The hall's own telling
About & the house rules
What this hall is, how a 50/50 night is kept from first bid to last coin, the rules every trader at the block is asked to keep, and what to do when something goes amiss.
The story of the hall
The Auction House began as one trader's ledger. Before this hall had walls of its own, TheBeastlyDude kept the first house of trade — a site where nightly 50/50 auctions found their voice, their crowd, and their habit of falling every night at six. The hall you read now stands on those first inked pages.
The Good Dabs & Hash crew stood at that first ledger's shoulder and threw its doors open wide — a welcome to guilds of every kind, each free to bring its wares before the crowd. That welcome is the hall's founding word, and this site carries it forward, re-inked for the community as it stands today.
Today the ledger is kept by eight guilds — one for every night of the week, with Thursdays alternating between its two keeper guilds. Each holds its own block and answers for its own ticket sheet. One ledger, many hands, and the gavel falls every single night at 6 o'clock Eastern on the PlayStation North American server.
It is a player-run hall, start to finish. No company keeps it, no subscription funds it — just guild traders who like the ring a falling gavel makes, and the crowd that gathers to hear it.
How a 50/50 night is kept
The whole night, entry by entry — from the sheet opening to the pot split.
Entry I
The sheet opens
Before the block, the keeper guild's ticket sheet opens — linked from our front page, open for any trader to read. But the sheet is the runner's ledger alone: only the person running the 50/50 can write to it. Traders open trade with the runner and enter the gold they wish to enter — 50,000 gold at 1,000 a ticket is 50 numbers — and they do not accept the trade until the runner accepts first, giving the runner a moment to ink the name. The line shows on the sheet within minutes; a misspelled name need only be told to the runner to set right.
Entry II
The lot is called
At 6 o'clock Eastern — three o'clock Pacific — the auction begins. The night's wares are called to the block one by one — weapons, wares, and wonders — and the coin bids against itself until only one hand remains.
Entry III
The numbers are drawn
When the last gavel falls, the runner calls the raffle down and gives the final ticket number. A joke for luck — called from an AI assistant — then the runner asks for random numbers, one draw at a time, calling each winning handle in the open. A winner's remaining numbers are redrawn, so every ticket keeps its chance.
Entry IV
The pot is split
The pot splits down the middle: half to the winning ticket, half to the night's purse as the keeper guild has proclaimed. The figures on our front page — the pot, the winner's half, the entry count — are read live from the sheet itself, so the ink you see is the ink the guild keeps.
Exact shares and the night's purse terms are proclaimed by each keeper guild before the first gavel falls — the Discord carries the word, and each sheet shows its own terms.
The house rules
Six entries, kept by every trader at the block. They are few on purpose — a ledger with a thousand clauses collects dust, not trust.
Bid honestly. Call your own bids, stand by them, and never bid from another's hand. Once the gavel falls, the sale stands.
Trade your gold to the runner. An entry counts only when the runner has inked it on the sheet. Numbers drawn from unpaid entries are void.
No side deals at the block. The 50/50 is the ledger's only business; private trades made in the crowd are your own affair and not the hall's to answer for.
Keep it civil. At the block, in the Discord, on the sheets — the hall trades in coin, not contempt.
Trust the ink. Pot figures come straight from each guild's public ticket sheet, read live on our front page. If a number looks wrong, check the sheet first — then raise it with the keeper.
The night's guildmaster stands as gatekeeper. Bring disputes to them at the block or in the Discord; their ruling is final for that night's ledger.
Trust & the trader's caution
The plain warnings, written in plain hand — read them once and trade easy.
Your coin, your call
Buy-ins are paid in-game to the keeper guild announced for that night. Never send gold to any name that was not announced at the block or on the sheet — impostors trade where crowds gather.
The sheets are public
Every ticket sheet is viewable by anyone holding its link, and our front page reads its figures live. You never need to take a number on faith — the sheet will show you.
A player-run hall
The Auction House is a community effort and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ZeniMax Media or Bethesda Softworks. The Elder Scrolls and all related marks belong to their respective owners.
When something goes amiss
A lost entry, a disputed draw, a bad actor — bring it to the night's guildmaster, or set your name upon the ledger below and a gatekeeper will take it up with you.
The ledger stands ready
That is the whole of it — the story, the night, the rules, and the caution. When you are ready, set your name upon the ledger and take a seat at the block.