The fol­low­ing pro­vi­sions are avail­able at most gen­er­al stores. A serv­ings col­umn is includ­ed to aid in using the cook­ing rules.

The breakable/flammable/spoilable (B/F/S) col­umn lists whether food items can be destroyed by phys­i­cal dam­age, flame, or rot/water. This may be impor­tant when stock­ing an expe­di­tion or ven­ture. More durable goods are typ­i­cal­ly more expen­sive.

To price items not list­ed here, see this resource and refer to monies to con­vert dol­lars to gold­en pounds.

foodstuffs

clothing

Fair mate­ri­als, 5p per yard: 

LIGHT: Calico/chintz (cot­ton,) ging­ham (checks, stripes; cot­ton,)

HEAVY: duck/canvas (cot­ton,) den­im (cot­ton,) drill (cot­ton,) 

Good mate­ri­als, 10p per yard:

EXTRA LIGHT: muslin (cot­ton,) satinet (cot­ton,) 

LIGHT: flan­nel (wool,) jer­sey (wool or cot­ton,) linen (flax,) poplin (plain, stipes, check, her­ring­bone; cot­ton,) seer­suck­er (stripes; cot­ton,)

HEAVY: chi­no (plain, pin­stripe; cot­ton,) cas­simere (wool-cot­ton,) doe­skin (wool,) mole­skin (cot­ton,) serge (wool,) vel­veteen (cot­ton,) twill (plain, dob­by, hound­stooth, her­ring­bone, dia­mond, check, win­dow­pane; wool)

EXTRA HEAVY: cor­duroy (cot­ton or wool,) tweed (plain, her­ring­bone, check, win­dow­pane; wool,) suede (hide)

Fine mate­ri­als, £1 per yard:

EXTRA LIGHT: Crepe (silk,) chif­fon (silk,) Grena­dine (silk,) organ­za (silk,) gos­samer (cob­web,)

LIGHT: Chal­lis (silk & wool,) charmeuse (silk,) satin (silk,) cam­bric (flax & cot­ton,) bril­liantine (cot­ton & mohair,) Lea­han linen (flax,) Piqué (cot­ton)

HEAVY: Boiled wool (sheep wool,) cash­mere (cash­mere goat wool,) broad­cloth (wool,) vel­vet (silk) 

mounts & livestock

HORSES

DRAFT

Huge, well-mus­cled, and slow. Typ­i­cal­ly over a ton in weight. Meant for heavy dri­ving tasks. Calm, hardy, but extreme­ly hun­gry.

FIELD HUNTER

Lean, brave steeds with thin legs and pow­er­ful haunch­es built for sta­mi­na and pow­er. Capa­ble of sharp leaps, sud­den turns, and cross-coun­try trav­el at pace. Orig­i­nal­ly the domain of North­ern aris­to­crat hunters and games­men. Now the favored steed of cut­ters Coast-wide.

SADDLE

Light, high-step­ping beasts trained and bred for rid­ing. Obe­di­ent and adapt­ed to serv­ing mul­ti­ple paces on-demand. The stan­dard in rid­ing hors­es, typ­i­cal among offi­cers and civil­ians of mod­er­ate means.

WORK

Stur­dy, com­mon beasts. Nei­ther brave nor fast, but trained for dri­ving, pack bear­ing, and mod­er­ate rid­ing.

PACK

Small, stocky hors­es meant to car­ry bur­den. Used to work­ing in trains, and well adjust­ed to pony­ing behind a lead. Used sim­i­lar­ly to mules, but not as strong. 

DESTRIER

Gigan­tic warhors­es uti­lized as heavy cav­al­ry, and knight and officer’s mounts. Tall, typ­i­cal­ly jet black, with broad chests and great arch­ing necks swathed in rip­pling manes. So effec­tive­ly select­ed for brav­ery that they will glad­ly run down massed infantry on com­mand.

automobiles

auton

Man­u­fac­tured by Ver­milio, a Mapoli­tan sub­sidiary of Bas-Kleinhauer-Stotz—the Coast’s largest kerosene company—the Auton is the first mass-pro­duced steam car­riage. A strik­ing suc­cess in the Mid­dle King­doms, it is pro­duced only in ver­mil­lion red so as to stand out from the dour col­ors of tra­di­tion­al car­riages. It resem­bles a long lan­dau slung low on heavy sus­pen­sion. Pas­sen­gers sit in a closed cab­in to the vehi­cle’s rear, well behind the pro­tract­ed snout-like boil­er which com­pris­es much of the vehi­cle. This boil­er pro­duces bil­low­ing con­trails of steam as it dri­ves and rapid­ly sur­rounds itself in dra­mat­ic skirts of vapor when idling. The Auton takes a half hour to build steam when start­ing cold and can tra­verse 3 miles per liter of kerosene—an expen­sive fuel econ­o­my.

