Post by waxworks on Jan 7, 2014 1:09:16 GMT
(( This is kind of an experiment... I'm going to keep the FIRST post in this thread updated as to what the shop looks like and has for sale, and as Riddle does business in this thread and in other topics I'll add things to it and even improve the shop based on how successful she winds up being, if she does. I'll also check and respond to this thread, even if someone else leaves it hanging, so Riddle's Bazaar is open for business! ))
Nestled amongst all of the other tents and stalls in the Ponyville Marketplace, sat a rather cozy looking tent, held up by a number of posts and ropes, and swathed in a relaxing shade of blue. It was spacious enough inside to comfortably hold several ponies, as well as some storage of market items. However it seemed that the tent itself was not meant for customers.
Clustered around the tent was an assemblage of wooden planks, barrels and crates forming a collection of makeshift shelves and tables. Spread about on the ground to spare prospective customers from cold cobblestones were a number of expertly woven straw mats, and flanking the small bazaar was a number of wooden barrels filled with dirt and shrubberies to lend the place some color. Added to that collection was a great number of topiary which seemed to protectively snuggle the various wares for sale, in the center of which sat a collection of planks that formed a sort of table filled with food.
Food
Fresh Sandwiches In two little rows sat a neat collection of triangles wrapped in paper and cutely tied with twine. On each of them was a small note indicating what sort of sandwich they were, a basic selection between tomato, cucumber, and alfalfa. (3b)
Box Lunches A small stack of six little off-pink cardboard boxes, each tied up with string, and a small sign above them in neat lettering stated that they were a value-sized meal, consisting of a sandwich, an apple, a small jar of spring water, and a sprig of lemongrass. Each of the six boxes was one of the three variations of sandwiches that the nearby sandwich display boasted. (5b)
Candied Fruit Peels Inside a little pink box, lined with waxed paper, was a collection of sparkling green and orange candies. They were shaped like tiny crescent moons, and there was a powerful, sweet scent of limes and oranges coming off of them. Beside them was a small stack of little paper bags, offering a bagful of sweets for two bits. (2b)
Apples Neatly stacked and shined, a small pile of apples were displayed. They'd been polished to nearly a mirror shine, and arranged into a small pyramid of fruit. Of course, these were the typical sort of apples you could buy anywhere in Ponyville, and for exactly the same price as anywhere else in the marketplace. (2b)
Riddle Bites A collection of sugar cookies sat in two little rows, each cookie roughly the size of the average pony's hoof. These particular cookies weren't just your average garden variety, but had been uniquely decorated with a mixture of green and black frosting to resemble a particular merchant. (2b)
Tea A pair of large glass jars were neatly ordered along a table, each containing a selection of carefully sorted and chosen dried pieces of various plants. Each blend was carefully labeled with small etchings of what plants had gone into it, the first being a mixture of red tea, rose petals, peppercorns, cardamum, cacao, and vanilla beans, with a dark red color to the whole of it. The second was slightly greener, promising green tea, citrus, lemongrass, licorice, ginger, fennel, and mint. Small teabag sized sacks sat in a neat pile alongside the jars, for patrons to fill with their selection. (1b per bag)
Honey Near the jars of tea sat a golden delight, a small army of jars each containing the glorious golden sheen that could be none other than honey. But not just any honey, no, it seemed each jar was slightly different. Every label had a small, cheerful drawing of a bee, accompanied by whatever that particular honey was mixed with. There was peanut butter and honey, lemon, cinnamon, ginger, almonds, even banana and honey! (3b)
Pickles Beside the apples, a glowing green assortment of jars sat in a neat arrangement. The green glow was from sunlight shining through the vinegar and cucumbers suspended inside, a promise of a fresh crunch with each bite. The pickles inside were fairly large, more than a good mouthful to any hungry pony. There were roughly five pickles in each jar given their tremendous size. (1b per pickle, 4b per jar)
Enchant-Mints While all of the glimmering prisms and gloaming candles seemed to absolutely reek of magic, a small pile of foil-wrapped candies sat innocuously nearby. Within each foil wrapper was a single wafer that had been dipped in chocolate, and then lightly touched with a small enchantment that promised minty-fresh breath for hours, even if the customer were to eat a bucket of garlic for some reason. (1b)
Cocadas Small, puffy Mooxican pastries sit like savory dreams in a wax-paper lined box. The little treats were made of coconut and eggs whipped into puffy little balls, and they were divided into three colorful varieties made of chocolate, vanilla, and dried cherries. (2b per cocada, two for 3b.)
