Chapter 74: Another Eccentric
I looked at the eccentric witch doctor with a blank stare and decided to get straight to the point.
"Why are you here?"
The witch doctor stared back before responding in his annoyingly excited tone.
"I'm here to deal with the beehive problem, but it seems that you have it covered! I also sell various objects!"
I watched in confusion as the decidedly crazy doctor pulled out several items.
He first held up a dart gun and explained what it was.
"This is a blowgun! Quite useful when you want to deal with something from afar!"
He quickly moved away from the blowgun and moved towards a strange machine that looked just as vibrant as his attire.
"This thing here is an imbuing table! Put anything with a flask and you have yourself a potion with a weird effect!"
He quickly proceeded to pull out a pink flask from his pocket.
"For example, this!"
He proceeded to drink the flask and pulled out a wooden staff.
"Behold!"
I looked at the staff and noted that it was just as wooden as always.
And then they swung it at the wall.
What happened next was something that genuinely confused me: Confetti exploded from everything. The wall, the staff, the air, anything within a foot of the staff seemed to explode into confetti.
I was at a loss for words at the scene.
"What."
Unsurprisingly, the witch doctor simply ignored my confusion in favor of their continued explanation of the station.
"That there's a flask of party, a flask that will make anything you hit explode into confetti! Not as useful as the other, more powerful ones, but it's fun to use!" The doctor mumbled the next few words at a level I was barely able to hear.
"If only my confetti supplier didn't disappear. Damned giant spiders and their kidnapping tendencies."
I simply ignored the remark about the giant spiders, focusing more on the fact that someone in the area disappeared.
The doctor quickly perked back up as soon as he finished mumbling and moved onto a new set of items.
He pulled out a pair of statues, one looking like a pot laying on its side being placed upon a stone formation, while the other looked like a palm tree.
These things here are some fountains! They change the color of any water around them based on where they are depicting! The underground one-" He pointed at the one with the pot "-Makes all water in the area purple, and the oasis fountain-" He points at the one depicting a palm tree "-Makes all water in the area a light cyan!"
The witch doctor stopped their item pitch at the fountains and turned to me.
"Anything you wish to buy?!" He excitedly said in his annoyingly happy tone of voice.
I looked at the items laid out in front of me and quickly made up my mind.
"I'll take the imbuing table and an underground fountain."
'The imbuing station seems relatively useful, and purple water sounds cool.'
"Great! I would love to charge you the full price of both of these items, I feel that a discount is in order!"
I looked at him, suspicion clear in my eyes.
"What's the price?"
He looked at me and quickly said the price.
"10 gold coins!"
I looked at him with a bit more suspicion.
"And the original price?"
"9 gold coins!"
My suspicious gaze quickly transitioned to glaring at the mad doctor.
"That's not a godsdamn discount!" I angrily said, my voice just below a shout.
This time the doctor had the courtesy to laugh nervously.
"Then I shall change the price to 8 gold coins then!"
I continued glaring at him.
"Fine! 7!"
I stopped glaring at him and pulled out 7 gold coins. I had more money than I knew what to do with lately, and buying some interesting items would be a good way to lighten my nonexistent wallet.
The witch doctor quickly grabbed the money from my hand and quickly turned around and ran away.
"A pleasure doing business with you!" He yelled.
I kept my eyes on the insane doctor, watching in confusion as he jumped off of a ledge leading into a deep pit.
That confusion quickly transitioned to shock as the man soon rose back into view with wings made of leaves lifting him into the air.
'He can fly?'
{He can fly.}
"What the fuck."
I decided that this jungle has been crazy enough, and I needed to be in a more sane setting, so I pulled out my mirror and returned home.
As soon as I returned home, I was quickly greeted by a smiling Isaac.
"So, boy, what took you so long this time?"
I looked up at the sky and noted that it was nearly midnight.
I decided to respond with complete honesty, making everything concise and nonchalant seeming.
"You know, the usual. burn down a gigantic beehive, kill its queen via blunt force trauma, discover an ancient temple that was apparently made by lizard people, and met a witch doctor I consider to be insane."
Isaac looked at me with a look that said only a single sentence.
'Only you could end up in such a weird series of events.'
I sighed in resignation before coming up with a reply to the silent accusation.
"It's not my fault I'm lucky! The Gods just love to antagonize me!"
Isaac sighed back.
"Don't you think we know that by now?"
I looked at him and said a single sentence.
"Yes, but I can't help but repeat it."
Anyways, boy, you look exhausted. You should go get some rest."
I shook my head.
"no thanks, I took a nap in the jungle."
The old merchant shook his head and sighed.
"You took a nap. In the underground jungle, one of the most dangerous areas on this island."
I nodded.
"Pretty much, yeah."
Isaac sighed once again.
"I can't tell if you're stupid or confident for doing that."
I showed a small smile.
"You should know the answer to that by now."
Isaac smiled back.
"Yeah. You're both. A bonafide confident idiot."
I just laughed, and so did Isaac.
We continued to talk for a while, which mostly consisted of me elaborating on the events in the jungle.
After around half an hour of talking, we said our goodbyes and went our separate ways.
As I was walking away I took out the bag I got from the queen bee.
'Let's see what you've got hidden in there.'
And so I opened it and took out the first item.
What a surprise it was.
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