Gandel's Assesment and Common Practice
Gandel composes himself, took a deep breath and proceeds.
Was it dissatisfactory please at least let it be sold.
Gandel grabbed my shoulders.
"You". Gandal said with a menacing voice.
Man this is scary.
"Where the hell do you acquire such royal grade quality paper?!!!"(Gandel).
...(There was a deep silence in the air)...
"EHHHHHHHH!!!!" (The four yelled).
"Such quality, such refinement, such whiteness, no this is not just royal grade this is... this is GOD GRADE!" (Gandel).
"(Ehem) Yells aside how much is that tell me" (Hana).
"For my assumption the price shall exceed to up to 5 Medium Golds each"
"EHHHHHH!"
Wait does this happened again.
Which means a single paper is enough for my debt.
(Zach slams the counter table)
"I'm willing to sell them all!"(Zach)
"Well I'm afraid though that my price would not be near to what I said" Gandel replied while pointing his index finger towards each other back and forth.
"Please explain" Zack said with his left and right fingers touching.
"Ya see my shop can only buy stuffs on small values after all this is nothing but a small shop in the boonies, usually only adventurers comes to this place since this place is the second nearest town in the Wailing Cliffs and adventurers only needs adventuring equipment like weapons, armors, or food rations. So stuffs like paper are hard to sell on this place"(Gandel).
"I see but can you at least buy some?"(Zach).
"Yup I can do but the price is relatively low are ya sure 'bout that chump?"(Gandel).
Zach let out a sigh and ponders.
Hmm what should I do in this situation?.
After a while he spoke with Gandel again.
"Mr. Gandel I have a suggestion, for now I am willing to give you some of these "god grade" paper that you said but in return once you manages to sell it then you shall give me some shares on it. Which means if you manages to sell the papers we'll split the reward, we'll share the profit in the rate of 7 to 3 which I suppose is a pretty decent price waddaya say about it?" (Zach).
Gandal ponders for a moment.
Meanwhile on Gandals mind.
[If he just gives it to me without a price then he will have the advantage on how much money will he be able to share, but in the meantime reducing my loss once I bought the paper. If i furned out the deal I might lose my chance to get huge ass money on it meaning that this situation can come on a win-win].
[Well this leaves me no choice]
Gandel smiled.
"A'int bad ya sure has a mind of a merchant kiddo, very well its a deal" (Gandel).
Gandel held his hand in a form of a clasping manner.
Is he challenging me into an arm wrestling
Gandel looked confused.
Jean interrupted.
"Oh yeah I forgot that your a country bumpkin. When a deal is made we clasp each others hands to secure a deal between each other".(Jean)
"I see"(Zach).
Well you don't have to tell the first part though.
"It's a deal then"(Zach).
After some chats I gave Gandel 5 pieces of [Oslo Papers] for him to deal with possible customers. I also learned some of the common gestures and practices since I asked him about it, he then further explained stuffs to me, man that's one hell of a long talk but it's better to know stuffs after all.
Apparently when a deal was made the two parties will clasp each others hands and grip it with full strength (which I am not totally aware thus having my hand squished) to strengthen the deals security.
If a disagreement or opposition is made the most common thing for dwarves to settle it is by having an arm wrestling where the winner decides the outcome.
And a double hand clasp is a practice of greeting for men while hugging is a practice of greeting for women and a handshake is a greeting for opposite genders.
Gandel would still want to talk but Hana dragged me out already.
That man sure is a blabbermouth.
"Alright since you haven't gotten any money for breakfast we'll lend you some"(Hana).
"Really?"(Zach).
"But your payment for it will be tripled"(Hana).
Heh as expected what else can I expect from this money lecherous hag after all why did I even had my hopes up?.