[Musica Mundana]
Plush crimson velvet couches are scattered about the room for those that
wish to relax as they browse the merchandise. A faint soothing melody is heard
from behind the sheer curtain, encouraging you to step within, while a
nondescript door of jalumin enters a dimly-lit niche.
You also see a high table with a hurdy-gurdy and a chudu-gut bagpipe on it, a
modest pedestal with a glockenspiel case on it, Alae Ebaia and an informative
sign.
You notice an exit leading out.
An informative sign reads:
All of the fabulous instruments you'll find here are of remarkable historical
value and available in finite numbers, reflected by their sale value; some, it's
rumored, are even capable of magnificent powers.
The Management expresses its gratitude in your interest in these testaments to
ingenuity of time and music.
On a high table: On a modest
pedestal: [Musica Mundana, Divine Sounds]
• a hurdy-gurdy - $12000
• a chudu-gut bagpipe with ornamented pipes - $14000
The strings of the hurdy-gurdy are not actually bowed or
plucked, but stroked by a coarse rotating disk. The instrument is more
commonly recognized as that used by archaic human organ-grinders.
This appears to be a stringed instrument.
This appears to be a wind instrument.
• a glockenspiel case - $24000
The glockenspiel creates a rarefied chiming sound when its
bars are struck.
It is worn on or around the chest or upper body.
Decorated in a practical and spartan fashion, this otherwise drab room of gray
walls and black carpeting is punctuated only by displays and a tinkling, ambient
music piped in from some unknown source.
You also see an altar to Ateon crafted from saifbraelsh branches with a whittled
syrinx on it, an open eteoch mouth worked from stone and a miniature gilded
throne with a lap harp on it.
You notice an exit leading out.
• a whittled arcing syrinx bound with
jade-green twine - $62000
This appears to be a wind instrument.
• an earthenware goblet drum stretched with eteoch skin - $58000
This appears to be a rhythm instrument.
• a pristine lap harp ornamented with a handwrought wooden crown - $68000
This appears to be a stringed instrument.
[Musica Mundana, Martial Instruments]
Resembling an anthropological exhibit more than a common-variety shop, the walls
have been painted with murals depicting minstrels, musicians, and other
performers standing resolute in the face of encroaching enemies. Small spotlamps
on the floor cast beams of light on each instrument represented on display. A
simple door is the only exit.
You also see a display case, a display case, a display case, a display case, a
display case and a display case.
You see no obvious exits here.
(Details of the weapons can be found at the bottom of the page)
• a lacquered black hardwood veilo-yoa -
$30000
• a hefty silvered aikai with copper strings and polished blade - $45000
This wooden Alterian flute is easily recognized by the
exaggerated notches and grooves along the length that also serve as grips in
the event of a situation requiring melee activity on the part of its
possessor.
This appears to be a wind instrument.
Polearms and
Spears. 2-handed
Average quality and workmanship.
Decent blunt damage
Not suitable for piercing and slashing attacks.
• a znumuz war drum - $39000
The aikai, an Eolain design, is a four-stringed instrument
much like a lute, with a sharpened flat metal slat attached for balance...
as well as combat.
This appears to be a stringed instrument.
Bladed weapons. 1-handed.
Average quality and workmanship.
Poor blunt/good piercing/good slashing damage
• a long raganumo carved from a chudu horn - $44000
The choice of Darjuan martial cadence drummers, more than one
enemy force has come to fear the painful effect of the large rivets that
secure the skins to the drum when used as a weapon.
This appears to be a rhythm instrument.
Blunt weapons. 1-handed.
Average quality and workmanship.
Decent blunt / fairly low piercing and slashing damage.
• a handpainted berimbau - $36000
This slowly-spiraling horn instrument found its roots in
the hands of early Jaddan herders who used it to alert others of predators,
as well as fend them off.
This appears to be a wind instrument.
Exotic weapons. 2-handed
Average quality and workmanship.
Spectacular blunt / poor piercing / bone-crushing slashing damage
• a tautly-hooded shii - $28000
A human invention, the berimbau finds its origin in the
standard bows of primitive hunters. Its single string is struck with a stick
in one hand while the other changes tension on the body to alter pitch.
This appears to be a stringed instrument.
Blunt weapons (Melee)/ Archery. 2-handed
Average quality and workmanship. Arrows for ammunition.
Insignificant blunt damage / Not suitable for piercing & slashing attacks /
Very good damage when fired.
A favorite of Alterian throwers, the shii is constructed
by stretching hide over its flattened interior frame in a form of 'hood'.
Cutting edges around the rim allow it to be thrown like a chakram.
Bladed weapons. 1-handed
Average quality and workmanship.
Fairly low blunt / weak piercing / decent slashing damage.