How to Survive

Provisions trader (Hollis's Provisions) · Big island (Harbour Meadows), Meadowbay, trading hall/square.

Quests

Shop

Stock refills at 6:00 once a full day of play has passed. Prices are before the Merchant skill; a weapon is priced by its level (shown at Lv 1) and rarity.

ItemPriceStock
Tent35 gold2
Campfire10 gold3
Axe100 gold2
Pickaxe100 gold2
Stick2 gold20
Stone2 gold20
Plant1 gold10
Fiber3 gold10
Cloth3 gold10
Bone3 gold10
Hide4 gold10
Deadwood Log3 gold10
Feather4 gold10
Rope9 gold5
Scroll of Forgetting500 gold2
Scroll of Holding1500 gold1
Camera75 gold1
Pocketwatch50 gold1
A piece of clothing (Uncommon or Rare)—1
A piece of clothing (Uncommon or Rare)—1

Buys survival gear (tents, campfires, clothes, potions), materials for 90% of their worth, and anything else worth gold for 35%.

Talk

  1. “Name's Hollis. I sell sticks. People laugh, but you try making a fire out of a sense of humour.”
  2. “Most of what I sell, you could pick up off the ground yourself. That's true. But then you'd have to bend over. I'm saving you the bending.”
  3. “You don't want a tent. Nobody wants a tent. Then it rains, and then they want a tent. Then they want it dry. I can't help with that last part.”
  4. “A campfire's three sticks and two stones. I tell people that and they still buy one. I don't stop them. It's a free country. Well, it's an island. Same idea, smaller.”
  5. “At night things come up out of the ground out there. Skeleton fellas. My advice is be indoors. My second advice is a tent, which I sell.”
  6. “I'll buy what you find, too. Not for much. I'm not a charity. I'm a stick salesman. Which is close, but no.”

More talk

  1. “Those skeleton fellas wear hats. Now, I've been in business a long time. I've never sold a hat to a skeleton. So somebody's dressing them. That's the part that bothers me.”

Shop greetings

  • “Provisions. Sticks, stones, fiber. Everything you need for living outdoors, which I don't recommend.”
  • “Hello again. Or hello for the first time. I see a lot of faces. Mostly it's the same face.”
  • “Everything here's sturdy. The sticks are sturdy. For sticks.”

Quips

After you buy

  • “Good choice. Not the only choice. But a choice.”
  • “There you go. Don't tell anybody what you paid. Not because it's high. I just like a little mystery.”

When you can't afford it

  • “You're a little short. On gold, I mean. Height-wise you're fine.”
  • “Come back when you've got the money. I'll be here. I've got nowhere else. That's not sad, it's just geography.”

When your bag is full

  • “Your bag's full. I'd sell you a bigger bag, but I don't have one. I've just got this one, and it's mine.”

After you sell

  • “I'll take it. I'll put it on the pile. There's a pile.”
  • “Fair price. Fair to me, anyway, and I'm the one standing here.”

When it is sold out

  • “That's gone. Sold the last one. I'll have more tomorrow. Sticks grow back. It's the one nice thing about sticks.”

When they don't buy it

  • “That's worth nothing. I'm not saying it to be mean. I'm saying it because that's the number.”

When you walk off mid-sentence

  • “Oh. Okay. I'll put that down as browsing.”
  • “Leaving mid-sentence. Fair enough. That's what most people do with my sentences.”
  • “Well, that's rude. But you'll be back. It'll rain.”