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Nick's Knacks is a small shop that sells unusual items and various antiques. Inexplicably, inventory is rotated out at regular intervals, with no exceptions (no, not even asking the clerk to put something on hold will stop it). The shop has changed hands a number of times in the last six or so years, usually after some unusual incident. The original Nick sold the shop away after a horrible affair involving a jealous husband and ring bought at his store.

The current owner is one Daisy W. Ehrlich, who bought the shop around two years ago. Unusual events seem to be on the decline, though you can still find the strangest buys at generous prices. This is no accident. Daisy sorts through the stock shortly after a new shipment arrives, and has the sense and knowledge to sort out the dangerous from the harmless.

Her sense of danger is a little warped though. Firearms are in the "harmless" category, while jewellery and figurines often find themselves in the "dangerous" category. Daisy goes to much trouble to find the dangerous items owners who understand the risk. Sometimes, she keeps the item for herself. Thus, her house has steadily become more and more cluttered with various bits and bobs, paintings, small statuettes, snow globes, the odd book, electronic lightshows, etc.

Her secret (beyond her knowing what is and isn’t dangerous in her shop), is that some time ago, she picked up a snow globe that’s the spitting image of Serenity Falls. It has a strange power; if she knows where someone is, she can use it to trap their soul inside the snow globe, leaving them in a cold parody of the town. She used it twice so far. The first time was on an out of towner who had a few to many questions about her shop. The second was a man who spurned her advances. Occasionally, she visits the town of the snow globe by staring long and deep into it. She's thinking about bringing more people into her Serenity Falls...