"As you have surmised, we have several, but I feel compelled to mention that your companion, Tremaine Allard, is also an accomplished weaponsmith, and has some few items of that same quality available.  I will be glad to sell you whatever you require, but will also ask if you have checked with him to see if he has something that is suitable to you.  The credit provided will cover any purchase from him as well."  The Agent delivers this in her somewhat distracted way.

OOC:
As always, we try to encourage custom with PC crafters first, when possible, but if you'd rather do business here, or if Tremaine doesn't have one ready for sale, then I'll be glad to sell you one.  He hasn't hung up his shingle yet, and just arrived, so he might not have much available inventory.
This message was last updated by the player at 14:11, Thu 27 Oct 2022.

ooc: Jackie's credit was with Nishka, if it is good for purchases from him, I'll talk to him first.

OOC:
Yes, the credit is good with him as well.
This message was last updated by the player at 14:11, Thu 27 Oct 2022.

Breonna enters the Emporium, and seeing transactions already happening, waits at the back with her WOlf until someone approaches her

Garret follows and looks around oooh hi doggy
he says looking up at the animal.

After some moments and a lull in the activity at the counter, the robed woman with eyes like shattered glass spheres approaches Breonna, small folds in the space around her accompanying her movement, as if the world were a bedsheet which had been creased in strange ways as she approaches, and flattened back out when she passed.

"Welcome to Nishka's Emporium.  I am Her Agent.  How may we be of assistance today?" she asks, while smiling down at the wolf.

Breonna bows slightly to the Agent and says "I a Breonna, and this wolf is Ulfric" as she says Ulfrics species, she flick a glance at the man who had called him a go.

"I would like to buy some thing to aid my protection from physical harm - specifically a ring of Protection if that is the sort of thing you have to sell?"

The odd woman smiles down at Ulfric, then growls and whines in a way that seems to defy the anatomy of a humanoid mouth.  Ulfric's ears perk up, his tongue lols, and his tail begins to wag, accompanying an answering whuff from him.

"Ulfric says good things about you," the woman observes, "and I will be happy to show you our stock of rings bearing protective dweomers."

Agent Maralen turns and gestures for Breonna and Ulfric to follow her, then gestures toward a portion of the glass display cases which contains hundreds of pieces of jewelry.

"The third box from the left in the second row from the top contains protective rings.  The least levels of enchantment are on the left, and the greatest on the right.  They begin at two thousand pieces of gold, and go up to over 50,000, with a very few even more than that," she explains as they approach the case in question.

Dozens of rings, some with carvings and inscriptions on them, some with gems inset, some completely plain, and made of all manner of metals and other unknown substances are displayed on a velvet backing.  Some few are made of bone, horn, twisted bits of what appears to be plant matter, and two of which appear to be made of various types of plaited cured hide or flesh.

OOC:
What kind of bonus are you looking for?  A simple +1 bonus will run you 2000 GP.

Garret looks around, to see if there are any boots in this shop, Boots of Agile Leaping in particular, or other wondrous items like an artificer's monocle.

Garret looks around the place, finding plenty of footwear, boots included.  All are clearly labeled with small, stiff, paper tags, and the script on them swims before his eyes before resolving into readable words.  Each label declares the list of magical enchantments on each pair, although some few are not enchanted, and are simply fine examples of excellent craftsmanship.  The Boots of Agile leaping have a listed price of 600 pieces of gold.

Garret finds the monocle in question, with a pricetag of 1575 pieces of gold, right next to a display of useful constructs.  One appears to be a dog made of iron, another an animated crossbow, and a third a chest with arms and legs.  The tag on the monocle cautions potential buyers that only individuals with very specific training, from some place called Eh-burr-ron, will be able to use it, under normal circumstances.

OOC:
The artificer's monocle is an ECS Artificer-specific item.  If you're an Artificer (base class), it might be of use to you, but otherwise won't (unless your GM says otherwise).
This message was last updated by the player at 00:06, Sat 22 Apr 2023.

In reply to Artifex (msg # 52):

Garret tries on the boots of agile leaping and salsa round and takes a jump. He looks at the doorway.

This is an item I have a specific future interest in as well, so if there is a ruling that only an artificer can use it, I would very much like to be in the know.

While the others are browsing, the blond-haired man comes in, hair plastered to his head from sweat. He looks for the Agent after acknowledging the other two patrons. "Hey, Agent. Listen, is Nishka able to transfer an enchantment from one item to another, so long as both items are of a quality sufficient to hold the enchantment? If so, how much would she charge?"
He glances at the boots and gloves sections. "By any chance does she have Gauntlets of Ogre Power? Maybe some rudimentary items for deflection like rings or amulets?"

Garret looks around some more checking the vests, he finds a vest of resistance +1, one with lots of pockets in a muted mustard color suede.

Ooooh, it's so soft! and look at all these pockets...

He goes to the Lady...Lady, please - would you be willing to take this, in exchange for the boots (600gp) and the vest (1000gp)?
And he begins to empty everything from his pack, specifically

A few weapons including a Rapier 20gp, Kukri 8gp, crossbow 35gp with 40 bolts,
1 bottle of fine wine 10gp
a magic Wand of CLW with 18 charges          270gp
1 potion of Barkskin,                        300gp
1 potion of Levitate,                        300gp
and
1,000 gears (gp)

Well, my-lady ... what do you think?

