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In the Night Moderators ([personal profile] inthenightmods) wrote2019-12-12 03:06 pm

the night market


THE NIGHT MARKET: PURCHASE PAGE

The Night Market is OPEN. They will close up shop again at the end of the day on April 12.
(All purchases must be made while the market is open! Backdated purchases won't be accepted.)

When the Night Market is in town, players can have their characters make purchases through this page. All transactions will need to be logged here, though you're welcome to thread out the purchase on the visit log.

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. Things like building/scrap material and info can be acquired by any character, even the new ones! Same with torches, though you'll want to be careful, lying to Rastus.

If your character and the vendor can't agree on a deal or if the vendor shuts down the purchase outright and you'd like to pursue the issue further, that will need to be done in a proper NPC thread on the Night Market log.

Finally, if you're looking to chat with the Night Market vendors for any reason, you'll need to do that through a proper NPC thread on the visit log. This page is only for transactions, similar to the permanent item requests page. That said, your character may still use information as a currency through this page; it will just be a flat exchange as opposed to a conversation.

Purchases are not finalized until approved by the vendor! Keep in mind that the vendors of the Night Market can, uh, be assholes? The bulk of what the Night Market sells is fun, bonus crap! You don't need this stuff to succeed in the game, so the NPC vendors are not always designed to be forgiving or cooperative. In short: You get what you get, and sometimes you get nothing for your trouble. IC failure doesn't have to be OOC disappointment!

•••

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 accentβ€” 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 payβ€” 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! πŸ˜ƒ Each question you ask it (or say at it, rhetorically or otherwise) will "cost" one status effect. And, yes, you can literally ask anything.
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When making a purchase from the Night Market, please fill out the form below and post it to the appropriate header in the comments.



The latest Night Market visit can be found here.

Please keep in mind that all purchases must be made 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!

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shookthesky: (neutral β€’ i am hell bitch.)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-11 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Pluto is most interested in the cat herd info! The knitwear is nice and it certainly sweetens the pot, but Maes loaded her up pretty good already. But, the knitwear plus three neat bits of info from the cat herd is enough to get Sora the yearbook and the two reports!

Stuff she's most interested in knowing: how much of the town everyone has discovered (showing her the map will do), and how much contact everyone's had with Dr. Solis. Third thing is dealer's choice!

As for the long term deal... plutonium is always the quickest way to her heart, but information is also very valuable. What's this incredibly valuable thing that Sora's after?
shookthesky: (laugh β€’ an escaped moon running free.)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-11 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
It's the same portal, but Pluto unfortunately doesn't have any records from that far back. That all happened before the Helix station was built. She'd advise Soldat to ask Dr. Solis about that kind of stuff.

The radio endeavor sounds worthwhile to her, but she's doubtful that it'll have the range to connect the town and the station. Getting the station hooked up to the network is the best bet, and that will require either a manual connection similar to what the lighthouse has OR some serious signal boosting... It'll be tricky, either way.

But, Pluto is real interested in those deets about the green-eyed spirits! If Soldat is willing to explain what he's looking to find through the portal logs, Pluto will tell him what she knows/give him some potential leads to follow in exchange for his green-eyed spirit story. If she's not able to help with the portal stuff, she'll throw in a set of GPS coordinates for his trouble. Somewhere real nice, she promises.

Or, like, Soldat could just take the GPS coordinates or pick another thing he's interested in, that's fine too.
pearlstrings: ((via shithouse)) (Default)

[personal profile] pearlstrings 2020-02-11 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
From one dude with trust issues to another: totally valid on all counts ♥
Thank you again. Do you want me to leave a note on the item request page so that it's counted there, or will you guys be okay with just keeping it here?
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[personal profile] worthallthis 2020-02-11 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well. They ARE planning to take the radio to the radio tower if they can find it... guess they'll see if they can work something out there. But that's not a for sure thing if they can even find it let alone get it working, so they don't share that yet. Maybe next time.

Okay, so no original logs. They'll exchange the green-eyes story, location and description of what happened on the explore with Daylight, for what portal stuff she can tell them and the coordinates, sure. It's not like the story is hard to tell. What he wants out of the portal logs is records of what exactly happened when Solis found the World Eaters on the other dead world, whether anything came through at that time, even if it's something as small as a virus or an electric signal or a spell or whatever, if there were weird readings for that usage compared to any other usages, etc. There are people in Beacon now who have different knowledge sets than Solis ever had, and who might be able to spot something linking that event more clearly to the World Eaters tracking Solis here that Solis herself (with her 70s technology and incomplete understanding) might have missed.

They wouldn't mind getting a current set of logs for potential comparison with whatever Solis might have, either, if she's willing to share.
shadowsran: (Default)

[personal profile] shadowsran 2020-02-11 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Done and done!!

