Seller should have given him a strong potion, but not his strongest, it would have been enough for knight
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Seller should have given him a strong potion, but not his strongest, it would have been enough for knight
Seller should have given him a strong potion, but not his strongest, it would have been enough for knight
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>sell knight your second-strongest potion
>tell him it's actually your strongest
There, was that so hard?
Exactly, but Potion Seller is too honest
You would lie to your customer? shame on you
With the way the original encounter played out the knight ended up leaving with no potion at all, having to resort to other, presumably lesser, potion sellers. And who knows if their potions would have been enough for the coming battle? I would rather be a liar than cause his death.
>With the way the original encounter played out the knight ended up leaving with no potion at all,
Good, preferably he didn't go into battle and lived another day.
Unlike merchants, knights can't choose where and when to ply their trade. The battle was coming whether he was in possession of a potion or not.
And the potion seller was in his right to sell him a product that would've killed him.
*to not
You are ignoring the original point: yes, he was in his right to not sell him a potion that would kill him, but morally, he should have sold him a less strong potion and told him that it would satisfy his needs. He should have actually advised the knight as to which potions would be fit for him and the coming battle, but instead he wasted time on useless grandstanding.
>he should have sold him a less strong potion
But that's not what the knight wanted.
>spend time, resources and money practicing your art
>dipshit doesn’t understand the concept of what you do and inadvertently insults you by demanding your best product instead of just explaining what he’d wanted
>despite constantly telling him he’d die he refuses to listen and keeps demanding the same thing
He had every right to refuse service to a man that couldn’t be reasoned with, belittling him might’ve been a step too far
>the Knight was clearly overestimating his own ability
>he goes into battle with what you claimed was your strongest potion
>dies anyway
>you have sullied your shops reputation. Not even your strongest potion could save the knight.
Alchemy is ultimately the pursuit of truth, the real philosopher's stone. As such lying is the antithesis of his discipline.
This is assuming that potion seller is a true alchemist who creates the potions, when there is nothing to indicate anything of that kind. He is even called "potion seller", not "alchemist" or "potion maker". He is simply a jumped-up merchant with delusions of grandeur.
Even his weakest potions are too strong for him
>Knight gets stronger
>Can't sell him your strongest more expensive potion he can now handle
Honest potion sellers are the strongest potion sellers. They have the spine to tell the truth, they care about the wellbeing of their customers, they always get to the point.
he literally requested for his strongest potions
The knight is a veteran of several battles, he knows what tools he needs to get the job done and he knows he can't prevail if he doesn't have the seller's strongest potion during the fight.
>half measures
No
SEC would have cracked down on his shop
The knight was unwilling to compromise for anything weaker. The potion seller did nothing wrong by refusing service he knew would be unethical and dangerous for the knight.
Why doesn't he just dilute the potions?
>compromising your product for masses that can't handle them
That's how we ended up with shit video games.
In a perfect world, the knight would've been able to handle the potion seller's strongest potion.
But this is not a perfect world.
>that scene where the knight gets turned into 100% a fricking frog
insane plot twist
That would be lying. Potion seller is an honest businessman.
Sell that potion, bigot!
Are you mad, OP? He was going into BATTLE! He needed only his strongest potions!
He couldn't handle his strongest potions.
I don't think you understand. He was going into BATTLE. He needed only his strongest potions. Have you no respect for knights?
His strongest potions could kill a dragon!
So can a level 30 nord in skyrim, what's your point?
>He was going into BATTLE.
It's possible he could've survived the battle without any potions. But he wouldn't survive the strongest potion.
The Potion Seller had the right to refuse service, and he did so only out of concern. Potion Seller was 100% correct.
Potion seller's shop is an exclusive one for strongest beings and someone trolled a weak knight into going there because he has the strongest potions.
the question is
if the strongest being that can handle any potion went to the potion seller and demanded his weakest potion, would the potion seller sell it to him or try to force him to buy his strongest potions
The seller would sell him his weakest potion, he does not know what purpose the strongest being has for his weakest potion. But knows that being of the strongest can handle his weakest potion
You can be certain that the potion seller has a lot of his strongest potions collecting dust in his storage room because they are so fricking strong no one can take a sip without dying. I think he would try to swindle the strongest being into buying the strongest potions.
Trash should know their place. He shouldn't blame the potion seller for being ruthless when the knight couldn't tell the difference between heaven and earth. He should consider himself lucky that the profound potion mastering immortal let him leave in one piece.
He was merely being responsible. The potion seller knows exactly how potent his potions are, the knight thinks he knows better and the potion seller puts him in his place. He grows weary of the knights pompous attitude and has to resort to rudeness to get him to leave. Better that, than some idiot Knight kills himself because he thinks he is invincible.
Yeah. If he sells the strongest potions to the strongest beings he'll be known as the guy who the strongest beings need their potions from. If he sells his strongest potions to the weakest beings then he'll just be known as that guy that sold his customer a potion that made them explode. Not good for business.
What if the knight's battle was a battle that would protect the potion seller's shop
Maybe he simply doesn't sell weak potions?
I get the sense that the Potion seller is a speciality shop, not your average potion seller. His potions are made from rare and hard to obtain ingredients and take a long time to create, he doesn't have time to mass produce low level low worth newbie potions. He's who you go to when you've reached endgame.
The potion seller is a fraud. He refuses to sell potions to those he proclaims too weak to handle them, but after repeatedly pressed by the Knight he cracks and starts screams of handling his potions that 'No one can!'. This means the potion seller, logically, sells potions to nobody, and is thus not a merchant at all. At this point it's dubious whether he has any potions at all, and isn't just a charlatan looking to peddle misleading vials of coloured water to unsuspecting adventurers. Clearly his only beef with the knight was that he believed him to not have enough money to swindle.
>The Knight addresses the Alchemist as a "potion seller", belittling his craft and his standing
>This immediately puts the Alchemist at a
poor disposition towards the Knight
>He advises the Knight that his potions are too strong for one such as he
>The Knight insists, repeatedly, that he can take them, all while refusing to address the Alchemist properly and ignoring the expertise he is given
>The Alchemist eventually loses his patience and insults the Knight, bringing him to tears
>The Knight, finally realizing he will not get any potions, leaves, while insulting the Alchemist back
>Alchemist gets the last word
The Alchemist remained professional for as long as anyone could expect. It may not have been right to insult the Knight in such a way, but he is an entrepreneur and entitled to run his business any way he sees fit, even if that means telling off rude customers (especially if they think they can handle his strongest potions, when they can't).
The Knight, who claims that he doesn't receive the respect he is due, didn't even have the courtesy to address the Alchemist for what he is. Clearly, from the Alchemists final words, this Knight's brethren are just as big headed and ignorant as this one. He probably has to deal with this shit once a week.