"Information as well as the quality of goods I saw will practically guarantee that I am a repeat customer. And the name is merely an indication that I am willing to work with you in good faith. After we are done with this transaction, I might be interested in purchasing some relatively simply information about a certain plane."<br/><br/>He hummed as he looked over the lists, noting that as near as he could tell, the diamonds would cover almost all of the baseline costs, before negotiations. He wanted to keep a pair or so of them so he could scry for more of the rare gems more easily, but he had to admit that the prices were actually amazingly fair. The information provided for the five he had found interesting was amazingly thorough, and he could already see that Cerul and the drow, named Nadriina, would probably not get along, at least at first, since surface elves had caught, abused, and then sold her to the slaver, and Cerul probably wouldn't like her because she was drow. The unicorntaur, or unitaur, was just as interesting in how she had been caught, and the pair had been unconscious when the slaver's people had found them.<br/><br/>He considered the prices, before pointing out the drow was coming with substandard equipment, and he was likely to have to replace both her, and some of the couple's equipment before he could effectively use them. He conceded that the Solar was in an agreement about her buyer and that he had her permission, so that price wasn't negotiable. The unitaur's price he tried to drop slightly, pointing out that he would be paying almost exclusively with astral diamonds, which were probably worth more than the gold he was changing them out for. He haggled with the creature for a polite length of time, the price rising and falling, before they finally agreed on a price. He handed over the pouch of astral diamonds as well as a pair of solid gold bricks weighing about ten pounds each, and kept two of the astral diamonds for his scrying attempts later and the information he wanted.<br/><br/>Done with the haggling, he asked if he could come by later to pick his newest followers up, since he still had shopping to do, before asking about the condition of his homeplane. He put the portal glyph for the world on a piece of paper as well as the name of the gold dragoness he had been bound to, and then held up one of the two astral diamonds he had left. "I need to know what the condition of the world is, what kind of damage it sustained from an attempted demon and undead invasion about 350 of their years ago, how far reconstruction of said damage is, and whether or not they still remember the group of adventurers that attempted to deal with it. There is also a gold dragoness I want to know about, her current location and if she currently has any business that can't be put off for a century or so."