Shopping at the Shadow Market

Twisting alleyways, small courts and old, foreboding houses surround Shadow Market. These are places beyond the gaze of most city-dwellers: reached via obscure streets, menacing underpasses and counter-intuitive directions, they are hidden somewhere in the fabric of the city, and this is the way the inhabitants of the place like it. Those who know of its location have found the Shadow Market impossible to visit during the day. A twist of the street that leads elsewhere, a doorway that isn’t there, or a tall wall which seems to have been missing before – these small changes conspire to keep visitors away from the area. Likewise, the night here is everlasting – the Sun never rises, and no sleep shall bring dawn. Some claim Shadow Market belongs to no specific city but to many of them; but there has been nobody to prove or refute this claim.

LANDMARKS

These locations & businesses are fixtures of the Shadow Market.

Large Mansion - This building dominates the center of the marketplace.

Shrine of Bells - Silent monks ring bells

Dreamsending - run by Gabrijela, trips to the Astral plane are available (per person: 25 sp setup, 25 sp/day)

Shrine of Kèttki - a minor deity of luck in the shape of a dancing armadillo. Donation box.

Green Steel - Blacksmith. Out of business. Tolvaj is a drunk who owes the Cockatoo Club 50,000 silver. A gang of criminals took his special forge stone.

The Celestial World - Sage. Nice old lady Palesa can answer questions about the planes, religions, etc. for a fee.

The Five Brothers - Tavern

Temple of Nephtlys - Clerical services, loans, moneychanging, fencing.

Hall of Zegor - Storage facility. Sir Barthas is an energetic salesman. A locked gate with an image of a tiger inside. (2,000-4,000 silver per year. Guaranteed proof against break-ins)

Life after Death - Sage. Vydmantas walks with a limp and is a bit creepy. Can answer questions about the gods, the occult, undead, or similar. Sells Ghostdust (50 sp/dose).

The Minisculator - ?

House of the Sun - Inn/Rooming House. Proprietor Othimon follows Velkat Melnar, minor god of travellers. (25-100 sp/night)

House with No Door - Dark building, obscured windows. A keyhole-shaped depression in one brick

Lor Apartments - upstairs apartment halls, seems quite large.

The Cockatoo Club - heavy iron door. Password for Waterdays is "barbaric gelatin."

PASSING FOLK

The Night Market's merchants are a taciturn lot, who tend to say little about the methods they had employed to procure their wares, or where they may hail from – questions considered too gauche and intrusive to answer. They come and depart as is their wont, and once gone, they are rarely seen again for a while.

- Imodian the Wessene - Bizarre white flowers from the Highlands of the Talaiotes (450 sp) that bring strange dreams.

- A tough-looking Skandik selling tour packages to exotic places.

- A Viridian in dirty robes who has ancient cadavers for sale.

- Phandascar - An old Antillian in a rich cloak, an expert on earthly and heavenly measures who can lay out a personal horoscope: 500 sp for a minor prediction, 2,250 sp for a major destiny, or 5,500 sp to know the hour of your doom.

- A shifty Ghinoran in a turban selling strange fossils and pieces of amber. 

- Brother Yiag - A shaven-headed Viridian wearing ominous black & red robes decorated with pentagrams, selling bottles of glowing blue liquid. Bottles are a rare drug called called Blue-22 (1300 sp). Claims it is the hot new thing and everybody's doing it.

- Ms. Le Rouge - Tattoo artist in expensive eveningwear. ("Living tattoos" start at 3,000 sp - Magically imbued tattoos start at 5,000 sp)

Almost always available:

street drugs (Oid, BLACK, opium, hashish, others)
spell components (% chance based on spell level)
Ask your DM!

[As the vendors come and go, this page will be updated with new information.]