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phantasmods) wrote2016-07-19 11:42 pm
phantasmods) wrote2016-07-19 11:42 pm
INCENDIA: SHOPS
NOTE: As there are no workers at the food stalls or restaurants (which were designed to serve on-demand), characters will for the most part have to prepare food themselves.
MUSIC FESTIVAL SHOPS
Rainbow Collection: A tent hung with a large rainbow banner, playing host to a large number of rainbow and similarly gradient accessories. The clothing is primarily tie-dyed, but there's also striped socks of various lengths and sizes.
Witch Honey: A beekeeper's booth, with organic local honey. In addition to the various sizes of raw honey (some of which is harvested from specific plants, both magical and mundane), there's a variety of beeswax candles enchanted for various purposes, a selection of lip-balms and other cosmetics, and almost two dozen flavors of some kind of natural straws filled with flavored honey in a pick-your-own-combo display.
Eastside Leather: A leatherworker's stall, filled mostly with belts, pouches, and wristbands. There's also a single rack of clothes, mostly hand-dyed skirts and blouses in either bright gradients or lacy pastels.
Valley Fudge: Rather than being a tent, this small shop, sharing a building with a set of restrooms, appears to be here year-round. They offer a wide variety of fudge in thick slices, saltwater taffy, and kettlecorn.
Starswirl Smoothies: Rather than being a tent, this shop, wedged between two sets of restrooms (women's on one side with a family restroom, men's and an 'other' restroom on the other), appears to be here year-round. It boasts a wide variety of smoothies (fruit and otherwise) for the health-conscious or those who just want a cold drink with something a little more substantial to it.
Stump Carvers: This tent is home to the merchandise of someone who carved bowls and similar items from a variety of exotic woods. Some of them are clearly magical in nature, with a faint glow to certain parts of the grain pattern, and many of the bowls are irregularly shaped. (Those who go looking will find an information card declaring that the display of mistwood bowls are, in fact, heat-and-fire proof against nonmagical sources of flame.) Besides the bowls and similar dishware, there's a section of the table for carefully carved combs and other hair pieces, and another for whimsically carved spoons.
Monkswool: This shop features all heavy wool clothing that goes completely against the current weather. According to the display, the wide variety of cloaks and similar loose fabrics here is all hand-dyed and hand-woven by a monastery in the mountains that forbids the use of magic. The price tags, compared to many of the other items at the festival, are quite expensive.
Southern Six Imports: There are two of these shops, at alternate ends of the tent-filled arc around the fountain. Whatever country the goods are imported from has a distinctly technological, futuristic fashion compared to what most characters will be familiar with. In addition to the clothes taking up the majority of each stand, there's also a table of imported snacks (they tend to be heavy-handed with herbal seasoning, though not usually spicy), and a small variety of technological goods. A flyer hanging below each cash register invites customers to visit their main shop downtown.
HATS: This surprisingly large booth is divided into two halves. The left half contains practical hats - mostly wide-brimmed against the sun, either woven or in leather. (If your character has a secret longing to be a cowboy, here's the place.) The other side is incredibly ridiculous novelty hats - foam hands, furry baseball caps, that sort of thing.
Dawnstar Cosmetics: Someone's all-organic cosmetics shop. While there's a decent number of soaps and other body products, the focus actually is on hand-crafted makeup, with a bias towards oranges and pinks.
Eastriver Lavender Farms: A shop run by a local lavender farm. In addition to fresh lavender itself, there are lavender-filled pillows (the sort you microwave and then put on achey spots), lavender soap and candles, lavender oil... Pretty much if it's made of lavender, it's here.
Sporks and Foons: A shop full of metal wares made by bending forks, spoons, and other utensils into all sorts of shapes. The artist, whoever they were, seems to especially favor turning the tines of forks into squiggly octopus tentacles.
Horizon Towels: A booth selling exclusively colorful custom towels, primarily large beach towels and kitchen hand towels. For obvious reasons, they're located very near the fountain, and have their displays oriented in that direction.
Dot Scream: A cart with an umbrella selling Dippin' Dots style ice cream in a selection of eight different flavors (two of which, the trademark flavors, are alarmingly sour). There are three separate carts scattered throughout the festival, and magic keeps the wares inside from melting until they're removed from the cart.
Merrellan BBQ: A food stand specializing in meats grilled with various sweet (sometimes sweet and spicy) sauces, often served as sandwiches. Also has lemonade.
Veggia Grill: A stand selling exclusively grilled vegetables, primarily grilled corn, various skewers, and some kind of root called arolie that has a bitter outer rind until it's been cooked. The latter often has its center hollowed out, based on the signage, and is filled with various spices and other vegetables.
Cliff's Burgers: The obligate way-too-large-for-one-person burger stand. Also does hot dogs, lemonade, and curly fries.
Plaza Dumplings: This is certainly a place to get grilled dumplings of all varieties, as well as... Dumpling soup? You're not sure who would eat a cup of soup at a music festival, but if you did happen to know someone, you now know where to send them.
COTTON CANDY: This is at first glance, just a straight up cotton candy shop... But in addition to plain colored sugar, they also have magically flavored cotton candy. Score. (Try the watermelon.)
Fair Cakes: A stand offering a variety of fair-style cakes, including funnel cake, elephant ears, and shortcake with fruit and whipped cream piled on. There's options for both rolanberry (strawberry) shortcake and peach shortcake.
City Glow: A stand under a very dark tent with all sorts of glowing accessories. Light up wands, pins, glowsticks, hair ribbons... And since they're all powered by magic, you don't have to worry about replacing batteries! Just charge them in the sunlight for a couple hours if they start to go dim.
Ephemeral Stockings: A booth with racks and racks of every kind of Interesting Sock under the sun. There are lots of stripes here. So many stripes.
Krysta Krystals: A large booth with a variety of rocks, crystals, and other geological specimens on display. Some of them are obviously magical, but just as many are mundane.
RESONA AERE RESOUND FESTIVAL OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE BOOTH: What it says on the sign. Teeshirts, bags, pins, the lot, all of the official merchandise souvenir variety.
Radio booths: There are four booths for various radio stations set up throughout the festival, with their own speakers. They're a safe enough distance from each other and the stages that you could hear their music without interference... If anything was still playing.
Beer Garden: Near the southern stage, this area is fenced in with only one entrance, presumably to keep minors from coming in and sampling the goods (primarily microbrews, with some local wines and ciders). Of course, no one's watching the gate now...
Resona Aere Herald: A booth for the city's biggest newspaper, with incentives for people to make new subscriptions like travel blankets, folding chairs, and umbrellas. They also have some copies of the Saturday edition (which from the bulk, is more like what Americans would consider a Sunday Edition) if you want to take a peek.
