Editing LEGACY MAD CITY (section)

=The Bizarre Bazaar=
The Bizarre Bazaar is an Aladdinesque jumble of cloth booths and tents and spread carpets and blankets offering all manner of exotic things for trade. Nearly any goods or services can be found within the Bazaar if the Price can be paid. It is thought that the Bizarre Bazaar is the only constant feature throughout all the ages of the Mad City. 

Rather than being it's own Quarter, pieces of the Bazaar can be found in every Quarter of the Mad City (except Paradox Square). 

Once a character is in the Bazaar, however, it springs whole, its jumbled pieces coming together in a cohesive, if still utterly chaotic realm unto itself. Characters within the confines of the Bazaar will not wander out of those confines until they actively decide to do so. Though it is still anybody's guess which Quarter they will find themselves in upon exiting - unless they have a means of choosing their destination - such things are available at a price. . Characters deliberately keeping hold of one another all come out in the same Quarter.

'''Note:''' There is no guarantee that a character can re-enter the Bazaar at the point they left it, nor is it likely they will find portions of Bazaar in the same place twice within the Quarters. That's just part of how the Bizarre Bazaar keeps itself safe.

The Bazaar is busiest during the '''Thirteenth Hour''' and more pockets of itself will bleed out into the Quarters to attract custom in that Hour than any other.

[For more information on common details of the Bazaar, see pp 49-50 of <u>[http://www.evilhat.com/home/dont-rest-your-head-2/ Don't Rest Your Head]</u> ignoring any reference to the Wax King and his coins as he is not a power in this incarnation of the city].

==Tiny Tim - Pain 13==
Tiny Tim began as the littlest spider of humblest beginings. Legend says he began by selling glass christmas ornaments bundled into a web and hauled on his back, but now he oversees the entirety of the Bizzare Bazaar and himself sells the most expansive line of goods and services throughout the entirety of the Mad City.

These days he is still the littlest spider, but his carapace is gold and his limbs pink, and the blood of the strongest goddess to ever step foot into the Mad City flows in his veins and spins in his many colored webs.

It is rumored he slew the Haggler King to take his place as highest word of the Bizzare Bazaar. Whether this is true or not, it is true that the Haggler King has not been seen in some time.

==The Many Eyed Oracle - Pain 12==
The Oracle is known to reside in a pavilion tent the colors of the setting sun. The Oracle will answer one, and only one, question per Awake if her price is met. It is believed her pavilion is the only truly safe space in all the Mad City . . . from all save herself, of course.

==Old Scratch - Pain ?==
Old Scratch appears as a shrewd, dark haired fellow with amber eyes, perfectly white teeth, and a finely groomed goatee. He is always seen in an impeccable white shirt, and matching vest and trousers of dark worsted wool and a fobbed pocket watch at his flat belly. His black leather shoes shine like glass. 

Old Scratch can only be found in the Bazaar during the ''Thirteenth Hour'' and he will only talk Deals. He wastes time on nothing else. He offers no goods or services, only asks what is desired, then names a price to obtain it. Scratch never fails to fulfill a bargain. But he also never fails to collect its price.

Old Scratch's Pain rating is not known.

A Mad City proverb says, ''"Don't trust anything that Scratch tells you. But believe everything"''

==The Devi - Pain 5==
Manifesting as beautiful women with three eyes and two mouths, the Devi are the handmaidens of Old Scratch, bringing him potential dealers and maintaining those qaspects of sealed deals that are beneath Scratch's notice.

==The Haggler King==
<S>The Haggler King is an Awakened cum Denizen who rules the Bazaar, lets out Places for trade, and keeps the peace. He has no Pain rating, but he has protectors and enforcers enough that this has never mattered. Nothing remains of the Haggler King's exhaustion talent and little of madness.</S>

'''Missing. Presumed slain.'''

====Bookies - Pain 1 (+ Varies)====
Throughout the Bazaar, leatherbound tomes can be found lying open on small Persian style rugs. The books do not speak, but can communicate via writing that scrawls delicately across their blank pages. Bookies offer bets on nearly any occurrence within the Mad City. It offers a Pain rating as Stakes based on the Payout of the bet. If the bettor accepts the stakes, a drop of his blood is required to lock in the bet and the player sets the dice pool and makes the roll.

====Raggle Taggles - Pain 1====
Mischievous denizens of the Bazaar, the Raggle Taggles flit about the crowds in scraps of colorful billowing silks and sashes, never stopping long in any one place, and are ubiquitous simply by virtue of the fact that they are literally everywhere. Though newcomers to the Bazaar might be tempted to worry about thievery, the actual purpose of the Raggle Taggles is more subtle, and often more dangerous. Anyone entering the Bazaar with any permanent madness dice are subject to become a target for their antics.

Converging on their mark in packs to gain the cumulative affect of their Pain, the bulk of them act as a whirling distraction while one of their number places a stolen item on the protagonist's person. Infused with the bizarre madness unique to the Raggle Taggles, the rightful owner of the stolen item immediately knows who has it and believes that ''they'' stole it.

'''Special:''' The First Rule of the Raggle Taggles is Do Not Talk About the Raggle Taggles. Any attempt to describe these ubiquitous denizens of the Bazaar will be met with amused disbelief and appreciation for a fine tale that might earn a mug in a friendlier place than the Mad City. Despite the fact that they seem to be everywhere, apparently only the Awake are aware of them.

====Hagglers - Locals====
More self aware and independent than most of the Denizens of the Mad City because of their lack of a major Nightmare directing the form and direction of the Bazaar, Hagglers are probably the most adept vendors of information and resources available to the Awakened. There is still a price. Always there is a price. But there is little that cannot be had here, and the Hagglers are the ones to provide it.

==The Runner - Pain 7 (9 as swarm)==
The runner is a former Awake who never became a Nightmare but chooses to dwell mostly in the Mad City. The Runner can traverse any surface, flat, angled, straight up and down, even ceilings, and can become a swarm of clockwork insects at will.

The runner is mostly a benign presence in the Mad City as far as the Awake are concerned, but he is constrained by the deal he made with Old Scratch to exist as he does.

====Clockwork Insects====
Delicately wrought of copper, brass, and iron to perfectly resemble and mimic actual insects - flies, roaches, locusts, centipedes - Clockwork Insects can be found in abundance everywhere within the Bizarre Bazaar, flitting about, examining everything, suddenly there and suddenly gone. But it is when they are spotted in the Quarters outside the Bazaar that they are most valuable. If a Clockwork Insect is seen outside the Bizarre Bazaar it means that a hidden entrance to the Bazaar is close at hand. The Awake can use these sightings to escape the Quarter they are in and enter the Bazaar. This does not require a dice roll, merely a willingness to follow the Clockwork Insect where it leads. 

'''Note:''' No point of the Bizarre Bazaar exits into Paradox Square, and Clockwork Insects are unable to lead characters into the City Slumbering, even though it is possible for characters to stumble into when randomly exiting the Bazaar.


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