Most of you might not know this, but during my young years I spent most of my time in the mining fields. Summer, winter, fall, and spring I was in the mining fields collecting ore. Rain or shine I was out working. It was only recently that I started smelting that ore, when I was young I was a bit confused like most young rogues I had no idea what I wanted to do. As I got older I decided to smelt my ore into Metal, I am not exaggerating when I say I’ve been smelting this ore for quite some time. Over 10,000 poor, 5000 medium, and 1500 high. You cannot imagine the time and effort put into smelting all this ore. If you thought my hands and feet were bloody from working in the mine fields, well I won’t even go into what I looked like after smelting.
About three days ago I walked into the Market only to see every booth filled and metal all over the place. With all the metal on the market this particular evening prices were quite low, and I was not about to low ball my metal after all the hard work I put into smelting it. I saw 1,000 mixed metals go for 600,000 coins. I was not about to sell mine any less than 650,000 coins preferably 700,000 coins. I decided to pass on option of laying my metal down in a booth and hoping someone would pay what I was selling for, it would have been a waste of time. Instead I decided to walk around, and talk to people in the market and try to pick out my buyer. I ran into a couple smiths both young in their profession, after speaking for a few moments I mentioned I had a large amount of mixed metals and asked if they were in the market for any. While they were in the market for mixed metals they did not want to pay what I was looking for. When dealing with young members of the community, typically they are always looking for the best deal and understandably so since they have not had much time to set themselves up financially. I then approached an old woman whose glasses covered most of her face; I then noticed she was a legendary miner. According to her buying metal was not in her best interest, since she could mine the ore herself at less cost.
Finally I ran into a gentleman who was appraising every metals salesman before purchase. He was inquiring in the market about purchasing large amounts of ore monthly. I thought to myself with all this ore sitting in my bank would I really be able to sell all this ore at once. After some time had passed I walked up to the man and offered him a glass of wine and a few pipes in the study. As we made our way into the Merchant study we light up some pipes and poured a few glasses of wine. I began by telling him my childhood story about mining, and soon enough he realized why I had brought him here.
After talking some business, he told me he was only interested in paying no more than 625,000 coins per 1000 mixed metals, and as I said before I wanted no less than 650,000 coins. However since I had such an abundance of metals and was in quite some need of money, we were able to work out a deal. He raised his price to 685,000 coins as I raised my amount of fine metal. Every sale was to include 300 Fine metals and 700 regular metals. Each month we would meet during the famous Midnight Madness held in the Kugnae Market. As you see when you work hard for what you have and do not give into the low prices that are on the market, you are sure to find exactly what you are looking for.
“Patience is a virtue”