Lake City Fireworks: A promotional stand for the city's professional fireworks artisans. While it's mostly to promote the big show they would have had at the end of the festival, they also sell a variety of noisemakers, bottle rockets, and magical sparklers, including a number of color-changing ones and even a few labelled as 'ever-burning.' Maybe don't stand near this booth at nightfall.
Balloon Animals Cart: This rolling cart doesn't have a name, but it's full of balloons of all sorts. Twisted balloon animals hang off the upper part of the cart as a display of its former owner's skill.
Laietery Soaps and Candles: A booth full of tables covered in homemade soaps and candles in various scents and colors. The smell is potentially overwhelming for anyone above the human baseline. Includes a large basket of bath bombs.
SHAVED ICE: A booth set up for choose-your-own-flavors shaved ice and snow cones. Apparently buying the plastic cup nets you free refills all day, or at least it did when they charged anything.
Infinite Dips: A booth selling pre-packaged mixes for various dips - just add sour cream or mayo! Also has a variety of sampling container and pretzels to monch.
SOUTHWEST STYLE NOODLES: A food stand specializing in stir-fried noodles, vegetables, and what anyone from earth would recognize as various kinds of teriyaki. Goes kind of heavy on the ginger.
Fair Fries: A large food stand specializing in various kinds of potatoes (fries, curly fries, jojos, and even a make your own baked potato bar). They also have corn dogs and cherry limeade.
FISH STAND: There isn't a sign with words on it over this stand, just a large image of a fish. No points for guessing what they put into their fryers - fish and chips seem to be the most popular good, but there's also a sort of salmon meat pie that seems like it'd be pretty good, and skewers full of grilled shrimp.
Osfuri Rice and Grill: A stand specializing in a sort of spicy fried rice dish with a flavor profile that would ping as Near-Eastern to someone from Earth. Also has several kinds of grilled meat seasoned similarly and heavily sweetened iced rose water in addition to the typical selection of soft drinks.
Lisziel Sandwiches: These flatbread sandwiches are basically gyros. Actually, almost all of the food offered by this stand is basically Greek food a universe to the left - there's baklava and moussaka, too.
DOWNTOWN SHOPS
Note: All restaurants and most of the larger stores have public restrooms.
Silver Revel: A clothing shop. Seems to specialize in women's dancewear native to this world, focusing on skirts with hanging panels and tops that either hang off the shoulders, expose some amount of the belly, or both. Tends towards bold colors with complex embroidery in either flower or geometric patterns.
Keyes' Jewelers: A fine jewelry store, with a logo of an engagement ring around the shaft of a key. From the look of it, someone already looted half the shop on their way out of town, leaving behind mostly cheaper items in the cases - but if you can get into the back, there's still a great deal of finer merchandise.
Moon in Water: A tea shop with a vinyl window design of the moon cupped by a flower that looks like a blue lotus. Also has a few pastries in the case, but most of the focus is on tea and specially blended fruit juices and smoothies. Half the shop's seating is traditional small-tables-and-chairs, but there's also a wide open area in the back full of couches that was once available to rent for events.
Elidia's Confectionary: A fancy chocolates and sweets shop. About half the shop is taken up by a glass display from which customers can choose individual chocolates to make their own custom boxes. There are also pre-packaged boxes of chocolates, caramels and similar sweets, a wide variety of candied fruits (some of which you might recognize from the Station - white chocolate covered hiliberries, anyone?), and a display of individually packaged fancy caramel apples.
Top Roof Gardens: A garden shop and nursery with a focus on small-scale gardens, such as those that could be kept in an apartment's balcony or rooftop. The flowers here have been magically induced to bloom out of season, and spill out of the front of the shop to occupy wheeled carts on the sidewalk. It looks like things could use a bit of watering, however.
Current Affairs: This is just a slightly more magical Hot Topic. It appears that it was going through a punk phase, but there's also an entire wall of fandom merch for fandoms you've never heard of.
Southern Six Imports: An importer of goods from the technological countries on the continent to the south. The majority of the shop is futuristic-looking clothing made of glossy, plasticlike materials with the occasional bits of metal and circuit, but there's also a variety of imported foods. It's also one of the only places in the city where one can find items that run on a technological basis instead of a magical one, ranging from battery-powered flashlights to laptop computers. Comparing the prices to other shops, there's probably a high mark-up.
Aye-Aye!: A cute little upcycled clothes shop that specializes in taking worn out old clothes and making them fresh and new with a pastel twist. The general aesthetic of the store is poppy and plastic and retro -- it’s even decorated with colourful 90’s toys (or whatever time period counts as the 90’s around here, anyway).
Free Wind Skates: At first glance, this is a typical skate shop, with perhaps a bit of a specialty towards rollerskating. Further inspection, however, reveals that the shop carries at least as much in hoverboards and wind skates as it does in anything with wheels. While they won't get you terribly far off the ground, these magical skates are surely good for some kind of cool tricks...
Variety Pets: A pet supply store - from the signage, they also used to actually carry pets, but there are no animals in the cages and aquariums now. That doesn't mean that the shop is empty, however - those who follow the trail of empty cat kibble bags will find a small, contented family of a mother soot cat and six kittens curled up in a cat bed near the back of the store. The kittens are friendly and just about old enough to go home with someone.
8 Days: Your typical chain convenience store, open 24 hours, so on and so on. There's two of them in the downtown area and a handful in various other parts of the city.
Shadowcast Games: In theory, it's a video game store. In practice, most of the games work by directly manipulating magically projected images, rather than in the controller-and-screen setup of their technological counterparts. This tends to make them somewhat more portable than consoles, however.
Luminese: A clothing and curiosity goods shop, comparable to Fuego on Earth. The clothes are colorful, bright, and flowing, and aside from the novelty tees, tend to be rather loose-fitting on whoever they're sized for. There's also a decent variety of delicate and/or handcrafted-looking-but-not-actually-handcrafted jewelry and some novelty items like shaped ice cube trays, paper lanterns that glow with magical light, and an entire display about squash that appears to be culturally synonymous with pot.
Robin's Coffee: A chain coffeeshop, with a rust-red logo of a robin perched on the edge of a mug. There's three to be found throughout the downtown area. They also sell a variety of pastries and the occasional parfait.
NAILS: This simple sign doesn't offer much detail as to whether this is a place to get your nails done or a place to get items to do your own nails - those entering and exploring will find that it's both. However much nail polish you might have ever thought you needed, this shop has more than that.
Tuliyla's: A soup and sandwich shop, specializing in hot grilled sandwiches. According to the signage in their window, they've just added three new vegetarian options to their menu. In addition to the full sandwich bar, there's six tureens of various soups inside. They deliver(ed).
The Curled Leaf: A magical apothecary, with a handful of plants growing in hanging planters just inside the windows. Most of the material is dried, in large glass jars behind the counter, but there's also several shelves of horticulture books specializing in magical plants, tools such as mortar and pestle sets, a basket with a variety of magical crystals in it, and a box of carefully packaged seeds.
