GENKO CHAYA
&
KHOKANCHIN MERCANTILE
humbly requests the pleasure of your company at
our
OPEN HOUSE and AUCTION
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&
KHOKANCHIN MERCANTILE
humbly requests the pleasure of your company at
our
OPEN HOUSE and AUCTION
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WHAT
Come enjoy a night in the teahouse, entertained by Artists and bards as you enjoy Doman matcha, sake, plum wine, or a bracing bowl of kumis from the Steppe. Catering to be provided.
The main event will be an auction hosted by Khokanchin Mercantile. Tradesmen, craftsmen and adventurers may offer their treasures for sale alongside what curiosities Khokanchin Mercantile offers up for bid. Come and grasp at opportunity while she’s a gil’s throw away.
WHERE
Goblet, Ward 9, Plot 36
WHEN
Thursday, October 12th @ 7 pm EST
SEEKING
- Talented Bards or Performers to fill in our numbers to entertain the guests. We are seeking singers, musicians and storytellers, who can also engage our guests in conversation to keep things warm and lively. We will be suspending our usual drinking game activities to ensure guests aren’t TOO inebriated to place their bids. We will take about six, including our own Artists, to entertain at each table. If you are not selected for this event to perform, you will be given priority to perform at the next. Bards and Artists may be tipped by guests (in-game gil not required).
- Tradesmen, craftsmen, and adventurers with items worthy of being sold to the highest bidder. Khokanchin Mercantile will take a modest 15% commission from the sale.
All interested parties should contact Kuzhuk Anchin (Use PM or Discord: Wemrys#7268) detailing what you’d like to offer at the open house and auction.
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OOC INFO
We will be holding an auction of six items, which can be anything from materials, resources, player-created goods & services, crafted items (weapons, armor, clothing, woodworking, etc) or other items of value or curiosity. The idea is for those with a business or trade to establish RP connections and hooks! Perhaps someone who prospects in minerals or a botany enthusiast offers their materials and resources for auction. If you win the bid you can then approach a smith or an alchemist to turn your hard-won goods into useful weapons or potables, or you can re-sell for your own profit and establish a connection with the supplier. Or maybe you know a person who might trade you for your goods for a more desirable item? There are endless opportunities to travel down.
Rules
- All items will be flavor items. We will not require anyone to exchange real in-game goods, because we will not be using real in-game gil.
- We ask that items be kept lore-friendly or reasonable in terms of what would end up in the hands of simple adventurers, craftsmen and tradesmen. We do allow for a certain extent of whimsy. When you PM us to submit your character’s item for bid, we’ll help coordinate the flavor text for the bidding to make sure we are on the same page and that we are appropriately selling your wares.
- To keep bids from going out of control we will allow participants a maximum of 100,000 gil. You may limit the amount further if you believe your character would have less to bid with. Opening bids will vary by item and will be stated prior to each bidding. We will rely on faith to keep track of what amounts people have during the auction as the auctioneers will be busy well, auctioneer-ing! You may pool your resources with another during the auction, but you may wish to arrange this beforehand as we cannot hold up the auction process. Any gil left over from the resources you gave yourself can be saved and added to use next auction (or you may just start over completely, it’s up to you!), just PM one of us after (Discord or PM) or post in the topic so we can keep track of it if you are adding it to your amount for next auction. Do not send us in game tells as we are likely to miss that in the chat scroll.
- We will be limiting how many times you may win a bid. You may win no more than twice, after the second win we would like you to let others have a chance to secure some goods. Additionally, if you win a big ticket item (100k+ gil) then you will no longer be able to bid in order to allow others a chance to win something.
- We will take auction items at a first come, first serve basis and post them here prior to the auction so interested buyers can see what is up for bid that night. Any items not selected or auctioned can be sold at the next auction and will be given priority. You may re-submit items or submit new ones after your items has gone up for bid, but they will go back in queue.
F. A. Q. -
Why a cap of 100k?
In order to prevent bids from going into infinity, OOCly we ask that people limit their spending to a moderately expensive sum of 100k. Another reason for this number in particular is that the items up for bid will range from materials, resources, services to uncommon curios. We don't anticipate many items being worth shooting up into the millions to obtain, but certainly we expect some resources might be pooled to exceed 100k for some of the more elusive offerings. But, in short, we think the 100s would keep things in the realm of belief commerce-wise. If Kuzhuk had an item worth millions, he'd want that money upfront rather than risk losing out on the value in auction.
How do I justify my wealthy character only bringing 100k?
Since most of the items will range from simple goods to the odd curio, you may justify that your character has enough business sense to know what amount would be prudent to limit themselves to rather than spend lavishly unnecessarily. If your character has money left over, the next auction will see that they have more to spend and eventually (if you're wise with your spending) you may have a sum you find agreeable.
Why so few items up for bid?
If time allows, we will try to have more, however the auction is only one part of the evening and will inevitably create quite a bit of chat scroll on its own. The other part of the evening is being entertained by our Artists or hired bards in an exotic atmosphere, so we want to allow for some time to be given to that as well. Also, we hope that after the auction ends people will seek out RP hooks with their newly won goods or services.