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VISIT: THE NIGHT MARKET
VISIT:
THE NIGHT MARKET
characters: everyone.
location: the floating night market, docked at the harbor.
date/time: april 10-12.
content: the night market arrives.
warnings: n/a.
and i came down from the stars.
In the wee hours of April 10, strange blue lights appear just under the waves in the harbor, approaching the dock, until they finally surface entirely. They're submarines, glowing a dim blue now that they're up out of the water, and the fleet is four vessels strong. They've brought with them a floating bridge system to attach to the harbor's main dock to allow access to all four 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 four vendors that arrive:
- Pluto, the Night Market's leader, who rolls out of her submarine in a custom-built wheelchair.
- Catherine, a coy-eyed blonde with a bombshell choice of wardrobe, who appears to be somehow teeming with secrets.
- Variks, the Loyal, a prison warden who deals in all variety of secrets.
- John Silver, an opportunistic cook who spent his life aboard a space pirate ship.
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.•••
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.
All purchases must be logged on the Night Market purchase page while the market is open! Backdated purchases won't be accepted. However, as long as transactions are started ICly while the market is open, you're welcome to belatedly submit those transactions to the purchase page. Please do your best to log the purchases as close to the window as possible, though!
Congratulations to Sydney and King who won our last AC lottery for a chance to play Night Market shopkeepers! Sydney is playing Variks and King's playing Silver! Be sure to hit up these awesome shopkeepers up under the NPC header below! And as a reminder, please direct all plot questions/topics to one of the mod NPCs, as our players and discord mods aren't given any plot info beyond what's already available in the game. This visit, Danielle is playing Catherine, so she can answer plot questions, along with Pluto. P is for plot!
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
CATHERINE
- Confession - In the place of a standard vendor's stall is a small, modest confessional. Catherine keeps the door open on the priest's side, sitting inside it while she waits for her customers. Feel interested in airing out your grievances? Well, it might not be an official sort of purge, but hop into the curtained compartment and she'll give you a non-judgmental ear to listen. Just don't ask for advice; she's not here to give it. But if you want to pray to her, well, she won't object to being treated like a Goddess.
- A brief reunion - Just want to see someone's face again? A friend, a family member, someone you miss more than anyone else you've ever known? It seems that this mysterious lady has a knack for sensing who it is you desire to see again the most. Exactly how this works, she's not inclined to share, and unfortunately there's no real way to provide you with who it is she's able to show you... but a few meaningful moments could mean some peace of mind for some people.
- Adult toys - A padlocked trunk full of specialty toys and supplies (and apparent torture devices?) to tide over any individual who would consider themselves properly kinky (or perhaps just a tad adventurous in their intimate exploits). Anyone over the age of eighteen is free to browse the wares, but the stall's keeper will keep it locked for anyone who died before reaching a legal age of adulthood. Sorry, kids. Maybe when you've been dead for a few more years.
VARIKS, THE LOYAL
- Restraints & prison supplies - Cages, shackles, handcuffs, chains, rope. Want to keep a forest spirit (or fellow resident) contained and restrained? He's got you covered. Maybe it's for their own good, he may be the Kell of the House of Judgement but he won't question your motives too hard. What he has on display is mostly person-sized restraints and smaller cages for trapping forest spirits to use as currency elsewhere in the Night Market. But if you need something specific he may be able to accommodate.
- Lantern shells - Tired of carrying the same lantern around day after day? Change how it looks with a lantern shell. The "shell" looks like a shimmery 12-sided die in various colors but touch it to your lantern and it'll be absorbed and change your lantern into a specific color / shape / size, etc. They can be removed at will and return your lantern to it's default look. Get multiple shells and have a different lantern every day of the week! You're only as fashionable as your Ghost. Er. Lantern.
- ACCEPTED CURRENCIES - He'll take all the basics, with a preference for lanterns or lantern pieces, and also secrets. Secrets can be about yourself, others, places, the Wild Hunt... The juicier the secret the more valuable it is to him. He probably won't tell Pluto. Probably.
JOHN SILVER
- Ready-made meals - This extremely personable vendor will greet you jovially and invite you up in a very thick, very pirate-y accent— though it's probably not him that draws you up so much as the mouth-watering smell of cooking food. He has a number of ready-made meals, but he can also whip up something special if you have a specific request. And when he says specific, he MEANS specific... looking at those of you with Certain Dietary Requirements.
Bonza Beast Stew: What's a Bonza Beast? Who knows! Where did he find one on this planet? You'll never find out, because it's a secret recipe. Have a bowl of this hearty stew, though, and you'll find that you'll be pleasantly warm and happy for a good long while.
Wild Rosemary Quiche: Vegetarian and beautifully fragrant. Consuming this will make you particularly nimble for a while.
Fish & Chips: What is says on the tin and possibly the best you've ever had. Wonder what that fish is...? The only side effect is that you have an almost insatiable desire to go swimming. Might want to be careful with that one...
Steamed Buns: A meaty option and the veggie option. Both buns will increase good fortune for a limited period of time.
Apple Rose Puffs: Sweet and delicate, they will also leave you smelling sweetly of flowers for hours afterward.
Baklava: Nutty and sweet, after eating this you feel compelled to say whatever kind things you've been feeling or have been on your mind.
Moonshine: No side effects, unless you count getting completely blasted very quickly.