Rosshtian Piano and Music Supply: A surprisingly large storefront featuring two prominently displayed pianos (one to either side of the entrance), as well as a standing bass and a number of other instruments of a more classical bent, primarily strings and woodwinds. The shop inside also has two shelves full of sheet music and several full of spare reeds, strings, and other such accessories.
Magister's: A department store that seems focused on catering to hip and modern youth. Right now, it seems like the main fashion trend is shirts and pants in relatively neutral tones, with brightly colored waist sashes as the primary accessory. Most of the pants seem to be knee- or capri-length. Cord bracelets and anklets are also popular, as are low-cut socks - showing off the ankles, for both men and women, seems to be the Done Thing.
The Eastern Bow: A clothing shop with beach gear and a general nautical-and-surfer aesthetic. As in Magister's, shorter pants and skirts that show off the ankles are popular; however, there's less in the colorful sashes department and more color in the clothes in general. Horizontal stripes at the bottom hems of both shirts and pants are common.
Calla's: A bridal shop. From the look of it, it seems that the lucky color brides prefer to wear in this world is a light, sky blue, but most everything else matches reasonably closely to a Western wedding aesthetic. However, several of the dresses have something of a wide streaking effect in darker, bolder colors at the base of their full skirts, typically matching the color of the false flowers used to accessorize the upper part of the dress. There's also a handful of tuxedos on display, usually either black over a sky blue shirt or sky blue over a white shirt.
Bell's: A hardware and home improvement supply store. While their selection of large power tools is somewhat limited, they do offer a catalog, as well as rental services for small trailer attachments - which can be picked up in the attached parking garage below street level.
Chirp Network: A small shop, and mostly empty in a way that will make anyone from modern Earth immediately recognize it for what it is - the magical equivalent of a cellphone carrier. The 'devices' inside seem to be rectangular bars of glass or crystal, filled with some kind of fluid and smaller, floating crystals, barely the size of pinheads, in various colors. When activated, the internal crystals form some sort of magical array. Sadly, you can't actually test communication capabilities; service is out.
Tania Grocers: A small, city-style grocery, with an emphasis on fresh produce and ingredients that ping American sensibilities as Mexican or Southwestern - corn, tomatos, salsa, tortillas, and the like. There's lots of brightly colored paper signage indicating exactly what items are on sale.
Nightlife Adult Goods: You know what this is, you know why it's here. The 18+ is magically enforced; characters who do not meet the age requirement will find that a strange force field stops them from crossing the threshold. Yes, there are magical toys.
Anna's Fabrics: A craft and fabric superstore. Includes a few magical types of crafts, and aside from the fabrics seems to put a heavy emphasis on yarn crafts such as knitting and crochet.
Taste of the North: A restaurant specializing in heavily spiced meats and sausages, including some unusual imported ones such as seal. They also have a lot of dishes involving various combinations of sausages, peppers, and cabbage. There's a beer menu.
Hellacia: A bar and grill with heavy emphasis on the bar part - really, it's just one step shy of a nightclub. There's a dimly lit stage here that's still set up from whatever rock band was performing that night, with a set of drums, a keyboard, two electric guitars, and some kind of synth-sounding instrument you don't recognize that works by moving sliders back and forth along a set of eight strings.
Truman Hair and Beauty: A barbershop with a variety of hair-care goods such as high-end shampoos, dyes, wigs and weaves, and hair accessories. Professional dyeing is by appointment only, which unfortunately means that you can't get one.
Turner Books and Music: An impressively large book and CD store, spanning a basement, a main floor, and an upper floor that just wraps around the edges leaving an open view to the main floor below. The organization system is somewhat odd, though (at least all the audio goods are in the basement), so it might take you a while to find anything.
Uncle Will's: A grocery store more after the fashion of Costco and the like - huge boxes of goods in bulk for substantial discount. They have their own cellphone carrier, Limited Crystalline, inside, with similar options to Chirp Network.
Bezel's Imports: An import goods retailer with a focus on some country with a significantly colder climate. If you want furs, sweaters, and other warm clothes, this is the place. They also have a surprisingly amount of furniture and other goods of carefully carved wood.
Star Decoration: A typical bright pink and sparkly girly clothes shop, which is honestly more accessories than it is clothes. Froofy skirts and pastels with small accents are big right now, as are short, poofy skirts over leggings.
Lakeshore Goods: In spite of the name, this store sells as much fresh fish as it does anything. Perhaps related to the fact that the other goods are mostly fishing gear and other sporting goods supplies - it seems like the shop will buy your extra catch to sell off the next day.
Angelica's Aftermarket: A clothing store with an eclectic assortment of castoffs and out-of-season clothes from major department stores, usually at a fairly steep discount comparatively. Of course, you aren't paying for anything, but...
Toy's Box: A medium-sized toy store. They have a variety of toys both magical and mundane, but seem to have a focus on building-type toys like wooden blocks and a sort of knockoff lego that uses a hexagonal pattern instead of a square one. Also, there's a whole corner of the shop set apart for stuffed animals.
Juicybee's: A chain smoothie and fancy juice shop. They also sell grilled fruit skewers, which seems to be a popular food item in the city.
CAPITAL BANK: It's a bank. I don't know what you expected. Unless you're wanting for pens or slightly uncomfortable desk chairs, there isn't much to steal here, since the money doesn't have any real value at the moment.
Marva's Clothes: A wide variety of magical clothes tucked into a small shop with an indie, handmade vibe. The most common effect is that the clothes change color depending on some set of circumstances - day or night, or at the command word spoken by the wearer, or so on. A few have more significant alteration enchantments. Pretty uniquely, when something in this shop says one size fits all, they actually mean it.
Beyond Beyond: A home goods store with an emphasis on ~interior design~. If you want to have every bedroom in your three bedroom apartment be eerily matching in contents in spite of entirely different aesthetics, and to probably pay too much for all of it, here's the place.
Rosa's Glass: A blown glass shop, full of beautiful lamps and vases... That actually has a glassblowing studio in the back, with a safety-glass window through which customers could watch the glassblowers at work. Sadly, there's nothing but the heat of the furnaces back there now.
Lillymoore's Dress: A lolita shop, fairly evenly split with the extremely gothic items at one side of the store and the extremely pink, froofy, and sweet at the other, with everything else as a gradient between. You will probably not die of lace exposure if you go in here.
DISCOUNT FURNITURE: It's a furniture store with nothing that really especially matches in aesthetic. I don't know what you expected. At least it's not UGLY FURNITURE.
Bodysoap: One of those large, impressive soap and other bath supply stores. Nearly a third of the store is labelled as not only organic, but non-magical - that is, no magically grown or produced goods were used in the creation of the soaps, shampoos, and so on in question. These are quite a bit more expensive than the rest.
Sibbyl's Beads: A combination bead and jewelry supply store and... fortune-telling shop? The back wall near the fortune-telling parlor has a number of books and decks of cards for sale, as well as a handful of other fortune-telling methods characters may or may not recognize.
