"So Kaguya, how large was that dragon we killed again?"
"About ten feet."
"So then you can explain to me why we only got 5000 GP for it?"
Reimu, along with the rest of the party, walked out of the shop and into the town square of Climax, a bustling city full of people going about their daily lives. After carrying the dead dragon so far, Reimu thought that the skin would be at least 10000 GP. apparently, the economy said otherwise. When the elf shrugged her shoulders, Patchouli decided to explain.
"Reimu, the dragon that we just killed had just reached adulthood, so the scales aren't as hard as an older dragon. As such, they are less useful, and therefore less valuable."
As Reimu grumbled to herself, Marisa patted her on the back
"Cheer up Reimu, At least we got money fr-hmm? What's that?"
As our heroes walked through the town square, they saw a large crowd gathered around a stage set against a building. On it, two warriors, one red, the other blue, were dukeing it out with colored lances, painted red and blue. Guess which warrior had which lance. Anyhow, the red lancer appeared to gaining the upper hand, with swift, furious strikes, leaving almost no openings. However, almost no openings is not the same as no openings, and the blue lancer blocked an overhead swing and followed up with a series of swings that knocked the lance out of the red warrior's hands. At this, the crowed cheered. Both combatants bowed, then walked off of the back of the stage.
Reimu whistled in amazement, and turned to the other girls. To her surprise, only Patchouli was there, reading a book about supernatural creatures. Patchouli momentarily looked up and pointed towards the side of the stage. As she looked to where he ghost was pointing, she groaned. Marisa was attempting to bamboozle herself backstage past a locked door while Kaguya chatted it up with the guard. Surprisingly, Marisa managed to get inside without being seen. Reimu approached Kaguya, who turned to her and waved.
"Hey Reimu! I was looking for you earlier. Where'd you go?"
"What do you mean, where'd I go, you were the one who ran off on me," Reimu replied, "Now come on, Patchouli's waiting for us." With that Reimu walked away from the guarded door, Kaguya following kinda close behind but not really.
Inside the building, Marisa was having a field day. The backstage area was filled to the brim with people only focused on their destination, as well as various props and values lying around left and right. The best part about it was that everyone was distracted. Nobody paid attention to if a hand brushed against their pockets, or if a gold pocket watch went missing off of a table. As Marisa went around stealing people's items of value, her eyes landed on a large golden clock on the wall. Marisa took one look at it, and immediately made her way over there. She stared at the clock, and tried to formulate a plan.
"Aw fuck it."
Marisa jumped up and grabbed the large time-piece, then bolted towards the door, pushing everyone out her way.
"Watch it!"
"Oof!"
"Hey! Stop!"
Laughing maniacally, Marisa ran up and jumped out a window, and started looking for a place to store her loot.
|~|Meanwhile|~|
"And that's why I hate mechanical worms," the person finished. Reimu, Patchouli, and Kaguya were waiting for Marisa, when a guy in green armor came up to them and started rambling about his hometown, which apparently had an infestation of monsters, including large eyeballs and giant worms. "Also, have I told you about just how Hard Skele- Oh! Well hello there."
Kaguya turned around to see what the guy was talking about, only to get a face full of Marisa, who cheerfully greeted the gang.
Patchouli briefly looked up from her book at Marisa.
"How much?"
"Why don't you come see for yourself?"
With that, Marisa started to jog down a nearby alleyway. Everybody else followed behind with varying degrees of confusion. Even the guy with the green armor came with the group, vaguely curious as to what was going on.