Immediately behind a basil-colored unicorn who was pleasantly bobbling at customers and passers-by, was a collection of toys and apparel.
Toys and Apparel
Cogsby's Orbiting Hats Spinning slowly without any apparent attached mechanism, a small red and beige bowler hat was neatly floating approximately five centimeters above the table it was being displayed on, floating cheerfully alongside a lavender bowler that had a similar ignorance of gravity. A cheerful sign next to it promised it to not only be a conversational piece, but also to be just the hat for ponies who wanted a new chapeau without damaging an expensive mane-do. Another sign beside it promised additional styles were available from Cogsby's shop, located elsewhere in the marketplace. (16b)
My Little Plushie Sitting in a neat row on a table were a number of little simple pony toys, made of basic fabric and cotton. They were lumpy and not as impressive as some dolls, but they were soft and bore more than a slight resemblance to several ponies that could regularly be seen wandering through the marketplace. (6b)
Gemstone Bags In front of the plushie table were a number of classical treasure chests of red velvet and gilded metal edges. Within these chests was a collection of fairly typical but still very attractive gemstones. Perhaps it was because these gemstones were smaller than those regularly used for most ponycraft that they were available in such quantity, but one open chest had a shovel scoop inside of it, and a collection of small bags sitting on one of the closed chests. (2b per bag)
Behind this collection of objects was an area devoted entirely to chance, full of colorful, glittering things that promised all sorts of wonderful promises.
Chance
The Jellybean Jar A rather eye-catching jar filled with jellybeans sat beside a small box with a hole cut in the lid, and a small pile of papers and a tiny pencil sat alongside it. The promise etched onto the small box was simple, place the most accurate guess as to the number in the jar, and in a week's time if you were the closest without going over you'd win the entire jar of jellybeans! (1b)
Trivia Hanging on one of the tent's poles was a chalkboard, and scrawled across it was a strange question. "What size horseshoe does Princess Cadence wear?" It was a simple enough question, but mildly obscure for ponies who didn't think about that sort of thing. A very small wooden barrel suspended by rope was alongside it, with more pieces of paper and writing implements next to it. Apparently this held a similar one-week time frame as the jellybeans, only this one promised a monetary award of 5 bits for the first chosen correct answer, and a simple price of just 1 bit to play. (1b)
Impossible Inventions from Imagination Forming a small wall between Riddle's lot and the rest of the marketplace was a carefully assembled shelf made out of a few planks of wood and wooden crates. Sitting on each of the shelves was an odd assortment of tempting nicknacks, each one encased in a small glass dome sitting on a round wooden base. They ranged from sparkling clocks to mechanical wrenches, small wind-up boxes and glimmering marbles, and there was even a miniature plunger in one of them. A number of bright signs promised, "excitement!" and "surprise!", while a pair of oddly even more enticing signs warned, "caution: possibly flammable" and "not for foals". Overshadowing the shelves was a sign promising the customer a unique, one-of-a-kind, hoof-made experience with an excitingly unpredictable journey into the world of mad science. (6b)
Pony Pachinko Almost hidden amongst the plants were it not for its multitude of blinking lights and cheery ringing sounds sat a genuine Neighponese Pachinko machine, a squat little machine with a glass face and a series of whirling pegs inside of it. It promised that for just a single bit a pony might get ten little steel balls to feed back into the machine with a promise of winning even more to continue playing with. There was also a small chart attached to the machine noting that one could exchange various amounts of balls for goods around the store, such as 20 balls for a Riddle Bite, 50 balls for a magic battery, and upwards of 200 balls for a plushie. (1b for 10 balls)
Past this section came the splendid blue tent, and stretched out alongside the tent was a collection of various herbs and plants hanging upside down from a line to dry, and spread beneath this line was a variety of plants of various sizes in pots of equally varying size.
