#coincounter

"That'd be me, yes, yes, unless there's some other 'mon I don't know about!"

"Stickers, huh? Lemme see, see."

Hestau looks through his chest directionlessly, not seeming to have any specific item in mind. A satchel is pulled from the clutter, flipped upside-down and contents shaken out, Hestau's eyes lighting up at catching a glimpse of an item suited to trade.

Three stickers that had fallen from the satchel, a bit dirty and worn but unpeeled from their paper squares, are placed upon the sylveon's outstretch ribbon to take the place of the coin, which Hestau quickly grabs and adds to its chest. One sticker is a generic yellow smiling face, the second is a sticker with some stylized text and a swinging pendulum- a sticker for some kind of brand, perhaps?- and the third is an anatomically correct heart, colored blue and pink.

"Enjoy!"

It seems they aren't used to compliments. The kind words leave the ghoul very flustered.

"I am not for sale, no. The berries are though, yes, yes. Take whichever one you'd like. Thank you for your purchase."

It sets an oran berry on the edge of its chest for Curce to take, and lines up a selection of berries for Inaris to choose from. The lineup includes a rawst, sitrus, leppa, and pecha berry which all look to be safe to eat- no sign of rot, though the pecha berry doesn't look like its quite ripe yet.

[ +2 Coins! ]

“I’ve hear rumors of a gimmighoul who trades. I’m not very fluent in Pokémon but I’m in need of a bit of scrap aluminum and I think I’d like to give back to local sources. Sheet metal of any size will work, the less bent or dented the better.”

Hestau opens his mouth to speak, but stops short, reminding himself that anything said would likely go unheard. Instead, Hestau raises their hand in an indicator of, 'One moment!'

Hestau drags three different items to the top and front of the chest, pointing to each then opening its arms to gesture at all three and tilts their head. Offering a choice of any one of the three, it would seem.

The first of three is actually two, a pair of empty cans. Their labels have been removed, either intentionally or just through the trials of time is unclear, and nether seem to have any remnants of whatever- likely food- was previously inside.

The second is several scraps that look to have been part of a bigger sheet at one point, arranged like a puzzle that's been pieced back together. The quality of the metal itself seems good, though the fragmented nature of it might be unideal.

The third is an intact sheet, smaller than the ones the fragments of the second option seem to make up, but is in mostly one piece. There looks to be a small piece of the top right corner missing, and a dent near the left corner, but otherwise, the condition is quite good.

Surprisingly, it seems Hestau did manage to pick out items that were all actually aluminum.

Hopefully one of the options is to the human's taste, because the coin's already been handed over.

"Oh, of course, of course!"

Hestau takes a moment to shuffle items around in their chest until they make enough clearing to remove a stick from it- with a pecha berry still attached to the branch. The berry is plucked swiftly from the branch with a snap! and handed over just as quickly after Hest claims its coin.

"Must be a good actor if you got a bonus! Have a good day, day, thanks for visiting!"

(Nick) Do you have any discarded cookware by chance?

(Matthew) Or uh, any discarded shirts that are sturdy enough to use as sewing fabrics?

(Nick) Er, whatever you got, what are these coins you're talking about? You aren't talking about Pokedollars are you?

"Oh, oh, my first customers! Exciting, exciting!"

The Gimmighoul flaps its arms, its excitement escaping its voice into its movement. The chest is shaking from the motion of them bouncing their leg out of the same excitement that's made them flail their arms about. They stop moving their arms after a moment and answer the questions before it gets too caught up in its own excitement.

"Not Pokedollars, no, no, coins! Circular, gold, coins! No paper money, just coins. Like this, see?"

They grab the coin that they had been holding against their back with their tail to show the greedent what they meant, putting it back after a few seconds and rummaging through their chest for the requested items. Searching through their chest for a bit they eventually grab a piece of fabric. its patterning and texture suggests its a scrap from a picnic table's cloth- not what Matthew had asked for, but the closest thing Gimmighoul had. It hangs the fabric over the side of its chest so he could view it and think over whether to buy it or not then returns to digging through their stock.

It grabs two pokeballs from the pile, a regular one and a greatball. The regular one is only the top half and the button, the bottom of the capsule nowhere to be seen. The greatball is in better condition, though still non-functional; The hinge holding the two pieces together is misaligned, leaving it always open a crack, and the button seems to be jammed so that it is always pressed down. The Gimmighoul turns to address the Oshawott, taking the coin and presenting the two options to him.

"You can take either one! The one with ridges has more pieces but I'll let you pick which you want. Don't wanna assume anything, no! Thanks for your business!"

[The white espeon flashes a gold coin] Hey there! Is that a fire stone? Mind if I were to buy that with this? I think I might know who to gift that fire stone to.

"Yes, yes, of course!"

Hestau brings the stone in question to the front of the chest, setting it on the edge so the Espeon can take it.

"Hope whoever you're getting it for likes it, Thanks for visiting!"

Choro has still a very sceptical look on her face. "With all that space in ya glitter box, whatcha supposed to fill it for?"

"Scammy? I'm not doing anythin' scammy! These are fair trades, I'll have you know!"

"I mean, why would you wanna buy something if y'think I'm scammy?"

Hestau still grabs the dawn stone and offers it to Choro. Whether she was doubting its business practices or not, Hestau wasn't going to turn away anyone offering it a coin.

"...glitter box?"