Adventure Two, Ninety Seventh Turn

Sarka, marketplace, artifact shop, Klos 19th, 350AC, 11:56  (underground, 70 degrees, crescent moon)

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You walk through the open door of the artifact shop.  An ancient glow lamp in the ceiling  casts a bright yellow light, illuminating a series of ancient shelves (particle board, plastic) along the perimeter of the room.  Several ancient desks and tables are also placed about the shop.  The floor of the shop is covered with a green carpet, made of some sort of plastic-like material which vaguely looks like plant ground cover.

An adult male badder is dusting the shelves with a little brush, while a female adult badder sits at one of the desks and appears to be weaving ancient circuitry into a grass mat.  A gaggle of badder children are moving about the floor, playing with ancient action figures, dolls, balls, and blocks.  One of them is sitting on a contraption that looks like one of the ancient exercise bikes you’ve seen before, but the “bike” is a small metal red 3 wheeled trike.  The child is peddling away, moving the large tire in front, but the bike is not actually moving anywhere.

There are a bunch of ancient items here, but very different than the artifact shops you’ve seen elsewhere.  Rather than a mix of practical tools and gadgets, this shop seems to be selling either ancient toys, or has created artwork using ancient devices.  These items are covering the shelves and tabletops.  Many mobiles and wind-chime-like items are hanging from hooks over your heads.

Most of the badders lazily look up at you without stopping what they are doing.

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