"Yes and no."  Cash said.  "They still needed my buisness, so they'd escort me straight to the shops when and if the shop keepers had jobs for me, or wanted my gems.  But it was under guard the whole time.   I had a guardsman at my back with a very sharp spear the entire time I was in the town.  Also the alchemist and mage were the only ones that would talk to me.   The chef spat at me and told me to go find food out in the wilderness since I obviously liked that better, that he wasn't going to waste his good pure food on a corrupted.   Likewise the clothing and armor merchant and the weapon merchant seemed uninterested in talking to me once I was corrupt.  Basically I stopped going there, it's too annoying to deal with those people."<br/><br/>He finished eating his carrot and sighed, "I can feel the power from that carrot already."