Compass Coffee + Second Chance Shop
Gear, grub, and a bit of guidance for beginning adventurers, weary wanderers, and anyone looking for a moment of respite before their next journey begins.We are excited to see you during our regular shop hours, 7:00 to 9:30 pm CST, every other Sunday, but are open by appointment throughout the week. Contact TolDork&Handsome#5534 or Talin#7195 on Discord to set up a visit, or with any other questions. The Compass can be found on Balmung in Ward 15, Plot 37, Empyreum.
Buy - Sell - Trade
For those who practice a particular trade
Sturdy clothing, basic armor and weapons, refurbished camping gear, informational books and pamphlets, with more than a dash of trinkets, oddities, and handicrafts, in this adventurers' "Item Shop"
Sip, Snack, Stay a While
Fresh brewed coffee concoctions and light, nourishing snacks and meals. Take your order to go, or relax in our upscale (and upstairs) café.
How will your story unfold?
Get a new perspective on your situation with a unique combination of fortune telling and fellowship. Make up your mind, make a change, and make some friends along the way.
The Compass crew is always on the lookout for the next adventure, and sometimes it takes them to darker destinations...
Item Shop
Buy, sell, or browse gently used survival and adventure books and gear, and get curious about our curiosities. The staff is always willing to help find the perfect pick for your pathfinding or project. Now offering lotions, bath bombs, and other sweet-smelling splurges courtesy of the multi-talented apothecary Aveline Vallakovich.Yes, we DO have the newest Max Money romance books, but please be advised they sell out quickly, so don't hesitate!
Coffee Shop
Sample a snack or a custom coffee concoction at the Compass. Try a pickle platter - Crunchy, savory, sweet, or spicy, these brined snacks are a favorite in the colder regions of Ilsabard. Pairs well with our popular cheese or charcuterie board. Our popular pretzels remain on the menu as well as some sparkling New Year's libations. We are always adding to our menu so check back often!
Fortunes + Friendship
Where have you been on your journey, and where are you headed? A conversation with a friend can help put it all into perspective, and a conversation with the cards can further illuminate the patterns and pitfalls that trouble you.Bring some questions and an open mind, and enjoy a coffee while you wait your turn. Session length may vary based on demand. Private sessions are available subject to scheduling.Questions to consider (that Aly is likely to ask you): what has been weighing on your mind recently? What choices have you been considering, or what has made you feel uncertain, or wanting a different perspective? Are there any particular places or people occupying your thoughts? How are you feeling? Would you like a snack? Would you like a hug? (These last questions aren't necessarily germane to the reading, she just wants to know in case you need one.)
Other Venues
Shirogane Night Market
Compass Coffee and Second-chance Shop is proud to partner with Shirogane Night Market, and whether you're a new customer or an old friend, we hope to see you there! Couerl, Ward 23 Subdivision, Shirogane.
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Compass Shop in Shiro
Some items are a bit too curious even for a curiosity shop. These we offer to the discerning clientele of the Shirogane Night Market, where we're peddling our wares in stall #2 (next to the Couerl Ward 23 subdivision docks) and passing on our competitively-priced oddities to you.Stop by to browse our gently-to-moderately cursed artifacts, over-engineered household devices, and assorted small weapons and machina guaranteed not to have been used in a war crime in the past 48 hours. Also an assortment of used books, a piping-hot carafe of coffee, and one-card tarot pulls guaranteed to lift your spirits and justify your next big purchase.
Who Are We?
Not Answered: How Are We? Determining "Why Are We" is right out.
Letharon Drace knows the ins and outs of military and other technology, can help you find the parts you need for your DIY project or repairs, is totally just an average and ordinary Eorzean citizen so there's no need to investigate his history or accent any further, and if you ask nicely, he might share his book and handicraft recommendations with you. He can appraise almost any item or artifact within ten gil, but if it's an idol of bone, thrumming with dark energies or something, don't expect him to be, like. Excited about it.
**Alyona Amariyo ** is a master of both the cold read and the tarot read, has a sympathetic shoulder for serious troubles and an eager ear for adventure, probably pulled that glowing relic you're looking at out of an (unsanctioned) dig site herself, and is very excited to meet you~ She's telling stories and fortunes (a fortune is just another kind of story, she'll explain) at the Market, and wants to hear about your heroic (or not-so-heroic) exploits, so come say hi!
