Coursair Trading Post

[singing_arda]

While the Corsairs are not beyond raiding also are willing to trade goods for gold, silver, gems, or anything generally shiny.

Their goods are quite varied. You'll find nearly anything that can be found on Arda... and even some things not of this world. Need a pair of jeans? roller skates? A lightsaber? Ask them to check the back room.

Aside from their usual bases in Dol Amroth and Havens of Umbar, occasionally they will sail around to the coastal cities and make trade there as well. Remember, these are not the most fair of people; prices are high to begin with, and even higher for a specialty item.

There are two ways you can trade with the corsairs:

1 - Travel to Dol Amroth or The Havens of Umbar: Here you can trade at any time for the standard list of items, or request something specific. Special requests may take time to get their hands on, or may not be found at all.

2 - Occasionally the Corsairs will travel along the coast, or further inland looking for trade. The mods will make an announcement regarding when and where the corsairs be available for trade. At this time you can trade the standard list of items, a set of extra items that are in stock at that time, or request something specific.

Keep in mind that they corsairs are always looking for a trade in their favor, and special requests are often expensive. The negotiation is threaded out OOCly on this page.

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To make a trade proposal with the Corsairs, comment here with the following information:

Character name:
What you're looking to get: (Choose from the list, or make a special request.)
What you can offer in return: (What Item(s) you would freely give in return for your trade?)
What do you have on your person: (Please list any other items found on the character at the time of trade that you would be OOCly willing to part with, in case the corsairs want to haggle.)

<b>Character name:</b> <b>What you're looking to get:</b> (Choose from the list, or make a special request.) <b>What you can offer in return:</b> (What Item(s) you would freely give in return for your trade?) <b>What do you have on your person:</b> (Please list any other items found on the character at the time of trade that you would be OOCly willing to part with, in case the corsairs want to haggle.)

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ALWAYS IN STOCK:

Food: Fruit Herbs Rum Salted Meats Smoked Fish Spices Vegetables Goods: Animal Pelts Bandages Flint Linen Needles & Thread Paper Rope Tallow Soap

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DOL AMROTH & HAVENS OF UMBAR

[singing_arda]

[For trade at the Corsair's bases, available any time unless otherwise noted.

Here you can trade at any time for the standard list of items, or request something specific.]

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2015: LOND DAER, DEEPWOOD, & NOGROD 8/16 - 9/30

[singing_arda]

Extra Stock for August:

Arrows
Aviator Sunglasses
Beach balls
Crocs
Elmer's glue
Markers
Red Bull
Shaving razors
Sun hats
Toilet paper
Twinkies

Limited Quantity:

✘ Elixer
✘ Fever Fudge
✘ Longbow
✘ Strange compass
✘ Suspiciously perfect apple
✘ Survival knife with firestarter
✘ Tent (fits six)

[hallaherald]

Character name: Mahanon Lavellan
What you're looking to get: Aviator Sunglasses
What you can offer in return: One spirit resistance ring. It's silver.
What do you have on your person: He has one more ring if needed, but he'd be less likely to part with two for such a small item.

[singing_arda]

They don't notice the second ring, and they are pretty happy with one ring. It's clear they feel they got the better end of the deal.

Enjoy your sunglasses!

[tshoktharuktha]

Character name: Aztshuktha
What you're looking to get: The knife and firestarter would be good. Also twinkies because hell yes pastries even if they're kind of crappy pastries, but also easy calories are good for travel. He'd definitely be interested in the compass if they advertise its function, although IDK if he has anything valuable enough to entice them to make that trade.
What you can offer in return: Any coins, silverware, other valueable-but-not-survival-critical things he's picked up while exploring around the Nogrod area. Also, copies of his own detailed maps of the Nogrod region and less-detailed maps of the lowlands based on a Nogrod vantage point, since they're new to the area.
What do you have on your person: Lightly-enchanted (in D&D terms I think it was +2 hit/damage) long sword. Whatever survival supplies he's collected around Nogrod.

[singing_arda]

They'll take the coins and silverware for a bunch of twinkies!

They'll consider the survival knife and firestarter for more coins and valuables, but ultimately tell you that they want something more.

Offer 1) They offer to hold onto the knife and firestarter for a while, if you'll go out and find something a little more shiny or go out to find them a small barrel of Longbottom Leaf.

(OOC info: located in Michel Delving or Hobbiton, which you would need to say ICly that you are going there at some point. Nothing huge, just an IC marker.)

Offer 2) Or they will accept a greater amount of coins and valuables for just the knife, and keep the fire starter part for themselves.

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A note on the maps, I (Mark) told you OOCly in answer to your question that the corsairs were new to the area. However they have not expressed that ICly. If you offer the maps, they'll take a quick look and try to put up the front that they know the area and aren't interested.

They would probably try to steal the maps, but fail to find an opening to do so. Az would not be aware of their attempts.

Edit: Please let us know what you decide.

