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[brewer bob]

Sell:
3

Buy:
10 Those turkey legs sure look tasty.

[Glass]

Sell: 3
Buy: 2, 4, 10, 12

[Maximum Spin]

I agree with selling 3 but I'd rather go for 8. Seems more likely to turn a profit.

[King Zultan]

Sell: 3
Buy: 4

[Yellow Pixel]

Sell: 3
Buy: 4, 10, 12

[Enemy post]

We sell the tray, and buy the book, a turkey leg, and an all black outfit, and then we browse hats.

Sell the flying serving tray for 600 gold.

You see a merchant with a fine carriage selling silver- and gold-plated tableware, and you demonstrate your flying serving tray to the man.

He is astounded by your demonstration and offers you an impressive sum. (Gained 600 Gold.)

Buy an all-black outfit suitable for sneaking around. (175 gold.)

You go to one of the vendors peddling shady semilegal goods, and purchase a black form-fitting wrap popular among thieves and assassins called a "gi." Enthusiastic about your new sleek appearance, you decide to continue wearing the black gi for the rest of the day. (Lost 175 Gold.) (Gained Subtlety.)

Buy a rare old history book called Via Verita Abraxas, or "True Life of Abraxas," for 300 gold.

(Lost 300 Gold.) You purchase an extremely old book that uses a very scholarly dialect of the ancient tongue, titled Via Verita Abraxas, or "True Life of Abraxas." You suspect that the trader thought it was merely another copy of the Book of Abraxas, but in an ancient tongue. Not so; the Book of Abraxas treats Abraxas as divine, but this book starts very differently.

Abraxas is the most powerful wizard who ever lived, and we would do well to understand his life. It starts, probably, with glamor magic. Philautia omnes, kleos venenum. Simple words, but Abraxas understood they could be used with different effect on different people. Those who are used to following orders will fall under the glamor's spell more readily. (Gained Glamor.)

Using your expansive knowledge of ancient history, you find you can decode the following additional passage from True Life of Abraxas: Abraxas traveled north by northeast from Akriton to the Magisterian capital of Phaedra. He came to speak with them of peace. But the Magisterians had a curious means of controlling the spread of magic: only the rich were allowed to use it. Their society had very little use for the truly poor.

It was then that Abraxas conceived of the idea of trying to convince the Magisterians there was a higher power who would judge them for their sins. This idea was a failure, but could be thought of as a success if we view it as a valuable test run. (Learned ancient Magisterian capital location.)

Unfortunately, that is the current limit of what you can translate. But as you learn more about the ancients and their tongue, you might be able to translate more.

Buy one of those big turkey legs I always see people around here eating. (5 gold.)

You see a fair number of people roaming the market with big old turkey legs and steins full of beer. You're not sure about drinking this early in the day, but those turkey legs look fun.

You purchase one. Why not? (Lost 5 Gold.) (Increased Humor.)

Browse some hats.

The hat seller gives you a suspicious look as you begin to examine her hats. "You mess them up, you bought them," she says with a wag of her pudgy finger. "These are custom-made hats as good as anything in the capital."

Purchase a jaunty feathered hat for 400 gold.
Purchase a big floppy black hat for 400 gold.
Buy a conical hat decorated with stars and moons for 400 gold.
The hat seller has correctly identified me as someone who won't buy anything. (We don't have any other option, since we don't have enough money for a hat. If we want, we can sell something and come back to buy one.)

"I knew it!" the milliner begins to rant, but you're out of earshot soon enough.

What else will you buy or sell at the market? (You have 220 gold.)

Selling options:
1.Sell all but one of the clutch of dragon eggs for 350 gold.
2.Sell the whole clutch of eggs for 500 gold.
3.Sell my alchemy set for 400 gold.

Buying options:
1.Buy some fine clothing suitable for a noble. (150 gold.)
2.Buy a good set of chain armor. (350 gold.)
3.Buy an old tonic that the seller claims helps with a variety of maladies. (300 gold.)
4.Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my negation magic for 350 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)
5.Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my glamor for 300 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)
6.Buy a set of fine tools and spare parts for automation. (400 gold.)
7.Donate 1 to 500 gold to restore the copper tree sculpture at the center of the marketplace.
8.Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller, for 25 gold.
9.Browse some hats.

Alternatively:
I think my business at the market is done.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:5
  Automation:3
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:8

Skills
Ancient History: 2 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 2 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:48%/Caution:52%   
Humor:58%/Solemnity:42%   
Empathy:33%/Calculation:67%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
None

Tal: 55 (Good)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 4

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 220 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.

[Glass]

Oh well. I wasn’t expecting the hats to cost so much.

I think we’re good and done here.

[Yellow Pixel]

I think we’re good and done here.

+1

[brewer bob]

I think we’re good and done here.

+1

+1 (though a big black floppy hat would've been a nice addition to the sleek black outfit)

[Glass]

I’m still surprised that the stealth outfit was apparently literally a ninja costume.

We aren’t Wizard/Rogue, we’re a Way of Mercy Monk.

[Knightwing64]

4

Fine. No more spoilers. I just wish we went glamour route. I never get to finish one particularly hard thing.

[Maximum Spin]

4

Fine. No more spoilers. I just wish we went glamour route. I never get to finish one particularly hard thing.

Why would anyone pick the magic that supposedly gives you cancer?

[Knightwing64]

4

Fine. No more spoilers. I just wish we went glamour route. I never get to finish one particularly hard thing.

Why would anyone pick the magic that supposedly gives you cancer?

Mind control. Easy money for entertainment industry or for just talking people into giving you money. It’s actually quite a easy way to get money if you only use it sparingly. Why, you could even start a religion and have them give you money and etc.

[Maximum Spin]

Mind control. Easy money for entertainment industry or for just talking people into giving you money. It’s actually quite a easy way to get money if you only use it sparingly. Why, you could even start a religion and have them give you money and etc.

Okay but then you die of cancer so what good was it?
I feel like you and I have fundamentally different life philosophies.

[Enemy post]

We can't afford the negation potion, so we're done here.

You decide you're done shopping for now.

Just as you're about to head home, you hear Fruitseller Fran cry, "Thief!"

You spin around to see a man in drab brown clothing brazenly running off with a basket of red apples, leaving a large gap in the offerings of Fran's fruit cart. He easily shoves aside all the townsfolk who try to get in his way.

Fran uselessly shakes her walking stick at him, crying "Thief! Thiieeef!" until she starts to lose her balance and leans on it again. "Thief!" she cries hoarsely.

You think you can tell which horse at the corner of the market he's running to. He'll pass within twenty feet of you.

A negation blast is probably out of the question, but you have other options. If you're subtle, you can cast something without attracting attention.

1.I use vivomancy to make a nearby tree trip him.
2.I cast a glamor, then cry out, "Halt!"
3.I don't want to attract attention. The thief can escape.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:5
  Automation:3
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:8

Skills
Ancient History: 2 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 2 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:48%/Caution:52%   
Humor:58%/Solemnity:42%   
Empathy:33%/Calculation:67%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
None

Tal: 55 (Good)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 4

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 220 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.