Barque Bazaar
The Barque Bazaar is a spectacle of floating commerce. A fluctuating cast of merchants tie their boats to one another to form a cluster of shops drifting across the water. The Market Master—a Minatan woman named Annavi—dreamed of establishing her amalgamation of mobile merchants to sell somewhat dubious foreign goods to easily persuaded customers, but was dismayed at the despairing state of Absalom’s sea-adjacent districts. She found her business failing in its original intent as it paddled between the seaside districts of the Puddles, Docks, and Precipice Quarter.
The market does its best business in the Puddles, which the Barque Bazaar drifts into in the evenings to sell aged seafood and produce that would be unwelcome in most other districts. The Barque Bazaar is well received by the Puddles’ residents, who eagerly purchase food and goods that have not long festered in the district from a shop willing to drift up to their flooded front steps. In a desperate attempt to expand the market, Annavi agreed to fence for the resident thieves’ guild, the Sewer Rats, and took on supplying goods to Aysepir’s Astounded Abyss. While their questionable suppliers and dedicated patrons keep the Bazaar afloat, and Annavi’s quick tongue has steadily built a network of relationships in the Puddles, it’s clear that Annavi may be in over her head as she becomes ever more involved in the darker machinations of the Puddles.
The market does its best business in the Puddles, which the Barque Bazaar drifts into in the evenings to sell aged seafood and produce that would be unwelcome in most other districts. The Barque Bazaar is well received by the Puddles’ residents, who eagerly purchase food and goods that have not long festered in the district from a shop willing to drift up to their flooded front steps. In a desperate attempt to expand the market, Annavi agreed to fence for the resident thieves’ guild, the Sewer Rats, and took on supplying goods to Aysepir’s Astounded Abyss. While their questionable suppliers and dedicated patrons keep the Bazaar afloat, and Annavi’s quick tongue has steadily built a network of relationships in the Puddles, it’s clear that Annavi may be in over her head as she becomes ever more involved in the darker machinations of the Puddles.
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