You accept merchant Jodaz's offer. A short walk around the city won't hurt you.

You answer merchant Jodaz: “If you really want to take a walk around the city, then I agree to accompany you, Jodaz.”

Jodaz smiles and says: “Great! It will be more interesting for me to walk if there is a listener nearby. I am an old man and I like to chat!”

Are you going. You decide to take your steel sword with you and not take off your chain mail. It is likely that this will be a regular walk through the streets of the city and a visit to several shops. But you take your duties as a caravan guard seriously. In addition, you remember the looks of the common people who looked at your caravan when you entered this city. In these glances, in addition to the contempt and fear that they felt at the sight of your greenish muzzle, one could often notice a feeling of hopelessness due to their extremely poor financial situation. You understood that some hungry commoners might try to steal something from Jodaz while he was walking the streets of the city.

So, you and Jodaz left the complex of buildings that belong to the local trade guild. Jodaz led you in a northwest direction. Jodaz chatted incessantly as you walked through the narrow streets of this city.

He said something like this: “The craft of a merchant requires the ability to obtain information and use this information at the right time! It may seem to you that I’m just walking around the city because I’m an old and fat bored guy! But that’s not so, Ulkin! Or rather, this is not entirely true! The epithets "fat" and "old" suit me! But I notice different features of the life around me that will help me in trading in the future! For example: what do you see when you look at the local residents?"

You answer: “Most often I see poor common people on the streets of this city. I see that they are looking around with feverish glances at everything they see around. I see that these people are dressed in dirty and torn clothes and that there are quite a lot of them.”

Jodaz: “Valuable observations. What conclusions can you draw from these observations, Ulkin?”

You continue to walk along the dirty streets. You carefully examine your surroundings while Jodaz distracts you with chatter.

You casually answer Jodaz: “Conclusions. I don’t know. Perhaps my conclusions are that the ruler of this human city extracts maximum funds from his subjects through taxes and other means. And this ruler doesn’t give a damn about their well-being and satiety.”

Jodaz tells you: "I would advise you not to say disrespectful things so loudly about the ruler of this city. And about any other aristocrat. Your conclusions have a logical basis. But your conclusions show that you are not a merchant. What you do not have commercial thinking is developed. So, the correct commercial conclusions: the residents of this city are clearly experiencing a shortage of food, the price of food in this city is high, in order for the price to increase further, it is necessary to control the sources that can supply food to this city. Then, you need to buy up the maximum food that is already available in this city. Thus, a smart trader will monopolize the regional food market. And after that, you can increase the price and sell food in small quantities, extracting maximum profit. This is how a wise and effective trader will act! "

You did not understand the essence of Jodaz's chatter well. You simply continued to walk with him to the section of the city that interested him.

Finally, you have reached those trading stalls and shops that interested the merchant Jodaz.