Sarka, marketplace, artifact shop, Klos 19th, 350AC, 12:00  (underground, 65 degrees, crescent moon)

At the end of last turn, the badders asked for 1400 domars for a fancy windchime, and 40 domars for a blue plastic T-rex dinosaur (seems like a bargain now, eh?).

The female badder makes a tisking sound.  The male becomes much more alert, stops his dusting and takes down the mobile, laying it out on a table.  The female takes out a piece of paper with a diagram on it.  (Below pic is the paper although it doesn’t have any of the english words on it)

“This rite of cables.  Ancients used as charm to make objects live.”  She unhooks the various pieces.  The long black rectangles can connect to each other via high tech metal rods.  Everything else connects by the black cables.  She sets four different plastic objects down near the end of the last cable.  “These join to different types artifacts.”  She picks up a small plastic toy that looks like an ancient wagon, flips it over, and removes a panel.  She puts on one of the connectors, which ends with two metal tipped flexible cables.  She touches the ends to some metal pieces inside the toy, and tiny glow lamps on the toy light up.  The badder woman makes a weird throaty noise, almost like a purr.