Farriare's Shoes: It's a shoe store, with a bit of a lean towards fancy shoes over things like sneakers or cheap sandals. Their slogan is 'Dressing your Best starts from the bottom up.'
Icutio: A massive department store that takes up almost an entire block. Has a little bit of everything, but mostly designer clothes of a bit higher quality than you fnd in other shops.
Weigh-a-Way Fitness: A 24hr gym with just about everything except a pool. They have a bit of an emphasis on weight loss, but the place is shiny and clean and the equipment is sturdy and well cared for.
RESONA AERE PUBLIC LIBRARY: It's exactly what it says on the tin - the city's primary public library, a hub for books, media, and whatever other research needs your nerdy little heart desires.
Kayla's: A non-chain coffee shop, with a... weirdly gothic aesthetic, in spite of the name. It seems to be pretty self-aware of it, though - the BLACK AS YOUR SOUL pins are probably intended to be a joke...
Ice Hutch: An ice cream shop. Despite slightly kiddie aesthetic and branding, they have a wide variety of flavors, and most of them are pretty damned good.
One Coin: A dollar store, more in line with Japanese dollar stores such as Daiso than with the American sort in terms of quality and offerings. There's two of them in the city, one near the Memorial Park and one dead-center in the downtown proper.
City Smokes: A cigarette and other smoking goods shop, which also carries a wide variety of incense. Interestingly, this is the only place in the city outside of the apothecary where one can find things specifically related to pot; the cultural equivalent for most of the city seems to be some kind of squash. A magical barrier prevents entry by those under eighteen.
Sherill's Bakery: A old family-run bakery. While most of their goods are varieties of bread, there's no lack of pastries and the like to be found here. Best raided in the mornings, before things have the chance to go stale from being left out through the day, though even in the afternoons there's plenty that's wrapped or in the cases that's fresh enough to eat.
GAZEMAKER'S: A glasses and sunglasses store, which also does cheap eye exams, with walls upon walls of frames to choose from.
Boxer's: An office supply store. All of their calendars and planners are on clearance,and it seems they're prepping for the beginning of the next school year.
Labyrinth Books: A used bookstore, crammed with shelves to the point that it really obviously lives up to its name. Apparently there was once a shop cat named Frederick; his bed remains behind the register.
Louvelier's: A clothing store specializing in formal and evening wear for both men and women. In addition to the standard suits, there also seem to be a number of men's options that boil down to "a long sleeveless coat with buttons and extensive embroidery down the central closure in the front, over pants; shirt optional." The womens' clothes are much as you'd expect, with a distinct bias towards the decadent and sparkling.
Say Burgers: A somewhat cheap burger joint, with an almost obscene number of options for burgers and milkshakes. Even with no one working here, the smell of cooking grease permeates the air not only inside, but immediately outside the doors.
Belts and Boots: As the name implies, this leatherwork shop specializes in these two items. They also carry a number of hats, chokers, and even a couple of corsets. The aesthetic is a weird blend of "wild west" and "european steampunk."
Sunset Pharmacy: A more modern style of pharmacy than the apothecary's, open 24 hours. While they have a variety of over-the-counter medications, there's also not anything preventing you from going, shall we say, over the counter to get to the good stuff.
Atlelia's Perfumery: A perfume and cologne shop, full of all sorts of strong scents in little elegant bottles. A few advertise magical attention-grabbing effects. Fans at the end of every line of shelves clear the smell from the air, allowing people to actually smell the individual scents they're testing out, but the shop can still be smelled from half a block in any direction.
Min's Metals: A shop with a focus on accessories made of aesthetically-rough metal that looks almost like it's been pulled fresh from the forge. However, in addition to the accessories, there is a section of the shop devoted to prosthetic limbs, with signage indicating that the artist takes commissions for them. A picture of her shows her with a somewhat beaten-looking prosthetic from the forearm down herself, using it to hold a chunk of hot metal in place while she lifts a hammer with her organic hand.
Lucy's Cards: A card and gift shop that strongly resembles Hallmark. However, many of the cards have magical effects when opened - they're sorted into categories such as "singing," "image-changing," and "emits lights" as well as by occasion. One wall of the shop is occupied by magically moving statuettes.
Metro Entertainment: A video and music store. Includes a decent sized import section, including accessories that are designed to allow technologically-encoded media to play on magical players.
Booker's Crafts: A craft store with a heavy emphasis on scrapbooking and papercraft. It also has a wide variety of painting, sketching, and other illustration materials.
Pepper's: A casual clothing store full of what could easily be called 'mom clothes,' with a lot of jeans, v-neck shirts, and casual jackets designed to be worn with the sleeves rolled up. A lot of the patterns are small, and colors tend to be light rather than bright aside from the denim blue of the jeans.
Lute Imports: The clothes in this shop are extremely similar to Far Eastern clothes on Earth, though often not quite right in the details - you won't find a straight up kimono or qipao here, but you'll probably find something that will pass for one at first glance. For "furnishings," they have mostly what seems to be an incredible variety of brightly colored floor cushions in stacks, and a few low-to-the-ground tables and the like. There's also a variety of delicate glass dishware, mostly in solid bright colors such as cobalt blue or red.
Checkboard Games: A board games shop, with a bunch of the sorts of games that are really intended more for adults than children given their complexity. There's also an entire counter for a trading card game called 'Technophilia' that's apparently highly collectible, and a section of wall devoted to roleplaying game books and miniatures, some of the more expensive of which move on their own.
Rutille: A large cosmetic supply store. While they have a few items of soaps and bath supplies, nail polish, and perfume, the majority of the emphasis is on their multiple make-up lines. A lot of their signage makes a point of mentioning that glamour doesn't show up on camera, implying that people are as likely to use magical beauty solutions as mundane ones.
Scenery Liquor: A... Well, it's a liquor store, what else would it be? A magical barrier at the entrance restricts those under twenty years of age from entering.
Gleam: Primarily a dance club, also serving drinks and a variety of snacks. Mostly, though, you come to Gleam for the atmosphere and the music threatening to pound your eardrums out on the dancefloor. Unlike most of the shops, there's actually music going - those paying attention will realize that the mix loops approximately every forty-five minutes.
Comicalia: The 'Kingdom of Comics.' While the comic shop definitely have a focus on that, there's also a back room for Technophilia tournaments and other things that can be rented out, and a variety of other goods that are indisputably nerd gear. After superhero comics, the most popular genre seems to be magical adventures featuring lots of travel.
Cornucopia Baggage: This luggage store has a rather expensive line of magical luggage with far more space inside than it should logically contain (for domestic travel only; prohibited on international flights). They also have more mundane travel gear (in the International section) and a wide variety of handbags and purses.