[questionablewit]

Character name: Hawke
What you're looking to get: Beach ball, the strange compass.
What you can offer in return: Coin (I only listed 'A little money', we'll have to figure out how much; knowing Hawke it could be any amount, including gold), two vials of poison (Fell Poison? I'm sorry now I wasn't specific). She'll trade only coin for the beach ball; it's just a beach ball. If the compass interests her enough she'll do more for it, possibly.
What do you have on your person: Elfroot potions. She might be willing to part with one given that there are healers around. Extra knives, less likely.

[singing_arda]

The corsairs don't know how the compass works, but they've figured out that it's too "active" to be broken. That would be as much as they can tell her about it, but they would make it sound foreign, rare, and impressive.

For a beach ball and the strange compass, they'd like one of the following:

Offer 1) A medium-large amount of coin (in value), and 1 fell poison.

Offer 2) Both fell poisons, but they'll throw in another small item of her choice (top list)

Offer 3) One Elfroot potion, and they'll throw in a can of Red Bull, claiming it also has some healing and energizing effects.

Do any of those options work for you or would you like to counter offer?

[arlathvhen]

Character name: Beleth Lavellan
What you're looking to get: Arrows, vegetable seeds, suspiciously perfect apple
What you can offer in return: The pelt / meat of deer or wolves, and if they prefer another animal she can offer to attempt to hunt that animal instead. Elfroot, spindleweed, and embrium, and their seeds. If they're willing to wait, she can offer to come back with poison or healing potions.
What do you have on your person: Her set of armor, bow and quiver with arrows, a lothlorien brooch, a dagger. She also has dried and pressed flowers? She can make them flower crowns if they really want???

[singing_arda]

For the arrows, a few pelts will do.

For the apple, they ask about some seeds from one of plants listed of her choice.

The corsairs don't have vegetable seeds, but they do have vegetables. Would you like some of those instead, or did you mean to make a special request?

[o_is_this_yours]

Character name: Tasslehoff Burrfoot
What you're looking to get: A can of Red Bull (it's neat and shiny!) and/or a pack of Twinkies
What you can offer in return: A few random coins (coppers from Krynn), a fork (swiped from the tavern in Deepwood)
What do you have on your person: Rocks, a spoon that he'd claim can turn the Undead, a very nice chicken feather that he might say is magical (it really isn't but it was magically made...?)

(note: I'm totally okay with her being turned away, it was just too cute to resist trying)

[giftofsilver]

Character name: Celebrían
What you're looking to get: packet of twinkies (she'll also ask them if they ever find a doll that can be Wolfy's friend, if they'll hold it for her)
What you can offer in return: She offers a flower crown she made herself! The flowers are just a little crushed in some places but she added extras to make up for it.
What do you have on your person: She has nothing.

[paleglitter]

Character name: Maedhros
What you're looking to get: needle and thread, arrows, linen
What you can offer in return: animal pelts from various deer and other game in the area.
What do you have on your person: cloak pin from Aman, supplies he's found around the Deepwood, clothes, belt.

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER, LOND DAER, The Captain's Visit

[singing_arda]

Assorted Candy
Chapstick
Coffee Beans
Gatorade
Purple Eye Shadow
Reading glasses in various strengths
Ziplock bags

Limited Quantity:

✘ Alarm Clock
✘ antibiotic pills, one full course.
✘ Cordless Drill (Will function without recharging)
✘ Gunblade (Does not fire projectiles, but causes an extra blast of damage if trigger is pulled at right time.)
✘ Handcuffs

Re: SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER, LOND DAER, The Captain's Visit

[moimin_papa]

Character name: Finland and Tuuri
What you're looking to get: Coffee beans, also special request for liquorice (preferably Finnish liquorice but Fin's past being fussy)
What you can offer in return: up to 3 bottles of vodka, dried herbs (athelas, rosemary, mint, chamomile, thyme and garlic)
What do you have on your person: In order of preference: small amounts of dried berries/apple/rosehips, some small change coins from Finland from 1940 and 2090 and 1 pair of army issue snow shoes.

[espigeonage]

Character name: Julien Sakazaki
What you're looking to get: The antibiotic pills and the drill. Also, special requests! Scissors. And general medical supplies more advanced than the ones from Minas Tirith. He's particularly interested in syringes, the kinds that can flush a wound or deliver an oral dose but injection types too, and ways to take someone's temperature.

and if he gets to talking he may express a desire for a chaise longue/sofa bed/mamasan/furniture he can really use. Julien would also like to ask how these items are obtained and he has a little ability to read people - no one will tell him how, but do the people he could ask even know?
What you can offer in return: Random coins and jewelry and an engraved silver handmirror from Minas Tirith. A blue-black cloak with very tiny crosses of glowing spidersilk stitched into it. Humans have to be pretty close to see them, and they resembles stars a bit. Julien can offer similar embroidery for other cloth, but not while anyone is watching.
What do you have on your person: Julien flew over with a pack on and left most of his stuff in the Deepwood. Aside from the above and like food and water he only brought a few feet of glowing silk in a bobbin, some needles, and the inlaid box he brought the jewelry in.

