The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

"Alex, Dragon is a hermit living in a cave outside of Urchin's Dock. He's been a bit of a nuisance to the people living here for a while... he won't let people forage on his 'turf' but he doesn't actually mark the boundaries, so he basically keeps everyone in the city while he hoards anything that washes up in his side of the trench."

Oh... so the possibility of him just handing over the souls is pretty low, then.

"Yes... well, I suppose we could trade him something for them, but..."


"Yeah, good luck with that!"
"Last time I tried to negotiate with him, he asked for everything in our stock."


Okay well maybe we can try to trade him something, and if that doesn't work out, we can... convince him it's a good idea to just trade with us.
"Sounds about right."


"So eh, you gonna buy something from us then?"
"I found a nice stash of weapons in relatively good condition just the other day. And if that doesn't tickle your fancy, well, we're well stocked on pearls and food and things."
"Yeah, Alex, you don't have a weapon, do you? Should we get you something?"
Uh
Well perhaps, but what kind of weapon would you even use? All the fighting you've done before consisted of throwing belief around and absorbing it from your enemies.