Shop 'till you make a profit (Calleigh)

[Anastasia]

"Oh, sure thing," Moonlight says, perking up, "I'm pretty good with poisons of all kinds. See, back where I was born, poisonmaking was outlawed and - oh whoops, don't want to dump a big story on you. I'm good to help, though I'd need some start up funds."

[Yuthirin]

"Storytime?!" Calleigh all but vibrates with excitement.

[Anastasia]

With a smile, "Oh no no, I'm not going to dump a big, boring story on you. That would be mean." Moonlight says, "So how about we talk about funding?"

[Yuthirin]

Calleigh makes a sad, sad noise. Then she perks up, because courre. "We have TEN THOUSAND GOLD that Baleruk gave us!"

[Anastasia]

"Okay, great," Moonlight nods, "How much product do you want to start with?"

[Yuthirin]

"Well we have some silk clothes from Surrarurar-uhm. Wait." Calleigh thinks. After a moment, "Surru! He has phase spider silk. He made stuff! We also got some advice from Filbrez! And Emerald told us to go find you, but you weren't here so we talked to Cresiel some and he got upset with Tryll that we wanted ravages and that I shouldn't know what ravages are but I totally already know what ravages are and Tryll asked him why he lets me do what I want which is a tiny bit mean cuz I'm a people too and then we talked for a while about his aunt who is a super scary giant naked lady and then we waited for you!"

[Anastasia]

"Huh, okay." Moonlight says, "So no theme. How much product do you want?"

[Yuthirin]

"How much do you think we'll need?"

[Anastasia]

"About five thousand gold is a small opening stock and the bare minimum. I'd want twenty thousand if I had it my way and the time to make it all." Moonlight says, "Evil really tends to have the majority of the skilled poison smiths, so ravage smiths are in high demand. I learned in part to make my own, rather than trying to find a good source of them that wasn't booked up for months or years."

[Yuthirin]

"Wow that's a lot! I guess we'll go for the bare minimum? We don't have a lot..."

[Anastasia]

"Well, that or get more money," Moonlight says, nodding along. "Let's see, golden ice is always a big hit, and I could invest in some celestial..."

[Yuthirin]

"I'm a celestial!" Calleigh says proudly.

[Anastasia]

"No no, celestial lightblood. Too expensive for this, though. Have to keep it fairly inexpensive," Moonlight says.

Anything else to say to her?

[Yuthirin]

Nope! Let's see if anyone else wants to help out!

[Anastasia]

You talk around some more. You soon end up with Bubbles, a new nymph recruit. She takes one look at you, "Child," she says, "You're going to sell clothes? Do you even have an idea what's in fashion right now?" You catch her in one of Aurora's hallways, a quiet one by the officer's quarters. She rests one hand on her hip, "Anything at all?"