply continues talking in order to redirect the subject. Rosinante does the exact same thing all the time, after all. It works on so many people, who either don't notice or who let it slide and then forget it even happened a moment later. It means Will, like him, is a well-practiced liar and used to getting away with it. None of this surprises him by now though. It's actually kind of fun, having someone to talk to whose tactics of reorienting a conversation are a match for his own.]

Mostly just looking around so far. Getting to know them a little, hearing about what they've been up to. The things they're selling aren't as interesting as just talking to them. But I did find they make excellent tea, and I was about to try one of these. Had one yet?

[He holds out his hand, with several wrapped candies in his palm, all different colors and patterns and shapes. Risky, but the tea had been good and the candy probably isn't going to put him into some sort of weird dream-coma.]

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Dec. 14

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getting to use so many icons I never use lately

hello down there!

picture it. coffee cart. December 13th.

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13th

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Coffee time!

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Coffee Cart

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