Blinsky Toys
This cramped shop has a dark entrance portico, above which hangs a wooden sign shaped like a rocking horse, with a “B” engraved on both sides. Flanking the entrance are two arched, lead-framed windows. Through the dirty glass, you see jumbled displays of toys and hanging placards bearing the slogan “Is No Fun, Is No Blinsky!”
This creepy toy shop is run by Gadof Blinsky who has a fascination with eerie playthings, accompanied by the monkey Piccolo, who is currently wearing a tutu. The party discovered that this monkey used to belong to Rictavio, who Blinsky claims is a friend.
When he meets new customers, Blinsky recites a well-rehearsed greeting: “Wyelcome, friends, to the House of Blinsky, where hyappiness and smiles can be bought at bargain prices. Perhaps you know a leetle child in need of joy? A leetle toy for a girl or boy?”
Creepy Toys
- A headless doll that comes with a sack of attachable heads, including one with its eyes and mouth stitched shut (price 9 cp)
- A miniature gallows, complete with trapdoor and a weighted “hanged man” (price 9 cp)
- A set of wooden nesting dolls; the smaller each one gets, the older it gets, until the innermost doll is a mummified corpse (price 9 cp)
- A wood-and-string mobile of hanging bats with flapping wings (price 9 cp)
- A wind-up musical merry-go-round with figures of snarling wolves chasing children in place of prancing horses (price 9 sp)
- A ventriloquist’s dummy that looks like Strahd von Zarovich (price 9 sp)
- A doll that looks remarkably like Ireena Kolyana (not for sale)
History
The party discovered that the Ireena dolls were commissioned by Izek Strazni under the threat of the destruction of the shop. Blinksy isn't sure why, and he doesn't seem to know who Ireena is or that she's a real person.
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