The four argue for a while about the merits of drinking in the morning, then Gregor nods to the bartender, and they walk out into the street.
The first passerby are hurrying along, and a guard wearing the black robes of House Voronoi is strolling casually up the street, his heavy bardiche resting on his shoulder and his arquebus slung across his back.
The Lesser Market is a better place for buying supplies and utilities than the Kagan's Market: the latter is mostly for expensive goods meant for noblemen and rich artisans. So the four walk down the street (Gregor taking a few swigs from the bottle he took with him), take the turn to Tanners' Street (awful smell) and then follow it to where the Lesser Market stands on the riverfront.
It's a gigantic kidney-shaped square that hugs a bend in the Chol, filled with wooden merchant stalls. There is a considerable amount of people here already, and the merchants are hawking their wares in the typical Vratgradian manner - overly dignified. "Would you consider trying our fine salt fish, good sir?"
In the wake of all this excitement about the Host, a significant section of the square has been dedicated solely to traveling wares. Dried meat, smoked meat, salt cod, alcohol, tents, bedrolls, staves, axes, gunpowder and ammunition - all is here. A few stalls are selling weapons and steel armor, but they're of low quality - everybody knows that if you want a new sword, Steelwrights' Street is where you need to go.
In another corner, livestock is being sold - pigs, chickens, the occasional cow. It seems that draft animals are sold somewhere else, because you don't see anything except a wretched-looking mule. It's hard to make a mule look beaten down by Fate, but this one's owner apparently managed it. It manages a single sad little bray as the four walk by, then sighs in apparent defeat.
The rest of the market is dedicated to furs, trinkets, household implements, fresh foodstuffs - not the sort of thing you would take with you on a trek through the wilderness. There's a wide assortment of things, though, and if one needs anything specific, it's probably possible to find it here.
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Topic: The Host of Vratgorod: Setting Out (Read 1881 times)