Palanquin

A tall steel rec­tan­gle with soar­ing nar­row wheels and a high glass cock­pit on the for­ward end. Board­ed in the mid­dle up a short retractable ramp, it resem­bles a ship more­so than a car­riage. This strange and trans­port­ing machine is made by Pen­ny­roy­al Motors of Fir­lund. It runs entire­ly on a heavy bel­ly of lead bat­ter­ies under the pas­sen­ger deck. Orig­i­nal­ly mar­ket­ed to taxi ser­vices in Empereaux and Forten­shire, the Palan­quin has seen suc­cess both there and in pri­vate hands. Inca­pable of trav­el­ing far, but read­i­ly charge­able via an onboard gen­er­a­tor at any lever-mill, the palan­quin dri­ves smooth­ly and pow­er­ful­ly high over the streets and their mass­es.

CARRIAGES

Car­riage own­er­ship is large­ly lim­it­ed to to coach com­pa­nies and fam­i­lies wealthy enough to employ ser­vants. Most peo­ple do not own one, let alone a horse. It is less pop­u­lar to own one than ever: Even gen­tle­folk pre­fer to hire taxis, these days, in the city. Or coach­es for over­land journeys—and only if train tick­ets can­not be pro­cured.

Most new-built car­riages are quite refined; equipped with flood­lamps, odite-alloy sus­pen­sion, and rub­ber-shod wheels. They sport angu­lar cab­ins of lac­quered wood and met­al pan­el­ing. Win­dow glass is com­mon in their con­struc­tion, afford­ing bet­ter views to their pas­sen­gers than in decades past. The best fea­ture pneu­mat­ic tires, direc­tion­al head­lights, and elec­tric cig­a­rette lighters and cab­in heaters. Many of vehic­u­lar inno­va­tions are derived from the glam­orous and gal­va­niz­ing occur­rence of the auto­mo­bile in Coastal cities. Man­u­fac­tur­ers of horse-drawn car­riages grow increas­ing­ly com­pet­i­tive: Sens­ing their sales fig­ures laps­ing in the face of these new vehicles—which require nei­ther beasts nor ser­vants to drive—they lunge to adopt all fea­tures from them but the mechan­i­cal engines them­selves.

BAROUCHE

An expen­sive four-wheeled, shal­low car­riage with two dou­ble seats inside. Deploy­able hood for shade and shel­ter. Seats four. Exter­nal dri­ver’s seat.

cabriolet

A com­mon, high two-seater light car­riage drawn by a sin­gle horse. A rigid can­vas hood cov­ers the occu­pants. Cabs sold for per­son­al use are dri­ven by one of the pas­sen­gers, while those sold as taxis (taxi­cabs) are dri­ven by a coach­man sat above and behind the hood.

Coupé 

The most com­mon four-seater car­riage. Coupés are enclosed and win­dowed. The cab­in rides on nim­ble springs over four wheels, the rear­most set of which are largest. The for­ward set are small­er, the bet­ter to per­mit the exter­nal dri­ver’s seat above them.

high-flyer

A dan­ger­ous open sport car­riage perched atop four large wheels. Dri­ven by a pair of hors­es, high-fly­ers are poor­ly bal­anced, capa­ble of great speed, and crash read­i­ly.

LANDAU

A lux­u­ri­ous low car­riage. They come enclosed in glass or with con­vert­ible can­vas or leather hoods. Built to be seen and to be seen in. Per­fect of parades or coun­try­side tour­ing.

post-CHAISE

An enclosed, fast car­riage with no exter­nal dri­ver’s seat. Post-chais­es, like oth­er coach­es, are not usu­al­ly pri­vate­ly owned, but are hired for urgent long-dis­tance trav­el at speed. They are hired with pos­til­ions and hors­es togeth­er. The pos­til­ions (usu­al­ly two) ride the hors­es and swap them out at reg­u­lar inter­vals at liv­ery posts.

STAGecoach

A coach with heavy sus­pen­sion meant for the long-dis­tance car­riage of folk, mail, or valu­ables. Meant to pro­ceed non­stop, save for a change of hors­es at pre­set liv­ery posts. Usu­al­ly comes with large, bright lamps. Capa­ble of hold­ing six to eight peo­ple and a pile of lug­gage strapped on top. Meant to be dri­ven by four to six hors­es, and not quick­ly. The urban ver­sion of the stage, known as the omnibus, seats even more peo­ple, includ­ing on the roof, but is dri­ven at even low­er speeds by just two hors­es.

taxicoach

The larg­er broth­er of the taxi­cab. Black, in most cities, and unadorned save for white-let­tered rates. Known as “growlers” in Forten­shire for the rum­bling growl of their hard vul­can­ized rub­ber tires over the paving-stones.

WAGONS

Wag­ons are defined by their lack of a piv­ot­ing fore-axle.

FARM

An open bed, poor­ly-sus­pend­ed wag­on meant pri­mar­i­ly for the trans­port of hay and grain. Usu­al­ly dri­ven by a pair of oxen. 

COVERED

A boat-shaped wag­on cov­ered by can­vas. Extreme­ly heavy and capa­ble of car­ry­ing up to six tons of goods. Meant to be dri­ven by six to eight mules, oxen, or draft hors­es. Built-in water bar­rels serve as bal­last, and a hand­brake and quick har­ness-release afford the dri­ver some con­trol over their titan­ic load. 

MARKET

A one-axle hand wag­on, the likes of which clut­ter the streets of any giv­en town on mar­ket day, over­flow­ing with goods.

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