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-The '''Interdimensional Black Market''' was an illegal interdimensional hub ruled by the [[Queen of the Black Market]], who kept the peace through the use of her [[Wraith]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'') It was located on a rocky island floating in an inky abyss of nothingness, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') lit only by strange multicoloured spheres that floated above the island. It was a pocket universe; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') Its coordinates were a tightly-kept secret, although [[Pythagoras-858]] discovered them thanks to having been nearby on an occasion when the Queen used an emergency teleport back home, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') as she left [[Hilbert's]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'')
+{{Universe
+|title1= The Cupid Homeworkd
+|image1= Tracker at the Interdimensional Black Market.png
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+|nature= Pocket dimension
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+|inhabitants= [[:Category:Denizens of the Interdimensional Black Market|'''''See list''''']]
+|first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]''
+|also_seen_in= [[Interdimensional Black Market/Appearances|'''''See list''''']]
+|copyright= [[Lupan Evezan]]
+}}The '''Interdimensional Black Market''' was an illegal interdimensional hub ruled by the [[Queen of the Black Market]].
-[[Madame Tarsa]] owned a stall at the Black Market where she sold some of her magical toys through a living puppet intermediary. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') Among the things sold at the Black Market, there were also assassination contracts, as well as curse toadstools that could turn living individuals ''into'' wraiths. After escaping [[Venus]], the five surviving [[Wellsian]]s travelled to the Black Market from the [[Interdimensional Tavern]], and, from there, sent [[Forga sog-Forgos]] to [[Hilbert's|the Interdimensional Hotel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'')
+== Nature ==
+It was located on a rocky island floating in an inky abyss of nothingness, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'', ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'') lit only by strange multicoloured spheres that floated above the island. It was a pocket universe; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'') Its coordinates were a tightly-kept secret, although [[Pythagoras-858]] discovered them thanks to having been nearby on an occasion when the Queen used an emergency teleport back home, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') as she left [[Hilbert's]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'')
+The Black Market was a secret operation, and patrons and vendors alike had to be invited to go; anyone else would be deemed an outsider, hunted down by the [[Queen of the Black Market|Queen]]'s [[Wraith]]s, and turned into one themselves by means of a gray [[curse toadstool]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'', ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'')
+Vendors at the Black Market include “a large octopus wielding several knives” offering “a variety of strange and dangerous-looking foods”, a [[winged lobster]] selling a set of bottles “each containing a tiny human”, a trio of [[harpie]]s peddling supposedly-magical feathers, a [[Toadstool Salesman|humanoid toad]] selling [[curse toadstool]]s, a “[[serpentine beast]] in a fringed cloak” reads fortunes from a [[crystal ball]] under a large tent, and a [[Ship-parts seller (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|“green, humanoid creature”]] who sold [[Void Ship]] parts, originally with the help of [[CS-NA]]. [[Madame Tarsa]] also owned a stall at the Black Market, where she sold some of her magical toys through a [[Marionette (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|living puppet intermediary]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'', ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'') ''[[Madame Tarsa's Marvelous Dolls and Automatons]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'') There were, in all, “hundreds of strange beings and eccentric beasts” offering up odd goods all across the island. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'')
+== History ==
+On the way to the [[Cupid Homeworld]] in 2019, [[Darius]] and [[Tracker-764]]'s [[Tracker-764's Void Ship|Void Ship]] was damaged in [[the Void]] by an eldritch abomination and crash-landed in the Market by mistake. In spite of their fraught status as uninvited outsiders, the two visited the Market in search of spare parts. Darius stumbled upon [[Madame Tarsa's Marvelous Dolls and Automatons]] and was tricked into buying a [[Ventriloquist's dummy (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|cursed ventriloquist's dummy]].
+When he found Tracker again, his travelling companion had found a [[ship-parts seller (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|ship-parts seller]] and was attempting to haggle with them over a [[210K Twin-Carbonoid Dualtech Engine]]. They ended up trading the dummy to the seller in exchange for the Engine, plus a second-hand ship-repairing robot called [[CS-NA]]. Before they could leave peacefully, they were noticed by a [[Wraith]] and taken by the [[Queen of the Black Market]], who briefly threatened to simply kill them before realising how valuable a [[Clockwork Cherub]] might be, putting the two up for auction. Tracker signaled CS-NA to “buy” them, with no intention of paying, and they made their escape aboard the Void Ship, chased by more Wraiths trying to stop them from leaving without paying up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'')
+After escaping [[Venus]], the five surviving [[Wellsian]]s travelled to the Black Market from the [[Interdimensional Tavern]], and, from there, sent [[Forga sog-Forgos]] to [[Hilbert's|the Interdimensional Hotel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'')
 In December 2020, the Market was attacked by [[the Clown Emperor]], who began dueling the Queen herself, with his army of smaller duplicates of himself taking on the Wraiths. The fight attracted a crowd of the merchants and patrons of the Black Market to the central plaza where it was happening, such that when [[Sherlock Holmes#In the Prime Universe|Sherlock Holmes]] and [[Pythagoras-858]] appeared in the Market
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 [[Category:Universes]]
+[[Category:Pocket Dimensions]]