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It was about time, she'd decided, that she finished staking her claim to the immediate surroundings of the Underground City. She was worried, initially, that the severely lopsided balance of numbers in the assault parties might suggest she thought little of the majority of her troop's competence, but the fact remained that Meira was easily worth a number of fairies on the field, despite that it was difficult for her not to fatally injure the unaligned fairies she struck out against. For the most part, anyway. Still, it didn't seem that any of them had been irritated enough by the potential snub to speak out against it, though it was possible they simply hadn't noticed.
For her part, she'd taken the map and worked her way through the puzzlingly irregular layout of the Underground City's streets until she'd found the entrance to the Toy Shop, a colorfully painted and yet somehow... grungy and dim-looking building. There was not only no large storefront window to display goods, there were no windows at all, leaving Tabuki to simply trust that this was, in fact, the correct place, suppose that they relied on repeat business rather than attracting new customers, and enter quietly through a smaller, secondary door, which seemed to have been placed there specifically as a courtesy to fairies.
It was actually well lit inside, and a bell rang as she stepped through the door. She took a moment to look around, taking in the racks of puppets and toy trains, tin soldiers set up on a table in a re-enactment of some battle or other, and delicate porcelain dolls decked in ornate dresses and imitation jewelry. She wasn't quite sure how to feel about looking at those last, but turned away after a moment.
"Un Momento, por favor..." A gruff voice called out from a door in the back, through which she could hear the shifting of wood against wood, and an occassional thump.
She waited patiently, and after a moment a man stepped through, wiping at his brow and face before returning his spectacles to the bridge of his nose, blinking slowly at her, seeming to appraise her for a moment. His hair and beard were short, but thick and shaggy, and his clothes were dark, and hung loose about his stocky frame, and he wore a necklace of polished claws and pointy teeth openly. After a moment, he spoke.
"Hola, senorita. Mi nombre es Pedro, y est..."
He paused again, then blinked.
"... Ah, forgive me." He continued, in a comprehensible tongue. "At times, I lapse into the speech of my homelands. My name is Pedro, and this is my humble establishment. Is there anything I might be able to do for you, miss?"
"Yes. I find myself in search of certain items. To be precise, I seek uniforms." Tabuki said, initiating the encounter simply. "In specific, for house- and bar- maids, sized for fairies approximately of my dimensions. Do you have any in stock?"
"... I believe I may have some small number of items which may suit your needs." Pedro answered after a moments thought, stroking his beard slightly. "If you will wait a moment?"
Tabuki nodded, and he swept back into the stockroom, and she heard a rummaging. A minute or two passed before he returned, a smaller box in hand.
"I do indeed have suitable items, as alternate styles of clothing to a few models of dolls intended for the young girls." He said, smiling. "Two of the barmaid outfits, and three of the housemaid cut. Of course, there will have to be some alterations made to accomodate wings, should they be intended for fairy use, but that should present no great issue. It will, however, drive the price up a small amount, I am afraid."
He spoke a number, opening the box as he did, and Tabuki jerked slightly. She hadn't been quite prepared to spend so much on clothing.
"... I see..." She said simply. "Well... in addition to that, I had thought to look for suitable... well, prop weaponry, I suppose, and armor, sized similarly."
"Oh, of course miss." Pedro responded immediately. "There is actually some greater call for those, a fairy might every so often take it into their head to play games that need them, and toil for a while to earn their purchase. Of course, if they happen to fall upon misfortune somewhere out in the tunnels, or on the surface, in the course of their play, then they haven't generally been holding on to such things for long enough to bring them along and back when they go, and they're lost. Many times, in places there's some serious danger involved in just getting to, or which they can't find again, and so they must purchase from me a second time, to continue their play. Or, of course, they simply become tired of carrying the weight, set them aside for a short time, then wander off and cannot recall where they have left their toys. Such is the way these things go."
He was gone for far less time, and returned carrying buckets of jangling metal and heavy, thick leather and cloth. He named prices again, and Tabuki frowned.
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Current price listing and inventory.
Clothes
2 Barmaid Uniforms- 14 silvers each. +1 silvers/day wage when worn and working in taverns or bars. Continual wear switches fairy to Bar Wench class, wage rises with level when working in taverns or bars.
3 Housmaid Uniforms- 14 silvers each. +1 silvers/day wage when worn and performing household duties. Continual wear switches fairy to Maidservant class, wage rises with level when working as a maid.
Weapons
6 pot-metal swords- 10 silvers each. +2 damage. Equip: Mook(melee), Knight, [unknown classes]
6 pot-metal rods- 10 silvers each. 2H. +2 damage. Equip: Mook, Fire Flinger, Witch, [unkown classes]
3 pot-metal spears- 15 silvers each. 2H. +3 damage. Equip: Mook(melee, vet+), Knight, [unknown classes]
2 pairs Leather Gloves- 8 silvers each. +1 damage. Equip: Mook(melee), Brawler, [unknown classes]
2 pairs pot-metal Gauntlets- 15 silvers each. +2 damage. Equip: Mook(melee), Brawler, [unknown classes]
1 pair spiky pot-metal Gauntlets- 20 silvers. +3 damage. Equip: Mook(melee), Brawler, [unknown classes]
Armor
12 bulky paddings- 8 silvers each. +3 hp, -1 damage. Equip: All but Brawler, [unknown classes]
3 Leather vests- 12 silvers each. +3 hp. Equip: All but Brawler, [unknown classes]
1 Spider-silk robe- 25 silvers each. +5 hp. Equip: All
1 pot-metal breastplate- 25 silvers each. +6 hp. Equip: All melee but Brawler, [unknown classes]
1 pot-metal plate- 60 silvers each. +10 hp. Equip: Knight, [unkown classes]
6 pot-metal shields- 10 silvers each, +2 hp. Equip: Mook(melee), Knight, [unkown classes]
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[ ] Leave well enough alone, select your purchases at the current prices.(Current available silvers- 47)
[ ] Try to haggle Pedro down. [Cha/Int]
[ ] Inspect the goods closely for flaws. [Int/Per/Luk]
[ ] Try some other tactic. [Write-in]