Brickhouse Magic: A shop focused largely on DIY magical items. There's a wide variety of magical materials here as a result - not only crystals and herbs, but animal goods, woods, stones that aren't just crystallized energy... there's also an entire wall of how-to books.
MUSIC FESTIVAL SHOPS
Rainbow Collection: A tent hung with a large rainbow banner, playing host to a large number of rainbow and similarly gradient accessories. The clothing is primarily tie-dyed, but there's also striped socks of various lengths and sizes.
Witch Honey: A beekeeper's booth, with organic local honey. In addition to the various sizes of raw honey (some of which is harvested from specific plants, both magical and mundane), there's a variety of beeswax candles enchanted for various purposes, a selection of lip-balms and other cosmetics, and almost two dozen flavors of some kind of natural straws filled with flavored honey in a pick-your-own-combo display.
Eastside Leather: A leatherworker's stall, filled mostly with belts, pouches, and wristbands. There's also a single rack of clothes, mostly hand-dyed skirts and blouses in either bright gradients or lacy pastels.
Valley Fudge: Rather than being a tent, this small shop, sharing a building with a set of restrooms, appears to be here year-round. They offer a wide variety of fudge in thick slices, saltwater taffy, and kettlecorn.
Starswirl Smoothies: Rather than being a tent, this shop, wedged between two sets of restrooms (women's on one side with a family restroom, men's and an 'other' restroom on the other), appears to be here year-round. It boasts a wide variety of smoothies (fruit and otherwise) for the health-conscious or those who just want a cold drink with something a little more substantial to it.
Stump Carvers: This tent is home to the merchandise of someone who carved bowls and similar items from a variety of exotic woods. Some of them are clearly magical in nature, with a faint glow to certain parts of the grain pattern, and many of the bowls are irregularly shaped. (Those who go looking will find an information card declaring that the display of mistwood bowls are, in fact, heat-and-fire proof against nonmagical sources of flame.) Besides the bowls and similar dishware, there's a section of the table for carefully carved combs and other hair pieces, and another for whimsically carved spoons.
Monkswool: This shop features all heavy wool clothing that goes completely against the current weather. According to the display, the wide variety of cloaks and similar loose fabrics here is all hand-dyed and hand-woven by a monastery in the mountains that forbids the use of magic. The price tags, compared to many of the other items at the festival, are quite expensive.
Southern Six Imports: There are two of these shops, at alternate ends of the tent-filled arc around the fountain. Whatever country the goods are imported from has a distinctly technological, futuristic fashion compared to what most characters will be familiar with. In addition to the clothes taking up the majority of each stand, there's also a table of imported snacks (they tend to be heavy-handed with herbal seasoning, though not usually spicy), and a small variety of technological goods. A flyer hanging below each cash register invites customers to visit their main shop downtown.
HATS: This surprisingly large booth is divided into two halves. The left half contains practical hats - mostly wide-brimmed against the sun, either woven or in leather. (If your character has a secret longing to be a cowboy, here's the place.) The other side is incredibly ridiculous novelty hats - foam hands, furry baseball caps, that sort of thing.
Dawnstar Cosmetics: Someone's all-organic cosmetics shop. While there's a decent number of soaps and other body products, the focus actually is on hand-crafted makeup, with a bias towards oranges and pinks.
Eastriver Lavender Farms: A shop run by a local lavender farm. In addition to fresh lavender itself, there are lavender-filled pillows (the sort you microwave and then put on achey spots), lavender soap and candles, lavender oil... Pretty much if it's made of lavender, it's here.
Sporks and Foons: A shop full of metal wares made by bending forks, spoons, and other utensils into all sorts of shapes. The artist, whoever they were, seems to especially favor turning the tines of forks into squiggly octopus tentacles.
Horizon Towels: A booth selling exclusively colorful custom towels, primarily large beach towels and kitchen hand towels. For obvious reasons, they're located very near the fountain, and have their displays oriented in that direction.
Dot Scream: A cart with an umbrella selling Dippin' Dots style ice cream in a selection of eight different flavors (two of which, the trademark flavors, are alarmingly sour). There are three separate carts scattered throughout the festival, and magic keeps the wares inside from melting until they're removed from the cart.
Merrellan BBQ: A food stand specializing in meats grilled with various sweet (sometimes sweet and spicy) sauces, often served as sandwiches. Also has lemonade.
Veggia Grill: A stand selling exclusively grilled vegetables, primarily grilled corn, various skewers, and some kind of root called arolie that has a bitter outer rind until it's been cooked. The latter often has its center hollowed out, based on the signage, and is filled with various spices and other vegetables.
Cliff's Burgers: The obligate way-too-large-for-one-person burger stand. Also does hot dogs, lemonade, and curly fries.
Plaza Dumplings: This is certainly a place to get grilled dumplings of all varieties, as well as... Dumpling soup? You're not sure who would eat a cup of soup at a music festival, but if you did happen to know someone, you now know where to send them.
COTTON CANDY: This is at first glance, just a straight up cotton candy shop... But in addition to plain colored sugar, they also have magically flavored cotton candy. Score. (Try the watermelon.)
Fair Cakes: A stand offering a variety of fair-style cakes, including funnel cake, elephant ears, and shortcake with fruit and whipped cream piled on. There's options for both rolanberry (strawberry) shortcake and peach shortcake.
City Glow: A stand under a very dark tent with all sorts of glowing accessories. Light up wands, pins, glowsticks, hair ribbons... And since they're all powered by magic, you don't have to worry about replacing batteries! Just charge them in the sunlight for a couple hours if they start to go dim.
Ephemeral Stockings: A booth with racks and racks of every kind of Interesting Sock under the sun. There are lots of stripes here. So many stripes.
Krysta Krystals: A large booth with a variety of rocks, crystals, and other geological specimens on display. Some of them are obviously magical, but just as many are mundane.
RESONA AERE RESOUND FESTIVAL OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE BOOTH: What it says on the sign. Teeshirts, bags, pins, the lot, all of the official merchandise souvenir variety.
Radio booths: There are four booths for various radio stations set up throughout the festival, with their own speakers. They're a safe enough distance from each other and the stages that you could hear their music without interference... If anything was still playing.
Beer Garden: Near the southern stage, this area is fenced in with only one entrance, presumably to keep minors from coming in and sampling the goods (primarily microbrews, with some local wines and ciders). Of course, no one's watching the gate now...
Resona Aere Herald: A booth for the city's biggest newspaper, with incentives for people to make new subscriptions like travel blankets, folding chairs, and umbrellas. They also have some copies of the Saturday edition (which from the bulk, is more like what Americans would consider a Sunday Edition) if you want to take a peek.
Lake City Fireworks: A promotional stand for the city's professional fireworks artisans. While it's mostly to promote the big show they would have had at the end of the festival, they also sell a variety of noisemakers, bottle rockets, and magical sparklers, including a number of color-changing ones and even a few labelled as 'ever-burning.' Maybe don't stand near this booth at nightfall.
