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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2304493" data-attributes="member: 13966">Argus replies "Well, the ensorcelled traveler's pack I bought before leaving Mittendien, I think, should be able to hold another 70 pounds or so in the main compartment.  I don't carry much besides a week's worth of food and drink, but it does weigh me down enough to slow me, so I got this new pack for convenience.....  Anything that ain't more'n a foot wide should fit.  'Bout the only thing I have of value, besides this stave, though the Hand of Malagar ain't as well-carved as my former stave."  Argus demonstrates by opening the top of his pack, then slipping the Hand of Malagar staff down fully into his backpack, then pulling it back out a moment later, to show that the pack's really deeper on the inside.Argus points out the stuff that he thinks is valuable enough, or worthwhile enough, to try hauling to town.  He also points out that he doesn't think there's likely a market for giant-stag-beetle-harnesses.....  He makes a few random remarks about some of the other items, too:200 gold coins, 140 silver coins, 100 copper coins2 pieces of blue quartz, 1 piece of bloodstone, 1 banded agate, 3 pieces of hematite1 solid gold idol artistically depicting Naeron consuming souls (for selling, likely to be melted down, unless usefully enchanted), 1 carved bone statuette presumably depicting the green dragon Oruzanthanax (for selling, if possible, unless usefully enchanted), 1 bronze torc inlaid with pieces of jet, sized for a small humanoid's head or a medium humanoid's arm (for selling, unless usefully enchanted), 1 silver medallion inlaid with an elaborate green dragon's profile in malachite stones, upon a necklace of tiny gold and silver chain-links (for selling, unless usefully enchanted)12 small spears (for giving or selling to the gnomes later, for their self-defense if they are now free), 12 small suits of leather armor (for giving or selling to the gnomes later, for their self-defense if they are now free), 4 small suits of masterwork full plate armor (for selling)1 silver unholy symbol of Naeron (for selling to someone who can melt it down and make better use of the silver, but first discarding the thick necklace of preserved muscle tendon and assorted preserved fingers)1 map case, 1 simple parchment map of the forest, 5 blank sheets of parchment (either for Fleck or for selling), 1 half-full vial of ink (either for Fleck or for selling), 1 inkpen (either for Fleck or for selling), 1 magnifying glass (for selling maybe), 1 spyglass (for selling maybe)8 flasks of alchemist's fire, 8 flasks of acid, 4 tindertwigs (for selling), 4 signet rings etched with the profile of a green dragon's head (for selling and melting down, unless usefully enchanted), 1 brass ring embedded with six tiny square pieces of different precious stones (for selling, unless usefully enchanted), 1 copper rod of intertwined 3-foot-long bars, capped at one end with a hexagonal piece of obsidian (for selling, unless usefully enchanted)12 vials of murky amber fluid, possibly the same as the Potions of Cure Light Wounds found on the kobold bandits some time ago, 4 vials of bubbly red fluid, possibly the same as the Potions of Cure Serious Wounds found on the kobold bandits some time ago, 1 vial of steely gray fluid, 3 vials of effervescent tan-gray fluid, 4 tiny bags of fine gray-and-brown dust, possibly the same as the Dusts of Tracelessness found on the kobold bandits some time ago12 bags of caltrops, 12 tanglefoot bags, 12 thunderstones, 12 vials of alchemical antitoxin, 24 smokesticksTotal Value & Weight: 10,410 GP plus the un-appraised stuff, 371-and-3/10ths pounds</blockquote>

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