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Dreamer's Delight

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Dreamer's Delight is a wonderland filled with ever changing treasures. Upon entering the shop, a prospective customer will find displays of every shape and size. Some display a wide variety of clothes or armor while others proudly display a variety of weapons. Still others feature random objects such as paper weights, cups, necklaces, rings, and many, many more. Each and every item available for sale has been enhanced in some way through alchemy.

Books fill shelves along one of the walls. These books come in many different languages, some common, some not. The books themselves cover a wide variety of subjects, but not one contains any alchemical recipes. Some tell of the history of alchemy while others are journals about why someone became interested in alchemy. Some are stories about fantastical items created through alchemy and the adventures that those who own them have been on. Still others may offer basic knowledge about alchemy without teaching someone how to use alchemy to make anything in particular. Some are even filled with false information to confuse the unwary.

Shelves filled with a wide variety of special alcohols and medicines line the wall across from the book shelves. The special alcohols are her specialty, and her pride and joy. Other items come and go in the shop, but the special alcohols she makes will always be available.

Along the back wall is a desk where people can go to purchase the things they wish to buy. Behind that desk are two doors; one leads to the owner's workrooms while the other leads to her home. Both are kept locked at all times, and no customer will ever be permitted through them.

To either side of the desk are displays. One is filled with various common alchemical tools and mediums such as reams of cloth or blocks of uncut wood. The other offers a variety of some of the more common reagents. None of the less common ones are available for sale, and there are no descriptions of what the reagents are or how to use them.

You never quite know what you are going to find when visiting this alchemist's shop. The shop sells anything and everything that the shop's owner feels like making. Custom orders are available upon request, but the owner will not make any guarantees on when the order will be ready unless the customer provides everything that will be needed to make what is desired themselves as some reagents are harder for the owner to come by than others.

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The cost of the items that Gwylla sells is determined in part by the cost of the supplies she uses to make them, and in part by the amount of work that goes into their making. As a result, the pricing can vary wildly. Something simple like a paperweight that feels warm or cool to the touch would be at tier 5 or 1 WP. More valuable items, and those that require more work or more expensive ingredients will cost more and range in value from tier 7 - tier 10 or 3-5 WP depending on what the item is and if it is a custom order. The books, reagents and most of the alchemical tools vary from tier 5 to 10 or 1-5+ WP depending on their quality. Cauldrons of various sizes and materials range in price from tier 5 to tier 10 or 1 WP depending on the size and what they are made of.

***Any purchases of materials or reagents rare and very rare need mod permission, so please PM the Rharne Mods for approval on those.***

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Moderator's Note: Players are welcome to use these NPCs if they're writing about this location.

Gwylla

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Race: Human
DoB: 13th, Ymiden 791
Title: Owner, Alchemist
Skills: Alchemy: Master, Brewing: Expert, Business Management: Competent, Medicine: Competent, Science: Competent

Gwylla is far more interested in alchemy than she is in people, or anything else, really. Fortunately she found a way to turn the thing she loves into a good way to earn a living. She is polite, if brisk with customers, and has a no nonsense attitude about everything. She knows what her work is worth, and will not haggle over prices. But she may accept trade for part of the cost if a customer offers her reagents she needs as trade; especially if those reagents are rare, or difficult to obtain.

Gwylla creates a wide variety of items to sell in her shop, but her passion lies in making special alcohols using alchemy. A milder, secondary interest of hers is enhancing medicines with alchemy.

Alber

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Race: Human
DoB: 26th Zi'da, 785
Title: Hunter
Skills: Alchemy: Competent, Blades: Competent, Field Craft: Expert, Hunting: Expert, Ranged Combat: Competent

Alber is Gwylla's older brother. While he does not share his sister's obsession with alchemy, he has learned something of the art partly out of an interest of his own, and partly at Gwylla's insistence. His real passion is in providing his sister with reagents for her own work. He loves to hunt for reagents, and the more difficult a reagent is to obtain, the more excited he is by the hunt.

Alber's interest in alchemy tends towards the less legal side of things; specifically working with less than legal substances. He keeps this side of his work strictly hidden from Gwylla.

Ryuzak

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Race: Human
DoB: 87th Ashan, 785
Title: Security
Skills: Blades: Competent, Endurance: Competent, Intimidation: Competent, Strength: Expert, Unarmed Combat: Expert

Ryuzak was strong as a boy, and he is even stronger now that he has honed his skills. As a boy, he was always getting into fights; usually to protect those he cared about or because he was too cocky for his own good. He met Alber when they were both 6 arcs old, and they have been best friends ever since.

Ryuzak doesn't give his loyalty lightly, but when he does, it is forever unless he is betrayed by the person he has given his loyalty to. He has anger issues, and is quick to seek vengeance if he has been betrayed. Ryuzak has given his loyalty to his best friend Alber, and when Alber started working at his sister's shop, Ryuzak followed along gladly. At the first sign of trouble, he will escort troublesome customers (those who try to steal something or intimidate Gwylla into selling her merchandise for less than she wants) from the store. Should they return without permission from Gwylla, they will find trouble from Ryuzak in the form of a beating.

Ryuzak loves to drink, and he is always happy to test Gwylla's latest special alcohol for her should he be asked. He also helps Alber with his side business working with less than legal substances should the people Alber sells to give him any trouble.

When off duty, Ryuzak is a cheery sort, and he enjoys a good brawl in the arena or a drink with a friend. But when he is on duty, he is all work, and can be quite frightening should the situation call for it.
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Last edited by Seira Shiryu on Wed May 18, 2022 9:40 pm, edited 3 times in total. word count: 1200
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Re: Dreamer's Delight

This is a nice little description of an alchemist's shop. A few things though:
  • Why are the items on offer exclusively tier 10? It reads that way. Being an expert alchemist only, you'd expect she'd have more middle of the road equipment on offer, and keep the best tools for herself.
  • She wouldn't be able to offer tier 10 products as an expert alchemist. At most, she'd be offering tier 8 at that skill level.
  • If you do raise her alchemy skill so as to offer tier 7+ items, it'll need to go through me when they make those rare purchases (Via pm) So I'd add a note if you do go with the higher end availability, to contact me for rare reagents and materials. Tier 7+ toolkits and greater don't require my permission, unless made from a rare material.
I think that's it. I read over the NPCs and like where you're going with them. You may want to either raise the lead alchemist's alchemy level to master or else lower the quality of the goods she can offer.

Well done so far.
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Re: Dreamer's Delight

The corrections have been made. I did up Gwylla's skill in Alchemy to master, and made some changes to the pricing - including the note to PM you for approval of purchases at tier 7 or higher.

On the pricing, I had no idea what items made via alchemy might be worth, or the cost of reagents and such, so was cautious and placed them all at tier 10 Thank you for the advice on that. :)
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Okay good.

I've taken the liberty of changing tier 7 items needing mod approval to the following, as I can't be monitoring every little purchase of an item over tier 7:

***Any purchases of materials or reagents rare and very rare need mod permission, so please PM Pig Boy for approval on those.***

And with that change made, approved!
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