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 Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:31 pm
The 5th planet in the Phyrexian solar system. Phyrexia being the second, Rath being the 3rd and a small uninhabitable planet being the 4th. Mercadia was the 2nd planet conquested by Yawgmoth's empire and is it's key asset. Mercadia is laid out like the old Earth. One giant continent covers 45% of the planet's surface while the rest is massive ocean and small island chains. In the center of this continent lies a city as large as Earth's Australia. It is within this city that the real gems of Mercadia lie. For it is one massive galactic marketplace. Every evolved planet has a portal to Mercadia and every planet that has a portal to Mercadia has a shop or stand set up to sell their planets goods to the others.
Native to Mercadia are quite a few races, the Kyren goblins which secretly run the magistrate of the center city and marketplace. The Saparzzan pirates which rule over the island chains and try to plunder any ships setting outward from Mercadia's main city. The Cateran mercenaries which sell Mercadia's most profitable resource, slave labor. Above the city past the mountain chain lies the massive Rushwood forest where those who worship Mercadia's god Ramos reside and live a life free from the spoils of marketplace.
Sometime after the conquest of Rath Yawgmoth bought control of Mercadia and it's central galactic marketplace from the Kyren goblins. The fact that the goblins and phyrexia control Mercadia is unknown to all Mercadians except the Cateran who are just as underhanded as Yawgmoth and his children can be. It is one of the best kept secrets of Yawgmoth's empire.
The Rules of Mercadia
1. If you don't have a way to get here (i.e. through riftstone portals that lead to it) You can't get to it and therefore can't post here. Space travel does not work because the Phyrexian solar system is millions of light years away from Earth's solar system.
2. If you are here, you will mostly be in the marketplace. You may make up what your character finds/buys here. Use your imagination.
3. The NPCs that matter (Kyren, Saparazzan, Cateran, and Rushwoods) will be played by me. All the people in the marketplace can be played by whoever's posting in this thread.
4. No blowing up the marketplace.
5. Refer to rule number 1 yet again.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:32 pm
Appearing with a flash of heated air at the edge of the vast world market came Yawgmoth with Ziven not too far behind. The air hung thick with the smell of the sea as the specific place they were wasn't too far from the vast oceans of the planet. Wrinkling his nose a little bit as he looked forward into the crowds he seethed the word "People..." quietly. For all of his strength he was incredibly anti-social. Xenophobic almost towards large masses of people. To him they were just cattle, to be eaten and killed at the slightest provocation by the stronger beings. Namely himself. Unfortunately with his soon to be wife with him, he'd have to play nice he thought. As nice as he could stand that is. "This" he said smiling over to her "Is the grand market of Mercadia. If there's anything you want, chances are at least 3 or 4 stores are selling it. You can quite literally find anything here. One of the reasons we...worked a little magic a long long time ago and control this most valuable resource." he remarked with a bit of an egotistic grin.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:44 pm
She smiled and bobbed her head, sticking close to him, wanting to feel safe. Much like he, she did not like being in different places with new people, especially not throngs of people. However, she too would make a sacrifice in order to at least get good ideas if not find a perfect ring. "Most excellent, I look forward to seeing the options so I may better understand. I only have observed a few with rings that are for marriage." she said softly, smiling brightly and looking up to him before being ready to move on forward. "You have done this before?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:48 pm
Yawgmoth shook his head back and forth causing his hair to toss slightly. "Not quite. You see...what we had with Crow wasn't anything you'd call...normal. We did love her, she did love us, but we didn't do things like..normal couples. Not like the two of us do. Perhaps that is why it failed hm? And why we will not?" he said sliding his arm around her shoulder and hugging her close beginning to make the walk into the market. A few rude people just making their way bumped into his opposite side causing him to growl slightly. But, looking over to her calmed him down. Which was probably a good thing seeing as if he'd been here alone those people would've lost limbs or lives.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:00 pm
"I would not know of such a thing. Though .. I have received jewelry but three times in my life .. one was the ring you gave me. Which I wonder, now that I think of it .. would you like it back? Since I am able to travel as you do .. I do not truly need it any longer and I do wonder if it is perhaps unwise to allow it to remain in creation." she said softly, looking up to him with wide eyes, smiling, cheeks blushing just a little as she thought of everything.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:05 pm
"Keep it, even if you don't wear it. As a memento. You do know what that is right?" he asked quirking his eyebrow to her. He kept his eyes however scanning the market for some place that would sell that kind of jewelery as well as keeping a look on her to stop from strangling some random passerby. It was at this point that one of the more disgusting looking of mercadia's inhabitants brushed by them and whistled at Ziven, even going so far as to smack the backside of her butt when he walked by. His attire and crude demeanor coupled with the fact that he didn't look like he'd showered in a week gave Yawgmoth a huge clue as to his affiliation. "Cateran filth.." he said quietly as tail snapped back and tripped the man latching onto his ankle. Though he usually liked to keep a very low profile on things especially in such big masses this kind of thing wouldn't go unnoticed or..unpunished.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:31 pm
