[EVENT AUCTION] The Merchant Shatanti

[Aesopian 1640]

 

 

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This price list covers all items, but only a small selection of them will be being sold at any one time! Check the display chest!

 

Limit of five different item types per person.

 

Price List:
 
Find the price in Mina next to the item's name.

Blood-Locked Arcane Chest [5500 Mina]: Who knows what could be within!
Finger of St. Michael of Cordobe, the Inquisitor [40000 Mina, or 5000 with Church]: This finger is wrapped in dried peppermint leaves and coated with a salt-coriander mixture. While held in the mouth, its bearer is immune to the slowing effect of mud produced by the mixture of rain or blood with natural earth. Furthermore, their vision is not hampered by natural rain.   
Potion of Worm’s Delight [200 Mina]: This is a stone leaf vial, containing potion of worm’s delight. It smells of jungle soil and decomposing vegetables, and tastes powerfully bitter and earthy. Whoever drinks this potion will attract worms to themselves within one-hundred meters, for one hour.  
Draught of Rot [350 Mina]: This is an onyx wafer flask, containing draught of rot. A cube of human fat floats in the liquid. It smells of putrescence and salt, and tastes offensive. Whoever drinks this draught will smell of undead, for one hour. 
Zombie Blood Decoction [450 Mina]: This is an onyx wafer flask, containing a zombie blood decoction. It smells of iron, blood, and salt, and tastes like salty blood pudding. Whoever drinks this decoction will develop a powerful hunger for the flesh of sapient creatures, for one hour. 
Elixir for Grand Riders [500 Mina]: This is a goat leather gourd, studded with lay pewter, containing elixir for grand riders. A sliver of apricot floats in the liquid. It smells acidic and meaty, and tastes pungent and alcoholic. Whoever drinks this elixir will have increased coordination while riding tremendous beasts, such as bears, for one hour.
Bokolo Hormone [400 Mina]: This is a seaglass vial, containing distilled bokolo hormone. It smells like daffodil and phosphorus, and tastes metallic and bitter. Whoever drinks this potion will both attract and drive into a rage any bokolos within one-hundred meters, for one hour. 
Ponderlot [200 Mina]: This is a eel scale bag, containing powdered ponderlot petals. It smells sweet and clawing, and tastes like pomegranate. It may be inhaled, smoked, or eaten, to produce psychotropic effects. These manifest as visual and auditory hallucinations, hypersensitivity, and a sense of ‘oneness’ or ego-death. It is commonly used in druidic circles to bring one closer to nature. Its effects last for two hours. 
Potion of Wyvern Tongues [350 Mina]: This is a lemonwood gourd, containing potion of wyvern tongues. It smells loamy and with wisps of pears, and tastes greasy and fruity. Whoever drinks this potion will be able to understand the roars of wyverns, for one hour. 
Tonic of the Lizard [200 Mina]: This is a stormstone jar, containing tonic of the lizard. It smells pungent and earthy. It is viscous. Whoever applies this tonic topically to their skin loses their ability to regulate their own body temperature and will automatically hibernate in cold environments, for twenty-four hours. 
Elixir of Death Whispers [700 Mina]: This is a dacite vial, encrusted with cherry opal, containing elixir of death whispers. It smells airy and of wax, and tastes oily and light. Whoever drinks this elixir will be able to more easily hear the voices of ghosts and spectres. 
Potion of Unsight [350 Mina]: This is a camel hoof flask, containing potion of unsight. A pair of halfling eyes float in the liquid. It smells savoury and fragrant, and tastes of perfume and salt. Whoever drinks this potion will be able to see normally, if they lack eyes, for twenty-four hours. 
Brew of Dwarves [300 Mina]: This is a dwarf bone vial, studded with bismuth bronze, containing brew of dwarves. A cupric powder rests at the bottom of the vial. It smells earthy, and tastes bitter and rocky. Whoever drinks this brew becomes greedier, for twenty-four hours.
Frostbreath Potion [500 Mina]: This is a fire coral flask, decorated with brown pearl, containing frostbreath potion. It feels cold to the touch. It is viscous. A cube of ice floats in the liquid. It smells of nothing, and tastes of water and salt. Whoever drinks this potion will produce breath as cool as a winter breeze, for one hour. 
Elderly Decoction [400 Mina]: This is a capybara leather gourd, studded with capybara teeth, containing elderly decoction. It smells of parsley and sweetness, and tastes of chocolate and bitterness. Whoever drinks this decoction will have a random body part (1d6, 1 = brain, 2 = eyes, 3 = lungs, 4 = liver, 5 = spleen, 6 = intestines) age twenty years, over twenty minutes.
Desert in a Bottle [250 Mina]: This is a desert scorpion shell vial, containing desert in a bottle. It is ciscous. A sandy powder rests at the bottom of the vial. It smells of sand, and tastes of alcohol and stone. Whoever drinks this potion will be dessicated for an equal volume of water. 
Boiled Hive Tonic [400 Mina]: This is a carambola jar, containing boiled hive tonic. It smells waxy and sweet. Whoever applies this tonic topically to their skin will exude beeswax from the applied surface, at a rate of three centimeters per hour, for six hours. 
Hierophant's Doll [300 Mina]: This is a palm-sized crow leather doll, stuffed with pig tail thread and brown recluse spider silk. It is encrusted with resin opal. A small cherry hangs from around its neck on cedar fibre string. When this cherry is fed to a living creature, the doll will transform to take on the shape of the creature, and act out the behaviors for the species. 
Hero’s Breath Potion [400 Mina]: This is a gazelle horn goblet, decorated with giant fly wings, containing hero’s breath potion. It smells of cherry, lilac, and sweat, and tastes of alcohol and fruit. Whoever drinks this potion will become courageous, for twenty-four hours. 
Brown Bear Fat Decoction [400 Mina]: This is a copper flask, containing brown bear fat decoction. A tuft of brown bear fur floats on the liquid. It is viscous. It smells oily and of flesh, and tastes greasy and like gelatin. Whoever drinks this decoction attracts hungry animals within one-hundred meters, for twenty-four hours. 
Philter of Old Life [1200 Mina]: This is an electrum vial, encrusted with bandfire opal, containing philter of old life. A tuft of elf hair floats on the liquid. It is viscous. It smells of iron and blood, and tastes greasy with wisps of apples. Whoever drinks this philter may use their blood to dissolve taint, destroying taint equal to the area they are able to coat with their blood, for three hours. 
Whisperking Tears [600 Mina]: This is a zinc flask, encrusted with aventurine, and studded with magnesium thanide metal, containing whisperking tears. It smells of salt and smoke, tastes of nothing, and glows a soft amber light. Whoever drinks these tears will be able to more clearly remember memories of loved ones who have died, for twenty-four hours. 

