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Spell Scrolls
Sypha will happily and excitedly tell you she's a Speaker Magician, and as such has some control over the elements. She has spell scrolls for sale. Single use only! She has a few spells pre-written out, but might be persuaded to go the extra mile and transcribe something custom for you, if it's within the scope of her abilities. As payment, Sypha accepts secrets... about you or others in Beacon.

Fire Balls. Summons half a dozen fist sized fire balls that circle you and can be launched individually or all together at foes. Or friends, if you must be like that. Please don't be like that.

Ice Construct. Encase an enemy inside a block to freeze them temporarily, build a bride, pay for a wall, make a pane so thin and sharp it slizes through practically anything, make a pole for some poor fool to lick, freeze small-ish areas of water, make an igloo. Not big enough to build an entire castle. Can build a very frozen snow man. Lasts up to an hour or until you drop the spell.

Whirlwind. Use gusts of air that can carry you up and through the air (careful application is encouraged so as not to catapult yourself into the lake through sheer velocity), soften your landing or knock over people. Wearing a skirt with this is not recommended, but has proven to be hilarious.

Skill Books
Sypha has a collection of small note books infused with specific knowledge. Now, the books are not for sale... but their contents are. You can absorb the contents of one of these books to gain a new skill - tanning, carpentry, caligraphy, sword fighting, cooking, first aid, fishing, specific languages, peotry, sowing... to name but a few. Just ask what you want to learn, and she will check if she has it available. Perhaps there are even some more esoteric or unusual skills you could gain this way...

The catch? In order to gain a skill, you have to give up a skill.

While the night market lasts, a new skill absorbed from a book sits on hand and forearm like an elaborate black ink tattoo, strange, swirling symbols - but the book you absorbed this from has gained new writing through the skill with which you paid. As long as the night market lasts, you can trade your skill back to Sypha... unless, of course, someone else already absorbed it. Then you might have to hope they trade it back in or seek them out to broker a deal. If you don't want to - or can't - trade the skill back, it becomes permanent a permanent gain and loss after the night market.

Sypha has to agree to the trade. The more specific and high value the skill is, the more you have to pay for it, too. Perhaps she could even be persuaded to transcribe you one of those spell scrolls into a skill book... but you'd have to give up a really valuable skill of your own for that, so better make a damn good offer.

Memory Jars
Unassuming, but beautifully <a href="https://i.etsystatic.com/19001231/r/il/c84444/1861700317/il_570xN.1861700317_g2rs.jpg">decorated jars</a> that can magically evoke a memory any time it's opened. Do you want the scent of the bouquet your secret admirer gave you that one hazy summer night, when you didn't think you could ever be happy? Do you want to close your eyes and feel your mother's embrace? Do you want to hear your spouse whisper 'I love you' into your ear? It's all possible, no matter how hazy it is to your recollection - magic can reproduce it fully. Sypha can enchant the jar with whatever memory you wish, in as much detail as you wish, for you to indulge in whenever you need something to keep you going, to lift your heart in this dark place, and provide the comfort of things your death forced you to leave behind.

To get a memory to come alive like that on tap, you'll have to open your heart, and share a story very dear to you with Sypha. Speakers, she tells you, are all about bearing witness, collecting knowledge and telling stories to others. What you tell her must be true, and it must be real, and it must move you greatly. You don't have to recount the memory you want bottled - but you have to share something with her that is yours, and that is deep and worthwhile and true. Tell her your story, open your mind and offer up your heart... and she will bottle their contents for you.

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