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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 489294" data-attributes="member: 2292">Most of the stuff I came up with for wierd fairs ended up in the Market of Shadows for TFT, some of which can be cut and pasted to this kind of environemnt.  Peaceful interaction between drow and surface elves under market truce, otherworldly guardians that keep the peace, Awakened bears that serve fey selling wierd potions and magic stones, fiendish lizard-folk that deal in artifact level weapons (who is probably going to take a keen interest in the intelligent sword, whose name escapes me at present).Off the top of my head though:a)  NPC's-  Doppleganger Harlots - an oldie but still fun with the right party.  The sales pitch is always fun to come up (come on in.  Anyone you desire, literally anyone you can think of...)-  Give a myconid a level of paladin, and set him as guard/warden-  Ever read Neverwhere?  Ratspeakers <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-  Ghardis, a chef who caters exclusively to the discerning underdark gormet (demons, cannabilistic halflings, et al) who is probably quite intrigued by the idea of cooking up the famed defenders.b)  - Give it a wierd gravity structure.  Space is usually scarce in underdark realms, so the entire market is magically altered to allow people to take advantage of both roof and walls as extra floor space.- Taverns carved into the stone where stalegtights and stalegmights reach, with taprooms leading up and down.  Usually divided into rooms catering to different types of creatures-  Keep the slaves pens near the stalls for whoever is selling minor undead.  If something goes wrong with a live slave, they can be quickly traded (and there will probably be one or two people who deal exclusively in this) and raised in the second market, it keeps the bad smells clustered together and the undead slaves frighten the live ones enough to keep them in line.  You could probably even include a few slavers from the ghoul kingdom.-  Arcane stones that draw transport magic, making it easier to teleport into designated spots within the market.-  Some kind of powerful force that causes people to co-opperate.  Evil races may well see the need for this kind of gathering, but natural tendencies will often over-rule reason.  Without someone keeping everyone in line, you're looking at a true untrustworthy den of theives instead of a market.c)-  Ithilid tadpoles <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  There's always bound to be someone who wants that little bit of extra intellect and power, even if it does cost them their sanity/brain etc- Depending on how you handle resurection/reincarnate, bits of dead body that was once part of a PC.-  Underdark varients of surface world foods.  Lots of fungal stews, lizard-kebabs and other delicacies-  The skin of flayed surface elves, magically enchanted so Drow can graft it to their own and infiltrate normal elf society for a time without being given away by their skin toneAarrg.  I know I'm going to think of more the moment I hit reply, but it's late and my brains addled.  This is all I'm coming up with at the moment...</blockquote>

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