Random Enchanted Book [125 Mina]: N/A
Straw Bale [1 Mina]: N/A
Tanned Leather [1 Mina]: N/A
Strawberry Poundcake [200 Mina]: This is a well-crafted poundcake. It is two tiers in height and is relatively dense. The tiers are both vanilla flavored. It has a layer of strawberry puree between the tiers, is coated in buttercream frosting and lemon drizzle, and is dusted with coconut and dried cranberry. It is decorated with strawberries.
Souvle Angelcake [900 Mina]: This is a masterfully-crafted angelcake. It is three tiers in height and is relatively spongy, with white chocolate truffles grated into the dough. The tiers are apricot, lemon meringue, and dark chocolate. It has layers of striated rene and mesquite honey between the tiers, is coated in angelmilk frosting with masterful flowering, and is dusted with gold, vermillion, and powdered watercrest. It is decorated with gold leaf, fondant sculptures of masterful quality, and voile caramel illustrations of masterful quality.
Monastery Cross [300 Mina]: This is a superiorly-crafted iron cross. It is palm-sized. It is encrusted with hematite, tetrahedrite, and diorite, and studded with native silver.  This object is adorned with twelve rings of copper. It is decorated with extensive rose flowerwork. The back of the item is inscribed with the text, ‘XII - God Wills It’.
Fermented Cider [400 Mina]: This is a cedarwood cask containing well-crafted fermented apple cider. It is 5% alcohol by volume and produced from Braeburn apples. Raspberry juice, and a pinch of honey, have been added, giving it a golden color. It smells of alcohol and sweetness, and froths on the pour. It tastes mildly bitter, with hints of sweetness, and has a weak cider aftertaste.
Dian Syrah Splendor [750 Mina]: This is a 750mL coalglass bottle containing an exceptionally-crafted red wine. It is 13% alcohol by volume and produced from vellebeux grapes. It has been aged ten years. It smells of alcohol and sweetness. It tastes smoothly bitter, with hints of sweetness, and a weak alcohol aftertaste.

