Sedge & Starwort

Shop · kept by Mira Venn

Sedge & Starwort

The shop always smells of rain-wet mint, lamp soot, and chamomile.

Stock

10 items · 19 gp

Other

5 items · 3 sp to 5 gp

Mortar-and-pestle set1d4 damage5 sp
Traveler's poultice wrapA bundled field dressing of clean cloth, willow strips3 sp
Anti-mold salveA gray-green salve that smells faintly of mint and tar4 sp
Ward reed charmA traveler’s charm meant to keep marsh vapors and bad…1 gp
Herbalism kitA compact case of shears, twine, waxed paper5 gp

Potions

5 items · 2 sp to 8 gp

Marshguard tea packetA clay packet of bitter reed-tea for warding off chills…2 sp
Anti-fever tinctureA sharp-smelling vial of preventive tincture sealed with…5 sp
Minor healing draughtPrizedHeals 2 HP8 gp
Dream-quiet infusionA pale infusion for warding off nightmares and feverish…1 gp
Silt-sense reagentA local detection draught used by cautious apothecaries…2 gp

About

The shop always smells of rain-wet mint, lamp soot, and chamomile. Jars near the old ford district spoil within days, leaves blacken along their veins, and the proprietor quietly keeps a second list of failed remedies that does not match the public records. A soft-spoken civic official, likely the same one funding relief work near the river, has been pressuring the shop to understate the worst findings so panic does not spread through Brackenford. Customers are told the marsh is merely seasonally ill-tempered, but the owner has begun to suspect a buried magical contamination tied to the settlement’s central problem. The narrow brick front is crowded with drying herbs overhead and river-silt stains on the steps, and rainwater drips from the awning into chipped blue bowls set to catch it.

Stash

4 items to steal

The stash · GM only

Most of the shop’s true valuables are kept in a cramped back room behind hanging herb braids, with a false-bottom crate under the counter and a narrow loft reached by a folding ladder.

Security check: DC 13Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) or Intelligence (Thieves' Tools)
If they fail: If the theft goes wrong, the proprietor rings a brass warning bell and the shop’s back-room assistant, a river-district runner, blocks the alley while a watchman is sent toward the stall. The party risks being recognized, searched, or forced to abandon stolen goods, and any magical contamination notes in the shop are hurriedly hidden or burned by a nervous clerk.
The whole haul: About 32 gp

Counter cash2 gp
Kept: Hidden beneath the selling shelf, behind a loose plank in the counter base
A day’s takings folded into a grease-stained cash box under the counter.
Value: 2 gp, 14 sp, 38 cp
Recipe ledger and delivery notes10 gp
Kept: Locked drawer beneath the drying rack in the back room
The proprietor’s river-silt spattered ledger wrap, containing recipe notes, customer names, and a marked list of which batches spoiled near the old ford district.
Value: 10 gp to the right buyer, far more as evidence
Cattail silver brooch3 gp
Kept: On a peg beside the herb-curing stove
A plain silver brooch shaped like a cattail, worn by the shopkeeper and often left on a peg while working.
Tainted herb samples15 gp
Kept: Top shelf of the rear drying loft, behind ordinary bundles
Three sealed jars of black-veined rosemary, mugwort, and marsh thyme marked for disposal because they spoil too quickly. In the right hands, they could prove something unnatural is touching the old ford district.
Value: 15 gp as alchemical evidence

Sedge & Starwort

Sedge & Starwort

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Mira Venn

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