[IC] New Crobuzon & the World Beyond

[GM Marvel]

Creel pulls out a tiny square of velvet cloth from inside his jacket chest pocket.  Before your eyes he unfolds it and unfolds it and unfolds it until it must be 10'x10'.  He lays it on the floor, then walks down into it like he is descending a staircase until he disappears inside.  Moments later you hear a heavy thump as a hand with a gold brick shoots up over the edge of the pit and plops down a gold bar; then another and another.  Soon there are about 16 small gold bars all lined up along the edge of the pit.  Creel then accends the same invisible set of stairs, lifts the cloth off the floor and quickly folds it back up into a pocket square and returns it to the inside of his jacket.

"Portable Cellar.  I never leave home without it."

Simon replies to Betimi with a smile, "You can order it to run in abject terror.  But if you really only want a mule, that will be easy to find.  I will have it for you within the hour."