Jess walked into the section of the marketplace that was frequented by Heroica Heroes, her gold burning a hole in her coinpurse. A new stall caught her eye; a fellow in pink seemed to be selling trinkets to a mob of heroes who seemed to be practically throwing gold in his face. Curious, Jess pushed and shoved her way to the front of the crowd to see what all the fuss was about.
"Hello, fellow elf. What are you selling that attracts such a ferocious mob of customers?"
Fabian caught Jess's eye, and a smile branched across his lips as he answered.
"Hail, my fair brethren. What is it that I'm selling you ask? Only the finest artifacts in Eubric Freeport of course! Can I interest a beautiful maiden such as yourself in this trendy handbag? It goes with your outfit and protects you from bad effects! Oh, but you look like the 'tough roguish type'. Perhaps these sticky gloves are more to your taste? With all the gold you'll be pilfering off the corpses of your enemies, they'll pay for themselves in no time! Why yes, I think that these are perfect for you! I'll sell them to you for the discounted price of 500 gold. What do you say?"
Jess had stopped listening about halfway through Fabian's sales pitch and had started looking through his wares. Most of the "finest artifacts in Eubric Freeport" seemed to be nothing she could use; those she turned her nose up at immediately. One item did catch her eye, however...
"I want those Pugilist's Gloves. MOAR POWER is always good. And at 80 gold, how could I say no?"
Jess then forked over 80 gold to a slightly disappointed Fabian and headed to find Anwyl's smithy.
(716-80=636)
Jess strode to the stall of Anwyl, who seemed to be sweating over one of his Fauxthril weapons. Jess waited patiently for him to finish, but soon lost that patience.
"Ahem. Anwyl? Yes, hello. How're you today? Nevermind, I don't really care. I need you to upgrade Blohdhurm here to WP: 14 please. I'll be by when it's done. Oh, and do be careful, I had it permanently poisoned on my latest quest.
"Harrumph! Elves and their superiority complexes..." Anwyl muttered as he got to work on Jess's sword. He was soon done, and Jess stopped and grabbed it before heading back to the hall.
(636-100-110-120-130-140=36 gold remaining)