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So... You asked the right questions and I see - you are serious in your desire to study occult mysteries. So - welcome to Ye Olde Magic Shoppe's backroom!
Oh, and yes! In the front room you can pay with usual currency, but here - here! - you pay with real currency. What? Dollars!? You can keep your green paper for yourself. Here you pay in gold, silver and rarities. So, let's begin, shall we?

Pentacles, paper amulets of Solomonic Magic, be it classy Kabbalah or more modern hermetic school. Some of them are talismans, some - preserved magic. We have around fifty variants of these, and several trustworthy suppliers. Also, our suppliers can create you some rare ones on request.
Gleipnir, the silky ribbon of Norse legends. Of course, it is not an actual one - you can call it an authentic copy, bargained from Norse Gods by pretty powerful runist. And, yes - you can not break this ribbon. At all. Of course, it is just an authentic copy, so it can't hold something like Fenrir or other beings of apocalyptic power... But you still can hang fraking Titanic on it - and will hold it.
Dead Water. Yessss, this is really good stuff, right from Slavic legends! This thing can heal anything, the only malady it can't heal is death. And still - it will heal dead body. You can reattach severed limb with it like nothing happened. Very rare stuff, to get it, you need to be powerful volkhv or Slavic witch, and you need to travel pretty far beyond our mundane world. Legends also tell about the Living Water that can revive dead, usually this two are used together (after all, what's the point of reviving the dead if it still have giant hole in place of his heart?), but Living Water is even more rare.
Aetherometer? This device measures the power of aetherial fields and pretty damn useful in searching of all thing occult and mysterious. Back in the 90-s, while all the hell broke lose here, in Russia, I got my hands on pretty interesting blueprints... They were published by KGB, contained all the process needed to create aetherometer - and were completely outdated. Like, seriously! We are talking about lamp electronics! So - I gave them to my cousin. This devise is it's twelve version. Why does it beeps and flashes like crazy? Because we are in the backroom of magic shop. Why does it looks like a prop from Ghostbusters movie? Because my cousin is a nerd.
Sealed antique copper jug. Actually, this thing gives me creeps. It is definitely old, enchanted and sealed with the Solomon's star - so, I guess, it contains a jinn. However, I'm not sure I want to open it without a ton of study. Of course, in good case scenario - the jinn is benevolent and I get anything I want. But in a universe where Murphy exists, it can be bad case scenario... And that means if I open it - I'm toast. Pretty possible - along with half of the city. So for now - I prefer it sealed.
Silver knuckle - fine silver, engraved, blessed by bishop, a friend of mine. With this baby you can feed a pretty nasty knuckle sandwich to most kinds of material and partially material monsters - werewolves, vampires, demons. Why is it not in the main room, unlike silver ammo? Because knuckles are... not particularly legal here.
Witchbane - Ah! Great piece of craftsmanship, both engineering and magical. This gun, manufactured by unknown weaponsmith can harm on both layers - material and astral, so it is pretty useful for any monster hunter. Mechanically - it is a copy of famous Colt Single Action, Cavalry model, and it was crafted along with it's twin - Demonbane, sometime around 1890th. Once it belonged to Richard Gordon, Old World's most unlucky monster hunter - while possessing this marvellous guns and pretty rich library of really occult literature, he actually never met anything supernatural in his entire life. And he could not even summon anything by his own, because he was ethereally immune. Go figure... Why do I wish to sell such marvel of a weapon? Because I'm a trader, of course, and I must be practical. And getting .45 Colt rounds here, in Russia, is a Tzeentch-damn chore.
Black Comb. OK, this stuff is a bit weird. Found two of those in the 90-s, in some abandoned apartment. Took them. And then one of those things stopped Outsider-damn AKM bullet! Of course, I had to deal with broken ribs and strange, comb-shaped scar on my chest, but still! So - I started to experiment, and I found out - nothing can do ANY harm to this thing. I shot it (up to 125mm armour-piercing sabot rounds), tried to blow it up with ridiculous amount of TNT (around six crates), overloaded industrial hydraulic press with it... Not even a scratch! I still don't know who or what for created this thing, but nothing I could do made even a single mark of it - and, by Julianos, I tried! Don't believe me? Take this fire axe and try to break it. Oh, careful! ...another try?

