B5. Village Square

The village square is usually fairly deserted aside from a few people gathered around the well and two Clerics of St. Ludann who casually keep an eye on things. They never break up fights at or around the Jolly Fox unless it looks like someone might get killed. The square does become busy on market days, which occur twice a week. On market day about 100 people will be in the square, many of them from settlements outside Blackapple. Market vendors sell general equipment, bags, pouches, clothing, containers, animals, animal gear, stock goods, and trade goods. PCs can buy any item listed for 40 gp or less in the Basic Fantasy RPG Core Rules or Basic Fantasy Equipment Emporium. Help Wanted (Mini Adventure Threads) Regardless of whether it's market day, posted on the buildings around village square are various solicitations that may be of interest to PCs looking to earn some coin: Crudely-written signs are posted at each end of the town square. Most “help wanted”- type signs are for unexciting menial labor one might find in a rural village, but a few items catch your eye: – The Merchant's Guild is looking for people to guard lumberjacks from forest monsters. Pay: 10 gp/cut tree (up to 100 gp/day!) – Wild dogs are attacking local pigs. Pay: 2 gp/dog pelt. See Pigman Jack for particulars. – Escaped Lunatic! If found return him to the Sanitarium of Doctor Livinius. Reward: 185 gp. – Attention all Monster Hunters! Captain Tobler of Tobler's Knick Knacks and Taxidermy will pay for sele