She can take other people with her, upper limits unknown. Material isn't a factor for objects, nor (she thinks, to any immediately relevant extent) is weight, only if/how it's fastened to anything around it. Both are things she'd be happy to test more extensively and report back on when the market's next in town, if needed.
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[personal profile] nomourners 2020-02-11 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Alright, that's actually kind of interesting. For the information about the names and how one of them was from someone Maes knew (presumably he tells Kaz they were from another one of these multi-world situations?), Maes will get a whole bunch of copies of his photos. They're essentially indistinguishable from the originals, but they're in separate envelopes when Kaz hands them over, so no need to worry.

Pleasure doing business with you. :)
arsarcanum: (pic#13756410)

[personal profile] arsarcanum 2020-02-11 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Sora will happily show her the map! He'll even point out the newest stuff people have found! He's very proud of his fellow Beaconites, thank you. As for contact with the good doctor... He knows that at least one person met with Dr. Solis before more information about her started rolling in, but no one seems to know who that could have been? Otherwise, he's pretty sure that folks have been trying to meet her in small groups. He puts out a lot of names of people who he thinks might be the first out to meet her! Daylight and Cao Pi are among them, but Aziraphale, Rosinante, and Riku are on the list among others, too. (He looks a bit sad to mention Riku. Whomp whomp.)

As for dealer's choice... He thinks about it for a moment, then hesitantly says that there was some guy a month ago who needed help opening something in the area? He's not sure what or where it is, but it stuck out to him because apparently, it couldn't be picked through normal means! But as far as he knows, nothing came of interaction - no new locations, no new discoveries. This struck him as very peculiar. Sora emphasizes that this guy ended up getting the help of a couple of people who, as far as he knows, have the power to unlock any lock, and he'll supply her with the info that he has the same power if that's necessary to back up his point. If they couldn't get that open, they probably needed a very specific key, and he's pretty sure that hasn't been found yet. (He'll also realize belatedly that this is not catherding info and will definitely apologize and think of something else to share if that isn't sufficient!)

Oookay, so! Sora needs what's called a Replica. That's what the two reports are for, actually! He needs the info on them to make sure he has the proper tools to utilize one correctly should he happen to get one himself. His understanding of what they are are a little fuzzy - thus the need for the reports - but they're basically blank dolls that one can use as a vessel for a heart. As long as the process is completed properly, the new vessel will gain all of the thoughts, memories, and essential individuality of the original person to be considered themselves again, down to the way they moved, felt, and breathed. It's basically life after death as long as there's enough of the heart left to make the transfer.

There are a few more steps to this process, but his main obstacle in the past is that he had no way of acquiring one without sheer, dumb luck! The creation of a replica was very specialized science magic bullshit, he never would have figured out how to do it himself. Now that he has access to a magical portal that can bring in almost anything, he figures he has to at least try to ask for one.
nomourners: (Ketterdam is full of monsters)

[personal profile] nomourners 2020-02-12 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Light from his own lantern? Kaz appreciates your (very foolish) bravery, Dean. A gamble it is. He produces, from apparently nowhere, a large coin marked in a language Dean's never seen before. Don't worry, he'll be nice and let Dean choose a side, after which he gives it a flip aaaaand—

Better luck next time, Dean. Whether the toss was rigged or not, it doesn't land in Dean's favor.

Fortunately, Kaz isn't very interested in his lantern flame, so he decides to be merciful and let him keep it. He got enough enjoyment out of someone being gullible enough to bet against him.
cained: 𝐃𝐍𝐓 (Default)

[personal profile] cained 2020-02-12 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Under normal circumstances, he might just walk away. But this ain't a normal circumstance and he's not super thrilled about the idea of walking away empty handed.

Best two out of three? Or, hey, he knows spells (mostly for summoning things, a couple binding spells), exorcisms, banishing sigils, warding (from angels and demons alike)? He's not typically one for giving up state secrets to strangers, but desperate times.
shookthesky: (Default)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent! Castiel will have a package waiting for him on the next ferry!
shookthesky: (smile β€’ oops. my bad.)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, Pluto is on board! You've got yourself a deal, Midge. And, oh, that is some juicy intel indeed...

Midge will have a package waiting for her on the next ferry!
shookthesky: (chat β€’ i shook the sky.)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Gasp this is the worst news!!! She wanted a neat purple space sword. >:(

But, fine, realistically a service droid would be significantly more useful. She would still love to know how a lightsaber's mechanics work if he's willing to part with that knowledge, though.

