head on into the store and inspect the things.
if I spy the shopkeeper indicate his delivery has arrived.
You head inside and immediately suffer a severe sneezing fit. ugh, what the hell is in here?
Take a look around the store and grab some herbs for healing, adding them onto the pile of items to collect
Aloe Vera? check. Peppermint? mmmm. Check. Thyme? there's never enough, but you got that at the last stop anyway. same with the rosemary and chamomile. Marigold and Lavender are nice. better take double. Wolfsbane? Che ... che ... achooooooo. Fuck. gonna just put that back and grab some comfrey instead.
((I was thinking the potions shop might have some ingredients that could double as magical foci. For example, a dragon's tooth might be used to focus fire magic, or a vial of demon blood that could be used to channel profane magic. Something like that.))
Enter the shop and look around for magical paints/chalks, or anything that could be used as a focus.
You open a jar of what appears t obe a magical paint, and someone sneezing bumps into you from behind. you spill a bit of the paint down your shirt. It glitters. And shines. Yo utry to wipe it up, but it just gets on your hand and sleeve too. shhhhhit. You hope none saw that. But, I mean, it's shiny and glittery.
Make a clever pun about that "black rod bundle" guy.
Something along the lines of 'I guess he decided to stick around'.
Then just stand around the cart or maybe go have a look inside who cares really I'm riding high on success from the last place.
You get a random chuckle from a passerby, and gloat to yourself for a while. "Still got it. mhmmm."
Hmm. Are we going to visit someplace that could provide something actually useful to PYLON? So far its motivations amount to being smugly superior in its intelligence, and wishing something would come by that it could vaporize.
What the hell could actually be useful to PYLON? You just summed up his whole purpose in life, anyway, and the reason he's along on this ride. But sure, if there's something you think would be useful, and you can convince your companions to veer that way, there's shops for all kinds of neat exotic bullshit around here. I mean, don't sound so surprised that no one has died yet. This was literally a shopping trip. Though, to be honest, I too am a little surprised you haven't had to fry someone yet.