Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Making friends

Last night I decided to start the journey over to the Orc auction house at Orgrimmar. I need to upgrade our shabby equipment and we have some decent items to sell. Apparently this is the place to make money and buy good items, so we have decided to check it out.

On the way I dropped into the town of Razor Hill. Rough little town, but it served as a nice stopover to sell our miscellaneous bags of broken boar tusks, barnacles, ripped pelts and the like. While I was meandering through the town, I picked up a quest to go kill a litter of Razormanes west of the town. Sounded like a good way to grind for cash and pick up some experience while I was at it.

I quickly found the location of the Razormane fort and was quickly in over my head. I took down a few stragglers but after getting ganged I was taking heavy damage. Barely alive I started to retreat out of the town when suddenly a green aura surrounded me, restoring me to full health. Bewildered, I turned around to see the hulking form of a Tauren behind me. What did this guy want, and why'd he heal me? Perhaps I could take advantage of this situation...

"Wanna hunt?" I said.

"Sure," Mall responded.

Thus our party of two was formed and we proceeded to exterminate the Razormanes one by one. After a few minutes of fighting, we fell into a groove where I would stay back and shoot arrows (seems to be the best thing for a Hunter) and Mall took the enemy on in the form of a huge bear. He wasn't having too much trouble soaking up the attacks as he was level 12.

After a small break in the fighting, Mall asked me "I'll buy the linen cloth off you for 50 copper."

The thought quickly flashed through my mind - am I getting ripped off here? Well, the guy did save me or at least prevented me from whimpering back into town and getting whipped by the Razormane pack.

"How much is each worth?" I asked, chucking to myself and thinking - even if he did know how much they were actually worth like he would tell me the right price.

"13 copper each."

I thought about it for a bit and decided that the bonus cash and experience I got while doing this quest with Mall was worth selling the cloth to him, even if it was a bad price. "Ok, how about 10c each?" I said. He accepted and I sold my cloth. We'll soon find out at the auction house if I'd been had. On to Orgrimmar.

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