Me playing Elder Scrolls games.
Merchant: “Gee, I wonder where all my stuff went? My shelves are all completely empty!”
Me: “Hey good morning, would you like to buy everything that the merchant down the street owns?”
Down the street? I just sell it to the merchant I stole it from!
“What’s that, how did the unique, one of a kind golden claw that I just returned to you end up in my inventory? You’re mistaken this isn’t the golden claw. It’s the… gilded claw. Very different. Wanna buy it?”
Must have been the wind
I used to be an adventurer like you unt- hey! Where’s my knee?
Just follow the arrows
And now the merchant’s guild has put an open contract on your head for 20,000 gold, the equivalent of several million dollars. Time to retreat to the feywilds with a few wheelbarrows of foodstuffs to shift your bounty elsewhere.
Rookie error for a goblin merchant… Come on…
Time is money, friend.
We’ll conduct business when you put some pants on.