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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 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.
•••

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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dadandgone: (Massive Dork Dad)

[personal profile] dadandgone 2020-02-09 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
player: Erica
character: Maes Hughes
purchase: Two Memory Jars.
1. A memory of cuddling Elysia as she drifts off to sleep, the sound of Gracia baking in the kitchen while he lets his little girl take a nap.
2. A memory of when he was courting Gracia at the bakery, flirting with her in such an obvious way that she laughs and smiles at him.
offer: He will wax poetic about both of these things. The woman he loves so much but hasn't seen now in a year or more. He might let it slip that some of his memory of her has been twisted thanks to certain hallucinations he's had in the past year (if confessing that counts as a "secret" I'd love to negotiate a spell). He just wants to remember the real Gracia, the one that made him laugh and fall in love. He'll of course boast about his daughter and eventually tell stories about the two of them. If you need something specific he might recount the last birthday party he threw for Elysia, helping Gracia set up for it and what not.
Edited 2020-02-09 17:04 (UTC)
notthatjason: (Default)

[personal profile] notthatjason 2020-02-09 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
player: Erica
character: Jason Grace
purchase: Screenplays
offer: He doesn't want them, but how do you tell a kid like this no? Also, this probably results in Jason telling Preston about godly/demigod shenanigans he's either witnessed or knows about. Or, you know, exchanging camp stories. Please write a new take on Greek tragedies.

Are you sure you aren't a son of Apollo dude?

legalcy: (🎵 gendo pose)

[personal profile] legalcy 2020-02-09 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a good question to ask, he tells himself. He was going to suffer for it whether Will requested it or not.]

Is Beacon the only remaining place on this planet that is currently inhabited by sentient creatures?
notthatjason: (Default)

[personal profile] notthatjason 2020-02-09 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)


player: Erica
character: Jason Grace
purchase: Memory Jar of his friends, probably sitting on the deck of the Argo II. Between monster attacks and prophecies...just a moment of peace between battles surrounded by the people that matter most to him. Leo's probably making fajitas, Percy and Annabeth are bickering about something, Frank and Hazel are joking with Leo, and he and Piper are perched on the upper part of the ship. Piper is curled against him. You can hear Coach Hedge below deck raging about something.
offer: He will tell her about the time he took Piper to the roof of Cabin 1. It was after their quest and while their friend was gone it was a moment they could finally start thinking about maybe being a couple outside of battles and monsters. It was probably one of the last happy moments he had with Piper, but all the more reason to treasure it.
desypharing: ([.] listening)

Accepted!

[personal profile] desypharing 2020-02-09 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite frankly, Sypha is always a fan of a guy making a bumbling fool of himself. She'll tell him a little bit of Trevor Belmont, who's grown dear to her and has the known world's greatest talent to put his foot in his mouth even when he's not actively trying to piss anyone off.

The jar, once enchanted, shows a skyline, unfamiliar to Sypha, but perhaps not to Peter himself. Roots, she says, handing it over, are a good thing to have, to help remind of what one fights for. She hopes he'll see her - and them again. Not here, preferrably, but elsewhere. Home, ideally. Sypha puts her hand over his briefly when handing the jar over, squeezes and gives him a sympathetic smile. There's something in her eyes that echoes his emotion, his need for reminder.

Most of them have something or someone worth getting back to, if only they could. There's a quiet promise in the set of her smile, too; for the things back home, she tries and will keep trying to figure things out, and hopes he'll do the same.
desypharing: ([.] explaining)

"Revision"

[personal profile] desypharing 2020-02-09 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As OOC degreed upon, as Sora cannot actually swim per se in his current state, he will add auto-aim to his offer, leaving him having to manually target spells which he hasn't had to do before. A suitable loss and detriment for the advantage gained. ]