Garden Center
My Little Planter: Gardening is Easy! Several neatly arranged rows of teeny-tiny terracotta pots were arranged, each with a small scoop of dirt filling them, and a little paper cut-out of a sprout poked into the dirt. Tied onto each pot with a length of ribbon was a small piece of fabric forming an ornate sort of pouch with a single seed within each of them. They promised to be easy to grow, and each one had noted on it whether it would grow a flower, or a vegetable. (2b)
Topiary Made to Order A number of plants shaped like various sorts of ponies and other such creatures sat, guarding the small planters. They were densely packed clusters of bushes, crafted with almost impossible magical accuracy and a little whimsy, especially one topiary that seemed to be styling its own leafy mane with a pair of twig shears. In addition to offering these very topiary that were on display, a sign offered custom-made ones as well. (3b for the small topiary, 7b for the large topiary)
Past that was a small alcove that seemed to glow with an energy all its own, humming with potent magical energy.
Magic
Lucky Spell Scrolls Sitting in the middle of the Magic section was an enchanting looking machine made of glass and colorful purple and gold metal. It was topped off with some sort of sorcerer's hat, and inside of the large glass globe of the little machine was a collection of colorful plastic balls. Each of the smaller spheres inside of the machine had a single magical scroll sealed with wax tucked neatly inside of it, and to the side of the machine a neatly printed list indicated that each scroll had a different spell. They were listed as Light, Sharpen, Blunt, Cut, Twinkle, Grind, Jingle, Sort, Bubble, and Polish, ten in all. There was a small slot on the machine, just large enough for a single bit coin to neatly sit inside of, and a hoof pedal that could be pressed to release a ball. (1b)
Potions by the Beaker Dominating a series of shelves as well as a low table was a dazzling, eye-catching array of mystically colored liquids in a variety of ornate jars, bottles, and beakers. Topped off with corks and sealed with wax, their colors ranged through the spectrum of the rainbow, a few of them even glimmering in strange new colors. Some of them gave off a glowing light of their own, while others seemed to suck up the light around them. Parchment paper was affixed to each bottle with neatly inked messages describing the effects of each potion. Some promised longer ears, others described grand mustaches, and others had even more complex descriptions and mystic warnings on them. In addition to shelves, there was also a large piece of parchment attached to the crates promising that patrons could commission anything they didn't see available here from Bubbly Beaker, and to inquire as per such payments. The lower-shelved bottles were labeled for eight bits, the separate table were ten, and those on the top shelf were rated at twelve bits each. (8b, 10b, 12b)
Magic Oil Nestled amongst the potions was a smaller collection of bottles, each glowing like an atomic grape. While the bottles were tiny, the promised effect was tremendous. Each bottle contained a sample of carefully enchanted oil that could be used to cause viscosity against magical forces. The practical use of this was demonstrated with a small illustration of a unicorn attempting to lift an object coated in the substance, only to show it slipping out of her magical grasp in the next image. In addition to being supreme lubricant for all manner of magical machinery, the illustration promised, it also could be used as the base for enchanted oil-based paints. (5b)
Prism Batteries Next to the candles stood a glittering accompaniment of glowing glass structures, capped on either end with shining metal. Each one gave off a green glow that hinted at the magical energy captured inside. An ornately penned explanation showed these to be magical capacitors, glimmering prisms capable of storing and later releasing magical energy when needed. At no extra charge, each was already filled up personally by the proprietor. (3b)
In front of the Magic section was a collection of bells, books, and candles, and it had, appropriately enough, its own nomenclature to that effect.
