“The Salted Phial is perched on a wharf street and smells faintly of salt and citrus. Marcellus greets every customer with a small, ornate silver coin stamped with the shop's kraken-phial emblem that can be redeemed for a 5% discount on potions under 200 gp; he's well known to refund sailors who get scammed elsewhere. He insists customers read a short, friendly 'safety note' he tucks with each sold potion. The shop plays a soft loop of sea shanties (a mechanical music box behind the counter), and dozens of little glass jellyfish hang from the rafters—they glow softly at dusk, giving the interior an otherworldly light. Marcellus prefers bartering stories or rare ingredients to steep discounts, and will sometimes trade a vial of seawater or a jar of crushed coral in exchange for map fragments or exotic herb samples.”