Dust of the Forgotten Stalls

Beneath a collapsed stairwell in the dungeon's back galleries the party clears rubble from an old storage alcove — a makeshift stall once used by travelling peddlers and an itinerant scribe. There are no corpses or clear signs of a recent fight, but the stall's goods survived in chests and sacks: coinpurses, half-buried crates of trade goods, a few useful alchemical bits, and a pair of items that bear a faint magical hum. The haul is exactly the sort of mixed practical and intriguing treasure a level-4 party might expect to find while exploring deeper tunnels: enough coin to pay for supplies and a night's lodging, materials for crafting or selling, a couple of gems for bargaining, a reliable healing potion, and a single uncommon magical item that could tilt the next encounter.