Elflock Falls Community Market!

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elflock falls community market

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Sun sparkles across the Greentooth River today with temperatures climbing up into the seventies by noon. It's a great reprieve from such a rainy April, and just in time for Elflock Falls' first Community Market of the spring! Head down to the Riverwalk, where the path along the Greentooth has been transformed into an open air market for locals and traveling merchants sell goods ranging from fresh produce to pickles, paintings, crafts and antiques. Live music fills the air all day, and by evening the afternoon's fresh floral scent is replaced by the deliciously trashy smell of fried food as a variety of food carts set up shop on Elflock Falls' main drag during the dinner hours.

Students still have class today, but that may not stop them from skipping to scope things out. Head downtown today for some shopping and fun! There are still plenty of kids from other schools milling about, as well, giving the market an especially bustling look.

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volunteer slots!

Merlin watches as two kids from Ilvermorny help a crying little girl with dark braided pigtails rescue her kite from a tree. While the Ilvermorny students are still climbing, the little girl fades away, right before Merlin's eyes, leaving behind a lace ribbon kite tail.

Maisy buys a banana cream pie from a stall for the explicit purpose of pieing a Malstrom student in the face.

Wandering a bit off the main path Tony finds a curtained stall where inside an unfamiliar old woman is selling costume jewelry. All the pieces are lovely, and surprisingly on the nose: jeweled cicada broaches, pendants that look like fire, hair pins that look exactly like those strange purple flowers that sometimes spring up around campus. A strange feeling settles in Tony's stomach, and though they may want to buy something from the stall, they get the feeling that they shouldn't—Absolutely should not take anything from this old woman.
They leave in a hurry, and when they bring their friends back to investigate later, they find that the stall is gone. In the grass where it was is a business card: Embrace Infinity, a jewelry shop in Paw Paw, West Virginia—"Just north of the waffle house!" The card is lightly charred on one corner.

At the exact same time, Audrey Poke wanders into an identical tent on the opposite end of the Riverwalk. They decide to purchase a purple flower broach, perhaps against their better judgment. The transaction seems normal enough, except for the weird old lady, but as they step out of the tent, for a moment they feel as though they've walked into a burning house — impossibly hot, dark and bright at once, flames licking up around them. The feeling is gone in the blink of an eye, and the tent they've just walked out of with it. Everything seems normal.

how this works!

⬥ Students do have class and other events today, but the festivities start up as early as 10AM downtown. Most stalls close by 7, and the hubbub wraps up around 10. The visitors from the Debate and Arithletes events are still in town for at least most of the afternoon and can be found milling about the community market.

⬥ We will populate the “STALLS” section with a few NPC shops for students to browse as set pieces, but clubs, groups and individual students are free to host their own stalls, as well! And you aren’t limited to selling handmade goods. You could do a fortune telling station, or a carnival-style RNG game!

⬥ Fill out the following form and post it to the STALLS section:

<b>STALL OWNER(S):</b> Who is running this stall? <b>OFFERINGS:</b> What services or goods are you offering? Give us some fun details! <b>DECOR:</b> Did you decorate your wooden stall at all? <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b> Let us know.

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⬦ THE STALLS: The length of Elflock Falls’ Riverwalk is lined with tents and stalls today selling all manner of goods and services. Take a peek and see what you find! Post your stalls here.

⬦ THE RIVERWALK: Bustling from morning to night today, the Riverwalk is lined with stalls and packed with people browsing and buying.

⬦ THE AMPHITHEATER: A brass band is playing from a little barge anchored just off shore of the riverfront amphitheater, and music echoes through the valley, but the best place to listen is right here.

⬦ MAIN STREET: Food carts start showing up early, but by dinner time Elflock Falls’s Main Street is packed with them, all gaudily decorated with bright lights and magical accouterments.

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THE STALLS

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THE STALLS: Fresh Flowers!

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STALL OWNER(S): Stephen Carmichael
OFFERINGS: Spring flowers arranged in bouquets of various sizes, wrapped with twine and butcher paper to give them a rustic look, or for a few more dragots sold in tinted glass vases.
DECOR: Stevie Carmichael wheels out his bouquets on a repurposed cotton candy cart. The small stand allows him to not take up too much space, and he can be found seated in a lawn chair beside it most of the day, occasionally playing with his phone.
ANYTHING ELSE?: When classes let out, Winter is tasked with running and fetching more bouquets from the store all evening.

