The Marketplace

Buying things in Outpost

Outpost's marketplaces are spread liberally throughout the city, from the Old Market near the Palace of Aldermen to the Wharf Market near the docks. They are usually full of people buying and selling their wares, although what they sell varies from area to area. You'd be hard pushed to find parchment and ink in the Rat Run in the northwestern quarter of the city, but then you'd be just as hard pushed to find vials of poison in the Old City.

A short note about currency

The main coinage of Outpost is the 'hexa', a fairly heavy six sided coin, matte black in colour, (although any who have seen it in proper light will know that it has a faint purple sheen to it,) made from alloys of a valuable metal known as 'blackalt' which is found solely in Nocturne. Due to the coin's relatively high value there also exists the 'bit', which is literally one sixth of a hexa (made by cutting a hexa from each apex to the centre and smoothing the corners).
Prices in hexa and bits are often indicated by the abbreviations hx and bt respectively - for example, an item which costs 3 hexa and 4 bits will usually be listed as costing 3hx4, while an item which costs 2 bits will usually be listed as costing 2bt.

Characters, Money and Equipment

New characters in Outpost start with the strongest Light armour that their beginning level of the Armour Wearing skill allows them to wear, a single weapon of their choice that they have the skill to use and that there is an appropriate phys-rep available for, a set of common clothing and 25 hexa. Lorewarden characters will also start with a holy symbol appropriate to their religion. These possessions represent money the character has been scrimping and saving for many years, and as such players are recommended to spend it wisely.

Most characters will gain money through adventuring, although some players may find other sources of income for their characters, such as writing articles for the Outpost Post. Between adventures, a character's everyday living expenses, room and board are assumed to be provided by their Guild - in return for which the character will be performing regular and unremarkable jobs and duties for the Guild, that leave them plenty of spare time for training, study and a little light r&r. Characters without a Guild should come up with an alternative means of providing for themselves between adventures.

Players should notify GMs of any equipment which their characters are carrying at the start of each FLRP. They must also ensure that any phys-reps (physical replicas) are checked for safety before the game begins.

(Note that all items except for weapons can be purchased for two thirds the usual price if the player whose character is buying it can can provide a safe phys-rep.)

Below is a list of the best prices you can expect to get anywhere in Outpost. If there are any items which you would like to purchase for your character which are not listed below, or any items which you think should be included in the lists which are not currently present, please talk to the FLRP Organiser.

Items of superior craftsmanship and master craftsmanship may be available, but the prices will be high - details should be discussed with the FLRP Organiser

Two-handed weapons inflict Double damage as standard, and require the Two-Handed Weapon skill to use.
Weapons which can be wielded one-handed or two-handed inflict Single damage as standard, but may be wielded two-handed for Double damage if the wielder possesses the Two-Handed Weapon skill.

Wearing armour also requires the appropriate level of the Armour Wearing skill, and will hinder the effectiveness of the Acrobatics, Dodge & Spider Climb skills.

Potion Descriptions

• Healing Potion (3): This potion heals three hits of damage to a single character when quaffed. If there is no phys-rep then it cannot be used during a combat encounter, and must be used during a Local Time In or during battle-boarding instead.
  If the potion is drunk in smaller doses, then the first and second drink will each heal one hit of damage, and the potion's power is then spent.
• Spirit Potion (3): This potion restores three Spirit points to a single character with the Enhanced Spiritual Power skill when quaffed. This cannot take a character above their normal Spirit point total.
• Mana Potion (4): This potion restores four Mana points to a single character with the Enhanced Elemental Power skill when quaffed. This cannot take a character above their normal Mana point total.
• Antidote Potion (5): This potion heals or prevents up to five points of poison damage when quaffed, and may also prevent, alleviate or cure other effects of poison at the GM's discretion.
• Poison Potion (5): After being imbibed, this potion causes one hit of poison damage every minute for the next five minutes (i.e. a maximum of five hits).
• Toxin Potion (10): After being imbibed, this potion causes one hit of poison damage every thirty seconds for the next five minutes (i.e. a maximum of ten hits).
• Blade Venom (+1): This potion must be carefully applied to a sword or other edged weapon. This will change the amount of damage caused from "[n]" to "[n] Venom", inflicting an extra level of damage per hit to any creature affected by poisons.
• Potion of Burning (8): This potion causes the skin to blister and boil on physical contact. If splashed on a creature's skin, this potion inflicts one hit of acid damage every minute for eight minutes (i.e. a maximum of eight hits). If it is promptly washed off within the first minute after it contacts the skin, then the potion's effects will cease after only four minutes instead of eight.
  If drunk, the potion's effects will automatically cease after four minutes, during which time the victim is incapacitated with severe abdominal pain.
• Greek Fire (6): This viscous potion will stick to almost any surface, and will ignite soon after contact with air, after which it will burn vigorously for the next minute, inflicting 1 hit every 10 seconds to anything touching it during this time. It may also set light to other flammable materials while it burns, starting a larger fire at the GM's discretion.
• Holy Water (3): If splashed onto any one undead creature, whether corporeal or incorporeal, Holy Water acts as the equivalent of the second level Fellowship miracle Dismiss Skeleton, instantly destroying a single Skeleton or Zombie and inflicting 3 hits of Spirit Through damage to any other undead creature.
  While phys reps are encouraged, please do not throw water at the monsters!
• Potion of Dissolution (1 item): This potion will completely dissolve the first item of non-magickal equipment that it touches, reducing it to a small puddle of smoking goop in a matter of seconds. This potion does not cause any damage to living creatures or Elementals, and cannot affect Enchanted or Consecrated items.
• Sleeping Potion (15 min.): One minute after a living creature drinks this potion, they will instantly fall into a deep, dreamless sleep from which they cannot be woken by any means for the next fifteen minutes. After this time they will continue to sleep, but can be awakened normally by noise or discomfort.
• Love Potion (24 hr.): Immediately after imbibing this potion, the drinker will fall instantly in love with the first person they see of an appropriate race and gender for their sexual orientation. This love will persist for the next 24 hours, at the end of which the effect will wear off abruptly.

There is an inventory of props and equipment owned by FLRP here.