Among the many "other vendors" comes Spunky McCheese. A broad grin crowned by a top hat. McCheese sells what some unkind folks call Snake Oil. He calls them bottled miracles. What they really are is ancient bottles of Elvin design containing unlabeled bottles that could be about anything. Most of them are condensed wine. A drop renders a man buzzed, a small bottle can kill a big man. Some are fever reducers, libido enhancers that have men and women running horny, foaming at the crouch. He tells folks who are buying a bottle that for best results don't open the bottle until the moon is full. This is to give him a chance to be out of the area before anything nasty happens to the drinker of that bottle. Vengeful folks have pursued McCheese but he is a slippery man. Hard to pin down after he hits a town. He moves on maybe til next year maybe a few later. And sometimes he appears as other persona's.
McCheese passes around his fancy top hat for donations during his fire and grimstone speeches about Lord Jeebus and the coming end times. The man has a powerful force and a authoritarian posture that goes over well in the Thou-Shalts sect dominated areas. He always gets enough cash to pay for a fancy dinner and a couple nights worth of drunk. Spunky sometimes seduces a pretty young thing to run away with him in his covered wagon to the next town. Live a vagabond romantic life with him. But normally he sexes them up in shameful ways, usually filming it. Then he normally kicks them out in the wilderness to find there own way home, starve, or be raped and killed by the wild people. Whatever. A man has his needs....