Tready's Toys
Tready's Toys was the name later given to Cliché Toys, formerly owned by Roderic Cliché of Myrken Wood, when the business changed hands from Roderic Cliché to Aloisius Treadwell. It is a roughly rectangular building, with nothing truly fanciful about its outer appearance save the sign out front (designed to look like Treadwell's face) and the life-sized Treadwell statues carved from wood and standing by the front and back doors.
Inside, the building is laid out simply and neatly: the main room is filled with shelves of toys of many kinds, all hand-made by Aloisius Treadwell, ranging from overstuffed dolls to carved statues and games. The countertop for making purchases is off to the left hand side, and it is shorter than most--being just tall enough to cover only part of the short Treadwell's stomach. Off the main room, to the left, is a spare bedroom and, right from that, parallel to the kitchen, is a spare study for Treadwell's devotional moments as head of the Church of Tubbius. Behind the front counter, though, an arch to the north takes wandering visitors into Treadwell's kitchen, and one from the right of there leads through a bathroom into Treadwell's bedroom, the former with a massive bronze tub and the latter with an excessively cushiony, comfortable bed. The back door of the bathroom opens into a small antechamber that, in turn, opens onto a small, rarely used pig pen out behind the shop for Treadwell's elderly pet sow, Pinky.
During an extended period when the shop owner was captured and held, asleep, by Richard Aengus, the store was closed when Treadwell's former properties were seized by Suede Roschen in his role as Councilor for Administrative Sanctions because Richard Aengus of New Hibera was claiming to be the missing Councilor. As of January, AR 207, Treadwell was returned to his rightful ownership of Tready's Toys.
In more recent years, Treadwell's business has maintained its stability, keeping a reasonable income rolling in when the citizens of the town have been able to afford occasional splurges on Treadwell's goods, which tend to be priced much lower than they ought to be.
