"Shells for trade!" she called, standing in the marketplace. "Shells, sea glass, driftwood! Add a taste of the sea to your home or apparel!"
Surely someone would take her up on it.
[open] she sells sea shells
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04-23-2020, 12:05 AM
The first thing Arialla had traded her beachcombing finds for was a basket to carry them in. Thus rendered efficient, she had a good pile of pretty shells, interesting rocks, pieces of sea glass, mermaid's purses, scraps of mother-of-pearl -- anything appealing you could find along Torchline's shore. There wasn't much of a market for such things in Torchline, of course, since anyone could go walk along the shore and pick them up. But Arialla hoped that someone here in the Hollowed Grounds would be willing to compensate her for the work of finding the nice stuff and hauling it through the portal.
"Shells for trade!" she called, standing in the marketplace. "Shells, sea glass, driftwood! Add a taste of the sea to your home or apparel!" Surely someone would take her up on it. Age: 27 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Nomadic Level: 1 - Strg: 10 - Dext: 11 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 15 - Int:
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04-24-2020, 12:23 PM
That ... wasn't the reaction Arialla had expected, or the person she'd expected to react to her sales pitch. For a moment she stared, but she quickly mastered herself. This person was outside her experience, but perhaps they were normal for Caido -- and even if not, well, best to be polite.
"Shells are things that wash up on the beach," Arialla explained, angling her basket so that her potential customer could see into it. "People value them for their beauty, mostly." Or at least she hoped they would. Age: 27 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Nomadic Level: 1 - Strg: 10 - Dext: 11 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 15 - Int:
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04-26-2020, 02:47 PM
"Sea creatures," Arialla explained. Somewhere in the back of her mind rose an instinct to step back as this person approached her, but she suppressed it easily. Her previous encounters with divinity had given her a bit of an even keel when it came to such things. "Mollusks, clams, and snails live in the shells, and when they die, the shells wash up on the beach."
Watching her potential customer take a piece of sea glass made Arialla a bit wary, too, but she ignored that as well. It was only sea glass; even if they did run off with it, that was no great loss, as nice a piece as it was. She added, "Not that one, though. That's sea glass -- it comes from glass that people lose in the ocean, rubbed smooth by the waves and the sand." Age: 27 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Nomadic Level: 1 - Strg: 10 - Dext: 11 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 15 - Int:
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04-30-2020, 12:40 AM
Arialla nodded. "Skeletons, but from the outside of the creature. Oh, and I have mermaid's purses, too -- they're egg sacs, from sharks."
She fished one out to show it to her potential customer, a dried black case the size of her palm. The tendrils coming from each corner gave it its name, as they resembled straps that a mermaid might use to hold her bag. "My end goal is to create an offering for Safrin," Arialla said plainly, "so anything you have that's pretty, or resembles stars or starlight, would be great. Failing that, I'll gladly take something I can re-trade -- a useful trinket, maybe." For just a single piece of glass, her expectations weren't too high. Besides, she suspected it would be good to be in this person's good graces, so she didn't really plan to refuse even a subpar offer. Age: 27 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Nomadic Level: 1 - Strg: 10 - Dext: 11 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 15 - Int:
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05-01-2020, 11:23 PM
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05-03-2020, 03:55 PM
Arialla smiled; it was nice to see someone take such interest in what she'd collected. She'd never met someone before who had so clearly never seen a shell or mermaid's purse before -- they were common sights back home.
"Oh?" she said, more because the statement seemed to need a response than because she actually wanted to know what lay between her visitor and Safrin. Though perhaps she ought to ask -- it would be good to know everything she could about the goddess she intended to worship here. "You don't get along, I take it?" Was she actually talking to a god? Not necessarily: Jigano had said Safrin had no love for him, either, so the goddess did enter into rivalries with mortals. She was jealous, Arialla remembered Jigano saying, and temperamental. Fantastic. "Those will do nicely," Arialla said, looking over the rocks. She could trade such colorful specimens for something, surely -- and even if she couldn't, she wanted to make this trade, to keep her odd visitor happy. "Why don't you give me those two" -- she indicated the violet and red ones -- "and the sea glass is all yours." Not, perhaps, the fairest trade on its surface, but she anticipated more trouble trading the rocks than she did the sea glass. Age: 27 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Nomadic Level: 1 - Strg: 10 - Dext: 11 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 15 - Int:
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05-05-2020, 06:01 AM
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05-06-2020, 01:25 AM
"Progenitor?" Arialla hoped she wasn't prying, but the choice of word intrigued her. That wasn't how people normally referred to their family, at least not back home. Maybe this, too, was normal for Caido. Or maybe it wasn't.
"Sure." Arialla handed the purse over. That wasn't a great trade for her, honestly -- the mermaid's purse was rarer and more valuable than the sea glass, and the rocks didn't really represent adequate compensation for it. But she still wanted to keep on her visitor's good side. Besides, they seemed to really like it, and it was nice to see someone so enthusiastic about her wares. Age: 27 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Nomadic Level: 1 - Strg: 10 - Dext: 11 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 15 - Int:
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05-06-2020, 06:34 AM
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05-06-2020, 11:50 PM
"Oh." The syllable came out flat, almost disgusted. Arialla tried to cover her reaction, but she couldn't help thinking that she regretted her kindness now, knowing this person's affiliation with the goddess who had dragged her from her home. She took a deep breath. Too late to take that back now, and besides, just because she mistrusted the Voice didn't mean she couldn't be civil. Sounding more neutral, she added, "I see. An impressive feat, even for a goddess."
Arialla didn't really mean anything by the words; she just needed something to say so that her negative reaction wasn't the last word on the subject. As they finished the trade, she flashed a quick smile, though a rather cursory and distracted one. "You're welcome. It's all right. The rocks are nice." She spoke out of politeness, not genuine feeling; she slightly regretted the trade now, but she wasn't rude enough to shame the stranger over it. Age: 27 | Height: 5'5" | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Natural | Citizenship: Nomadic Level: 1 - Strg: 10 - Dext: 11 - Endr: 10 - Luck: 15 - Int:
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