**Victor Vallakovich ** is the Compass' resident aetherial expert, with a focus on curse-breaking and curse-making. If you failed to offer hospitality to an aged crone and now can speak only in iambic pentameter, made an unwise otherworldly bargain that left you subsisting on something inconveniently esoteric like the dreams of a heartbroken maiden, or you wish to make an otherworldly bargain (wise, foolish, or otherwise), Victor is your guy. He would also be inclined to look at aforementioned bone-idols with interest, if not outright approval, but he is, alas, unlikely to share his coffee.
Some (But Not All) Of What We're Selling
None of our items are (as far as we know) sapient this go around but beyond that we offer few guarantees. “Possessed of a malevolent will” is like a whole different deal.
11-3-22 Night MarketA small ceramic duck that brings small ceramic luck. When placed in a cupboard or on a shelf, the dishes stored therein will not break through any normal means. The further a given plate or saucer (or even cookpot or cutlery!) is removed from the duck’s presence, the greater the chance the kitchen item will bend, break, or crumble.Tiny, seemingly robotic spider trapped in amber.Clearly cursed wooden depiction of the Starlight Saint. The woodcarver’s skill in crafting the trinket was technically solid, but. But. Upon closer inspection, the joints don’t seem to bend at quite the angle one might expect. The robes seem almost fleshy. The face is just…wrong. Overall the longer you look at the figure, the more your sense of unease and dread will grow. A perfect stocking stuffer! Additional properties suspected but currently unknown.Several truly massive throw pillows, expertly embroidered and fluffy to a fault. Once they’re yours you won’t want to sleep or sit on anything else, and furthermore you won’t want to do much else besides sleep or sit on them. We’re selling them so we can finally get some work done around here. Sheesh. But maybe just one more quick catnap first…?Several whimsical wind-up toys representing various mundane or obscure animals. Each one is cuter than the last. Somehow even the morbol is cute. Check ‘em out.A lightweight walking stick that, when tapped twice on the ground, and then twirled theatrically, transforms into an impressive spear. Sure to be popular among followers of Oscon and Halone, as well as aspiring magical girls.Several jars of apparently harmless, inert slime. It’s a vibrant, unnatural green, stretchy without being too sticky, and smells faintly of bananas. Traded to us by a down-on-his-luck alchemist who noted, apropos of nothing, that those fools at the academy would rue the day they mocked him, so probably everything is fine there.Previous Items
Screaming Spoon
- An ordinary-looking piece of silverware, unremarkable save for the ear-splitting shriek it emits when placed in hot liquid. (Victor says: spoon’s haunted. Always has been.) A secondary property of the Screaming Spoon is its ability to take on an identical appearance to nearby spoons, so release it into the wilds of your silverware drawer at your own risk.Enchanting Correspondence Solo Chess Set
- Said to have been created by a Sharlayan professor devastated when old age claimed his lifelong play-by-Moogle-Mail chess partner. A sturdy, handsome chess set that functions normally, until a command word is spoken. Then, once the board is set, and the first move made, a piece on the opposing side will move in response…within a time span ranging anywhere from a few bells to a tenday. The player moves, followed by the unseen opponent, and so on, until the game’s conclusion. The item works flawlessly save for the potential inconvenience of waiting for the “delivery” of the move as though by an unseen postmoogle. A patient chess enthusiast who savors the opportunity to anticipate the opponent’s next move, however, may find this to be a boon rather than a drawback.Storage Larva
- An immense grub that doubles as a carry-on. Whether in its convenient side pouches or shoved right down its gullet, this creature can hold up to twenty ponzes of gear, returning even the most fragile items unharmed and only slightly damp. How does the creature eat if its innards are used for storage? What keeps it so placid in the face of these repeated indignities? What is it even a larva of? The adventurer who traded the storage larva for a one-man tent and a decent pair of hiking boots didn’t know, and the larva itself is silent on this and all other matters.Experitron Tree Inducer Interface
- A slightly ominous-looking wire-covered, visored helmet of obvious goblin make, with a cute picture of a smiling tree painted on the side. Having (possibly mis-)heard that the mystical warriors of Doma had cultivated an inner stillness allowing them to become indistinguishable from trees and thus get the drop on their enemies, the industrious gobbiefolk sought to replicate this technique, through SCIENCE! The result is a helmet that neurally interfaces with its wearer, using an immersive array of sight, sound, and truly alarming levels of electrical discharge, to induce the sensation of being in every way a tree. While not having thus far imbued them with any preternatural ninjesque stillness, the goblins assured us that users found the experience “soothing,” “worth many jinglyshines,” and “not yet gobbie-endmaking, only littlemuch dizzyburned braincase.”Synthesized Propulsion Obscurator Device
- This bulky, awkward device hums to life when taken in hand, and when the trigger is pulled, fires a massive, gelatinous globule which adheres to any surface it contacts. The adhesive projectile (referred to by Aly and only Aly as a “SPODpod”) causes the speed of the target to which it has adhered to be indiscernible to everyone observing it, including passengers and the target itself. It is not that the target is rendered invisible or imperceptible to any of the senses, simply that when it moves, no one (including onboard speedometers in the case of vehicles) seems able to tell how fast it’s going. The cylinder has chambers for six “rounds,” three of which have already been (somewhat messily) expended.The Astonishing Vibro-Whetstone!
