The Emporium

Milo Pine and Addie Whitcher in the Emporium.

**The Emporium** is the attic in Greenglass House, and was dubbed thus by Meddy. Many objects were discovered in the Emporium.

## History

### *Greenglass House*

While beginning their Odd Trails campaign, Milo and Meddy heard Clem coming up the stairs. Not wanting to be discovered, Milo suggested that they wait on the attic stairs until she left, or in the attic itself. The attic door was very old, and the wood swelled up in the summer and the door stuck, but in the winter it let drafts through to the house. It had a green glass knob and hinges that appeared fragile, but Mr. Pine kept them oiled because they were the only part of the door that he could control. Milo unlocked the door with the key underneath a pot containing a fake flower.

The attic had very dim bulbs with pull strings, and Milo began by pulling them all, though they still left the attic quite dark. Milo felt that the attic was not special enough, but went to look anyway, because 'an attic was an attic'. Meddy insisted that they needed to search the whole place, so they methodically combed the attic. Meddy found a robe, which she dubbed the Cloak of Golden Indiscernibility, and provided Milo with a pair of black slippers that would help him move quietly. Milo found a set of keys with Chinese writing on them, which he imagined to be something special from Milo's past. Meddy then added to her costume a fur-lined aviator's cap, the Helm of Revelations, and a pair of blue glasses, the Eyes of True and Aching Clarity. Meddy presented him with a pair of brown gloves, Wildthorn's Crackerjack Gauntlets, which he put on and appreciated in the cold of the attic. They later found a whistle, a ball of twine, a dusty spiral pad, and a pen. In addition, they found Odd Trails manuals, and Meddy discovered a scrap of paper from Lucksmith Paper Merchants. Milo then encountered pieces of glass leftover from some of the house's stained glass windows, which Meddy dubbed the Gems of Ultimate Puissance. Meddy told Milo that they would refer to the attic as the Emporium, and Milo drew a map of the Emporium at Meddy's request.

Milo told his father that he'd found some of Mr. Pine's old Odd Trails things, to his surprise, because Mr. Pine thought he'd sold them at a yard sale, but Milo insisted that they were indeed there.

After recovering Mr. Vinge's watch, which had been stolen, Milo and Meddy took it up to the Emporium to hide. They then noticed that the spider web that had been there the day before was broken, and knew that someone else had been in the Emporium. Milo suggested that perhaps it was his parents, but Meddy bombed this: they were too busy with the unexpected guests. They knew that the thief had been there, and Meddy called into the attic for the 'sneak' to start thinking up their excuses (though no one was there). Milo took out the map he'd made, and realized that the pile of sailcloth was different than it had been the day before. He moved the canvas to reveal Mrs. Hereward's ditty bag, which had also gone missing. He then had Meddy take the watch out of a box, where she'd buried it underneath the Gems of Ultimate Puissance, to hide it in a better place. They then left the attic, theorizing that Georgie's notebook, the other stolen thing, would be in a different room like the previous items.

Milo realized that the lantern he'd found in the attic was the lantern of Julian Roamer, or something like it, and what Mrs. Hereward was seeking. He'd also found a little tinderbox and flint near the attic, and gifted those to the delighted Mrs. Hereward along with Julian's lantern. Milo then gifted the keys he'd found to Owen, knowing that, because of his ancestry, he should have them. Mr. Pine commented that Milo was working on cleaning out the attic.

Mr. Pine noted that most of the things in the attic, basement, and outbuilding they used for storage were from a long time ago. According to Mr. Vinge, Doc Holystone had found the watermarked paper in his attic.

When Mr. Vinge pulled out a gun and two of his thugs arrived, Milo and Meddy ran to the Emporium and shut the door behind them. Meddy confessed that she was actually the ghost of Addie Whitcher, Doc Holystone's daughter, and told Milo about herself. They then searched for Doc Holystone's final cargo, and Milo realized that it was hidden inside the ship chandelier in his dining room, which he deemed was the work of Lowell Skellansen.

Milo noticed the attic door rattling slightly, and knew that someone was on the fifth floor opening doors; the draft was causing the attic door to rattle. Meddy, knowing it was the customs agent, asked if they could lock the door. Milo informed her that it only locked from the outside, and grinned. They quickly discussed strategy, then lured the thug into the attic, and shut and locked the door, trapping him inside. The thug was eventually let out.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

Milo noted that the attic was above the fifth floor. When Clem taught Milo to use his lockpicks, they pretended that he had found them in his attic.

When Meddy returned, she deemed that Milo needed an Odd Trails character other than Negret. Seeing that Milo did not have the manual she wanted, Meddy deemed it was time for a trip to the Emporium, to Milo's delight. Milo unlocked t.he door, and they went inside. Meddy chose the appropriate manual and Milo picked his character. Meddy instructed him to find a locus, an object with deep meaning to his character. Milo was skeptical that they would find one in the Emporium, but Meddy reminded him of the keys he'd found the previous year. Milo searched through the boxes nearby—most were boring— and discovered a painting of the ship *Ganzander*. He then found a red lacquer box with a picture of a crane on it, and inside he found some yellow paper, a red pencil, a white feather, and a small vial. He found a name for his character, Téngfēi, and then he and Meddy shared their finds. Meddy had discovered the Tome of Unutterable Algorithms, the Ring of Wildest Abandon, and Eglantine's Patent Blackthorn Wishing Stick.

## Contents

* Cloak of Golden Indiscernibility
* Helm of Revelations
* Eyes of True and Aching Clarity
* Lansdegown keys
* Rucksack
* Julian's lantern
* Wildthorn's Crackerjack Gauntlets
* Gems of Ultimate Puissance
* Paper from Lucksmith Paper Merchants
* Addie Whitcher's Odd Trails manuals
* Belt
* Broken whistle
* Spool of twine
* Spiral pad
* Mirror with spotted glass
* Painting of *Ganzander*
* Tome of Unutterable Algorithms
* Ring of Wildest Abandon
* Eglantine's Patent Blackthorn Wishing Stick
* Slywhisker's Crimson Casket of Relics
	+ Feather locus
	+ Ocher Pages of Invisible Wards
	+ Ever-Sharp Inscriber of Rose-Colored Destinies
	+ Flask of Winds and Voids