A rifle.

You think over what to say as you look at him as it occurs to you that you have no idea how much a gold coin is worth. “Yes I would really like a gun, but I am not sure what I can afford. What do you have for say, under 5000 gold, or so?”

He nearly spits and spills his drink, “None of this junk.” He laughs pointing at his display. He then locks the door and puts up the closed, back soon, sign. “Follow me, I'm sure I have something good in my safe.” You follow him back into the workshop behind the next door. It is sort of a cool display of organized chaos. First I have to ask, are you one of those wizard types that use spells to create ammo?”

“No, I don’t know any spells. Oh but I can cast spells from scrolls, I can read and identify magic.” You add.

“Well in that case bullet creation spells and hard hitting calibers so you minimize ammo use is the way to go”. He heads into a huge walk in safe to pick out his recommendations. “Ok, take a look at this, it’s magic, real nice rifle.” He hands you a cool lever action rifle in .30-30 looks just like a Winchester model 94, weighs about 7 lbs.

“Kinda heavy.” As the words leave your mouth you scold yourself internally at how girly you just sounded.

“All right, what about this then. With the scope it’s about the same but the scope is a bit over a pound if you can do without. Here.” He hands you a bolt action scout style carbine with a short 16” barrel, forward mounted 4x scope, and 10 round detachable box magazine, it is stamped.308.

You look it over, “Yeah, it’s nice but I’m just worried it’s still a little heavy.”

“I see, hmm, oh I have the perfect rifle.” A bit more rummaging, “This is perfect. A custom project, an odd caliber, .300 blackout but using scrolls, no problem, I’m not actually sure what it’s made of, some kind of magic light metal I guess, it is semi auto, it fires and cycles for you every pull of the trigger, you just pull this handle to chamber a round. Weighs just 4.8 lbs with a 5.5” barrel, collapsible stock, and a small silencer hidden under the hand guard here. Flip up sights and a 30 round magazine. Here what do you think?” He hands you the rifle and yes it is perfect, lightweight, cool, and small for a rifle.

“Wow, how much?”

“Well it is magic. 4500 gold. Tell you what, buy a backup pistol and I’ll throw in 10 bullet creation scrolls, they are 3 gold each, a holster, 3 mags for the rifle and 3 for any pistol, plus a sling for the rifle.” He says smiling.

“What pistols do you have?”

“I only need to show you one. It is made of the same magical material as the rifle. Stamped XD-M .45, uses 12 round magazines, black frame dark green slide, here feel.”

You hold it for like 30 seconds and then say, how much?”

He smiles again. “Okay, my best deal I swear, you will love it. Check this out. Weapon belt, low slung thigh holster, rifle sling, magazine quick draw for 4 spare magazines, belt pouch holds 2 rifle magazines, total 5 magazines for the pistol, 3 for the rifle, all fully loaded, 10 bullet creation scrolls, they create 30 rounds for the rifle or 50 for the pistol, a cool magic fanny pack that holds 50 lbs but weighs only a pound. Ready? Okay all in 5000 gold.