THE STALLS: Cat-themed Curios

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STALL OWNER(S): Mrs. Liu, aka Ex-Mayor T-Bone's Mom, aka Lir's mom
OFFERINGS: Cat-themed handicrafts, cat toys, portraits of cats painted on velvet and framed garishly, live catnip and cat grass, also there are cats to pet
DECOR: This airy tent smells of catmint. Mama Liu sits behind the main table knitting. Good luck getting at anything, there are at least three cats at any given time making beds of every surface.
ANYTHING ELSE?: No, she doesn't sell anything for cactus cats.

THE STALLS: Malstrom Merch

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STALL OWNER(S): Malstrom Student Council! Anastasia Zebrowski and Iago Goodliffe spend a lot of time there, though other Malstrommers swing by, as well as Eris A-B. Hmmmm.
OFFERINGS: Malstrom Merch! Pins, scarves, hoodies and hats, a little bit of everything in Malstrom storm grey. There's even some House-themed gear. Don't you want a House Pestilence t-shirt?? It'll look so good on you!
DECOR: The Malstrom Storm Rider mascot is slapped on top of the stall and everything is decked out in storm grey.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Anything a Peckenpaugh kid picks up immediately starts to smell like poo and the smell sticks to their fingers well after they're gone. Maybe don't waste your time on Lamestrom, Peckenpoos.

THE STALLS: Tarot Readings

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STALL OWNER(S): Some goof you don't recognize.
OFFERINGS: Certified Bad Tarot Readings
DECOR: A "(Questionable) TAROT READINGS" sign hangs outside of a covered wooden wagon painted with sun and moon and star motifs, draped in curtains of flowering ivy — not the purple variety. Inside is cozy, warmly lit and comfortable, stuffed to bursting with potted plants, all flowering. It smells like freshly brewed coffee. There's a circular table in the center of the small space. Opposite the entrance sits the reader, sipping a warm drink from a mug and engrossed in some shitty fantasy novel.
ANYTHING ELSE?:

THE STALLS: Song-O-Grams!

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STALL OWNER(S): Kermie Creekmore

OFFERINGS: Ya boy here will perform any message (by song!) you so choose! Kermie assures you, the customer, that he can perform most musical styles and will even provide dancing accompaniment for no additional charge! (This is because Kermie is incapable of singing without also dancing, but might as well make it a ~feature~.) Give him a tune, a style, or just ask him to make it up himself!

Everything is the same price unless you want to send a mean message. Then there's an upcharge. This is entirely up to Kermit's discretion.

DECOR: He has a stool, an iPod classic, and an iPod dock, just so he can show off his singing. There's an extension cord chain running seemingly all the way back to his dorm so he can power his iPod dock, despite the fact that he's close enough to the Gastrognome to just, like, use their fucking power.

ANYTHING ELSE?: The muscheron keep unplugging his extension cords and it's getting to be a problem.

THE STALLS: Neural Network Poetry

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STALL OWNER(S): Lionel Lovelace
OFFERINGS: Multiple computers have bricked over the course of the year. And as the person who broke them the Muggle Tech TA, Lionel feels a responsibility to buy the school a new one. Of course, that will take money. So, Lionel sets up a simple stall offering neural network poetry. You give him a few dollars and the first line of the poem, and the AI will generate the rest.
DECOR: Just a table and a charmed typewriter and a chair. Nothing else.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Lionel thinks the AI is a shit poet.

THE STALLS: Spellunkjunk

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STALL OWNER(S): Audrey and OTHERS?
OFFERINGS: Secondhand goods just like you'd get in the store, only it's actually in a booth, now! Special deals!!
DECOR: It's painted with a little mural whether Kyle approved this or not. Random trinkets that Audrey will try to talk you into buying at a higher cost are draped around Every hot Jesus she's ever found is prevalent.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Alex gave me the junk spreadsheet so now I'm all powerful and can bequeath it here

THE STALLS: Viola Busks

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STALL OWNER(S): Viola
OFFERINGS: A hauntingly beautiful voice and delicate, folksy guitar strumming. All of her songs are miserably depressing and thematically revolve around loneliness, wanting to die, being unsure whether she wants to die, being scared of dying, and volatile love affairs which sound vaguely but improbably autobiographical.
DECOR: There's no stall, just a girl on a stool absolutely ruining the vibe.
ANYTHING ELSE?: She'll take requests if you bring her trinkets like weird crow thing that she is.

