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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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[The coffee cart has tea and he is in heaven, standing nearby sipping his cup and trying to savor that it actually tastes the way tea should and not like rotten leaf water that the general store carries.

So he's in a relatively good mood.]

I certainly hope this is something that reoccurs often. It would certainly help with morale.

Well, they certainly have experience setting up shop here.

[He eyes the makeshift docks that the Night Market brought with them. Things they had already made.]

That probably means they intend to return. [Probably.] Then again, I've been here two years and this is the first time I've ever seen them.

Indeed. A fair amount of effort for a single trip.

[Two years without a coffee cart? Will must be truly suffering.]

It's been pleasant, so I'm waiting for whatever is to come. I don't trust it.

You're right to be suspicious. Nothing around here comes without some sort of price.

[So, it's just like normal life.]

I'm tempted to think of them as like us. In where they came from, at least. Clearly they have access to things that we don't.

The items they want in exchange are odd: building supplies? Lanterns?

So we also have access to things they do not. I wonder if they're in a similar situation to us. Maybe we should follow them when they leave.

Following them might not be a wise idea.

[He sure didn't miss that bit in the bulletin about people dying and then Rastus being annoyed with them for going out on the lake.]

The building supplies are anyone's guess. I suppose they could be expanding whatever structure they live in. Repairs, perhaps. Which is what I expect the lanterns are for. Spare parts. The creature in the church probably can't reach them down there.

[Rastus is well meaning but he ain't the boss of them.]

Spare lanterns? Can we transfer the light from lantern to lantern like that?

[He hadn't considered that before but.. that's interesting.]

Whatever they're using it for, I'm glad they came up here to trade. If only for the tea.

That I don't know. As a matter of fact, I don't know the first thing about how the lanterns work. They're no technology I'm familiar with, if they're even technology at all.

[Might be magic. Everything might be magic in this damn place.]

But I don't think they're switching lanterns, just cannibalizing them to fix their own. You're right, though, the relationship here is mutually beneficial. They certainly make up for their suspiciousness with a very wide variety of goods.

[Kuai could make some guesses about how they work, but like everything else it would only be speculation.]

I would assume them to be magical. If they were technological they'd be far more advanced than anything else here. Aside from the tablets this place does not have much in the way of technology. If there was some mechanism that tied our life force to an object I would expect there to also be drones, cameras, vehicles beyond the bikes we discovered. We barely have electricity.

[For being a guy dressed like he's from the 18th century, he does actually know a lot about tech stuff, he just refuses to acknowledge it.]

It seems unbalanced in our favor, they have more things that we want then we do for them. Especially the one who can apparently get things from our homeworld. I don't trust that at all. They're either facsimiles or they're actually going back to our worlds, and if they had the power to do that, they would not still be here.

[Well, color him surprised. Will had, in fact, assumed that Kuai's manner of dress was indicative of his time period. Apparently he's just like that. There are eccentrics in every world, it seems.]

This place did have access to some sort of inter-worldly portal, so there is that. Speaking of which, I would assume that to be the method by which the Night Market obtains the things from our world. In which case it would imply they have more mastery over it than Robin does.

... Or at least more than she's willing to use for us.

[Wait til he finds out Kuai had been a robot for a short time.]

Maybe there is some danger to it that they are willing to risk? She doesn't seem to be the type to go out of her way to help us unless we give her a good reason to. And I'm not sure how we do that - apparently hooking her back up to the network wasn't enough to show our intentions of not simply murdering each other.

I was under the impression the portal wasn't there anymore, or non-functional?

Well, even my original group managed to reconnect her to the network.

[And they sure murdered each other, so.]

Robin has mentioned the portal in the present tense. It could be gone, it could be broken, but it also might not be. Though if it does still exist, there probably isn't anyone who can truly use it; otherwise I doubt Robin or the Night Market would still be here.

Hm. Maybe if these vendors truly are using it to retrieve things from our worlds there is something about the portal that forces their return. Otherwise I would assume they would simply leave.

Unless they are committed to fighting the World Eaters, which would be beneficial to us, but highly unlikely.

Pluto seems more the self-serving type.

[Take one to know one, and all that.]

Perhaps the portal's too small. Wasn't there something in those dreams about its creator only being able to retrieve objects? Probably pointless to speculate, actually, until we know exactly how the damn thing works.

I feel like I've been doing that a lot. Pointlessly speculating without making any real headway on anything.

I suppose this market is a good time to make peace with all I don't know and can't find out immediately. For the time being anyway. We'll be right back at it as soon as they leave.

Welcome to the club.

[It's said with no small amount of frustration. Two years in this place and he still doesn't know all the rules.]

It's something of a break, at least. Can't spend all of your time working out the puzzles. You'll burn yourself out.

That sounds like the sort of advice one gives without following it themselves.

[There's a small smirk as he says it because boy does that sentiment sound familiar.]

[Will shrugs, as if he's brushing it off. No big deal.]

Sometimes, perhaps. It's not like I don't know how to have fun.

[It's okay to press X to doubt, Kuai.]

Of course.

[Sounds like the exact thing he would say Will. He definitely is pressing X to doubt. He's about 90% sure that everyone he interacts with daily wouldn't know what fun is if their life depended on it, himself included.

~~Good thing there's a parade coming to show them!~~]

I'll leave you to it.

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