That parting gift takes most of the sour note out of Sypha's face. She can be judgmental and righteous, but not heartless, and understands as much as she will ever be able to. She sends Sora on his way with the two completed transactions, and advice: The past may not define us, but we can learn from it, build from it, and become better people with its help. She encourages him to hold fast to honesty and kindness. He seems to be on a good path, and will certainly one day become who he's supposed to be.
pearlstrings: ((via shithouse)) (forty)

[personal profile] pearlstrings 2020-02-09 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more than he could have asked for, the voice- and when Bruce accepts it he handles the jar it's with the kind of care reserved for the supremely precious. Perhaps it might even be considered reverent. Bruce tries, on the whole, not to want. It creates too many nooks and crannies that might be exploited, too many vulnerable spaces, and it puts the people he loves most in danger. But he's only human, in the end. And if he's honest with himself- Alfred's voice is the one sound he wants more than any other. He holds it with both hands and thanks her not profusely, but with genuine gratitude. He'll never really be able to put it into words- how thankful he is to have something he never thought he'd have again.

What does surprise him is the parchment.

Curious by nature, Bruce's immediate instinct is test the contents- to attempt to examine what's inside. But he has no real experience with magic outside of stage performances. He knows only that what's impossible is so frequently possible here. She tells him to keep it a secret, and she tells him to wait. So Bruce doesn't mention the scroll to anyone at all. He thanks her again, in advance, for her kindness- and hopes that she'll be able to the person she misses most again. He tells her to be careful. And then Bruce takes both items back to the museum, hiding them from sight, not to be opened until the Market has shut and its vendors have gone.
pearlstrings: ((via shithouse)) (ten)

[personal profile] pearlstrings 2020-02-09 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
player: marzi
character: bruce wayne
purchase: a tour of the helix base, alternately, whatever history/information on it they have. bruce's emphasis will be on trying to get an idea of the skills, knowledge, and resources used by the people who built this place especially given the old-timey aesthetic everywhere else in beacon. he's not interested in trying to stow away or disclose their location.
offer: the details disclosed by the dreamers from their various locations.
arsarcanum: (pic#13708167)

[personal profile] arsarcanum 2020-02-09 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
player: Mawi
character: Sora
purchase: A Locke High School yearbook from Locke City, New Jersey! Specifically from the 2016-2017 school year. He would also like as many reports from a certain set as he can afford, but he's specifically looking for the 8th and the 9th for right now.
offer: For the yearbook... Remember how Maes came in and set down a bunch of knitwear from the spirits earlier? Yeah, he'll just plonk them right in front of her with possibly enough of the same energy to spark a moment of deja-vu. If that's not enough, he'll offer to fill her in on a couple of things that he learned at the catherding meeting? Sure, she'll have to pick through the way he understands it, but he's a very avid listener and will be happy to answer a couple of questions about it as long as he doesn't suspect that something's up. (He is dupable though!)

For the reports, he has the same offer of catherding information? If that isn't enough... he will reluctantly mention that he has a tablet that he dropped in water that is hers if she wants it. If she wants that, though, he wants information on what she'd want in the future and how he can get it. If it's just more plutonium, sure, he'll accept GPS coordinates for whatever cache she's got in mind, but he's looking to get something incredibly valuable through her portal at some time in the future, so he's pretty sure he'll have to go back and forth for her for a while anyway until he has enough to trade for it. He's looking for a long term deal? He doesn't actually say this because he's not that bright, but that's what he's trying to set up here.

And, uh, well. He'll also hand off some spare chocolates from his batches of Valentine's Day chocolates from last Friday, but this isn't necessarily a part of the deal. (Does she have any food allergies? He'll ask.)
arsarcanum: (pic#13719720)

[personal profile] arsarcanum 2020-02-10 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
player: Mawi
character: Sora
purchase: Advice on how to give a Valentine to someone!
offer: Aw, this kid. Sora likes this kid. Reminds him of the brat kids he used to chaperone at camp back home. Seeing as how he's hawking some advice, Sora will take the opportunity to donate a bit of knitwear from last month's yarnbomb to ask Preston how to give a Valentine if he's nervous about how they'll react!
ratefresh: (pic#12255596)

[personal profile] ratefresh 2020-02-10 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, Preston cranks these things out like he's a machine, so he'll give Clark as many screenplays as he's willing to take. He's just happy and excited that someone cares enough to read them...