As Garret is looking at the monocle, the Agent leans in next to him and attaches a small card to it, which reads:

"New!  Works for all casters, arcane, divine, psychic, and primal, as well as psionic manifesters, augmenting their basic mystical detection spells and powers!"

"My apologies for the confusion.  Nishka has recently worked up a formulation for these which is not dependent on the training in that particular dimension," she says to Garret as he looks on.

Garret gets a good look at the door, and the guards around it, while testing out the boots, which work exactly as well as expected.

"Yes, that collection looks excellent, although you're short about 100 gears.  Are you able to come up with the difference, or were you considering a line of credit?" she asks.

------

"While we can transfer enchantments, the process is significantly more expensive than most are willing to pay for.  The gauntlets, on the other hand, we have in several styles and sizes," the woman with the shattered-glass eyes says as she turns to John D'oh to answer his question, while directing him toward a set of shelves filled with magical gloves and gauntlets.

OOC:
I did a closer inspection of the 3.5 MIC (p.72) and it says that the item uses the Artificer's "artificer knowledge" class feature OR the detect magic spell.  Sorry for the confusion here.
This message was last updated by the player at 00:06, Sat 22 Apr 2023.

Would transferring '+1, Animated' from a small shield to a large mithril shield cost more than 9000 gold?

Garret looks at the treasures he's already offered...He lays out oil of bless weapon.

That's worth about 100. he says, but he knows at a glance that this lady will hold him to account carefully while it is worth 100 she will likely consider it to be somewhat less.

He empties his pouch revealing two halves of a broken button, some feed corn kernels,
a shiny black rock, and 6 gold teeth.
results of some pick pocketing in the past...
Oooh, those gold teeth must be worth a gear or two! ... so - how much more do I owe?

Finally pressed he counts out the remaining gold pieces that she requests, he has enough but he looks up with sad eyes as he gives over each one.

remove from character sheet:
A few weapons including a Rapier 20gp, Kukri 8gp, crossbow 35gp with 40 bolts,
1 bottle of fine wine 10gp
a magic Wand of CLW with 18 charges          270gp
1 potion of Barkskin,                        300gp
1 potion of Levitate,                        300gp
1 bottle of bless weapon                     100gp
and
1,050 gears (gp)

unless she wants to take the gold teeth and shiny black rock for anything?

Gain vest of resistance with lots of pockets and boots of agile leaping

"The oil of bless weapon and the additional gears will be sufficient," the Agent tells Garret, carefully sliding the rest of his proffered items back toward him.  She takes the coins and items presented in trade, writes out a short receipt, ensures that Garret has his boots and cloak, and asks that he sign for them, concluding this particular purchase.

------

"You'll find," the Agent tells Alton, "that selling your existing shield, which will gain you 4,805 pieces of gold in the current economy, will offset the price of 10,521 pieces of gold for the heavy mithral shield with the basic defensive enchantment and the 'animated' quality, which is normally 10,521 pieces of gold, down to 5,716 pieces of gold."

She give a long look, then continues, "Now, I'm not telling you how to spend your gold, but that is a fair deal less than 9,000 pieces of gold, and were I in your shoes, I'd rather keep more of that 9,000 pieces of gold for other uses."
This message was last updated by the player at 15:40, Sun 16 Apr 2023.

John responds "given that I can fashion the base item for a lot less, hmmm normally 340 instead of 1020, tack on 5 percent more for raw materials and we get a base cost of 357 gold. The +1 and Animated costs, also at +5%, are an added 9,450 gold. This makes the final cost 9,807 gold. Selling the current Shield nets me 4805, leaving me to pay the 5,002 gold difference. I think what I am asking is if the cost of transferring the enchantments is less than the 4,655 gold I would be spending otherwise?(5002 less the 357 for making the Shield)"
This message was last edited by the player at 10:32, Sun 16 Apr 2023.

"The cost of transferring the enchantments is significantly more than simply placing them on an item in the first place.  Nishka has very rarely done it, and most frequently in the case of an independently intelligent item, transferring it whole-cloth, if you will, to another item," the Agent explains.

"If you are capable of crafting the base mithral shield yourself, then that will defray some of the cost, and Nishka will be happy to simply add the requested enchantments to it once you have the shield ready."

John nods. "I'm having a full set of plate armor coming over later. How much to enchant it to the second tier of deflection? Is that 4000, or 4200 gold?"

"That will run 4200 pieces of gold," the Agent confirms.

Breonna examines the rings, but balks at the price. She waits until the AGent is free and says "The price is steeper than I expected. WOuld it be possible and cheaper to get some enchanted hide armour?"

"An enchanted set of hide armor will definitely be cheaper, at the lowest level of enchantment.  The enchanting portion of the work runs half what the ring does," the Agent responds, then cocks her head at an odd angle, as if listening to some other, unseen person.

"Do you have a set of armor you'd like to have enchanted?  If not, we have several excellent options in hide here that I can show you."
This message was last updated by the player at 14:28, Fri 21 Apr 2023.

Breonna looks at her armour and says "This set isn't good enough, so I would need a new set as well." She pauses before remembering to add "Please"