Ep. 6: The Clockwork City, Part 2

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*With the poison growing and an innocent man behind bars, our heroes decide to swiftly take a break and go shopping. Watch as they:

IGNORE the laws of gravity!

ANNIHILATE jar goo!

RISK a copyright lawsuit with Marvel Comics!*

## Synopsis

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After being left in a shopping district of Charmonde, our heroes run across a small golden coin, which pops up to make a tent labeled "Penny in Pocket." They enter the tent and find a small shop for adventurers, run by three brothers.

* **Haymish Penny:** The main shop keep and salesperson. A friendly nano who can make a book with the shop catalogue appear from thin air.
* **Ignatius Penny:** A large, friendly man with an ill-fitting (but disarming) mustache. He can upgrade gear or people.
* **Tattertop Penny:** A creepy, bearded brother holding a box with a funnel attached. This can be used to replace one cypher or artifact with another random one. Carnival music is always playing around him.

Haymish welcomes our heroes, and it's time for some shopping!

* Hopper buys library access, a small key that lets him remotely check out one book at a time from the Penny Library.
* Xoc buys a recorder headband, which lets him record everything he sees.
* Hopper buys a shaper key, which is a wad of putty that forms a key for a lock that it's pressed into.
* M.I.S.H.A. buys castor clay, a Play-Doh style modeling clay that can be used to make realistic disguises.
* M.I.S.H.A. buys sprayflesh, which can heal organic creatures.
* M.I.S.H.A. buys a small rock with two pairs of eyes and a small mouth drawn on it. They think it's a very important rock, because it looks like a face.

Additionally, Haymish points out a floatstone, a stone with negative gravity that's gotten stuck on the ceiling. Xoc far steps up to grab the stone, but loses his balance in the process. He frantically buys a first-aid kit from Haymish while mid-air, and M.I.S.H.A. jumps to catch the falling Xoc and floatstone. M.I.S.H.A. rolls a one and fails to catch Xoc. Instead, they slam their head against the counter, dropping a "jar of something" (which Haymish calls Gerald) on their head, causing it to break. Xoc heals M.I.S.H.A. using the first-aid kit he bought, although it takes him three attempts to succeed. Haymish considers asking Xoc to heal Gerald, but realizes that it won't work. Instead, he asks Elee to bring the jar's shards to Ignatius. While there, Elee hires Ignatius to place azure nails in her hands that come out when she closes her fists, which he very reluctantly agrees to, telling Hop to remove anything with nails in it, including a bat covered in nails.

M.I.S.H.A. is fascinated by the bat, which "feels like home." Hopper buys it for M.I.S.H.A., since they spent their last shin on a rock. Xoc expresses concern for Elee, saying that the last time he was told someone went out shopping, they were actually dead. After accidentally breaking more things, our heroes venture out, as a single tear falls down Haymish's cheek and the tent collapses back into a coin behind them.

## Trivia

* The names of the Penny brothers are references to characters from a visual novel Emily worked on in college.
* This episode is the first episode with a mid-episode announcement break.
* When M.I.S.H.A. sees the bat for the first time, a faster version of the Lady with Cinnabar Lips' theme plays.