Balloon Animals Cart: This rolling cart doesn't have a name, but it's full of balloons of all sorts. Twisted balloon animals hang off the upper part of the cart as a display of its former owner's skill.
Laietery Soaps and Candles: A booth full of tables covered in homemade soaps and candles in various scents and colors. The smell is potentially overwhelming for anyone above the human baseline. Includes a large basket of bath bombs.
SHAVED ICE: A booth set up for choose-your-own-flavors shaved ice and snow cones. Apparently buying the plastic cup nets you free refills all day, or at least it did when they charged anything.
Infinite Dips: A booth selling pre-packaged mixes for various dips - just add sour cream or mayo! Also has a variety of sampling container and pretzels to monch.
SOUTHWEST STYLE NOODLES: A food stand specializing in stir-fried noodles, vegetables, and what anyone from earth would recognize as various kinds of teriyaki. Goes kind of heavy on the ginger.
Fair Fries: A large food stand specializing in various kinds of potatoes (fries, curly fries, jojos, and even a make your own baked potato bar). They also have corn dogs and cherry limeade.
FISH STAND: There isn't a sign with words on it over this stand, just a large image of a fish. No points for guessing what they put into their fryers - fish and chips seem to be the most popular good, but there's also a sort of salmon meat pie that seems like it'd be pretty good, and skewers full of grilled shrimp.
Osfuri Rice and Grill: A stand specializing in a sort of spicy fried rice dish with a flavor profile that would ping as Near-Eastern to someone from Earth. Also has several kinds of grilled meat seasoned similarly and heavily sweetened iced rose water in addition to the typical selection of soft drinks.
Lisziel Sandwiches: These flatbread sandwiches are basically gyros. Actually, almost all of the food offered by this stand is basically Greek food a universe to the left - there's baklava and moussaka, too.
DOWNTOWN SHOPS
Note: All restaurants and most of the larger stores have public restrooms.
Silver Revel: A clothing shop. Seems to specialize in women's dancewear native to this world, focusing on skirts with hanging panels and tops that either hang off the shoulders, expose some amount of the belly, or both. Tends towards bold colors with complex embroidery in either flower or geometric patterns.
Keyes' Jewelers: A fine jewelry store, with a logo of an engagement ring around the shaft of a key. From the look of it, someone already looted half the shop on their way out of town, leaving behind mostly cheaper items in the cases - but if you can get into the back, there's still a great deal of finer merchandise.
Moon in Water: A tea shop with a vinyl window design of the moon cupped by a flower that looks like a blue lotus. Also has a few pastries in the case, but most of the focus is on tea and specially blended fruit juices and smoothies. Half the shop's seating is traditional small-tables-and-chairs, but there's also a wide open area in the back full of couches that was once available to rent for events.
Elidia's Confectionary: A fancy chocolates and sweets shop. About half the shop is taken up by a glass display from which customers can choose individual chocolates to make their own custom boxes. There are also pre-packaged boxes of chocolates, caramels and similar sweets, a wide variety of candied fruits (some of which you might recognize from the Station - white chocolate covered hiliberries, anyone?), and a display of individually packaged fancy caramel apples.
Top Roof Gardens: A garden shop and nursery with a focus on small-scale gardens, such as those that could be kept in an apartment's balcony or rooftop. The flowers here have been magically induced to bloom out of season, and spill out of the front of the shop to occupy wheeled carts on the sidewalk. It looks like things could use a bit of watering, however.
Current Affairs: This is just a slightly more magical Hot Topic. It appears that it was going through a punk phase, but there's also an entire wall of fandom merch for fandoms you've never heard of.
Southern Six Imports: An importer of goods from the technological countries on the continent to the south. The majority of the shop is futuristic-looking clothing made of glossy, plasticlike materials with the occasional bits of metal and circuit, but there's also a variety of imported foods. It's also one of the only places in the city where one can find items that run on a technological basis instead of a magical one, ranging from battery-powered flashlights to laptop computers. Comparing the prices to other shops, there's probably a high mark-up.
Aye-Aye!: A cute little upcycled clothes shop that specializes in taking worn out old clothes and making them fresh and new with a pastel twist. The general aesthetic of the store is poppy and plastic and retro -- it’s even decorated with colourful 90’s toys (or whatever time period counts as the 90’s around here, anyway).
Free Wind Skates: At first glance, this is a typical skate shop, with perhaps a bit of a specialty towards rollerskating. Further inspection, however, reveals that the shop carries at least as much in hoverboards and wind skates as it does in anything with wheels. While they won't get you terribly far off the ground, these magical skates are surely good for some kind of cool tricks...
Variety Pets: A pet supply store - from the signage, they also used to actually carry pets, but there are no animals in the cages and aquariums now. That doesn't mean that the shop is empty, however - those who follow the trail of empty cat kibble bags will find a small, contented family of a mother soot cat and six kittens curled up in a cat bed near the back of the store. The kittens are friendly and just about old enough to go home with someone.
8 Days: Your typical chain convenience store, open 24 hours, so on and so on. There's two of them in the downtown area and a handful in various other parts of the city.
Shadowcast Games: In theory, it's a video game store. In practice, most of the games work by directly manipulating magically projected images, rather than in the controller-and-screen setup of their technological counterparts. This tends to make them somewhat more portable than consoles, however.
Luminese: A clothing and curiosity goods shop, comparable to Fuego on Earth. The clothes are colorful, bright, and flowing, and aside from the novelty tees, tend to be rather loose-fitting on whoever they're sized for. There's also a decent variety of delicate and/or handcrafted-looking-but-not-actually-handcrafted jewelry and some novelty items like shaped ice cube trays, paper lanterns that glow with magical light, and an entire display about squash that appears to be culturally synonymous with pot.
Robin's Coffee: A chain coffeeshop, with a rust-red logo of a robin perched on the edge of a mug. There's three to be found throughout the downtown area. They also sell a variety of pastries and the occasional parfait.
NAILS: This simple sign doesn't offer much detail as to whether this is a place to get your nails done or a place to get items to do your own nails - those entering and exploring will find that it's both. However much nail polish you might have ever thought you needed, this shop has more than that.
Tuliyla's: A soup and sandwich shop, specializing in hot grilled sandwiches. According to the signage in their window, they've just added three new vegetarian options to their menu. In addition to the full sandwich bar, there's six tureens of various soups inside. They deliver(ed).
The Curled Leaf: A magical apothecary, with a handful of plants growing in hanging planters just inside the windows. Most of the material is dried, in large glass jars behind the counter, but there's also several shelves of horticulture books specializing in magical plants, tools such as mortar and pestle sets, a basket with a variety of magical crystals in it, and a box of carefully packaged seeds.
Rosshtian Piano and Music Supply: A surprisingly large storefront featuring two prominently displayed pianos (one to either side of the entrance), as well as a standing bass and a number of other instruments of a more classical bent, primarily strings and woodwinds. The shop inside also has two shelves full of sheet music and several full of spare reeds, strings, and other such accessories.
