Midnight Market/Mechanics

The Midnight Market serves less as a structured game and more as a roleplay-driven background event. It provides players with a reason to explain how they acquired certain materials, connections, or abilities in-game. Think of it as a tool for developing backstory or explaining how characters improved their resources, influence, or even how they gained access to specialized items or services.

Goals

• Network: Forge alliances, gain access to new contacts or resources.
• Acquire Goods: Buy or trade for rare or illegal items.
• Arrange Services: Hire specialists, whether it's assassins, information brokers, or bodyguards.
• Gather Forbidden Knowledge: Seek out mystical tomes, occult relics, or forbidden secrets.
• Gain Influence: Use the market to leverage deals that improve influence in politics, the underworld, or society at large

Details

• RP'ing here could be a reason to buy up Influence, or add a new Contact, or even Allies. But nothing is free.
• Magic items - again - unless there is a plot and someone oocly creates a magic item - they get nothing. It cannot just be purchased. You can broker a deal with another PC that is a crafter, but unless there is a specific plot that is pre-approved by staff /and/ someone oocly creates it with their own stats (does not have to be the person getting it or even running the plot - this is to see how luck favors the strength of some types of items), then they do not get a special magic item.
• This could be a place to be able to purchase books that then can be reflected in the Library (or Occult Library) Background as well.
• Mundane items, like a real life book that does not have inherit magic properties is possible to pick up. Illegal weapons - that most likely can be a reason to submit a +equip request.
• Trading of Lores is up to the PCs to teach each other - this will not be a way to get any Lore for free. Of course, this could end up with some Risk involved, especially if Vampires find out the masq was broken about them, or the Shifters if they find out the Veil was broken about them.
• Any other item that would be illegal that is not magical is probably fair game - but ask if there is any question.

Examples

• Need a place for your character to buy illegal goods or black-market items but can’t find a specific IC contact? The Midnight Market.
• Need a location for your character to quietly meet a dangerous contact the night before? The Midnight Market.
• Want to hire someone for an illicit or morally questionable job but don’t know where to look IC? The Midnight Market.
• Need a place to secure arcane relics, supernatural favors, or forbidden knowledge? The Midnight Market.
• Want to secretly broker a deal or arrange a discreet hit on someone IC? The Midnight Market.
• Need an explanation for how your character gained rare resources, influence, or contacts in the underworld? The Midnight Market.
• Looking to explain how your character met a shadowy figure or made a connection with another player off-screen? The Midnight Market.