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Shadow DragonI take the money, and don't say a word. I would have said something about knowing where to find these exact medicines, however, nothing particularly useful grew around this area. Sure, there were edible plants, but none of them could work as medicine, and Frey, our cubone friend was handling the purchase of the food. I headed off towards the city, in search of some medicine... and, given the amount of coins I was given, I'd probably get a lot of it... I just had to make sure I wasn't being sold any of that 'Ekans Oil', the supposed cure-all that's either just water mixed with sugar, or more poisonous than the venom or disease you were trying to cure with it. As soon as I made it to the more commercial area of the town, I was bombarded by various shopkeepers running away from their poorly-constructed shops that looked more like a child's lemonade stand than actual shops, and all of them had deals on this, that, and the other thing. I wouldn't be suckered into wasting any of my money, and moved on until another shopkeeper, an Abomasnow, screamed at me to look at what he had for sale, and pulled out an obviously ornamental spear.
The thing was gold, or at least painted gold, and had several gems... or, again, things that look like gems on the spearhead. "I see you have a spear of poor quality, my friend. I can fix that! Just give me all the gold coins in that bag, and I'll give you this beauty," I walk up to him, grab the spear, and, feeling its oddly light weight, figure out that it's hollow, and probably no good in combat. I chuckle, and say "I wouldn't throw this spear at a training dummy. What you have there is more suitable for hanging on the wall of your house than any sort of combat real or fake," The shopkeeper started stuttering, adding "Uh, yeah, that's just because, um, it's enchanted! Yes! That's right! There's magic in this spear, which makes it so that it will never dull, and so that it will pierce through even the toughest armor or scales," he was lying. I could tell that much just from how he said what he said, however, there wasn't an incredibly high chance of an enchanted spear, let alone one enchanted that heavily ending up in the hands of someone like him. That being said, it was also unlikely that the spear was actually gold, or that the gems were anything but cheap, common lookalikes. I shake my head and simply continue on, with him badgering me to buy his spear until I was out of earshot. I then continue my search for this 'Johan' guy that Nihonto mentioned earlier. Of course, he never told me what the guy looked like, so it wasn't exactly an easy search, especially given just how many shopkeepers there were in this area, and how many of them at least claimed to have some product that cures everything.
The thing was gold, or at least painted gold, and had several gems... or, again, things that look like gems on the spearhead. "I see you have a spear of poor quality, my friend. I can fix that! Just give me all the gold coins in that bag, and I'll give you this beauty," I walk up to him, grab the spear, and, feeling its oddly light weight, figure out that it's hollow, and probably no good in combat. I chuckle, and say "I wouldn't throw this spear at a training dummy. What you have there is more suitable for hanging on the wall of your house than any sort of combat real or fake," The shopkeeper started stuttering, adding "Uh, yeah, that's just because, um, it's enchanted! Yes! That's right! There's magic in this spear, which makes it so that it will never dull, and so that it will pierce through even the toughest armor or scales," he was lying. I could tell that much just from how he said what he said, however, there wasn't an incredibly high chance of an enchanted spear, let alone one enchanted that heavily ending up in the hands of someone like him. That being said, it was also unlikely that the spear was actually gold, or that the gems were anything but cheap, common lookalikes. I shake my head and simply continue on, with him badgering me to buy his spear until I was out of earshot. I then continue my search for this 'Johan' guy that Nihonto mentioned earlier. Of course, he never told me what the guy looked like, so it wasn't exactly an easy search, especially given just how many shopkeepers there were in this area, and how many of them at least claimed to have some product that cures everything.