Bells, Books, and Candles
Shadow Candles In a carefully stacked pyramid on one of the lower tables sat a collection of ominously black and purple striped candles. A sign behind them proudly proclaimed these to be candles that caused darkness when lit, useful for overly sunny days, hiding actors in theaters, telling scary stories, not keeping your special somepony awake if you stayed up late reading, and so on. (2b)
Scented Candles Arranged similarly to the magical candles but without so nearly an otherworldly feel to them was a stack of candles that were each striped with a different color. The notation with them promised that each colored candle yielded a different scent when lit, ranging from apple to cinnamon to blueberry. (2b)
Dragon's Breath Candles Sitting in a small clutch of hay, almost like precious eggs, were a number of small tea-candles that seemed to have a scaly, green glow to them. A cautiously etched sign noted that these enchanted candles could, when wound up in a small piece of somepony's mane and lit, could send a message the pony whose mane was used. Each candle was good for approximately three messages. (5b)
Caroling Bells Sitting on the middle shelf was a fine selection of bells, each one promising that a hearty ringing of them would give those ponies within earshot perfect pitch, for roughly the duration of one song. Generally a hot seller in a town where musical numbers broke out every other day. (4b)
Miscellaneous Books A downright frenzy of random books filled the final shelf, things from Levitation for Dolts to random works from A.K. Yearling, Macabre Webb, and Inkwell. Of course the keen eyed pony might even pick out a recipe book or a Daring Do pulp snuck in amongst them as well. (3b)
A sign hanging from the display asked if the customer was still looking for something, that they might inquire for the Bell, Book and Candle store in Canterlot. Around the side of this sat a final display of items.
Stationary Supplies
Quills Neatly bound and gently stacked, several little bundles of ornate feathers would at first betray the eye as just fluffy decoration, save for their gleaming tips. Each feather had fastened to its quill a small piece of shining golden metal meant to act as a temporary reservoir for ink. (1b)
Ink A companion to the quills, a few small bottles of ink in glistening black bottles sat on the table, each promising that it was freshly squeezed by hoof to give the most vibrant and readable color possible. While most of the bottles promised black ink made from blackberries, a rare bottle hidden amongst the rest promised red or green ink. (2b)
Aside from this the little shop didn't have much else to offer, aside from a confident looking little unicorn with a tremendously bushy tail sitting behind the table, an almost ethereal look of calmness upon her basil-colored face.
Specialty Items
The following items are singular, and once purchased will be removed from the shop. They might be considered rare, singular, hard-to-find, one-of-a-kind, and so on.
(Specialty Section is Currently Empty)
Nestled amongst all of the other tents and stalls in the Ponyville Marketplace, sat a rather cozy looking tent, held up by a number of posts and ropes, and swathed in a relaxing shade of blue. It was spacious enough inside to comfortably hold several ponies, as well as some storage of market items. However it seemed that the tent itself was not meant for customers.
Clustered around the tent was an assemblage of wooden planks, barrels and crates forming a collection of makeshift shelves and tables. Spread about on the ground to spare prospective customers from cold cobblestones were a number of expertly woven straw mats, and flanking the small bazaar was a number of wooden barrels filled with dirt and shrubberies to lend the place some color. Added to that collection was a great number of topiary which seemed to protectively snuggle the various wares for sale, in the center of which sat a collection of planks that formed a sort of table filled with food.
