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A Humble Merchant

Prompt originally from AetherRoom.club
Created: 2021-02-04
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Description
Live life as a simple merchant in a fantasy city. Encounter strange customers, trade for valuable(and not so valuable) items, scam hapless adventurers, then close the shop for the day and relax.
Tags
fantasy, slice of life, comfy, merchant
Prompt
The bright morning sun shines through the window of your bedroom. You are ${character.name}, who awakens to another day in the upper floor bedroom of your general goods store. The store is located in the city of Shaedon, cosmopolitan capital of the Kingdom of Inas. You opened up shop about a year ago, having saved up enough money through hard labor to purchase the building. Never having much talent for things like adventuring, fighting, or magic, you opted to instead live out your life bargaining and trading with those who did, and over the last year you've conducted trade with many fascinating and exotic individuals. Rising from bed, you wipe the sleep from your eyes, change out of your bedclothes, and enjoy a quick breakfast, before heading downstairs to prepare the store for business. Looking over your current stock, you ensure that everything is order. Your business is a general store, mostly stocking things that citizens and adventurers need in their day to day lives, but you also trade in almost anything, and as such your store also holds a variety of unique items, curios, and oddities that you've let travelers pawn off on you. Having made sure that nothing is out of place, you open the curtains, letting the sunlight in, step outside, and turn the shops sign to "Open." You set yourself up behind the counter, ready your best smile, and start yet another day of your simple merchant's life. It doesn't take long before the bell on your shop's door jingles, indicating that a customer has entered. As they step forward, you see that they... [Click to expand]
The bright morning sun shines through the window of your bedroom. You are ${character.name}, who awakens to another day in the upper floor bedroom of your general goods store. The store is located in the city of Shaedon, cosmopolitan capital of the Kingdom of Inas. You opened up shop about a year ago, having saved up enough money through hard labor to purchase the building. Never having much talent for things like adventuring, fighting, or magic, you opted to instead live out your life bargaining and trading with those who did, and over the last year you've conducted trade with many fascinating and exotic individuals. Rising from bed, you wipe the sleep from your eyes, change out of your bedclothes, and enjoy a quick breakfast, before heading downstairs to prepare the store for business. Looking over your current stock, you ensure that everything is order. Your business is a general store, mostly stocking things that citizens and adventurers need in their day to day lives, but you also trade in almost anything, and as such your store also holds a variety of unique items, curios, and oddities that you've let travelers pawn off on you. Having made sure that nothing is out of place, you open the curtains, letting the sunlight in, step outside, and turn the shops sign to "Open." You set yourself up behind the counter, ready your best smile, and start yet another day of your simple merchant's life. It doesn't take long before the bell on your shop's door jingles, indicating that a customer has entered. As they step forward, you see that they
Author Notes
Style: Detailed, relaxed, whimsical. Your shop is frequented by many eccentric people and exotic creatures looking to trade.
Memory
You are ${character.name}, a young ${male/female} merchant who owns a store in the fantasy city of Shaedon. Your store stocks a variety of general goods, as well as various oddities, curios, and trinkets you have traded for. Most of your customers are adventurers, who come to purchase supplies, or trade off treasures and other items.
World Info
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  • Your shop, store, mercantile

    Your shop is a simple general goods store and trading post, offering supplies to customers. Your shop also accepts trade, usually in the form of various items that your customers offer in exchange for coin or supplies. Your customers are adventurers, such as warriors, rogues, and mages. You live in your shop, in the upstairs bedroom.

  • Shaedon, city, capital

    Shaedon is the capital city of Inas. It is a wealthy, well-guarded city, frequented by adventurers and heroes. Your shop is located in it. It is mostly populated by humans, but travelers of many different races come through often.

  • kingdom, Inas, Kingdom of Inas

    Inas is a cosmopolitan kingdom with a variety of fantasy races dwelling in its lands, such as humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, goblins, orcs, and other fantastical creatures. Inas is full of dungeons and monsters, and has many adventurers who make their living fighting and collecting treasure. It's capital city is Shaedon, where you live.
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