Ancient Elven Longbow [650 Mina]: This is an exceptionally crafted yew wood longbow. It is encrusted with amber, in which bloodflies, black beetles, and monarch butterflies are trapped. It is decorated with snail shell and dried corpora fungus, and encircled with of tortoise leather. Tortoise bone bucklings are attached to its sides. It has a bowstring of wyvern leather. It smells faintly of cinnamon. 
Ancient Elven Dagger [500 Mina]: This is an exceptionally crafted obsidian dagger. It is encrusted with pinfire opal, encircled with bands of elk bone and deer leather, and studded with copper. It menaces with spikes of orichalcum. Its hilt is wrapped in tortoise leather. It smells faintly of cinnamon. 
Thornwood Arrow [400 Mina]: This is an expertly crafted thornwood arrow. It is banded with gryphon leather and snail shell, and has a barbed bare wood tip. The object has eaglefeather vanes.
Everyleaf [450 Mina]: This is a leaf of undefined species. It is a brilliant green-red, and smells like fresh rainfall. It is the size of your palm, no matter who holds it. It will never turn brown or wilt, and from its stem leaks a milky sap that tastes like raspberries.  
Sealight [350 Mina]: This is a finely-crafted spotglass flask containing sealight. It is a gel consisting primarily of water and collagen. The remnants of Turgon Algae within the gel produce a weak phosphorescence for a few minutes after exposure to the sun.  
Ancient Elven Woodcraft [400 Mina]: This is an exceptionally crafted redwood horse. It is approximately eight inches in height. It is encrusted with sea sand, studded with wild pearl, and banded with yew wood, oak wood, and ash wood. It is painted with jungle-fungi dye and powdered flower dye. It smells powerfully of apricot.  
Coin of the Kingdom [550 Mina]: This is a finely-crafted wimba wood coin. It is studded with tetrahedrite. It is painted with jungle-fungi dye and powdered flower dye. On the item is an exceptional image of Malin’s face. Malin is smiling. On the item is an exceptional image of an oak tree. The oak tree is blowing in the wind.  
Ancient Elven Pot [450 Mina]: N/A

Library Books [250 Mina]: N/A
Miscellaneous Books [200 Mina]: N/A

Ever-Ice [500 Mina]: This is a cubic meter of Ever-Ice. A common export from Winterbane, it refuses to melt barring exposure to fire or inordinately high temperatures. It is a commonly used refrigerant.
Stag Skull [40 Mina]: This is a large stag skull. Its horns are three feet in length. It has been sun-bleached white.
Troll Skull [100 Mina]: This is a huge troll skull. It is well beyond the size of a normal olog skull, with a depressed mantle and tremendous molars. It has been sun-bleached white.
Wispleather [300 Mina]: This is wisp leather. It is thin, cloth-like, but as tough as any traditional combat leather. It is stained a faint blue.
Skrae Vodka [150 Mina]: This is a goat leather flask containing exceptionally-crafted Skrae Vodka. It is 155-proof and is produced from potato distillate. Seal blood, elk blood, and echidna blood have been added, giving the liquid a slight red coloring. It smells of alcohol. It tastes powerfully bitter, with an umami aftertaste.
Skraebone [80 Mina]: This is a Skrae rib. Its structurally integrity is poor. It is pocked where its ice pockets have melted.
 
