# Obelisk House [campaign description:: A large, stately, three-story wooden house in [[Groundswell]], in which auctions take place.] --- A large, stately, three-story wooden house in [[Groundswell]]. Between it and the road, in a wide clearing, is a 20'-tall obelisk from ancient OldFaire, covered in runes. A tall iron fence surrounds the property, and the front gate is only opened in the evening, when the auctions are. ## The Scarlet Auction The Scarlet Auction takes place in a small, elegantly furnished room on the third floor of Obelisk House. It is nighttime outside, rain beating against the windows. There’s only about ten people sitting in the chairs. A watcher might not notice at first exactly how expensively these people are dressed. These people are not gaudy, but they are very, very, very rich. All of them are wearing gloves. The items here are each one of a kind, cleaned and maintained to perfection, with impeccably documented histories. The bidders will spend enough on each item to heat the Sidle for a year, enough to build a brand-new battleship, more than enough to bribe the Halen Assembly. And they will do it over and over before the night is done. ## The Amber Auction The Amber Auction room takes up about half of the second floor of Obelisk House. The audience is filled with academics and their agents, and so is much more studious and dignified than its first floor counterpart. The items here go for higher prices, but are often described in terms of their historic value, instead of in lurid occult terms. A large contingent of professors and students from Briarbank College takes up the foremost right section of the chairs. ## The Emerald Auction The Emerald Auction room takes up most of the bottom floor of Obelisk House. Walls have been knocked out to make a large chamber, though the support beams of the house remain, obstructing the sight lines of some seats. The furnishings are modest, with only a few green highlights, such as the window shutters, currently closed against the rain and keening wind outside. This is the auction that is open to the general public, and the seats are often quite packed with tourists, and partiers there for a laugh, in addition to the poorer devotees of the mystic arts. This night, it is full to bursting, and the attendees are raucous, having a grand old time. The auctioneer is banging her gavel and hollering to try to get people’s attention. Although the auctioneer goes through an earnest spiel for every item, they mostly just look old and decrepit, not arcane, and go for coppers and silver instead of gold.