OOC: Preserve is a 500 gp cost for Permanency, so we’ll probably have to dip into our devil hair money for everybody to get some pretty-pretty, especially if Dory wants to get something for Gwyn. Which she does!
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After the previous forgotten introductions and failure to recognize/haggle a price that wasn’t written down, Medio would be expecting an offer to pay for goods using Onyx gems to come next. 
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Thankfully, that’s a pitfall we can avoid. Bonnie only brought coins and trade bars with us on this trip.
Generally she prefers to save our gemstones to look at… though Dory half-expects to find her swimming in them like Scrooge McDuck, if we ever get enough to make a Smaug pile.
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That doesn’t actually work, unfortunately.
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It’s like how it’s easy to forget that a book is basically a block of wood – until you pack your collection into boxes when it’s time to move house. Then it becomes abundantly clear.
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Bonnie did haggle us from 800 to 900 gp, she just haggled too low. She expected that in a metropolis like Absalom, rare and exotic items would be easier to get and therefore cheaper. I guess even a 24 INT doesn’t turn economics into a comprehensible science.
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The lesson she should have learned from Udasil is that you’re supposed to negotiate with the other guy, not yourself. Knowing what things are supposed to cost is only the beginning.
But Dory agrees that if you like the price you got, it’s a good price. Life is too short to quibble over money – as long as you have it to quibble over.
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Haggling might be more of a Charisma skill. Medio doesn’t care for it much either. It is inefficient to have to “guess” a price.
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OOC: I believe haggling is a social tool developed to deal with varying “cultures” trying to agree on the value of work. It’s more rare with bartering, and the advent of capitalism gave it a new dimension of giving something you made away for a piece of paper, which has no real intrinsic value except to start fires or record thoughts. It allows the seller to “get one over” on the buyer, but with the acknowledgement you get the bad end of the deal…you’ve given your goods away for paper…“But I got a lot of paper!”
ETA: Don’t get me started on numismatics !
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OOC: Considers trying to start a debate (in a different thread) about whether the US should abandon the penny just to rile up Mr. Boots.
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- Ori trusts no currency and therefore keeps his assets liquid. This is also why he disdains to answer any vulgar questions from Branim about his so-called “tab.”
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No, I need those pennies to tile my bathroom !
ETA: The copper kills germs, and the color is beautiful, cobalt tinted grout, and the price is cheaper per square foot than most ceramic and bathroom tile !
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Even Dory doesn’t feel rich enough to settle that tab.
She just tosses in the occasional silver piece, as with a wishing well. It’s good luck!
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I don’t know if we all need to buy something. Bonnie was just thinking Dory would want something for Gwyn and Bonnie would buy something for Wan. We can always come back later… it’s a day trip for us now. (Until Advodaza somehow figures out how to take his powers away from Dory.)
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Aw, but everything is so pretty! 
Fine, Dory will wear regular rock-based jewelry to the Keep tomorrow. Something pretty for Gwyn is more important.
Rika will also defer gratification, but definitely wants to come back later.
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If the Permanency spell means that the prices will all be 500gp+, I’m afraid we can’t afford pretties for everyone right now. But Bonnie promises that everybody who wants a piece will get one eventually. (We have a mine!.. we don’t technically own it yet, but…)
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By this point Medio and the forge team are probably back at the house, and Mart and LA have warned them that Dory popped back at one point for more money. So 1000 gp of floral jewelry won’t come as a surprise.
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Did anyone see Dory pop? I think she went straight to the storage room to get the money and then straight back.
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The storeroom wouldn’t be closed up when class is in session.
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She seems to be eyeing their belts and necklaces in particular, although she seems to be more interested in the belts.
Fortunately, the prices in Urban Garden Jewelers are well marked and standardized around the type and size of the item. Bracelets and anklets are 550gp, arm and leg bands are 575gp, circlets are 600gp, Necklaces range from 575gp for choker length, all the way up to 750gp for long necklaces that loop around the neck multiple times. Belts start at 700gp for those designed for small sized creatures, and go up to over 1000gp for very long, or very wide belts.
Thin belts for medium sized humanoids are 750gp, and these are what Wanderlea is really looking at. She keeps going back to three slightly different belts on display, but seems terrified to handle any of them.
“These are all so expensive,” She says, “I should probably just get a bracelet, or maybe we should look somewhere else…”
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