Food
Fresh Sandwiches In two little rows sat a neat collection of triangles wrapped in paper and cutely tied with twine. On each of them was a small note indicating what sort of sandwich they were, a basic selection between tomato, cucumber, and alfalfa. (3b)
Box Lunches A small stack of six little off-pink cardboard boxes, each tied up with string, and a small sign above them in neat lettering stated that they were a value-sized meal, consisting of a sandwich, an apple, a small jar of spring water, and a sprig of lemongrass. Each of the six boxes was one of the three variations of sandwiches that the nearby sandwich display boasted. (5b)
Candied Fruit Peels Inside a little pink box, lined with waxed paper, was a collection of sparkling green and orange candies. They were shaped like tiny crescent moons, and there was a powerful, sweet scent of limes and oranges coming off of them. Beside them was a small stack of little paper bags, offering a bagful of sweets for two bits. (2b)
Apples Neatly stacked and shined, a small pile of apples were displayed. They'd been polished to nearly a mirror shine, and arranged into a small pyramid of fruit. Of course, these were the typical sort of apples you could buy anywhere in Ponyville, and for exactly the same price as anywhere else in the marketplace. (2b)
Riddle Bites A collection of sugar cookies sat in two little rows, each cookie roughly the size of the average pony's hoof. These particular cookies weren't just your average garden variety, but had been uniquely decorated with a mixture of green and black frosting to resemble a particular merchant. (2b)
Tea A pair of large glass jars were neatly ordered along a table, each containing a selection of carefully sorted and chosen dried pieces of various plants. Each blend was carefully labeled with small etchings of what plants had gone into it, the first being a mixture of red tea, rose petals, peppercorns, cardamum, cacao, and vanilla beans, with a dark red color to the whole of it. The second was slightly greener, promising green tea, citrus, lemongrass, licorice, ginger, fennel, and mint. Small teabag sized sacks sat in a neat pile alongside the jars, for patrons to fill with their selection. (1b per bag)
Honey Near the jars of tea sat a golden delight, a small army of jars each containing the glorious golden sheen that could be none other than honey. But not just any honey, no, it seemed each jar was slightly different. Every label had a small, cheerful drawing of a bee, accompanied by whatever that particular honey was mixed with. There was peanut butter and honey, lemon, cinnamon, ginger, almonds, even banana and honey! (3b)
Pickles Beside the apples, a glowing green assortment of jars sat in a neat arrangement. The green glow was from sunlight shining through the vinegar and cucumbers suspended inside, a promise of a fresh crunch with each bite. The pickles inside were fairly large, more than a good mouthful to any hungry pony. There were roughly five pickles in each jar given their tremendous size. (1b per pickle, 4b per jar)
Enchant-Mints While all of the glimmering prisms and gloaming candles seemed to absolutely reek of magic, a small pile of foil-wrapped candies sat innocuously nearby. Within each foil wrapper was a single wafer that had been dipped in chocolate, and then lightly touched with a small enchantment that promised minty-fresh breath for hours, even if the customer were to eat a bucket of garlic for some reason. (1b)
Cocadas Small, puffy Mooxican pastries sit like savory dreams in a wax-paper lined box. The little treats were made of coconut and eggs whipped into puffy little balls, and they were divided into three colorful varieties made of chocolate, vanilla, and dried cherries. (2b per cocada, two for 3b.)
Immediately behind a basil-colored unicorn who was pleasantly bobbling at customers and passers-by, was a collection of toys and apparel.
Toys and Apparel
Cogsby's Orbiting Hats Spinning slowly without any apparent attached mechanism, a small red and beige bowler hat was neatly floating approximately five centimeters above the table it was being displayed on, floating cheerfully alongside a lavender bowler that had a similar ignorance of gravity. A cheerful sign next to it promised it to not only be a conversational piece, but also to be just the hat for ponies who wanted a new chapeau without damaging an expensive mane-do. Another sign beside it promised additional styles were available from Cogsby's shop, located elsewhere in the marketplace. (16b)
My Little Plushie Sitting in a neat row on a table were a number of little simple pony toys, made of basic fabric and cotton. They were lumpy and not as impressive as some dolls, but they were soft and bore more than a slight resemblance to several ponies that could regularly be seen wandering through the marketplace. (6b)
Gemstone Bags In front of the plushie table were a number of classical treasure chests of red velvet and gilded metal edges. Within these chests was a collection of fairly typical but still very attractive gemstones. Perhaps it was because these gemstones were smaller than those regularly used for most ponycraft that they were available in such quantity, but one open chest had a shovel scoop inside of it, and a collection of small bags sitting on one of the closed chests. (2b per bag)
Behind this collection of objects was an area devoted entirely to chance, full of colorful, glittering things that promised all sorts of wonderful promises.
