Vendors are NPCs that allow PCs to sell things to other PCs, even when they’re not logged in. Vendors are indestructible and will not move from the site where they are placed.
Interacting With Vendors
To talk to a vendor, a greeting and action must be on the same line (“Hi browse,” “Vendor buy”).
Greetings include the vendor’s name, title (vendor, shopkeeper, salesman, salesperson, saleswoman) and general salutations (hi, greetings, hello, yo, hey, hail). Valid actions include:
Browse, view, look: The vendor will display his inventory, so you can browse his goods. A prospective customer can use Arms Lore or Item Identification on the items. Double-clicking on a vendor acts the same as “browse”.
Buy, purchase: The vendor will ask you to target the item to buy. The gold is removed from you inventory if you are carrying it, or from the bank if you’re not. If you are the owner, he will tell you that you don’t need to buy the items.
Status, info: If you are the owner, the vendor will describe his status, including how much gold he’s holding, how much he charges per day, and how many more days he will continue working, assuming nothing changes.
Collect, gold, get: If you are the owner, the vendor gives you all gold he’s collected from purchases.
Obtaining a Vendor
Tavernkeepers and innkeepers sell a document called “a contract of employment.” Buy this item, take it near a house you own, and Use it, and a vendor will be placed at that site.
Vendors charge an ongoing fee to remain active. The fee is a fixed amount, plus a percentage of the value of all the items in their stock. This fee comes out of the money you give the vendor, plus any money earned for you by selling items. If the money runs out, the vendor self-destructs, leaving your items in the corpse. Note that if the corpse decays, everything it had is gone.
Maintaining a Vendor
To add an item to your vendor’s stock, you simply drag it into your vendor’s inventory. You will then be prompted to “enter a price, description.” All items held by a Vendor must be priced for sale (the only exception is containers which contain items that are for sale).
If you wanted to sell a full set of plate armor for 1000 gold, you could enter “1000, Quality plate: a full set at a GREAT price!” “1000, plate,” or simply “1000.”
Owners can drag items around in a vendor’s inventory at will.
Since all players can open containers in a vendor for browsing purposes, the owner can use containers to categorize a vendor’s inventory.
If an owner gives gold directly to a vendor, the vendor will add it to his personal account. A vendor’s personal account is checked first when collecting his daily bill, and is not included in the value of the shop when computing the daily cost of the shop.