Research material - variety of leads, clues, files and other materials I collected on several different artefacts, like Spear of Destiny, Grail and others. I can't guarantee you'll find them with this papers, but at least you'll have something to start with besides Wikipedia.
Infinite wine flask - waxed leather flask, enchanted with runic magic, once poured inside, wine in this flask never ends! Oh, yes, there ARE limitations. First of all, it works only with wine... And wine inside can be only poured directly into mouth, no cups or bottles. It wouldn't allow you to create wine industry from nothing, of course, but at least - you'll always have wine!

Abramelin oil - classic sacred oil for anointing your tools of trade and yourself before rituals. Made of olive oil, myrrh, cinnamon, cassia and calamus.
Holy water - OK, I managed to make a deal - as long as I don't put Church's merchandise in the main room, and as long as I share profit with Church - I can sell holy items in my Shop. So... This is 1L bottle of holy water. It can be used to sanctify something... Or burn demonic or undead creatures. Also, just to let you know - it doesn't affect most forms of lycanthropes (except for very rare type of demonic ones) besides making them wet.
Holy water globe - 190ml of holy water in a thin glass sphere. For throwing.
Handheld crucifix - handheld crucifix, blessed by bishop, may stop and compel undead or demonic entities. Since we're in Russia, the crucifix is of orthodox origin.
Chrism - aka "holy oil", is used by Christian churches in several rituals, including chrismation (confirmation). Can a line of chrism stop angels? Actually, I never tried, but I doubt it - it looks similar to trying to stop wolves with the line of sausages... No, "Supernatural" can't be considered "valuable source".
Packed decoction - your ready-to-brew decoction, hand-crafted by some of my trusty supplying witches. All you need is hot water - and some knowledge how to use this brew.

Enchanted bandage - 14cm*7m sterile bandage, enchanted with the Second Pentacle of Mars, speeding up the healing process... Doesn't work on aethereally-immune individuals - as well as most other things here, actually. May or may not work on individuals, not sharing Abrahamic metaparadigm.
Laudanum - this stuff can easily turn you into mumbling, addicted idiot... But it, as well, can save your sanity in the depth of some cursed mansion, around eldritch horrors... And only then turn you into mumbling, addicted idiot. Also, it's totally illegal here, so be careful around cops.
Icon of Taren - ancient bronze icon of Permian goddess of war, madness, wildfires and floods, called Taren... And this thing is definitely cursed, so be extremely careful. Ever heard of Rastess village, aka Russian Roanoke? Small village in Sverdlovsk oblast, it's entire population vanished without a trace somewhere around 1970-s. Well... This thing is responsible.
Portable alchemy lab - this portable lab requires two men to carry around and includes large variety of tools and components for alchemy, chemistry and herbal mixing.

Ectoplasm - this aether-sensitive thick liquid is left after the destruction of spirit, subjected to lesser materialisation in one form or another.

Ectoplasmic acid - extremely nasty stuff, capable of dissolving both material and aetherial... things. Very potent, so be very, very careful! Found it in the 90-s, according to documents, coming with it, is was used for terminating especially dangerous and powerful artefacts.

Black viper poison - actually, snake is called Nokolski's viper, but, anyway, it is rather potent ingredient.

Cross necklace - blessed by Russian Orthodox bishop. Here, in Russia, Christians are usually get cross necklace upon baptism and confirmation (they are usually done side-by-side, unless special circumstances).

Praying beads - Variety of praying beads, from all over the world. Since in Orthodox Christianity praying beads are nearly exclusive to clergy, I had to remove them from the main room.

Votive candles - since both hermetic magic and Russian witchcraft have deep roots in Abrahamic metaparadigm, votive candles works best in their rituals, in Russia they are traditionally made from pure beeswax.

Bereginya's Handkerchief - nice little thing, very rare and may be useful... Or not. This nice little piece of fabric can absorb and hold up to (approximately) 130m3 of any non-corrosive and not-adhesive liquid. It can absorb it for some time, mixing all the liquids, however, there is a problem... It can only release it in one massive SPLASH. Of course, it's not a problem when you dry out spilled milk with, however - when it's close to full, it turns into real problem! There're not a lot of places, where you can safely and quitly dump 130m3 of even simple fresh water.

