In the Market of the Klackon Spire

North-east of the great harbor of Cothon, rising up over the headlands that stand over the Sea of Dirac, the great ancient and artificial mountain Tel al Safina looms over both the Dual-Cities and the ruins of Tsurr al Qadim.

And on the northern slopes of the Tel rises the Great Spire of the Attines, a huge Klackon spire-city surrounded by the terraced gardens that supply its undergarden with the vegetation required to rot for the fungal foodstuffs of the ant-like Klackons--terraces worked by human slaves, overseen by mantis-like insectoid Klackon warriors.

Within the Spire, a veritable city of the Klackons is held--completely separate from the Dual-Cities and the Klackon-human alliance that literally built Cothon-Gadeed--a city traditionally aloof from the worries of the Xholda-Klackons of Cothon, or of their human allies in Cothon. As reported by the Surviors of the Tel and other barbarian-adventurers who have ventured into the Spire's center, as one steps into the middle of the great Spire, one looks upon a market square as great as the Grand Souk of Cothon itself, a wide space with a great fountain in its center, surrounded on each side by the "manors" of the Six Houses, all grown over by decorative fungal growths that glow with an illuminative dim blue light. Meanwhile Alkari and shanu'u and dlakolel hover and buzz through the air above.

And in the square, just as in the Grand Souk of Cothon, merchants offer wares--wares traded from House to House, and between Klackon and Alkari, and sold sometimes to human interlopers from the hinterlands, or such as the Bani al Rashids who traditionally took interest in the Attine-Klackons.

Now, it has been several weeks since the Survivors and their comrades "cleansed" the Attine Sixth House, destroying an infestation of strange parasitical creatures that had made their home within the manor, and killed all Klackon life in the same House. Following a kind of alliance between these Survivors and the Fifth House of the Spire, and the Survivors' subsequent success in "cleansing" the Sixth House, the Attine council of Princesses has agreed to open their market to the presence of the Survivors, and other barbarian-adventurers of like-ilk.

betel leaf and areca nut set out for chewing

Therefor, if one should venture from Cothon out the Gate of Fishermen, climb the headland, and seek access to the Great Spire, one would find one's way into the Market of the Klackons, and there find such goods for sale:

Price	Item
1 sp / "dose"	betel (a mild stimulant of areca-nuts wrapped in leaves for chewing)
100 gp / "pelt"	dlakolel-fur -- "true black", its darkness never fades
75 gp / "pair"	dlakolel mandibles -- for a helmet-crest, or other decoration
150 gp / shell	true-black dlakolel chitin (used for ceremonial shields by Klackons)
1 ep / pint 30 gp / martaba	mold-beer (ea. House has its own particular brew) (a martaba is 10 gallons)
50 gp / jug	sujamma (distilled mold beer)
20 gp / week	drant pemmican (powdered insects mixed with dried fungus and fat); lasts longer than iron rations, more nutritious
2 gp / pint 100 gp/martaba	soured mold-beer (soured by bacta strains, purported to be a healthful drink)
1 gp / 1' length	Klackon silkrope
varies	various alchemical ingredients, price according to the proposed project
15 gp / dose	probiotic proxx-sludge -- +1 on saves v. poison or disease  if eaten weekly
10 gp	Alkari bolas (1 damage, plus chance to entangle enemy)
3 gp	wedge of hard shanu'u-milk cheese -- a delicacy!
2 gp / dart	Alkari plumbata (war-darts; 1d3 d. can be thrown 3/rd with training)
varies	woven feather dream-catcher, sold by an Alkari mystic
500+ gp	scrimshawed shanu'u-bone ocarina or flute (higher price for finer art)

A possible use of dlakolel mandibles and/or chitin

This is not a limited-time offer, but the Klackon Market is now open to barbarian-adventurers based out of Cothon-Gadeed. Quantities are only limited according to reasonability, same as the specialty items offered by the Four Great Taverns ...