SABILAAR’S SIMPLE

SUPPLIES
A SINGLE, SYSTEM AGNOSTIC, FANTASY
LOCATION TO INTRIGUE OR CONFOUND A
CURIOUS GROUP OF ADVENTURERS OR
INVESTIGATORS
 SABILAAR’S SIMPLE SUPPLIES
THE SMALL COTTAGE HAD SET ABANDONED FOR
YEARS BEFORE ABSILAM SABILAAR PURCHASED
IT FROM THE TOWN TRUST. LOCALS WERE
EXCITED TO SEE THE MAN SO EAGERLY
RESTORE THE DELAPITED BUILDING, BRINGING
IT TO A LIVABLE STANDARD, IF NOT QUITE
WHAT MANY WOULD CALL “AN ATTRACTIVE
HOME.”
HOWEVER, IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE MANY OF
THE TOWNSFOLK STARTED TO HAVE THEIR
RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE OLD MAN. FOR THE
MOST PART HE KEPT TO HIMSELF, ONLY
COMING INTO THE MAIN PART OF TOWN TO
PURCHASE FOOD AND SIMPLE GOODS. THOSE
WHO PAID ATTENTION WOULD SEE HIM
SPEAKING TO HIMSELF, OFTEN TILTING HIS
HEAD TO ONE SIDE AS IF LISTENING TO
ANOTHER VOICE, PERHAPS IN HIS HEAD.
DESPITE HIS ODD BEHAVIOR, MANY OTHERS
CONSIDERED HIM EXCENTRIC BUT HARMLESS.
HE KEPT TO HIMSELF AS WAS HIS RIGHT, AND
THE CHILDREN LOVED HIM; HE WAS ALWAYS
ABLE TO MAKE A PEBBLE APPEAR IN HIS HAND
OUT OF NOWHERE OR PULL A COIN FROM
BEHIND SOME YOUNG LADS EAR.
THEN… HE OPENED HIS “SHOP.”
PLASTERING A SIGN ON HIS HOME THAT READ
“SIMPLE SUPPLIES,” HE SOON ATTRACTED THE
ATTENTION OF MANY TRAVELERS. MANY
SWORE THAT HIS “SIMPLE SUPPLIES” WERE
ANYTHING BUT, AND THAT HIS BOASTS OF
SELLING “MAGICAL LANTERNS” AND OTHER
SUCH NONSENSE WERE TRUE.
A VISIT TO HIS HOME AND SHOP FROM SOME OF
THE TOWN ELDERS RESULTED IN THEM FINDING
A SIMPLE SHOP IN ONE ROOM OF HIS HOME.
SHELVES WERE LINED WITH ODDS AND ENDS
(INCLUDING SOME LANTERNS), AND THERE
WERE VARIOUS QUESTIONABLE OBJECTS LIKE
ASSORTED ANIMAL HORNS AND SOME ODD
PLANTS, BUT FOR THE MOST PART THE ELDERS
WERE CONVINCED THE MAN WAS HARMLESS.
THEN HE PUT THE BARREL OUTSIDE THE DOOR
OF HIS HOME: