"Hmm." Rubbing his chin thoughtfully and then nodding his head, Varon smiled. "I think I can agree to that price. I think money will not do much for me other than be a nice gift to whatever bandit eventually cuts me down when I get careless, if I just focus on hoarding wealth. Its better to be a bit more poor and have what I need, than to try and bankcrupt an honest merchant." He counted up that fourty platinum and handed it back there.<br/><br/>"I am grateful for your help and willingness to negotiate these things with me by the way." He winked. Something about the merchant's penchant for coming up with rare things had him wondering if he should make it a habit of returning here now and then. Not only for him, but for the halfling woman here as well perhaps. Well, that was assuming a lot.<br/><br/>World would show what it had planned out for him in time. For now, he lifted the items set out on the table. They might be little trinkets, but they were the most magical gear he could have for now. Eventually he'd have to save money to buy spells to fill out his spellbooks with, but that would wait for a while yet. Besides it wasn't till he began to collect more high-end books that it would truly become frighteningly costly.<br/><br/>"As for the talisman you gave me before, it seemed to have two effects." He smirked. "First, it made me skin tough as treebark, soft to the touch still but I noticed it helped keep some goblin attacks from tearing me apart. Second, it seemed to make me a bit more... confident, under moonlight." He shrugged his head at that, looking at the man seriously. Nymph's charm was frightening in its own way. Right now though, Valen didn't know how to control it much. Until he would, he would have to watch the changing of day and night, at least unless he learned how to control it somehow. It could be more useful to be seductive dryad in daylight sometime, yet to be tough-hided bastard of the woods by moonlight as well.<br/><br/>"I'll try these out in turn again soon. I'll bring you anything interesting that I can't keep as well, but I hope you dont mind selling me more interesting things." Chances were that the sandals would be<em>replaced</em>eventually with something more impressive, but he'd find a use for them for now. As for the coin, it didn't do anything a spell wouldn't do in its place later on, but it would certainly help by<em>saving him</em>from having to<em>prepare</em>that particular spell each day, and it would be a lot more handy as such. Not a bad thing to have. The second piece of a talisman made him wonder what it could do then, but he might have to apply it outside afterwards.<br/><br/>Thanking the merchant he headed out, and moved to an alleyway. Once safely out of sight, he put the second piece of bark against his other thigh then, in mirror of the first one.