Belmarniss shows up early the next morning for her consultancy meeting, munching a pastry from her breakfast spread. "Hey - I was told to meet with a Luay?"
He nods. He has more questions about currency and how deep various markets are in the sense of how much demand there will be at various prices. He asks questions until he has filled up his little notebook.
She will tell him about their mining situation (drow find a lot of things to mine in the course of their general exploration and architecture) and the highest price she ever saw a sack of sugar go for (seven gold, and the sack was just this big!) and how they have pigs and fish down there and some underdark-specific animals but not goats or chickens or anything, and that magic's cheaper downstairs up until the mid levels but they don't have all the surface spells in common circulation but they do have some of their own, mentions as though it's her own observation what Hagan said about it being easier to deliberately be a cleric of a demon lord than of a legit god with lots of options.
"Huh. All right. I'm very excited about this, I think it has the potential to really be something great. Anything else I can do for you now -"
"This isn't really urgent but I'm curious how much of an incident it's gonna be the first time somebody offers to buy a teenage boy for her daughter as a husband."
" - if he is in fact for sale I do not think it'll be a very big deal. If he is not it'd be a rather ill-advised offer to make but Osirians are mostly lawful. NInety-two percent, at last count."
"It probably won't come up for a while, it'd be really weird to outmarry. Congrats on the ninety-two percent. I think that's all I had in mind."
"Well, some of them are still evil, right, lawful's only half the battle. But thank you. I wish you profitable future ventures."
"Thanks."
She heads off to the temple he mentioned with the high enough level cleric.
That's not bad at all, if you happen to have the diamonds. She is not quite liquid enough to get the both of them.
She goes and finds Hagan.
"Yeah! I think it's probably about time I get my parents rezzed but I don't have the gold for both of them at once and I think I had better get both of them at once. I'm thinking maybe I shop around downstairs, since rocks are probably cheaper there and that won't last? And then I want to go get Sovi."
"It'd be nice if we could teleport in and out, for Sovi. My grandma and great aunt aren't super scary but I'd rather just sidestep it."
"Well, you'll have to buy Mahdi a scroll if you can't get him to tenth level but scrolls aren't that pricy and I bet we'll be glad to come."
"I don't have a quest lined up for that. Oh well. This isn't urgent urgent, it'll be a few more months before my dad needs another caster level."
"I think he's starting to get a bit shy of quests anyway. Every time we come back to town it's like - you don't want to be one of those people who keeps going on one last mission before retirement until you're dead of it, right - but picking up your folks, that sounds nice and straightforward. Will they take the rez, do you need to contact them first -"
"Uh, I'm going to get Mom first. She'll take it, pretty sure. My dad's - already starting to grow little horns - I'll ask her."
Fazil and Mahdi are down to rescue Belmarniss's sister, "if it happens soon. Mahdi wants to start looking for a wife this fall. That's apparently when all the cool parties are."
"I can probably get together the diamonds by then. Might hock something if I'm short."
"I can pitch in if you're a little short. I have an allowance I mostly don't spend."