[questionablewit]

Character name:
What you're looking to get: The Butterfly Sword (note that it's not actually a very good sword, just a weird shiny gimmick), possibly a ziplock bag.
What you can offer in return: Money, any herbs or odds and ends gathered up in Annuminas and Michael Delving, a promise to look for things inland where corsairs don't go themselves and give them first opportunity for trade (and she does have a profound knack for finding Odd Things)
What do you have on your person: More money, but nothing else for this. It's for a gag wedding present, not something she's willing to trade a lot for.

[horns_up]

Character name: the Iron Bull
What you're looking to get: a halla (and perhaps a 'halla' that isn't really one, in the process)
What you can offer in return: Ongoing collaboration - working inland in areas the corsairs don't generally go
What do you have on your person: Some hobbit tchotchkes from Michel Delving

[singing_arda]

As discussed on plurk:

The corsairs like the idea of sending Bull on errands for them, and will try to get their hands on a Halla.

Being so hard to find, in one weeks' time they will try to pass off an albino moose for the Halla. Obviously this won't work. In an additional two weeks, they will bring back the Halla for real. (You may keep the moose, the corsairs have no use for it.)

Not every task from the Corsairs needs to be plotted with the mods, but for Bull's first assignment they'll ask him to grab whatever shinies he can from Fornost. They seem reluctant to go there themselves for some reason...

[arlathvhen]

Character name: Beleth Lavellan
What you're looking to get: Mallorn seeds
What you can offer in return: A necklace of dexterity, a ring of health, a collection of various herbs from Thedas, and pelts / meat.
What do you have on your person: The only other things she has are her weapons, armor, and her hart--none of which she'd be eager to give up. If none of the items are enough, however, she's willing to work with them--if they have something they want that she can get a hold of, she'll be willing to give it a go.

[singing_arda]

Hi there - is Beleth near Dol Amroth or the Havens of Umbar? I thought she was still in Deepwood but admittedly I am a bit out of the loop.

If she is near one of the bases, please use this thread.

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2016: LOND DAER, ANNUMINAS, MINAS TIRITH 1/16 - 2/29

[singing_arda]

Cake mix
Candles
Candy (Text in Westron, Sindarin and Khuzdul)
Flanel fabric
Socks
Teddy Bears with hearts
Tins of Tea

Limited Quantity:

Box of Beef Jerky
Box of Chocolates
Cards & Temporary Tatoo kit
Casserole dish
"Entertaining" blue pills x5
Heart Locket (You are warned not to open it.)
Stethoscope

am i doing this right

[elfstoned]

Character name: Aaron Strider
What you're looking to get: The stethoscope, and I wouldn't be adverse to one of those "BITCH YOU IS FINE" bears thrown in. He'd also inquire about blue jeans, or similar cloth pants that are tougher than normal but aren't, you know, leather. Bonus points if they're too small for him but would fit Arwen
What you can offer in return: Weed, athelas, spider-silk thread of both glowing and non-glowing varieties.
What do you have on your person: Ha, nothing he'd be willing to trade for. The ring of Barahir, Anduril, the Lorien-cloak, all of those are important. He's got the other clothes on his back and the horse he rode in on, plus its tack. I don't know, maybe a pouch of other healing herbs.

Oh dear merciful everything, Kaito wants that chocolate

[stealsyourheart]

Character name: Kaito Kuroba
What you're looking to get: the chocolate
What you can offer in return: Kaito is almost but not quite willing to trade his first born child for that chocolate but more realistically, he has playing cards, multicoloured scarves, smoke bombs and sleeping gas that he'd be willing to trade. Or, if you want to play this for something odd, he would be QUITE happy to play poker with them for the chocolate. Warning, he cheats.
What do you have on your person: He has so much. SO MUCH. The torch, lockpicks, card gun (& ammo), his pidgeons, alternative outfit and roses he won't trade for anything, but if they can do anything with glitter, tiny flags, makeup, hair dye, or defunct miniature camera bugs he can be talked around.

[espigeonage]

Character name: Julien
What you're looking to get: Tea tins, some of the heart candy.

Special request, via Beleth: Mallorn seeds. Not for him, but he wants to know if they can get their hands on any and what they'd want for them.
What you can offer in return: Copper bits, trinkets, miscellaneous coins and jewelry picked up from here and there. A tiny corked bottle with a coiled braid of glowing amber-stained spider silk inside, on a cord so it makes a necklace. Which glows gold. He'll say he's reluctant to part with that one.
What do you have on your person: Like last time: Julien flew over with a pack on and left most of his stuff in the Deepwood. Aside from the above and like food and water he only brought a few feet of glowing silk in a bobbin, and some needles.