Magister's: A department store that seems focused on catering to hip and modern youth. Right now, it seems like the main fashion trend is shirts and pants in relatively neutral tones, with brightly colored waist sashes as the primary accessory. Most of the pants seem to be knee- or capri-length. Cord bracelets and anklets are also popular, as are low-cut socks - showing off the ankles, for both men and women, seems to be the Done Thing.
The Eastern Bow: A clothing shop with beach gear and a general nautical-and-surfer aesthetic. As in Magister's, shorter pants and skirts that show off the ankles are popular; however, there's less in the colorful sashes department and more color in the clothes in general. Horizontal stripes at the bottom hems of both shirts and pants are common.
Calla's: A bridal shop. From the look of it, it seems that the lucky color brides prefer to wear in this world is a light, sky blue, but most everything else matches reasonably closely to a Western wedding aesthetic. However, several of the dresses have something of a wide streaking effect in darker, bolder colors at the base of their full skirts, typically matching the color of the false flowers used to accessorize the upper part of the dress. There's also a handful of tuxedos on display, usually either black over a sky blue shirt or sky blue over a white shirt.
Bell's: A hardware and home improvement supply store. While their selection of large power tools is somewhat limited, they do offer a catalog, as well as rental services for small trailer attachments - which can be picked up in the attached parking garage below street level.
Chirp Network: A small shop, and mostly empty in a way that will make anyone from modern Earth immediately recognize it for what it is - the magical equivalent of a cellphone carrier. The 'devices' inside seem to be rectangular bars of glass or crystal, filled with some kind of fluid and smaller, floating crystals, barely the size of pinheads, in various colors. When activated, the internal crystals form some sort of magical array. Sadly, you can't actually test communication capabilities; service is out.
Tania Grocers: A small, city-style grocery, with an emphasis on fresh produce and ingredients that ping American sensibilities as Mexican or Southwestern - corn, tomatos, salsa, tortillas, and the like. There's lots of brightly colored paper signage indicating exactly what items are on sale.
Nightlife Adult Goods: You know what this is, you know why it's here. The 18+ is magically enforced; characters who do not meet the age requirement will find that a strange force field stops them from crossing the threshold. Yes, there are magical toys.
Anna's Fabrics: A craft and fabric superstore. Includes a few magical types of crafts, and aside from the fabrics seems to put a heavy emphasis on yarn crafts such as knitting and crochet.
Taste of the North: A restaurant specializing in heavily spiced meats and sausages, including some unusual imported ones such as seal. They also have a lot of dishes involving various combinations of sausages, peppers, and cabbage. There's a beer menu.
Hellacia: A bar and grill with heavy emphasis on the bar part - really, it's just one step shy of a nightclub. There's a dimly lit stage here that's still set up from whatever rock band was performing that night, with a set of drums, a keyboard, two electric guitars, and some kind of synth-sounding instrument you don't recognize that works by moving sliders back and forth along a set of eight strings.
Truman Hair and Beauty: A barbershop with a variety of hair-care goods such as high-end shampoos, dyes, wigs and weaves, and hair accessories. Professional dyeing is by appointment only, which unfortunately means that you can't get one.
Turner Books and Music: An impressively large book and CD store, spanning a basement, a main floor, and an upper floor that just wraps around the edges leaving an open view to the main floor below. The organization system is somewhat odd, though (at least all the audio goods are in the basement), so it might take you a while to find anything.
Uncle Will's: A grocery store more after the fashion of Costco and the like - huge boxes of goods in bulk for substantial discount. They have their own cellphone carrier, Limited Crystalline, inside, with similar options to Chirp Network.
Bezel's Imports: An import goods retailer with a focus on some country with a significantly colder climate. If you want furs, sweaters, and other warm clothes, this is the place. They also have a surprisingly amount of furniture and other goods of carefully carved wood.
Star Decoration: A typical bright pink and sparkly girly clothes shop, which is honestly more accessories than it is clothes. Froofy skirts and pastels with small accents are big right now, as are short, poofy skirts over leggings.
Lakeshore Goods: In spite of the name, this store sells as much fresh fish as it does anything. Perhaps related to the fact that the other goods are mostly fishing gear and other sporting goods supplies - it seems like the shop will buy your extra catch to sell off the next day.
Angelica's Aftermarket: A clothing store with an eclectic assortment of castoffs and out-of-season clothes from major department stores, usually at a fairly steep discount comparatively. Of course, you aren't paying for anything, but...
Toy's Box: A medium-sized toy store. They have a variety of toys both magical and mundane, but seem to have a focus on building-type toys like wooden blocks and a sort of knockoff lego that uses a hexagonal pattern instead of a square one. Also, there's a whole corner of the shop set apart for stuffed animals.
Juicybee's: A chain smoothie and fancy juice shop. They also sell grilled fruit skewers, which seems to be a popular food item in the city.
CAPITAL BANK: It's a bank. I don't know what you expected. Unless you're wanting for pens or slightly uncomfortable desk chairs, there isn't much to steal here, since the money doesn't have any real value at the moment.
Marva's Clothes: A wide variety of magical clothes tucked into a small shop with an indie, handmade vibe. The most common effect is that the clothes change color depending on some set of circumstances - day or night, or at the command word spoken by the wearer, or so on. A few have more significant alteration enchantments. Pretty uniquely, when something in this shop says one size fits all, they actually mean it.
Beyond Beyond: A home goods store with an emphasis on ~interior design~. If you want to have every bedroom in your three bedroom apartment be eerily matching in contents in spite of entirely different aesthetics, and to probably pay too much for all of it, here's the place.
Rosa's Glass: A blown glass shop, full of beautiful lamps and vases... That actually has a glassblowing studio in the back, with a safety-glass window through which customers could watch the glassblowers at work. Sadly, there's nothing but the heat of the furnaces back there now.
Lillymoore's Dress: A lolita shop, fairly evenly split with the extremely gothic items at one side of the store and the extremely pink, froofy, and sweet at the other, with everything else as a gradient between. You will probably not die of lace exposure if you go in here.
DISCOUNT FURNITURE: It's a furniture store with nothing that really especially matches in aesthetic. I don't know what you expected. At least it's not UGLY FURNITURE.
Bodysoap: One of those large, impressive soap and other bath supply stores. Nearly a third of the store is labelled as not only organic, but non-magical - that is, no magically grown or produced goods were used in the creation of the soaps, shampoos, and so on in question. These are quite a bit more expensive than the rest.
Sibbyl's Beads: A combination bead and jewelry supply store and... fortune-telling shop? The back wall near the fortune-telling parlor has a number of books and decks of cards for sale, as well as a handful of other fortune-telling methods characters may or may not recognize.