Chance
The Jellybean Jar A rather eye-catching jar filled with jellybeans sat beside a small box with a hole cut in the lid, and a small pile of papers and a tiny pencil sat alongside it. The promise etched onto the small box was simple, place the most accurate guess as to the number in the jar, and in a week's time if you were the closest without going over you'd win the entire jar of jellybeans! (1b)
Trivia Hanging on one of the tent's poles was a chalkboard, and scrawled across it was a strange question. "What size horseshoe does Princess Cadence wear?" It was a simple enough question, but mildly obscure for ponies who didn't think about that sort of thing. A very small wooden barrel suspended by rope was alongside it, with more pieces of paper and writing implements next to it. Apparently this held a similar one-week time frame as the jellybeans, only this one promised a monetary award of 5 bits for the first chosen correct answer, and a simple price of just 1 bit to play. (1b)
Impossible Inventions from Imagination Forming a small wall between Riddle's lot and the rest of the marketplace was a carefully assembled shelf made out of a few planks of wood and wooden crates. Sitting on each of the shelves was an odd assortment of tempting nicknacks, each one encased in a small glass dome sitting on a round wooden base. They ranged from sparkling clocks to mechanical wrenches, small wind-up boxes and glimmering marbles, and there was even a miniature plunger in one of them. A number of bright signs promised, "excitement!" and "surprise!", while a pair of oddly even more enticing signs warned, "caution: possibly flammable" and "not for foals". Overshadowing the shelves was a sign promising the customer a unique, one-of-a-kind, hoof-made experience with an excitingly unpredictable journey into the world of mad science. (6b)
Pony Pachinko Almost hidden amongst the plants were it not for its multitude of blinking lights and cheery ringing sounds sat a genuine Neighponese Pachinko machine, a squat little machine with a glass face and a series of whirling pegs inside of it. It promised that for just a single bit a pony might get ten little steel balls to feed back into the machine with a promise of winning even more to continue playing with. There was also a small chart attached to the machine noting that one could exchange various amounts of balls for goods around the store, such as 20 balls for a Riddle Bite, 50 balls for a magic battery, and upwards of 200 balls for a plushie. (1b for 10 balls)
Past this section came the splendid blue tent, and stretched out alongside the tent was a collection of various herbs and plants hanging upside down from a line to dry, and spread beneath this line was a variety of plants of various sizes in pots of equally varying size.
Garden Center
My Little Planter: Gardening is Easy! Several neatly arranged rows of teeny-tiny terracotta pots were arranged, each with a small scoop of dirt filling them, and a little paper cut-out of a sprout poked into the dirt. Tied onto each pot with a length of ribbon was a small piece of fabric forming an ornate sort of pouch with a single seed within each of them. They promised to be easy to grow, and each one had noted on it whether it would grow a flower, or a vegetable. (2b)
Topiary Made to Order A number of plants shaped like various sorts of ponies and other such creatures sat, guarding the small planters. They were densely packed clusters of bushes, crafted with almost impossible magical accuracy and a little whimsy, especially one topiary that seemed to be styling its own leafy mane with a pair of twig shears. In addition to offering these very topiary that were on display, a sign offered custom-made ones as well. (3b for the small topiary, 7b for the large topiary)
Past that was a small alcove that seemed to glow with an energy all its own, humming with potent magical energy.
