Hempwick's Impractical Joke Emporium

A gnome lounges atop a battered wicker chair, surveying a blanket covered with strange novelties wares.  It appears as though both the blanket, and chair may have been salvaged from the dump as both have seen better decades.  He's almost done smoking a cigarette that he's neglected to ash since lighting it, and lowers his tinted shades to get a good look at you.   "You like jokes?  We got all kinds of jokes." he repeats in a monotone sales pitch, avoiding eye contact.  Among the fake vomit, rubber snakes, and 'adult herbal enhancements' are a few useful alchemical items, some of which could be very dangerous if used in an actual prank.

A business ledger rests on the blanket near an empty strongbox.