He'll accept this offer of an original soundtrack for his masterpieces!
ratefresh: (pic#12255600)

[personal profile] ratefresh 2020-02-10 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Preston will be able to supply him with a costume that meets his requirements! He won't want the card, because he's not a YuGiOh, but he'll offer instead to trade the costume for a thrilling and dramatic story! Or just some gossip that's going around.
ratefresh: (pic#12255606)

[personal profile] ratefresh 2020-02-10 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Jason will end up with at least one screenplay, he simply cannot prevent this! But Preston will be all into these amazing stories! Prepare for some Riordan-themed plays to be the main focus of his inventory the next time he comes around.
arsarcanum: (pic#13767819)

[personal profile] arsarcanum 2020-02-10 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gonna take him that gamble. This is an important question! ]

Who knows about a way we can bring the light back to the world without something bad happening to us?
ratefresh: (pic#12255608)

[personal profile] ratefresh 2020-02-10 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Preston will accept the knittery! And then, enthused, he'll go on an extremely long dissertation on how to be romantic! Sora will likely leave with way more than he bargained for, both in terms of advice and in terms of fashion. Preston wants to make sure he looks like a certified prince!
desypharing: ([+] soft)

Accepted!

[personal profile] desypharing 2020-02-10 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Treasuring happy memories is a worthwhile endeavor. Sypha creates a jar that looks suspiciously like a ship in a bottle. The water moves in gentle waves, the ship is of course the Argo II and if you look veeeery closely, you can even spot tiny little figures on the deck.
arsarcanum: (pic#13706790)

[personal profile] arsarcanum 2020-02-10 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
i. did preston give sora clothes. prince clothes?? what do they look like??????? i must know
ratefresh: (pic#12255609)

[personal profile] ratefresh 2020-02-10 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
desypharing: ([.] listening)

Accepted with an extra charge

[personal profile] desypharing 2020-02-10 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
For cuddling a sleep soft Elysia, Sypha creates a jar filled with dreams. She recommends opening it for peaceful sleep. For courting Gracia at the bakery and flirting with her, Maes gets a lovely cookie jar. When you open the lid, it flutters, like butterflies in stomachs while the woman you're flirting with laughs and smiles at you.

Creating the second jar makes Sypha's stomach rumble, so for the secret she pouts and insists that Maes can get a spell scroll if he brings her a pastry to eat.
uplifters: (on a collision course)

[personal profile] uplifters 2020-02-10 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Clark will take two, then! One for February and one for March, so that there could be two soundtracks to be passed along Preston's way in April. He's hoping for one tragedy type and one comedy type in true Shakespeare-esque fashion, but isn't especially picky. Whichever ones Preston is most looking to see contributed to would be fine by him!

Good luck with your craft too, son. It's wonderful to pursue a dream, even in a place like this.
legalcy: (🎵 huh?)

[personal profile] legalcy 2020-02-10 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Minimus is going to to his damned best to get a perfectly-aligned photo of that odd picture. He's no artist, but someone here should be able to interpret this.]
arsarcanum: (pic#13767819)

SCREAMS

[personal profile] arsarcanum 2020-02-10 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
sunborne: (186. - 🔥 - HOW ABOUT NO.)

[personal profile] sunborne 2020-02-10 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ uuurUUUuuurruugh he hates what happened to him the last time - sorry coraline and soldat. - but this has been nagging day ever since he came across a quick mention of it on his ever growing notes. ]

The spirits hosted a play a few months back and depicted somethings they dubbed the Fire Snatchers. Where can I find the Fire Snatchers?

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