THE STALLS: Tea Dueling with Trudy

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STALL OWNER(S): Trudy McGilliguddy
OFFERINGS: For just one dollar, you can compete against Trudy in tea dueling, a most elegant competition. Opponents must simultaneously dunk biscuits in tea for five seconds, hold them aloft, and then be the last person to nom their cookies. Crumbles equal disqualification. Death stares and trash talking encouraged.
DECOR: There's a sort of grandma, steampunk, stereotypical witch vibe. A lace tablecloth, a nice tea set, and doilies are accompanied by taxidermied critters and bones.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Trudy challenges any takers to an additional wager. If you accept the bet: if she loses, you may ask her any question and she will answer, but she expects the same. This booth is a thinly veiled attempt to interrogate people over tea. She may not even have a booth permit.

<b>CONFIDENCE:</b> 1 - 10 <b>GRACE:</b> 1 - 10 <b>TRASH TALK SKILLS:</B> 1- 10 <b>DO YOU TAKE THE BET?:</b> Y/N

THE STALLS: Quackenbooth!

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STALL OWNER(S): Cedar, Hawthorne and Willow Quackenbush.
OFFERINGS: Cursed little automatons! Cedar whittled, Hawthorne painted, Willow dressed, and they all probably worked together on the actual mechanics of the little guys, but all to different degrees, so they're all a little different. They're all still definitely cursed, though.
DECOR: There's a tablecloth draped over the booth that mostly seems to be trying to cover the cinder blocks holding up the table. A drooping banner is held up by an inordinate amount of duct tape. It might be a load-bearing banner. It's definitely load-bearing duct tape. At any given time there are several little gadgets trying to walk right off their table and one of the triplets is holding up a section of the booth that's decided to crumble.
ANYTHING ELSE?: i'm imagining skinless furbies covered in paint and wearing eyeshadow.
oh and also if you buy one we'll RNG just how cursed the automaton is. you cannot get an uncursed automaton.

THE STALLS: Fortunes Told

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STALL OWNER(S): Wyatt Webberley
OFFERINGS: Wyatt is offering a few divination services. You can ask specific questions, or just see what the universe offers up.
TEA READING: Oh, not hot tea. This is a different kind of tea reading. There's a big jug of iced sweet tea on the table and it gets served in mason jars. Once you're done, the readings are pretty traditional, though. Wyatt just doesn't much like hot tea.
BONE THROWING: Wyatt has his bone reading set here, and he's happy to do a bit of a more in depth reading with it.
DECOR: A hodgepodge effort was made, though it's not cohesive from lack of trying. There's a lot of stuff? Some NASBROOM and Pro Quodpot memorabilia, a tablecloth that is definitely a bed sheet, mismatched seat cushions, and bunting that seems to have been made from old t-shirts.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Wait did he steal the table and chairs from school?

THE RIVERWALK

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THE RIVERWALK: Audrey Bought a Burny Brooch (Open+!)

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It was an innocuous enough purchase, she’d thought. Maybe there’d been a little tingle of wrong, turn back as she’d walked into the old lady’s tent, but that was easily enough ignored. They maybe shouldn’t, but those purple flowers bear an already bittersweet nostalgia. The year is almost over. She’d like to remember the bad with the good, and the weeds with the flowers.

But maybe that’s a bad idea.

Audrey’s left blinking in the sunshine at a tent that isn’t there, and the dark burning that consumed her feels almost like fair game. Shaking it off as quickly as she can, she runs up to the first person she sees and grabs them, urgent . This is important. “Just now. You saw a tent. Didn’t you?”

THE AMPHITHEATER

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MAIN STREET

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having zero regrets about my gif choice

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[nublada]

yall i'm finally watching the msscribe video

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[andpoke]

helloooo I’m gonna be a greedy person and swoop D Audrey if poss?

Also this is adorable
Also I really miss farmermarmers

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[merlinpletcher]

...Can I grab Character A for Merlin? Just in case.

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jenny

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[lionellovelace]

Oh I LOVE the stall structure!

Both Felicity and Lionel are here for scenes. And please everyone come ask Lionel or a neural network poem!

P.S. sPoOkY shit!

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[andpoke]

I’m about to post so much more dumb stuff in an hour
Also
Would kyle let Spellunking do a Spellunk Junk Trunk

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[dareyouto]

Can I take B for Maisy

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btw if y'all want i will abso-fucking-lutely roll to see who/if anyone gets Malstrom's Storm Rider mascot