Bloody Scalpel - this scalpel was manufactured in the middle of XIX century by Arnold & Sons Company (London). According to my research, it was found in Gro?-Rosen concentration camp in 14.02.1945 by one of Soviet soldiers. Presumably, it belonged to Doctor Josef Mengele - yes, infamous "Angel of Death" - himself... He acquired it in France, and seller claimed (and, according to Mengele's notes, proved), that originally this scalpel belonged to another infamous figure - Jack the Ripper himself, actually. As for properties... This artefact grants it's wielder good health, longevity and, also, makes him extremely elusive - however, as any artefact of such infernal power, it corrupts it's wielder beyond measure. Person I acquired it from also mentioned something about possession, that this thing made him kill and mutilate his wife and children, but I honestly doubt it... However, I wouldn't touch it with bare hands.

Osowiec brew - very, very interesting decoction, developed by Russian witches during WW2. Basically, it makes the recipient pretty much unkillable - at least, until sunrise or sunset. Nothing short of decapitation can stop him - however, after potion's effects runs off, wounds will still be there, so, oops. Also, the potion is rather mind-numbing.

...why do I swear using obviously fictional demons and spirits..? Believe me, if you would spend as much time around occult as I did - you would too prefer no to call actual spirits without need.

Upd.(03.07.2017): Added silver knuckle and Witchbane
Upd.(08.07.2017): Added black comb.

Upd.(22.11.2018): Added research material and infinite wine flask.

Upd.(04.12.2018): Added Abramelin oil, holy water, handheld crucifix, chrism, packed decoction.

Upd.(24.04.2019): Added enchanted bandage, laudanum, portable alchemy lab and the Icon of Taren

Upd.(29.10.2019): Added ectoplasm, ectoplasmic acid, black viper poison, cross necklaces, praying beads, votive candles.

Upd.(22.09.2020): Added Bloody Scalpel, Osowiec brew, Bereginya's Handkerchief.

Description
So... You asked the right questions and I see - you are serious in your desire to study occult mysteries. So - welcome to Ye Olde Magic Shoppe's backroom!
Oh, and yes! In the front room you can pay with usual currency, but here - here! - you pay with real currency. What? Dollars!? You can keep your green paper for yourself. Here you pay in gold, silver and rarities. So, let's begin, shall we?