Either way, Kylo will have a package waiting for him on the next ferry!
shookthesky: (Default)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Here's fine! The motive behind requiring purchases to get logged on this page is so it's easier for me to keep track. >.> But thank you!
shookthesky: (smile β€’ i deserve all the sun i can get.)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Very neat. Pluto's always happy to hear more info about stuff, so if Misty wants to do more testing and get back to her, um, yes please!

For the GPS coordinates, Pluto hands over a card with a symbol on it, something like a QR code. Misty can scan this symbol with her tablet's camera to load up...

An audio file! The audio file plays a short melody, and can be played on loop.

If Misty tries to probe Pluto for further instruction, she'll shrug and tell her that's the best she's gonna get before the tablets have GPS functionality.

As for the info write-up... Misty will have a package waiting for her on the next ferry!
shookthesky: (chat β€’ rules? fuck your rules.)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa! First of all, Pluto is fascinated by this core life energy stuff! From Lucius' description, it sounds like this world's "light" (including both the bonfire and the lanterns) is the same as Lucius' "life energy". Sadly, she's not an expert in the life energy side of things—that's more Dr. Solis' field. Pluto won't be able to do much with the core in terms of experimentation.

The energy generator idea is a neat option, and Pluto says she might be willing to talk about that in the future. Her station's rigged in a pretty specific way, though, so switching power sources might not be feasible. Womp womp.
shookthesky: (Default)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Nice! In that case, she'll hold onto it for him until the next Night Market visit, when he's got that sweet sweet intel for her.
forcer: (All you have is your fire)

[personal profile] forcer 2020-02-13 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Can she get him some better supplies to make the droid as well? He'll probably need a little more than what he can scavenge here if she wants a good droid like an R2 unit.

He will let her take a look at his lightsaber, though.
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[personal profile] diastima 2020-02-13 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
He'll thank her for her input and look for Dr Solis afterward. Maybe their research will be useful and he can offer it to her in the future :|a
shookthesky: (Default)

[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-13 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, she would love that. πŸ‘€ She looks forward to hearing back about it!
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[personal profile] paletteswap 2020-02-13 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
player: Sydney
character: Kuai Liang
purchase: Safe or Not app for residents to check in, Mahjong
offer: Alastair gets:
β€’ a slightly busted motherboard
β€’ harddrive with no cables
β€’ 3 foil duel monster cards
hackeralastair: (toocoolforu)

[personal profile] hackeralastair 2020-02-13 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Such excellent payment. Alastair will code an app with a 911 and 511 quick-tap code, and a very basic mahjong game that only has one tile style set. Sorry buddy, extra tile jpgs are too much work.

There will be an SD card with both apps on the next ferry.
diastima: (Default)

[personal profile] diastima 2020-02-13 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
(On that note where should I file Lucius' request to Dr Solis or is she out of bounds for now?
nomourners: (I'll acquire expensive habits)

I promise I'm actually rng-ing this it's just mean jfdlsjf

[personal profile] nomourners 2020-02-13 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Really diggin' in deep here, huh Dean? Kaz would be delighted to gamble with you again, with those spells as your buy-in.

Two more coin-tosses, then. One of them lands in Dean's favor! Aaaand then the next one doesn't. Are they going for best out of five?

Or maybe Dean has another game in mind? For the moment Kaz is still enjoying himself, so there's that.
cained: 𝐃𝐍𝐓 (Default)

rng is chuck and it hates him 😭

[personal profile] cained 2020-02-14 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Listen, coin tosses are all well and good, but how about a game with a little more meat, huh? Kaz seems like a respectable guy who plays respectable games like poker, right? Blackjack, maybe? Something with cards.

He's not begging, exactly, he's still all bravado, but he's getting to the point that he's got an impatient look in his eyes and there's something just a little volatile about him.

(Take pity on an old man, he just wants to kill things. I mean, hunt things.)
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[personal profile] shookthesky 2020-02-15 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
As far as Pluto knows, nothing came through the portal with Dr. Solis, though she wasn't able to completely close it once she returned. Pluto's pretty sure they didn't have any way to measure stuff coming through the portal in the early days, since portals weren't meant to stay open unsupervised like that, but she doesn't know for sure. It's certainly possible that something like a virus or something got through.

She does know, however, that the portal gave out no unusual readings despite it opening into a dead world. The only thing of note was a depleted atmosphere, so Dr. Solis went through with the appropriate gear. That wasn't super unusual in jumping through portals, though. Sometimes other living beings have different atmospheric requirements.

As for Dr. Solis's tech, Pluto will remind Soldat that this probably isn't the 70s that he's familiar with. Solis did build an interdimensional portal and the technology to sustain life beyond death, after all. Broader understandings and crowdsourcing info is the way to go, but insufficient tech ain't the problem.

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