Magic
Lucky Spell Scrolls Sitting in the middle of the Magic section was an enchanting looking machine made of glass and colorful purple and gold metal. It was topped off with some sort of sorcerer's hat, and inside of the large glass globe of the little machine was a collection of colorful plastic balls. Each of the smaller spheres inside of the machine had a single magical scroll sealed with wax tucked neatly inside of it, and to the side of the machine a neatly printed list indicated that each scroll had a different spell. They were listed as Light, Sharpen, Blunt, Cut, Twinkle, Grind, Jingle, Sort, Bubble, and Polish, ten in all. There was a small slot on the machine, just large enough for a single bit coin to neatly sit inside of, and a hoof pedal that could be pressed to release a ball. (1b)
Potions by the Beaker Dominating a series of shelves as well as a low table was a dazzling, eye-catching array of mystically colored liquids in a variety of ornate jars, bottles, and beakers. Topped off with corks and sealed with wax, their colors ranged through the spectrum of the rainbow, a few of them even glimmering in strange new colors. Some of them gave off a glowing light of their own, while others seemed to suck up the light around them. Parchment paper was affixed to each bottle with neatly inked messages describing the effects of each potion. Some promised longer ears, others described grand mustaches, and others had even more complex descriptions and mystic warnings on them. In addition to shelves, there was also a large piece of parchment attached to the crates promising that patrons could commission anything they didn't see available here from Bubbly Beaker, and to inquire as per such payments. The lower-shelved bottles were labeled for eight bits, the separate table were ten, and those on the top shelf were rated at twelve bits each. (8b, 10b, 12b)
Magic Oil Nestled amongst the potions was a smaller collection of bottles, each glowing like an atomic grape. While the bottles were tiny, the promised effect was tremendous. Each bottle contained a sample of carefully enchanted oil that could be used to cause viscosity against magical forces. The practical use of this was demonstrated with a small illustration of a unicorn attempting to lift an object coated in the substance, only to show it slipping out of her magical grasp in the next image. In addition to being supreme lubricant for all manner of magical machinery, the illustration promised, it also could be used as the base for enchanted oil-based paints. (5b)
Prism Batteries Next to the candles stood a glittering accompaniment of glowing glass structures, capped on either end with shining metal. Each one gave off a green glow that hinted at the magical energy captured inside. An ornately penned explanation showed these to be magical capacitors, glimmering prisms capable of storing and later releasing magical energy when needed. At no extra charge, each was already filled up personally by the proprietor. (3b)
In front of the Magic section was a collection of bells, books, and candles, and it had, appropriately enough, its own nomenclature to that effect.
Bells, Books, and Candles
Shadow Candles In a carefully stacked pyramid on one of the lower tables sat a collection of ominously black and purple striped candles. A sign behind them proudly proclaimed these to be candles that caused darkness when lit, useful for overly sunny days, hiding actors in theaters, telling scary stories, not keeping your special somepony awake if you stayed up late reading, and so on. (2b)
Scented Candles Arranged similarly to the magical candles but without so nearly an otherworldly feel to them was a stack of candles that were each striped with a different color. The notation with them promised that each colored candle yielded a different scent when lit, ranging from apple to cinnamon to blueberry. (2b)
Dragon's Breath Candles Sitting in a small clutch of hay, almost like precious eggs, were a number of small tea-candles that seemed to have a scaly, green glow to them. A cautiously etched sign noted that these enchanted candles could, when wound up in a small piece of somepony's mane and lit, could send a message the pony whose mane was used. Each candle was good for approximately three messages. (5b)
Caroling Bells Sitting on the middle shelf was a fine selection of bells, each one promising that a hearty ringing of them would give those ponies within earshot perfect pitch, for roughly the duration of one song. Generally a hot seller in a town where musical numbers broke out every other day. (4b)
Miscellaneous Books A downright frenzy of random books filled the final shelf, things from Levitation for Dolts to random works from A.K. Yearling, Macabre Webb, and Inkwell. Of course the keen eyed pony might even pick out a recipe book or a Daring Do pulp snuck in amongst them as well. (3b)
A sign hanging from the display asked if the customer was still looking for something, that they might inquire for the Bell, Book and Candle store in Canterlot. Around the side of this sat a final display of items.
Stationary Supplies
Quills Neatly bound and gently stacked, several little bundles of ornate feathers would at first betray the eye as just fluffy decoration, save for their gleaming tips. Each feather had fastened to its quill a small piece of shining golden metal meant to act as a temporary reservoir for ink. (1b)
Ink A companion to the quills, a few small bottles of ink in glistening black bottles sat on the table, each promising that it was freshly squeezed by hoof to give the most vibrant and readable color possible. While most of the bottles promised black ink made from blackberries, a rare bottle hidden amongst the rest promised red or green ink. (2b)
Aside from this the little shop didn't have much else to offer, aside from a confident looking little unicorn with a tremendously bushy tail sitting behind the table, an almost ethereal look of calmness upon her basil-colored face.
Specialty Items
The following items are singular, and once purchased will be removed from the shop. They might be considered rare, singular, hard-to-find, one-of-a-kind, and so on.
(Specialty Section is Currently Empty)
i was kinda excited to feel like im back in 2015