Pentacles, paper amulets of Solomonic Magic, be it classy Kabbalah or more modern hermetic school. Some of them are talismans, some - preserved magic. We have around fifty variants of these, and several trustworthy suppliers. Also, our suppliers can create you some rare ones on request.
Gleipnir, the silky ribbon of Norse legends. Of course, it is not an actual one - you can call it an authentic copy, bargained from Norse Gods by pretty powerful runist. And, yes - you can not break this ribbon. At all. Of course, it is just an authentic copy, so it can't hold something like Fenrir or other beings of apocalyptic power... But you still can hang fraking Titanic on it - and will hold it.
Dead Water. Yessss, this is really good stuff, right from Slavic legends! This thing can heal anything, the only malady it can't heal is death. And still - it will heal dead body. You can reattach severed limb with it like nothing happened. Very rare stuff, to get it, you need to be powerful volkhv or Slavic witch, and you need to travel pretty far beyond our mundane world. Legends also tell about the Living Water that can revive dead, usually this two are used together (after all, what's the point of reviving the dead if it still have giant hole in place of his heart?), but Living Water is even more rare.
Aetherometer? This device measures the power of aetherial fields and pretty damn useful in searching of all thing occult and mysterious. Back in the 90-s, while all the hell broke lose here, in Russia, I got my hands on pretty interesting blueprints... They were published by KGB, contained all the process needed to create aetherometer - and were completely outdated. Like, seriously! We are talking about lamp electronics! So - I gave them to my cousin. This devise is it's twelve version. Why does it beeps and flashes like crazy? Because we are in the backroom of magic shop. Why does it looks like a prop from Ghostbusters movie? Because my cousin is a nerd.
Sealed antique copper jug. Actually, this thing gives me creeps. It is definitely old, enchanted and sealed with the Solomon's star - so, I guess, it contains a jinn. However, I'm not sure I want to open it without a ton of study. Of course, in good case scenario - the jinn is benevolent and I get anything I want. But in a universe where Murphy exists, it can be bad case scenario... And that means if I open it - I'm toast. Pretty possible - along with half of the city. So for now - I prefer it sealed.
Silver knuckle - fine silver, engraved, blessed by bishop, a friend of mine. With this baby you can feed a pretty nasty knuckle sandwich to most kinds of material and partially material monsters - werewolves, vampires, demons. Why is it not in the main room, unlike silver ammo? Because knuckles are... not particularly legal here.
Witchbane - Ah! Great piece of craftsmanship, both engineering and magical. This gun, manufactured by unknown weaponsmith can harm on both layers - material and astral, so it is pretty useful for any monster hunter. Mechanically - it is a copy of famous Colt Single Action, Cavalry model, and it was crafted along with it's twin - Demonbane, sometime around 1890th. Once it belonged to Richard Gordon, Old World's most unlucky monster hunter - while possessing this marvellous guns and pretty rich library of really occult literature, he actually never met anything supernatural in his entire life. And he could not even summon anything by his own, because he was ethereally immune. Go figure... Why do I wish to sell such marvel of a weapon? Because I'm a trader, of course, and I must be practical. And getting .45 Colt rounds here, in Russia, is a Tzeentch-damn chore.
Black Comb. OK, this stuff is a bit weird. Found two of those in the 90-s, in some abandoned apartment. Took them. And then one of those things stopped Outsider-damn AKM bullet! Of course, I had to deal with broken ribs and strange, comb-shaped scar on my chest, but still! So - I started to experiment, and I found out - nothing can do ANY harm to this thing. I shot it (up to 125mm armour-piercing sabot rounds), tried to blow it up with ridiculous amount of TNT (around six crates), overloaded industrial hydraulic press with it... Not even a scratch! I still don't know who or what for created this thing, but nothing I could do made even a single mark of it - and, by Julianos, I tried! Don't believe me? Take this fire axe and try to break it. Oh, careful! ...another try?

Research material - variety of leads, clues, files and other materials I collected on several different artefacts, like Spear of Destiny, Grail and others. I can't guarantee you'll find them with this papers, but at least you'll have something to start with besides Wikipedia.
Infinite wine flask - waxed leather flask, enchanted with runic magic, once poured inside, wine in this flask never ends! Oh, yes, there ARE limitations. First of all, it works only with wine... And wine inside can be only poured directly into mouth, no cups or bottles. It wouldn't allow you to create wine industry from nothing, of course, but at least - you'll always have wine!

Abramelin oil - classic sacred oil for anointing your tools of trade and yourself before rituals. Made of olive oil, myrrh, cinnamon, cassia and calamus.
Holy water - OK, I managed to make a deal - as long as I don't put Church's merchandise in the main room, and as long as I share profit with Church - I can sell holy items in my Shop. So... This is 1L bottle of holy water. It can be used to sanctify something... Or burn demonic or undead creatures. Also, just to let you know - it doesn't affect most forms of lycanthropes (except for very rare type of demonic ones) besides making them wet.
Holy water globe - 190ml of holy water in a thin glass sphere. For throwing.
Handheld crucifix - handheld crucifix, blessed by bishop, may stop and compel undead or demonic entities. Since we're in Russia, the crucifix is of orthodox origin.
Chrism - aka "holy oil", is used by Christian churches in several rituals, including chrismation (confirmation). Can a line of chrism stop angels? Actually, I never tried, but I doubt it - it looks similar to trying to stop wolves with the line of sausages... No, "Supernatural" can't be considered "valuable source".
Packed decoction - your ready-to-brew decoction, hand-crafted by some of my trusty supplying witches. All you need is hot water - and some knowledge how to use this brew.