Bull Stonecraft [300 Mina]: This is an exceptionally-crafted stone model of a bull. It is encrusted with limonite and magnetite, and encircled with bands of brown jasper. It is painted with cave-fungus dye, and decorated with giant cave spider exoskeleton. The bottom of the item is stamped with the text, ‘MA’.
Thunderbird Stonecraft [300 Mina]: This is an exceptionally-crafted stone model of a thunderbird. It is encrusted with limonite and magnetite, and encircled with bands of brown jasper. It is painted with cave-fungus dye, and decorated with giant cave spider exoskeleton. The bottom of the item is stamped with the text, ‘MA’.  
Bronzed Crossbow [1000 Mina]: This is a masterfully-crafted redwood crossbow. It is coated with bismuth bronze, encrusted with gypsum, and encircled with bands of native gold and brown jasper. This object is adorned with hanging rings of black bronze, and menaces with spikes of steel and orthoclase. On the item is an image of Yemekar the Maker and dwarves in bismuth bronze. Yemekar is being built by the dwarves.
Black Ferrum Ingot [20 Mina]: N/A
Slayer Steel Ingot [20 Mina]: N/A
Cask of Oil [300 Mina]: This is an oak casket containing oil. It has been processed from high-sitting reservoirs underground. It is sufficient for use in boiling oil traps.
Stoneman Dust [750 Mina]: This is a cow leather pouch containing Stoneman dust. It has been processed from the thumb of a Stoneman. It is sufficient for production of explosives.
Stoneman Blood [400 Mina]: This is a cow leather flask containing Stoneman blood. Legend holds that it has powerful alchemic properties. When smeared on the surface of immobile plants, it will additionally convert them to stone facsimiles of themselves over the course of one day.
 
Pearl [100 Mina]: N/A
Grand Pearl [350 Mina]: This is a pearl taken from an isle of rot. It is the size of a melon, and presents with severe discoloring. It smells faintly of the ocean.
Soothsayer’s Coral [450 Mina]: This is a piece of coral taken from an isle of rot. It presents with severe discoloring. It smells faintly of the ocean, and corpses. When it is held in both hands, its bearer hears whispers from the bottom of the ocean. If it is held in this fashion continuously for longer than one elvish day, its bearer’s blood will begin to transform into salt water, and they will die of hypoxia.
Islebone Helm [700 Mina]: This is a superiorly-crafted bone helm. It is encrusted with sea-salt and powdered silicate, and studded with pearls and lobster shell. The object is decorated with giant squid beak, giant crayfish shell, and raenkelp.
Islebone Chestplate [1100 Mina]: This is a superiorly-crafted bone chestplate. It is encrusted with sea-salt and powdered silicate, and studded with pearls and lobster shell. The object is decorated with giant squid beak, giant crayfish shell, and raenkelp.
Islebone Leggings [1000 Mina]: This is a set of superiorly-crafted bone leggings. It is encrusted with sea-salt and powdered silicate, and studded with pearls and lobster shell. The object is decorated with giant squid beak, giant crayfish shell, and raenkelp.
Islebone Boots [500 Mina]: This is a set of superiorly-crafted bone boots. It is encrusted with sea-salt and powdered silicate, and studded with pearls and lobster shell. The object is decorated with giant squid beak, giant crayfish shell, and raenkelp.
 