Farriare's Shoes: It's a shoe store, with a bit of a lean towards fancy shoes over things like sneakers or cheap sandals. Their slogan is 'Dressing your Best starts from the bottom up.'
Icutio: A massive department store that takes up almost an entire block. Has a little bit of everything, but mostly designer clothes of a bit higher quality than you fnd in other shops.
Weigh-a-Way Fitness: A 24hr gym with just about everything except a pool. They have a bit of an emphasis on weight loss, but the place is shiny and clean and the equipment is sturdy and well cared for.
RESONA AERE PUBLIC LIBRARY: It's exactly what it says on the tin - the city's primary public library, a hub for books, media, and whatever other research needs your nerdy little heart desires.
Kayla's: A non-chain coffee shop, with a... weirdly gothic aesthetic, in spite of the name. It seems to be pretty self-aware of it, though - the BLACK AS YOUR SOUL pins are probably intended to be a joke...
Ice Hutch: An ice cream shop. Despite slightly kiddie aesthetic and branding, they have a wide variety of flavors, and most of them are pretty damned good.
One Coin: A dollar store, more in line with Japanese dollar stores such as Daiso than with the American sort in terms of quality and offerings. There's two of them in the city, one near the Memorial Park and one dead-center in the downtown proper.
City Smokes: A cigarette and other smoking goods shop, which also carries a wide variety of incense. Interestingly, this is the only place in the city outside of the apothecary where one can find things specifically related to pot; the cultural equivalent for most of the city seems to be some kind of squash. A magical barrier prevents entry by those under eighteen.
Sherill's Bakery: A old family-run bakery. While most of their goods are varieties of bread, there's no lack of pastries and the like to be found here. Best raided in the mornings, before things have the chance to go stale from being left out through the day, though even in the afternoons there's plenty that's wrapped or in the cases that's fresh enough to eat.
GAZEMAKER'S: A glasses and sunglasses store, which also does cheap eye exams, with walls upon walls of frames to choose from.
Boxer's: An office supply store. All of their calendars and planners are on clearance,and it seems they're prepping for the beginning of the next school year.
Labyrinth Books: A used bookstore, crammed with shelves to the point that it really obviously lives up to its name. Apparently there was once a shop cat named Frederick; his bed remains behind the register.
Louvelier's: A clothing store specializing in formal and evening wear for both men and women. In addition to the standard suits, there also seem to be a number of men's options that boil down to "a long sleeveless coat with buttons and extensive embroidery down the central closure in the front, over pants; shirt optional." The womens' clothes are much as you'd expect, with a distinct bias towards the decadent and sparkling.
Say Burgers: A somewhat cheap burger joint, with an almost obscene number of options for burgers and milkshakes. Even with no one working here, the smell of cooking grease permeates the air not only inside, but immediately outside the doors.
Belts and Boots: As the name implies, this leatherwork shop specializes in these two items. They also carry a number of hats, chokers, and even a couple of corsets. The aesthetic is a weird blend of "wild west" and "european steampunk."
Sunset Pharmacy: A more modern style of pharmacy than the apothecary's, open 24 hours. While they have a variety of over-the-counter medications, there's also not anything preventing you from going, shall we say, over the counter to get to the good stuff.
Atlelia's Perfumery: A perfume and cologne shop, full of all sorts of strong scents in little elegant bottles. A few advertise magical attention-grabbing effects. Fans at the end of every line of shelves clear the smell from the air, allowing people to actually smell the individual scents they're testing out, but the shop can still be smelled from half a block in any direction.
Min's Metals: A shop with a focus on accessories made of aesthetically-rough metal that looks almost like it's been pulled fresh from the forge. However, in addition to the accessories, there is a section of the shop devoted to prosthetic limbs, with signage indicating that the artist takes commissions for them. A picture of her shows her with a somewhat beaten-looking prosthetic from the forearm down herself, using it to hold a chunk of hot metal in place while she lifts a hammer with her organic hand.
Lucy's Cards: A card and gift shop that strongly resembles Hallmark. However, many of the cards have magical effects when opened - they're sorted into categories such as "singing," "image-changing," and "emits lights" as well as by occasion. One wall of the shop is occupied by magically moving statuettes.
Metro Entertainment: A video and music store. Includes a decent sized import section, including accessories that are designed to allow technologically-encoded media to play on magical players.
Booker's Crafts: A craft store with a heavy emphasis on scrapbooking and papercraft. It also has a wide variety of painting, sketching, and other illustration materials.
Pepper's: A casual clothing store full of what could easily be called 'mom clothes,' with a lot of jeans, v-neck shirts, and casual jackets designed to be worn with the sleeves rolled up. A lot of the patterns are small, and colors tend to be light rather than bright aside from the denim blue of the jeans.
Lute Imports: The clothes in this shop are extremely similar to Far Eastern clothes on Earth, though often not quite right in the details - you won't find a straight up kimono or qipao here, but you'll probably find something that will pass for one at first glance. For "furnishings," they have mostly what seems to be an incredible variety of brightly colored floor cushions in stacks, and a few low-to-the-ground tables and the like. There's also a variety of delicate glass dishware, mostly in solid bright colors such as cobalt blue or red.
Checkboard Games: A board games shop, with a bunch of the sorts of games that are really intended more for adults than children given their complexity. There's also an entire counter for a trading card game called 'Technophilia' that's apparently highly collectible, and a section of wall devoted to roleplaying game books and miniatures, some of the more expensive of which move on their own.
Rutille: A large cosmetic supply store. While they have a few items of soaps and bath supplies, nail polish, and perfume, the majority of the emphasis is on their multiple make-up lines. A lot of their signage makes a point of mentioning that glamour doesn't show up on camera, implying that people are as likely to use magical beauty solutions as mundane ones.
Scenery Liquor: A... Well, it's a liquor store, what else would it be? A magical barrier at the entrance restricts those under twenty years of age from entering.
Gleam: Primarily a dance club, also serving drinks and a variety of snacks. Mostly, though, you come to Gleam for the atmosphere and the music threatening to pound your eardrums out on the dancefloor. Unlike most of the shops, there's actually music going - those paying attention will realize that the mix loops approximately every forty-five minutes.
Comicalia: The 'Kingdom of Comics.' While the comic shop definitely have a focus on that, there's also a back room for Technophilia tournaments and other things that can be rented out, and a variety of other goods that are indisputably nerd gear. After superhero comics, the most popular genre seems to be magical adventures featuring lots of travel.
Cornucopia Baggage: This luggage store has a rather expensive line of magical luggage with far more space inside than it should logically contain (for domestic travel only; prohibited on international flights). They also have more mundane travel gear (in the International section) and a wide variety of handbags and purses.
Brickhouse Magic: A shop focused largely on DIY magical items. There's a wide variety of magical materials here as a result - not only crystals and herbs, but animal goods, woods, stones that aren't just crystallized energy... there's also an entire wall of how-to books.