Hobart, Hounded by Misfortune (Asking for Moon Tickets!)
Hobart had almost neither profited nor lost anything at this gathering. He had spent 4000 Pounds to buy the Faceless Man's Extraordinary Characteristics and earned 4300 Pounds from selling intelligence.
Of that, however, Little Sun's two Extraordinary Materials and Emlyn's 1000-pound potion were included. The total profit he could collect immediately was only 2800 pounds.
Thus, Hobart had to sacrifice 700 pounds before he had enough money to pay Klein for the Extraordinary Characteristics.
After resting briefly, Hobart traveled to Connat City and discussed the matter of the Blessed's study group from the Southern Continent with Aputon.
Aputon would be responsible for receiving them and arranging their studies. Hobart would naturally advance the Gold Pounds needed for the expenses, and after calculating the total cost, he would add another eight or nine percent before seeking reimbursement from the Balk Family.
Although this was the Blessed's affair, Hobart had run around for it and used many of his own channels. A markup of around ten percent was already a very fair charge.
For this, Hobart first paid Aputon 2000 pounds as expenses for the study arrangements, with any surplus returned and any shortfall made up later.
Then, regarding the custom train and carriages, Hobart paid Aputon another 2000 pounds as a deposit and modification fee, likewise with any surplus returned and any shortfall made up later.
As for Aputon's compensation for these two tasks, there were two options. The first was one-sixth of the Corrupted Baron's Extraordinary Characteristics, and the second was 600 pounds.
Aputon naturally chose to accumulate Extraordinary Characteristics. After all, 3600 pounds could not buy a Sequence 6 Extraordinary Characteristic.
Finally, Hobart brought up the matter of spoils with Aputon. "By convention, if you obtain spoils such as Extraordinary Characteristics