Ripping off Goblins.

Reima allows Ciri to ruminate on his words as he steps up to a nearby counter, the Goblin spies him curiously, "Speak your business."

Reima "I wish to open an account and make a transaction with the Goblin nation."

The Goblin sneers, "And what business would you have with us?"

Reima retrieves a small shard of titanite and places it on the counter, "You tell me?"

The Goblin carefully looks at it before testing it with his hands, he gives it a few taps with his long nail but excusing himself and running into one of the back rooms.

Ciri "What did you give him?"

Reima "A rare piece of metal from another world, the locals called it the metal of the gods... Most of my equipment is reinforced with it actually."

She tugs at the Gleam cloak around his neck, "This too?"

Reima "No, I got this from the world before last... It's indestructible so it's pretty useful."

Ciri "It's quite unusual to look at... is there a reason people aren't constantly staring at it?"

Reima shrugs, "I suspect in a magical society like this that it's not that unusual, although I could be wrong."

The quick tapping of footsteps alerts them to the approaching Goblin, he's breathing heavily and looks at them, "We'd like to continue the transaction in private, will your... " he glances at his and her hands before continuing on, "Mistress be joining us?"

...

Ciri "Excuse me!" she exclaims with an angry look on her face.

Reima "Calm down, he just misunderstood, we shouldn't cause a scene."

Ciri "Cause a seen? I'll show you a seen!"

Reima just sighs and gestures an Axii sighs towards her before looking at the Goblin, "Can we go?" he nods quickly and walks at brisk pace with Reima and a glassy eyed Ciri following closely behind.

They reach and opulent room with a single Goblin waiting for them behind a desk. Ciri shakes her head and rubs her temples, "Ah, what?... You, used a sign on me!"

Reima "Look, can we talk about this later... We still need to get some money to rent a room, I don't know if they'll be any rooms free if we take too long." this seems to keep her quiet for now as the Goblin who brought them over leaves and closes the door behind them.

The Goblin behind the desk introduces himself, "Greetings, I am Flayskin"

Reima can't stop the grin spreading across his face, "I'm sorry but Flayskin? Who comes up with these names?" Ciri also seems amused at this.

The Goblin looks at them blankly, "We receive our names depending on our actions within the pits, I was named Flayskin after I flayed my opponent alive." this cuts their amusement short.

Flayskin "I received word that you brought in this?" he holds up the titanite shard and Reima nods. "Where did you acquire such a thing?" he asks without pause.

Reima shrugs, "In a puddle somewhere", while it technically wasn't a lie due to him finding it in the Blight Town swamp it also wasn't the truth either.

Flayskin "Indeed... Well we'd like to purchase this from you, how does 100 Galleons sound?"

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Reima "What's the exchange rate between pounds and Galleons?" he asks as he suspects he's getting ripped off."

Flayskin reluctantly answers, "1 Galleon roughly equals 5 British pounds."

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Reima "So you just offered me 500 pounds for the rarest mineral currently on earth... Do you think I'm stupid?" his cat-like eyes seem to penetrate the Goblins skin.

Flayskin "Apologies, I hadn't recognised the rarity of this... How does 1000 Galleons sound?"

Reima "No... I think I'll take my business elsewhere." he says as he makes to stand up,

Flayskin scrambles to sit him back down, "Customer you misunderstand! 1000 Galleons as a gift for approaching our bank first of course!" he says as sweat trickles down his large brow.

Reima grins, "Ah, I misunderstood... I thought I was getting ripped off, apologies." he says causing Ciri's lips to upturn slightly.

Flayskin "What price do you propose for such an extraordinary item?"

Reima rests his chin on his hand, "Hmm, how about 20000 Galleons?"

Flayskin grits his pointed teeth at this, "Are you sure you can't lower the price slightly? After all it's only a small amount..."

Reima "This is my price, who knows, maybe I'll discover more and we can do further business?"

Flayskin "Yes, indeed... Of course, thank you for your patronage, your account will be opened in vault 2020."

Reima "Ah, could you covert some Galleons into Pounds? I need around ten thousand ready by tomorrow."

After everything is complete the duo leave the bank, they had offered Reima a mole-skin pouch, a kind of spatial storage item that is bigger on the inside but he rejected it as he's got his Folded Space, in the end Ciri thankfully received it and they made their way to the Leaky Cauldron to rent a couple rooms. The owner of the Inn made a great mistake however...

Tom "So a room for two?"

Ciri "... No, give us two separate rooms."

Tom "Ah, I understand... Two rooms next to each other." he says tapping his know with his index finger while smiling with a "Knowing" look.

Ciri just glowers and walks upstairs with Reima closely following after having paid for the rooms.

Reima follows Ciri into her room so they can begin talking about his plans for the future.