- Sharpen your blade in half the time with triple the chance of injury! Oilcloths/improvised tourniquet materials included free of charge.A Bada-Boom Of Indeterminate Size
- Expired mining dynamite priced to sell. Get yours before it’s gone, and/or leaks nitroglycerine all over our nice clean sales tarp.Paissa Mascot Suit
- From the strangely tufted faux fur of the body to the staring, sightless eyes of the mask, the costume simultaneously exaggerates and undermines the natural qualities of a paissa. The resulting uncanny valley is sure to make any shopper agree, of all the things they have seen, this is one of them. After staring into the void of cutesily-stylized but utterly soulless mesh eyes for the better part of a week, Leth has declared this suit another “must sell” item, and all serious inquiries will be honored.Sylvan Wind Chime
- Not guaranteed to result in odiferous vegetables strewn about your home and property, but not guaranteed to not result in said vegetables. Let the buyer rejoice, or beware, as befits their stance on such offerings.Deviled Egg Mammet
- Given access to the proper ingredients and utensils, this mammet will make perfect deviled eggs, every time, according to very exact user specifications, or defaulting to a delicious onboard recipe. It is recommended, if used in a household with several mammets, that this mammet is kept away from the others, as its passion for egg-deviling is so great that it has previously persuaded other mammets to abandon their prior programming and pursue more eggy endeavors. (We have sold what we believe to be the original, but as other mammets were converted before the original could be contained, we still have several in stock.)(Thank you https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/invention-names.php for your invaluable assistance in generating the word salad responsible for dreaming up two of these wondrous devices :D)
Reading Makes You 28% Sexier*, So Buy Our Books You Gorgeous Creature
*Based on very factual Book Science. Obviously.
We're also selling a variety of new and used books, including but not limited to:A user manual for a Predator class magitek armor. Not supernatural, but in keeping with military reference manuals, is about six inches (ilms?) thick and written in 7 point type. At least it's in Common?A set of Nymian maritime star charts and maps. Enchanted so the major constellations and currents are illuminated for night-time navigation. (Unfortunately the world has changed a HELL OF A LOT since the days of Nym, but may still be useful to someone looking for Nymian ruins.)A collection of stories from the South Seas lalafel tribes. Pair it with a local trinket carved from coconut. It’s free with the book because it will show up in your house one way or another!Ladies of Lea Monde: The Roaming Rogue’s Guide to Dalmascan DamesAn entire stack of Spearfishing Today magazineA three volume compilation of kobold poetry that seems dusty no matter how many times it is wiped cleanHuntMastersUnited VII - Othard’s Orneriest OmnivoresThe Littlest Goobbue, a children’s book with cute, whimsical watercolor illustrationsOn The Categorization and Delineation of the Lower Voidal Hierarchies, written by Gerhard Sand, annotated by Thraa’kossh’kraa the Gloombringer (NOTE: while the original tome has long since sold and caused as many problems as it solved our Victor Vallakovich had the presence of mind to make a copy, and then that copy had the presence of mind to make more still! We pass the value on to you.)A coffee table book about chocobo husbandryVolumes 7 through 23 of the classic Ah! My Auspice! Graphic novelsPopular romance novelist Max Money’s House Forlleur series, which follows the romantic (mis)adventures of the five sons of a minor Ishgardian noble house, and in the much anticipated sixth and final book in the series, The Imperfect Father, the patriarch of the house. Beginning with the house in ruins and the family on the brink of falling to pieces, the series is known for both its tragic tone and rich descriptions.