Trading

"Buy somethin' will ya?!"

This page is about the shops of NPCs (non-player characters). For the heroines' shops, see Shop. For the process of saving gold, see Retirement.

Trading is the process of converting the artifacts a heroine has collected into precious beer tokens.

Trading in towns

Trading in town is part of the Golden Cycle. The heroine will usually start trading only when they have fully healed.

1. Selling artifacts (and usually buying healing artifacts and redeeming newspaper coupons)
2. Buying gold bricks (during the Pre-Temple chapter), equipment and/or skill upgrades

They will then, proceed to the tavern.

Roadside trading

Roadside traders will be encountered by heroines from time-to-time in their travels, unless the daily forecast has made the roadside traders go on strike, meaning they will not appear at all. A Deity will also occasionally have the opportunity to send divine signs to push their heroine to a roadside trader, if they're considering it.

Roadside trading has several important differences to trading in a town:

• No other phases besides trading will occur (i.e., no resting phase before trading, no praying phase after trading, etc.)
• Boss parts are not sold, nor deposited in the lab
• Wanted monster proofs are not sold, nor turned in for a reward

Heroines can be idly stuck chatting with the trader enough time for a wandering master to get the heroine's hard-earned gold coins on a measly skill upgrade.

!Hero's Diary↻ ↑

A trader's tent appeared out of nowhere. Wow, this is just too good of an opportunity to miss.

!Hero's Diary↻ ↑

An eager merchant waved me over to his wagon, anxious for some business while his cartwright methodically repaired a broken axle.

Price Factors

• Good Trading Towns effect
• Aura of Huckstering
• Specific Daily Forecasts
• Trade Skills
• Great Random

Base Item Values

Type	Typically Sells For (in gold)
Normal	30-100
Bold
Activatable
Bold Activatable
Healing	N/A
Gold Brick
Proof of a wanted monsters death	2600
Sailing Artifacts