A local RPG merchant has sold a sword for the first time in a decade, prompting celebrations in the village and a frantic search for the shop’s receipt book.
Garrick, proprietor of Garrick’s Arms and Assorted Pelts, said he initially thought the adventurer had picked up the sword to sell it back to him.
“I was about to offer him four gold and a slightly damaged cabbage,” he said. “Then he put a bag of money on the counter. I thought he was trying to sell me that too.”
The weapon, a Steel Longsword of Modest Improvement, cost the adventurer almost every coin they had. Garrick said he was deeply moved to meet someone who appreciated its craftsmanship.
“I pressed the wrong button,” the adventurer explained.
Staff spent twenty minutes clearing cobwebs from the buy side of the counter while Garrick’s apprentice searched the storeroom for a receipt book. He eventually found one beneath a stack of expired health potions and a sign advertising a closing-down sale from nine years ago.
Until this week, the shop’s business had consisted almost entirely of buying whatever adventurers dragged in from the surrounding countryside. Recent purchases include bloodstained boots, bent spoons and 47 identical bandit swords.
“They come in carrying enough equipment to supply an army and leave with an apple,” Garrick said. “I don’t know where the swords go after I buy them. I put them behind the counter and they’re gone by morning. I’ve stopped asking.”
News of the transaction spread quickly, with neighbouring merchants gathering outside to see whether a customer could really be persuaded to buy equipment.
“That’s not supposed to happen,” said the village alchemist. “Have you tried reloading?”
The celebrations were briefly interrupted when the adventurer found a considerably better sword in a barrel outside the shop and returned to sell it.
Garrick offered four gold.
