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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2122466" data-attributes="member: 3192">I once ran a Fey Festival with a strange little market. It included odds and ends and just plain weird stuff that fey find interesting. As inspiration I used the concept of the "Floating Market" from Gaiman's Neverwhere book. That helped a lot.  The best encounter was actually with a butcher who specialized in discriminating tastes. Adjacent to the eating area he had set up a strange tent to house his meats. In front he had a large butcher block to hauk his wares from. I think I made the butcher a simple human to make his wares a little more ironic. On the block was a human male with one arm missing; the wound bandaged in butcher paper. "HUMAN! Get yer ripe fresh human here!" Brandishing a cleaver and butcher's knife he called out to the party suggesting particularly succulent portions while he pointed (punctuating the point) with his knife. The party was appalled. <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=":)" />  The resulting conversation was hilarious. The butcher was sort of meek and didn't understand why they were angered. And the PCs were unsure about the rules of the fey festival, so fortunately for them they didn't resort to violence. It took a while to convince the butcher they wanted to buy the WHOLE human too (the pc's ultimate solution). "Do you want to come back in a few hours while I carve him up for easy storage?" (another blank stare from the pcs) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  Eventually they managed to untie their "purchase" and get him covered with a blanket. They started to check him over for other damage etc., while the butcher went into his tent behind him. Classically, as the PCs are starting to walk away and ask me about the other areas the butcher comes back out his tent with an elven maiden (looking about the age of a 7 y.o. human girl) and whistles happlily as he straps her body to the bloody stone block. The looks on my player's faces were priceless. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  Needless to say, they quickly decided they needed a new idea on relieving this seller of all his wares.  Aahhh.. That was a fun session. I hope you can put something like that in.</blockquote>

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