You can also purchase ready-made packages of ingredients with a written recipe included to take home and cook for later! Except the Moonshine. That you'll have to buy directly.- Poisons - Ask the right questions, and you can get access to Silver's under-the-counter stash of goods. "Poisons" here is used loosely, as it includes concentrated doses of all sorts of concoctions. This includes: deadly poisons of varying intensities, poisons that induce sleep, poisons that will warm you from the inside or that will give you a bone-deep chill, poisons that are actually venom you can put on a blade, etc. All poisons are good for 2 doses, so use them wisely.
- Repairs - Nothing too complicated, mind! Silver is good with mechanical fixes, but not with anything too delicate.
- ACCEPTED CURRENCIES - Silver accepts all the regular kinds of currencies, but he does have a preference for gossip (which he loves), information, and building/scrap materials. He will also gleefully take recipes your character might know and ingredients that have been foraged or brought from the ferry as a form of payment. Keep in mind that the more you ask for, the more you will have to pay— and those poisons don't come cheap.
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, and please keep in mind that these effects stack! 😃 Each question you ask it (or say at it, rhetorically or otherwise) will "cost" one status effect. And, yes, you can literally ask anything.
Finally, please use the Night Market Purchases page for all transactions! We're changing this up from how we did it last time so that we can better keep track of what's going where. You're still welcome to thread out purchases on this log, though! Just be sure to note it on the purchase page, as well.•••
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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PLUTO
If you missed Pluto's recent network post, you should probably check that out! Newbies will be able to access the post even though it's slightly before their time.]
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He strides up to the booth and crouches so he's not looming completely over the top of it. The movement is a little stiffer than he'd like, but he's made a lot of progress in healing since the last ordeal.]
Pluto. Good to see you again. Thanks for what you were able to do for me last time. I couldn't believe the stack of papers on the ferry.
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[She greets him with a smile and sets down her tablet.]
Glad to hear it. Turned out to be pretty fun, hunting down all those papers. You get what you were lookin' for from 'em?
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[All of these things are understatements. But Rosinante is smiling with the fullness of the pride he feels. Okay, so Law did some really questionable things and is one of the world's most wanted criminals. But he's alive and thriving and Rosinante got to find out all about it despite having died, so who is he to complain?]
I told you I'd tell you more about what we'd learned from Doctor Solis, and I can still do that, but I have something else too.
[From a pocket, he withdraws an SD card, repurposed from one given to him before once he was shown how to upload files to it. He sets it on the top of her table, and the smile fades to something more serious.]
Since last summer I've been photographing and mapping the stars and assigning them names. Charting them. You might have people doing that too, I suppose, but I've also noted down every star I've seen so far that's gone dark and the date of its disappearance. I know sometimes stars die, but probably not as fast as this, so I figure there must be World Eaters out there and not just here. With this, you might be able to estimate movements, or see how long it takes before they've wiped out most of the visible stars. It's... concerning. I want to hear about your plan to stop them.
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Hey Pluto. I brought your usual and a little something else. Do you remember our conversation from last time?
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[She appreciates Jason so much. She takes the hot chocolate, sipping at it before she answers his question. It's chilly out here.]
Sure do. You want your coin? Gladius slash lance. Same difference.
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His gait is less aggressive when he approaches Pluto this time. And now he can divert her attention with another subject.]
What are the size restrictions for items brought from our universes?
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Well, hey-hello to you too. It's gotta fit on the ferry, that's the only rule. You see I put a whole-ass bedroom on the ferry last time I was here?
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A human-sized bedroom. [They aren't too big when compared to a Cybertronian habsuite. Verity Carlo doesn't reach Ultra Magnus' knees, so her Earth living space would be too small to contain the Magnus Armor.
...Then again, if Minimus shrank, wouldn't the Armor shrink as well? It is difficult to spatially judge the size when your own height isn't consistent.] What about three human-sized bedrooms?
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What exactly are you after that's that huge?
(no subject)
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Do you know anything about the green eyed fuckers, and how much would you be charging for the information?
( straight, to the point. )
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I know as much as you do. Robin's kept me in the loop, but we don't exactly got access to the spirits at the bottom of the lake. Can't study what we can't, well, study.
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Have any way to track spirits? Those creepypasta motherfuckers have to be hiding out there somewhere.
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Hello, Miss Pluto.
[And they offer her a mug of mocha, not from the cart, but their own mix.]
I'm looking forward to hearing your plan.
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[Ooh, she'll happily take the mocha. Thanks, pal.]
And I'm looking forward to your thoughts on the "Wild Hunt".
[There's some clear disdain in her voice as she says the name.]
You first.
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They remind me of the people who used to own me.
[Tone is flat, face expressionless.]
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That's rough, buddy. You're looking to join ranks with us, then?
(no subject)
I'm sorry
Ah, you must be the lady of the Night Market!
Hello and well met!
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Well met, yourself! Call me Pluto.
[She sets her tablet down on the table in front of her and gives him a little salute.]
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[He scoops his hat from his head and tips into a low bow.]
I hope you do not mind me stopping by, I saw your broadcast on the network.
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Good. You talked to the Hunt, then? What'd you think?
(no subject)
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Madam. I must know more about your plan, and I will pay what you ask so long as it's within my capability.
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[She always looks busy and he's used to that, but it's in Bruce's nature to try and avoid getting underfoot. He stands just out of her way, hands folded in front of him.]
I wanted to thank you for the last order. And also make a request, if it isn't too much trouble.
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I am told you can bring things from our own worlds. Is this true?
hey
You said we might be able to guess your plan if we were smart. Naturally, that means I have some ideas, but first, a question: is your station really the only thing you're trying to power with all that plutonium?
[He's going to hope she isn't charging for this information, so he'll pretend this is a conversation instead of an exchange. He is the best negotiator of all time.]