Thenner Spice [150 Mina]: This is a spice made from thenner plant extract. It smells of cinnamon and faintly of paprika. It tastes mildly spicy. It is often used to season stews and hashes.
Tropical Melon [150 Mina]: This is a melon from the isle of Soteria. It is dumbbell-shaped, with a distinct blue-and-green striped pattern. It smells of sugar. It tastes sweet, with a strong fruity flavor, but bears some hints of red grape.
Kelpfruit [175 Mina]: This is the fruiting body of kelp which grows off the shores of Soteria. It smells like the sea. Alone, it has a poor, salty taste. It is often used as a garnish for seafood dishes.
Ketterfish [300 Mina]: This is a pufferfish species native to Soteria. It is larger than the common pufferfish, and has a purple color pattern. Its poison glands are slightly larger than the common pufferfish, and require delicacy to extract.
Volcanic Glass [300 Mina]: This is a cubic meter of volcanic glass. It is a delicate form of obsidian.
Scented Fishing Rod [1250 Mina]: This is a superiorly-crafted oak fishing rod. It is strung with cave spider silk. The object is decorated with scented ash resin, which has mosquitos embedded in it.
 
Dragonscales [350 Mina]:  N/A
Dragoncoals [150 Mina]: This is charcoal leftover from dragonfire. It smells of sulfur and smoke.
Obsidian-Tipped Arrows [250 Mina]: This is a finely-crafted redwood arrow. It is banded with copper, and has an obsidian tip. The object has hawkfeather vanes.
Obsidian [100 Mina]: N/A
Aequor Daevah [1750 Mina]: This is a 750mL dragonglass bottle containing masterfully-crafted wine. It is 14% alcohol by volume and produced from aeroda grapes. It has been aged fourty years, and small amounts of lemon juice and citrate extract have been added. It smells of alcohol and sweetness. It tastes smoothly sweet, with hints of bitterness, and a weak alcohol aftertaste.
Knight Statuette [650 Mina]: This is an exceptionally-crafted marble statuette. It is encrusted with diorite, tetrahedrite, and pig iron, and encircled with bands of native gold. The object menaces with spikes of steel. It is painted with herb-fungus dye, and decorated with obsidian.
 
Desert Salt [75 Mina]: N/A
Tarkosian Cheese [200 Mina]: This is a finely-crafted goatmilk cheese. It smells powerfully pungent, with a distinct aroma with faint hints of desert cactus. It tastes rich and tart. It is suitable for consumption on crackers.  
Reedrope [175 Mina]: This is rope manufactured from Tarkosian reed plants.
Emerald Ring [300 Mina]: This is a superiorly-crafted gold ring. It is adorned with emerald, encrusted with rose gold, and encircled with bands of native silver.
Ruby Ring [500 Mina]: This is a superiorly-crafted gold ring. It is adorned with ruby, encrusted with rose gold, and encircled with bands of native silver.
Gladiatorial Kopesh [600 Mina]: This is a well-crafted steel kopesh. It is studded with black bronze, and banded with copper.  The object’s shaft is composed of desert jukewood, and it is decorated with vulture feathers.
Gladiatorial Trident [700 Mina]: This is a well-crafted steel trident. It is studded with black bronze, and banded with copper.  The object’s shaft is composed of desert jukewood, and it is decorated with vulture feathers.
Grindstone [300 Mina]: This is a grindstone, suitable for use in sharpening a bladed weapon.

The Breeze of Spring [2000 Mina]: This is a masterfully-crafted Uteahwood stave. It is encrusted with amber, in which mosquitos and bloodflies are trapped. It is decorated with snail shell and dried corpora fungus, and encircled with bands of gryphon leather. Gryphon bones dangle from it on cedar fiber string. On the item is a carving of Aelr Ohn the Archdruid surrounded by undead, relating to the killing of the archdruid in the late summer of 506.
Cancopic Jar [1200 Mina]: This is a finely-crafted jungle clay pot.  It is filled with a distilled oceanic brine, and encircled with bands of woven violet moor grass. Resting inside is a preserved partial leg, composed of elvish flesh, mangrove wood, and sawgrass. On the item is a carving of an elf placing the jar onto the leg of an amputee. This item can be used for druidic healing.
Netherwart [5 Mina]: N/A
Uteah Woodcarving [500 Mina]: This is an exceptionally-crafted Uteahwood model of the Uteah. It is decorated with naft moss and oak resin.
Bone Golem [1500 Mina]: This is a well-crafted rednose monkey knucklebone golem. It weighs twenty grams, is approximately the size of a large beetle, and is able to lift its own weight. It is encrusted with dried philter of new life. It is subservient to whomever purchased it, without fault.
Jungle Panther Fur [100 Mina]: This is green jungle panther fur.  It is soft to the touch, but displays an inflexibility characteristic of the hides of jungle cats.