She smiled and nodded. "It is an item that you should keep for the good memories of an event or person." she said proudly as they continued moving. The attention she was getting, like always, was falling on her deaf ears, dismissing it as normal actions between all the others there. "Personally I prefer silver, I believe. And I would believe it would be wonderful for you also. However, if you do prefer gold, please say the word, I will look at the gold more. I recall there are many other metals that have similar colors to the silver or gold .. though I should probably stop speaking for now until we find the jewelry store as .." she stopped abruptly whens he felt the touch of another, tripping slightly in her step but still moving forward as she looked back with an upset expression to see who had done this and seeming searching for an answer as to why they had done that. Seeing what Yawg did as a result, she blushed more and clung tighter to his arm, looking down, feeling guilty. She had no idea what to say, though, so she said nothing.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:48 pm
Yawgmoth's tail drug the man along the floor of the market who tried to stand up multiple times only to fail, screaming to let him go if 'you know whats good for you' and other nonsense. A few of his 'friends' dressed in similar dark leather clothing looking like they too hadn't showered in a week or so with the same grungy appearance. "Now now gentlemen. You should know better than that. How to treat a lady properly at least, do any of you?" he asked aloud as people quickly avoided them knowing that a fight was likely to break out soon between Yawgmoth and the four or five Cateran men. "Oh we'll treat her real nice after we're done with you pig" the one on the ground said as he scrambled to his feet. The Dark Titan's tail slid along the floor for a moment. "Is that so...". A sadistic smile split his face and his tail snapped up impaling the man through the lower jaw coming out of the top of the his skull killing him in an instant. Laughing his tail slung around the side Ziven wasn't on and tossed the corpse at his friends. "You have three seconds to run in terror for your lives or we will end your miserable parasitic existences one. by. one. Ready? One." he said starting to count as the rest of the men blinked and turned around and ran as fast as they could through the crowds of people away from the two of them. "Are you alright my dear?" he said looking down to Ziven. Hoping that she didn't get too disgusted with this whole thing. After all, he could've mutilated all of them instead opting only to off one.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:17 pm
She squeaked, looking around more as others were looking, shocked at his reaction. When he addressed her again, she looked up to him for a moment with a mixture of surprise and upset before flinging her arms around his waist and burying her face against him. She knew if she spoke immediately, she would say something stupid, so she clung to him, lovingly. Though she did not fully approve of how extreme his actions were, she appreciated the sentiment of his actions greatly.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:40 pm
Gripping her tightly he vanished with Ziven, taking them not away but far away in the market from where they had been so people wouldn't be staring. "Much better" he said as they appeared in another district. His eyes gazed around for a jewelry store. "Hmmm where to start.." he said leaning down to kiss the top of her head. The part of the market they were in now was much less crowded than the place they'd just been in allowing him to sneak things like that in from time to time.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:51 pm
She looked up to him when they appeared again and smiled, inhaling deeply. Using magic, she ensured he was clean again before nodding a bit and smiling more brightly. "Thank you for keeping me safe and .. acting on my behalf. I appreciate it, very much. " she said softly, clinging to him again for a moment, nuzzling against him before releasing him and moving to a position that would make it easy for them to continue moving. "We will begin with the first we see and we will go on to the next if we are not satisfied and continue to do so until we are." she said with a giggle. "Or until we grow tired of such action."
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:02 am
"Keeping you safe?" he jested "We were just showing them that no one is allowed to touch you there but us" he whispered quietly before laughing a little. "We're kidding obviously, of course we were looking out for your safety. Not that we think you couldnt've handled that yourself if you had to. And we think that sounds like the best plan." he replied back nodding in agreement.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:12 am
"What is the phrase? The thoughts are what are counted?" she said softly, smiling and nodding a bit. "Even though I could stand for myself against these people, I am very grateful that you are here to do so." she said sweetly, looking shy again. Finding the first building that was showing it was selling jewelry. "Oh, we found one!" she said with a giggle, gesturing toward the building.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:48 pm
Turning his eyes around the market to where she'd pointed he tilted his head and shrugged. "As much as we're both aware that you can defend yourself, what kind of husband would we be if we didn't stick up for your well being hmm?" he asked gently moving in the direction of the store. This kind of shopping reminded him that he didn't get out much, nor had he paid a personal visit to Mercadia in quite a long long time.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:14 pm
"You would be a wonderful husband whom is fully aware that his precious wife is not so fragile asto be unable to care for herself." she said softly, blushing deeply and covering her face a little with her free hand as she was feeling incredibly flattered and shy from this discussion. Inhaling deeply, she tried to calm herself more so she could actually look up to him.
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