The Queen’s Square

He who does not mind purchasing used equipment or spending a while searching for the right items does best to shop at the market on the Queen’s Square.
Every morning there is an awful racket as the vendors start building their stands and stalls, but before long the commerce can commence.
It is filled with quarreling over prices, fights over specific items and sometimes spontaneous auctions are held when more than one customer want to get a hold of the same item.
At the northeastern corner of the square the drug and herb peddlers sell their dried and fresh components, along with ready-brewed elixirs. Some produce elixirs on demand, at times covering the whole square in spicy mists.
The downside with shopping at the market is primarily that pick-pockets revel in the crowds. Most feared is the gang called the Free League. Not that anyone can claim to know that the League truly exists; it could just as well be several different gangs or some single, very capable individual.
But what is certain is that Thistle Hold in general and the Queen’s Square in particular is plagued by mugging sprees at irregular intervals, where hundreds of persons are robbed during the course of a day. The victims never notice anything of the theft itself, but afterwards they all find a small red stone medallion in the shape of a deformed, screaming face in the pocket or the bag from which the items have been taken.
It is said that one of the captains of the Town Watch, Tallios, has been tasked to handle the situation, but that he himself has been robbed of two purses while searching for the elusive Free League.

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