Monday, June 26, 2023

Mageware Shop
The Cataclysm & The War of the Lance
The current year for our homebrewed Dragonlance campaign is set during 381AC.
Inspired By Trampas Whiteman

The Haven Magewear Ship is a shop located on the north side of Haven. The Magewear Shop is a building of three narrow stories that touches its neighbors on either side. The first floor is built of fitted stones and the upper floors are a lattice of wooden beams with the gaps between them paneled over and plastered with white stucco. The arched door is heavy wood with metal fixtures. Unlike most businesses, there is no sign out front or awning over the first-floor front window.

Every floor of this structure is given over to holding miscellaneous pieces of magical merchandise, most of which are unique, odd, or both. The ground floor contains, among other things, a table with no legs that floats at hip height; a wicker basket that contains a collection of old robes for sale; and a flagstone with a claw imprint set into the floor.

On the second floor are various chests, weapons, pieces of furniture, and potion bottles - none of which are magical. Here also is a standing mirror that was once a portal to a small number of other locations. Unfortunately, the destination changed at random times and noone knew all the possible destinations it had randomly changed to, over the years the mirror has stopped working all together but is kept around for sentimental value.

The third floor is not off-limits to customers and contains many items, but it was also where current owner Jesticus of the Red Robes sleeps. The cellar has a low ceiling and is lined with stone. Jesticus keeps barrels, boxes, and sheaves of alchemical components here, as well as some food provisions. Usually concealed by a large barrel is a loose flagstone that covered a dirt tunnel to a second cellar where he keeps items that might have raised questions from the local authorities. Things like body parts and magical creature corpses are stored here and magically preserved against decay. There is also a set of chains to hold a prisoner, if necessary.

This Magewear Shop has the feel of a curio shop with a dash of danger. It is dimly lit by his floating candelabra (an animated object that appears to be constructed from a scaly claw) and many clouds of twinkling stars (a variation of continual flame that he calls everstars).

The only items that Jesticus constantly keeps in stock are a small amount potions and his brand of light stones (hand-sized stone rods enchanted with continual flame covered in a two-part stone sheath that slid apart); everything else is a bit unpredictable. Most items are strange with an odd set of powers because the common, useful items tended to sell quickly. For example, a set of enchanted daggers did not stay in his inventory long, whereas furniture that spoke whenever you moved it had to wait for a particular type of buyer. Prices ranged from 600 gp to 200,000 gp with the average being around 5,000 gp. He once had access to a wide variety of spellbooks and could create a scroll of most any spell up to his level of mastery. These he sold long ago.

Magical items of any importance will not be found here. Customers may find a very limited amount of Potions of Heals "for game purposes 1d4". Most magical items that are sold here are mostly oddities that are of no real value.

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