 

 

Important stuff! 

 

 

Spoiler

Prior event records found below.

 

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Over the course of a few weeks, many nations find letters tacked to their notice-boards purporting to be from a travelling, seafaring merchant. Written on papyrus paper in a colorful purple ink, they offer the chance to host the merchant and his crew, and in exchange the merchant will grace that kingdom with his stall and the business it will attract. 

 

Ancient relics from distant lands! Rare trade goods, and powerful weapons. 

 

Exploding powder. Druidic trinkets. Troll skulls. The scales of dragons.

 

These, among many other items, can be purchased from Shatanti, for a price.

 

Put simply, in this thread you, as a nation leader, can place a bid for Shatanti. When the event ultimately happens (1-2 weeks from now), the winning bidder's nation will receive a visit from Shatanti. He and his crew will set up a stall, and sell their goods to whomever seeks them out. The leaders of the winning nation will, additionally, receive a 20% discount on all items purchased, and will be welcome to pry Shatanti for any rumors he has heard on the seas.

 

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You can find some examples of the wares Shatanti will be carrying below. This is simply a sampling of the kinds of unique items he might bring. He will, in fact, be bringing many more items than just this sample, including standard rare resources such as gunpowder and dragonscales.

 

These are NOT the entire stock. MANY more items will be brought. 

 

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READ BEFORE BIDDING

 

Several nations receive bid modifiers. These represent Shatanti's affinity for particular environments, races, and national policies, as well as past interactions between Shatanti and the residents of those locations. These values are automatically added onto the bids made by the nations seeking Shatanti to visit them. 

 

Kingdom of Courland: 1000 (+1000 Largest Nation)
Grand Kingdom of Urguan: 500 (+500 Dwarven Greed)
The North: -500 (-500 Embroiled in Conflict)
Kingdom of Lorraine-Savoy: -500 (-500 Embroiled in Conflict)
Warhawke Chiefdom: -400 (-400 Tribal Nation)
Dominion of Malin: -350 (-350 Green Nation)
Mardon: 0
Undead Realms: -4500 (-4000 Undead Nation, -500 Violent)
Silver State of Hael'unor: -500 (-500 High Elf Superiority)
Sultanate of Haria: 750 (+750 Desert Nation)
Federation of Sutica: 1350 (+1000 Mercantile Nation, +350 Peacemongering)
Princedom of Fenn: 0
War Nation of Krugmar: -150 (-400 Tribal Nation, -500 Violent, +750 Desert Nation)
Farthing of Haysend: 0
Horde of Dunamis: -250 (-500 Embroiled in Conflict, -500 Violent, +750 Mercenary Nation)
Druids: 250 (-350 Green Nation, +250 Independent Guild, +350 Peacemongering)
Kingdom of Norland: 0

[Bvie 1754]

A quiet woman raises her hand and puts a simple bid of 300 forward.

[gandalfo 1452]

A man wonders how a tribal nation is worse than a mercenary nation.

[_pr0fit 3084]

What about Norland?

[__WaterFox__ 636]

"30 for the statuette" A wood elven paladin called out

[Destroyer_Bravo 1054]

"I wonder what dwarven fortress made that" comments an individual about the statuette

[Aesopian 1640]

I've increased the winning nation's discount to 20% (up from 10%). 

[Aesopian 1640]

Sutica has won the bid. Squirtgun will be contacted at a later time through private messages in order to organize a location for the event to take place.