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General Shops

While not as interesting or exciting as the stranger shops, colourful taverns or inns, Obsidian also has a growing number of mundane businesses offering more general goods and services, some of which are noted below, others in the quantities listed to the right =>

General Goods

  • Bart's General Goods (general equipment: adventuring gear)
  • Jeremy's Essentials (special gear: special substances & items, tool & skill kits, )
  • Fit for an Emperess (clothing for sale: tailored outfits, hats, shoes, and gloves)
  • Marianne's Sweetshop (luxury food: cakes, sweets, sweet breads)
  • Merriport's (transport: horses, mules, wagons and equipment to go with them)

Weapons & Armour

  • Ploughs into Swords (common weapons: simple melee & ranged)
  • Looters' Paradise (ex-military weapons: martial melee & ranged)
  • Better Than Dead (armour: light & medium)
  • The Griffon's Shield (shields)

Services

  • Portmaster (ships to hire: sailing boats, passage on merchant vessels)
  • Mr Oakley & Sons (shipwright: ship repair, new builds by commission)
  • Tohrin the Cartographer (maps: map-making, bookbinding)
  • Doc Cadfell (healing: barber & surgeon)
  • Borris & Foster (sculptor: commissions only)
  • The Bleached Whale (tanners yard: tanner, bleacher, butcher)
  • The Granite Brothers (builders: masons, plasters, carpenters, roofers, painter)

Other businesses (by type & quantity)

Goods to sell:
  • Bakers x 2
  • Beer-sellers x 2 (one is a goblin brewer)
  • Buckle-makers x 2
  • Butcher x 1
  • Candle-makers x 2
  • Carpenter x 2
  • Fishmonger x 2
  • Furriers x 10 (mostly independent trappers)
  • Hat-makers x 1
  • Hay merchants x 1
  • Jewellers x 2 (one is an strange elf that sells trinkets and brooches)
  • Locksmith x 1
  • Masons x 2
  • Old-clothes x 8 (largely just hawkers selling found clothes or looted boots and so on)
  • Pastry-cooks x 6 (pies mostly)
  • Purse-makers x 3
  • Rope-makers x 2
  • Scabbard-maker x 1
  • Shoe-makers x 14 (cobblers, downtrodden tailors, old sailors looking to earn a living)
  • Tailors x 12 (several elves weave and sell fine outfits fit for royalty)
  • Weaver x 2
  • Wig-maker x 1 (a shifty gnome who talks to himself and seems very paranoid)
  • Wine-sellers x 2 (imported from the mainland; looking for a good spot for a vineyard)
Services to sell:
  • Bakers x 2
  • Barbers x 7
  • Butchers x 1
  • Candle-makers x 2
  • Carpenters x 3
  • Coopers x 5
  • Cutler x 1
  • Fisherman x 1
  • Furriers x 2
  • Jewellers x 6
  • Locksmiths x 1
  • Maidservants x 14 (hirelings looking to serve as maids, butlers, and so forth)
  • Mercers x 5
  • Masons x 4
  • Plasters x 2
  • Roofers x 1
  • Saddlers x 2
  • Scabbard-makers x 3
  • Watercarriers x 4
  • Weavers x 3
  • Glass-blower x 1
  • Wood-carver, wood-seller x 1 (a half-elf druid, war veteran who rarely speaks)
Other:
  • Baths x 1 (public, basically open-air under the waterfall)
  • Chicken-butchers x 4 (buys or rear own fowl, kill, pass to butcher, taverns and inns)