Enchanted bandage - 14cm*7m sterile bandage, enchanted with the Second Pentacle of Mars, speeding up the healing process... Doesn't work on aethereally-immune individuals - as well as most other things here, actually. May or may not work on individuals, not sharing Abrahamic metaparadigm.
Laudanum - this stuff can easily turn you into mumbling, addicted idiot... But it, as well, can save your sanity in the depth of some cursed mansion, around eldritch horrors... And only then turn you into mumbling, addicted idiot. Also, it's totally illegal here, so be careful around cops.
Icon of Taren - ancient bronze icon of Permian goddess of war, madness, wildfires and floods, called Taren... And this thing is definitely cursed, so be extremely careful. Ever heard of Rastess village, aka Russian Roanoke? Small village in Sverdlovsk oblast, it's entire population vanished without a trace somewhere around 1970-s. Well... This thing is responsible.
Portable alchemy lab - this portable lab requires two men to carry around and includes large variety of tools and components for alchemy, chemistry and herbal mixing.

Ectoplasm - this aether-sensitive thick liquid is left after the destruction of spirit, subjected to lesser materialisation in one form or another.

Ectoplasmic acid - extremely nasty stuff, capable of dissolving both material and aetherial... things. Very potent, so be very, very careful! Found it in the 90-s, according to documents, coming with it, is was used for terminating especially dangerous and powerful artefacts.

Black viper poison - actually, snake is called Nokolski's viper, but, anyway, it is rather potent ingredient.

Cross necklace - blessed by Russian Orthodox bishop. Here, in Russia, Christians are usually get cross necklace upon baptism and confirmation (they are usually done side-by-side, unless special circumstances).

Praying beads - Variety of praying beads, from all over the world. Since in Orthodox Christianity praying beads are nearly exclusive to clergy, I had to remove them from the main room.

Votive candles - since both hermetic magic and Russian witchcraft have deep roots in Abrahamic metaparadigm, votive candles works best in their rituals, in Russia they are traditionally made from pure beeswax.

Bereginya's Handkerchief - nice little thing, very rare and may be useful... Or not. This nice little piece of fabric can absorb and hold up to (approximately) 130m3 of any non-corrosive and not-adhesive liquid. It can absorb it for some time, mixing all the liquids, however, there is a problem... It can only release it in one massive SPLASH. Of course, it's not a problem when you dry out spilled milk with, however - when it's close to full, it turns into real problem! There're not a lot of places, where you can safely and quitly dump 130m3 of even simple fresh water.

Bloody Scalpel - this scalpel was manufactured in the middle of XIX century by Arnold & Sons Company (London). According to my research, it was found in Gro?-Rosen concentration camp in 14.02.1945 by one of Soviet soldiers. Presumably, it belonged to Doctor Josef Mengele - yes, infamous "Angel of Death" - himself... He acquired it in France, and seller claimed (and, according to Mengele's notes, proved), that originally this scalpel belonged to another infamous figure - Jack the Ripper himself, actually. As for properties... This artefact grants it's wielder good health, longevity and, also, makes him extremely elusive - however, as any artefact of such infernal power, it corrupts it's wielder beyond measure. Person I acquired it from also mentioned something about possession, that this thing made him kill and mutilate his wife and children, but I honestly doubt it... However, I wouldn't touch it with bare hands.

Osowiec brew - very, very interesting decoction, developed by Russian witches during WW2. Basically, it makes the recipient pretty much unkillable - at least, until sunrise or sunset. Nothing short of decapitation can stop him - however, after potion's effects runs off, wounds will still be there, so, oops. Also, the potion is rather mind-numbing.

...why do I swear using obviously fictional demons and spirits..? Believe me, if you would spend as much time around occult as I did - you would too prefer no to call actual spirits without need.

Upd.(03.07.2017): Added silver knuckle and Witchbane
Upd.(08.07.2017): Added black comb.

Upd.(22.11.2018): Added research material and infinite wine flask.

Upd.(04.12.2018): Added Abramelin oil, holy water, handheld crucifix, chrism, packed decoction.

Upd.(24.04.2019): Added enchanted bandage, laudanum, portable alchemy lab and the Icon of Taren

Upd.(29.10.2019): Added ectoplasm, ectoplasmic acid, black viper poison, cross necklaces, praying beads, votive candles.

Upd.(22.09.2020): Added Bloody Scalpel, Osowiec brew, Bereginya's Handkerchief.