Each day at Mercado Vagante, there is a different aspect available for purchase and hire. On each day, the librarian may similarly present a soul-element with a matching aspect to work.
Worldly Insight
Start Description: <sprite name=lantern> A vendor of particularly arcane and avant-garde wares finds it difficult to explain their uses to the too-dazzled marketgoers. I could help enlighten customers into paying, and she could reward my efforts. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: They don’t quite understand everything I have to say, but they understand enough to see the value in these works. Almost everything is sold at the day’s end, and her eyes and teeth are bright with gratitude. Only after she disappears from sight can I find myself able to leave.
Effects: Medio Sol, Memory: Revelation
Steady Repairs
Start Description: <sprite name=forge> A foolhardy driver managed to get an autobus through the rocky roads up to La Espinada. While it survived the drive, the engine appears to have given out. I’m no mechanic, but I can offer a bit of my knowledge of metal and fire. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: The autobus starts up with a lion’s growl, and the driver thanks me profusely with oil-flecked hands. The coin, thankfully, is stain free, gleaming like sunset.
Effects: Medio Sol , Memory: Foresight
Forceful Discipline
Start Description: <sprite name=edge> No one is in charge of Mercado Vagante, and so no one can singlehandedly settle its disputes. The conflict is inevitable, but I could help mediate the violence, to ensure neither merchant nor merchandise are unduly damaged. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: Wills are tested, patience is strained, but the market closes down with everything more or less intact. The vendors are grumbling, but El Zorzal slips me pay with a wink. ‘For keeping my hands clean,’ he whispers.
Effects: Medio Sol, Memory: Contradiction
Mortuary Services
Start Description: <sprite name=winter> A supplier of mountaineering goods uncovered a snow-chilled body in the slopes today. She’s working to identify them and their cause of death. I could provide informed assistance as a Librarian of the Haustorium. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: One more name rescued from the cold depths of oblivion. And one more price paid for daring to walk them.
Effects: Sol de Oro, Bittersweet Certainty
Strength in Unity
Start Description: <sprite name=heart> A small caravan is struggling to pack up newly-acquired goods onto their llamas. Any help I can provide would warrant compensation. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: Beneath the dulcet tones of their songs, the work went by quickly. Their money is warm in my palm, and I find myself humming long after their departure.
Effects: Medio Sol, Cheerful Ditty
Connoisseur of Delights
Start Description: <sprite name=grail> A purveyor of luxury goods has offerings from nearly every continent on display. While they draw potential buyers close, its exotic nature appears to intimidate them. Should I act as an interested customer and sample some to show them as safe, he may appreciate the surge of purchases. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: My tongue is flushed with flavor and my nose is swathed in sweet and my fingers thrum with thirst. The money is not enough to sate any of these, but it is something to keep and feel regardless.
Effects: Medio Sol, Memory: Satisfaction
Left to Chance
Start Description: <sprite name=moth> No one needs help, yet opportunity hangs in the air. Perhaps gamblers hide behind heavy cloth. Perhaps I will stumble over a lost rarity. Who knows? [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: I come into more money than usual - I don’t quite recall how - fresh paper bills and a single stray coin. Before I can leave, something snatches the bills from my hand. A silent thief? A puckish wind? I do not catch a glimpse of the perpetrator. As I depart, I hear whispers of counterfeit money. The coin I have left could be one of them. Yet I know - I know it must be real.
Effects: Medio Sol, Memory: Impulse
Open Secrets
Start Description: <sprite name=knock> Secrets are their own form of currency. There are always a few who come to La Espinada, hoping to find some in the shadow of the Haustorium. I won’t share anything substantial, not if I want to maintain my position as Librarian, but a few crumbs of gossip can feed many minds… and give great returns. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: Even if all these stories weren’t true, they could have been, and any half-truths are worth paying for when no respectible library would dare speak of them.
Effects: Sol de Oro, Memory: Pattern
Proper Bookkeeping
Start Description: <sprite name=sky> A glass artist needs help balancing his books - financially, not physically. If I lend my expertise, I can earn some payment - finanically and physically.[Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: The dates are ordered and the monies accounted for. Numbers and equations have amassed in my mind like cobwebs, but they will be gone by tomorrow, and my pay will remain.
Effects: Sol de Oro, Memory: Storm
Local Guidance
Start Description: <sprite name=rose> A fledgling tourist wishes to view the remarkable vistas around La Espinada, and is willing to pay for a traveled guide. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: There are those who dream of sights, and those who take them. My client, luckily, is neither of these, and gladly pays for those I’ve shown him.
Effects: Sol de Oro, Memory: Gossip
Curious Horticulture
Start Description: <sprite name=nectar> A florist has a particularly unruly specimen amongst his stock, one seeking nutritions in living bodies instead of the earth. I could help him tame the thing, or at least transplant it somewhere it will do little harm - to humans, anyway. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: My wrists are bruised where its roots pulled tight, my finger is pricked where its thorns bit deep, but the danger of the flower is gone. The florist offers a cutting alongside my pay, which I refuse; the Haustorium is drenched green enough already.
Effects: Sol de Oro, Earth-Sign
Stout Groundwork
Start Description: <sprite name=scale> Sometimes the earth shifts, and the world breaks upon it. This time, a ceramics stall has half-collapsed into a crevice. I can help clear out the debris and fill in the ruptured earth before anyone gets caught inside. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: I don’t think any eyes were peering up from the dark. I don’t think anything was moving inside when we filled the crevice. I don’t think anyone else heard something scratching at the bottom of the newly-laid cobblestones. I don’t think any more than I need to about these things. Here are my earnings.
Effects: Sol de Oro, Memory: Fear
Moving Shadows
Start Description: <sprite name=moon> In a shadow-barred sidepath, a few figures huddle together over a suspicious box. They startle when they spot me, hide it behind them, and shift uneasily, a flash in their eyes and sleeves. I could walk away… or offer my help. Those of the Haustorium have done worse for much less. [Or add a coin to find visitors seeking employment.]
Description: No one in La Espinada pays the people of the Haustorium any more attention than they need to. ‘To even look upon their faces is to invite misfortune.’ So no one watches me put the box through the gatera of an empty house. Moments later, a gloved hand reaches out to give me my pay, then pulls itself back in silence.
Effects: Sol de Oro, Memory: A Stolen Secret