Dragon Quest 4: Chapters of the Chosen ep 10 Taloon: Arms Dealer, Peacemaker, Shopkeeper, Investor

This time we complete Taloon's chapter. Entering Ballymoral at night, we clandestinely meet with the prince. He and the princess of Endor are carrying on a secret romance and he doesn't want to invade. He gives us a letter to bring the Endor royals warning them. Well, we need to be able to get there to deliver the letter so that bridge needs to be fixed. We must save the architect from that disappearing town so he can complete the bridge. We head back to Lakanaba and young Finnegan let's us borrow his dog in gratitude for helping him escape the dungeons. We take our furry friend to the disappearing town, where Fido quickly sniffs out the truth. The inhabitants are magical foxes who have bewitched the architect. The dog disrupts their glamor and the spell is broken. Archie O' Tect immediately runs off and repairs the bridge. Before playing matchmaker we engage in a little war profiteering. No reason we can't all get something out of this. When our purse is sufficiently full we broker peace by talking to the king and princess of Endor. The king is happy of the match but says his country is ill equipped for war. Seeing an easy solution he proposes to make the courtship official and sends us back to Ballymoral with a letter declaring his desire for a wedding. The king of Ballymoral is delighted to be taking over Endor with a bloodless marriage and so the war is averted. In gratitude for saving the kingdom, the king of Endor grants us a license to open a shop in town. There is an old man selling one for 35k. Coming up a bit short of that impressive sum, we hear a rumor of an old ruin with a valuable treasure. We put on our explorin' pants and go get that treasure. The cave is filled with traps and puzzles but we come away with a valuable goddess statue. The rich man in the big house of Endor is a collector of fine antiquities and pays us 25k for it. Adding that to our arms dealing cash we can afford the shop. We move our family over and Tessie starts working the counter while we go out looking for inventory. The king of Endor has had recent cause to consider the readiness of his soldiers and puts in an order with our new shop to equip them.
While out looking for stuff to sell we hear rumor of a great and powerful sword. This Zenethian sword would be the ultimate acquisition for someone with ambitions of becoming the greatest weapons merchant in the world. Our ability to seek treasures is geographically limited sadly. What luck! There is an old man digging a tunnel from Endor to port town to the east. A port will let us seek this sword the world over! The tunnel man has run short of funds and needs an investment of 60k to get work on the great tunnel going again. That staggering sum just so happens to be the exact amount that Endor pays for equipping the soldiery. The tunnel is finished in no time now that it's funded and we kiss our family goodbye as we set out in search of mythical weapons to sell.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Ballymoral at night
3:20 Putting together the clues
5:00 Borrowing a dog
8:33 Dispelling the glamor
12:40 Returning the dog
14:30 War profiteering
17:02 Endor at night
25:00 Endor daytime
35:25 Delivering the letter
38:38 War profiteering with the boys
42:41 Old man and his tunnel
43:38 Statue cave
1:02:20 Antiquarian
1:04:14 Haggling
1:07:38 Matchmaking
1:09:33 Endor's gratitude
1:16:39 Buying the shop
1:21:18 Government contract
1:29:36 Fulfilment for 60k
1:33:40 Funding the tunnel
1:39:41 Saying goodbye to Tessie
1:41:35 Outro