Great Haven - sup

Maya seems to know where to go. You made a mental list in your head earlier of things to buy. You thought of weapons, extra clothes... perhaps training on some sort of trade skill that could allow you to find a job. Though, you're not sure if you want to start investing years of training into something you're probably too small for, and right now, and in this city. But, it wouldn't be unwise to invest in a bank account. You tell Maya of your plans.

She says, "It might be a bit difficult to find someone who makes weapons your size, but Arioch is the largest city in the world; there's bound to be someone."

Deline interjects, "I would be surprised if you did; Hiiri have a vastly different body type from the rest of the six races, so anyone making swords or bucklers that small would have to be quite eccentric... If not more eccentric than Aloysius was."

"Raoul, how much money do you have now?"

You recount the coins in your bag. After the first time, and after counting Aloysius's payment, you're pretty sure you're getting faster at counting by units of 500. You have those, plus the four 50 spice coins you received in change. After after a short while, you declare, "There's still just about 8,700 spice in here."

"A good weapon your size will eat up more than half of that," Deline adds, "and you still need to think about paying for a place to stay. That is, unless you're okay with sleeping on the streets."

Before you can say that you probably would be, Maya offers a solution: "I wouldn't mind if he simply stayed with me. As long as he wanted, even! I have enough money to support him at this point."

There's a brief pause. You don't know what to say; you suppose you can never get used to such generosity.

Eventually, the conversation turns to how maya prefers not to have a weapon, and then to the versatility of her magic skills. Maya and Deline both agree that force magic makes a fine substitution for a weapon, but it can still be quite exhausting when switching to other magics, like the school of healing. Deline says she needs to be working on her skills with the school of power, since it makes the light shows in her line of work much more impressive; Maya says she never really saw the appeal of using power magic, though. Too dangerous, she says; force is much more useful. Though she wonders if there is anything worth looking into the school of space. Nobody really uses it for anything other than storage. Deline complains that her bag is too clumsy to carry around, and that she should probably invest in a saddlebag like yours or Maya's. She wished she had invested in spacebending thread early on, like Maya did - it's just too expensive to be practical now. Maya does say it made saving for her move a lot easier. Then everybody stops talking, and there's silence.



Before you know it, a corner is turned, and then the usual stalls on the sides of the road multiply into a full-blown marketplace. It never occurred to you just how busy places like this could be under the daylight. Maya turns to the nearest vendor to ask about hiir-sized weapons and armor, and she's told there's a shop down the way that has a small selection... but then, there's so much stuff around, you could start looking almost anywhere. The question is, what do you really need?