Everyone knows how greedy a fluffy can be, even the most behaved and good fluffies have experimented this, some times they are willing to sacrifice anything, actually too willing and anything.
The merchants or sketti mistah as the fluffies call them are entities that don’t have any evil will or intentions, they look to get whatever they can from “fair” exchanges, or at least with exchanges that give both parties what they want regardless of any later regret the other side might have later.
They don’t have a specific criteria to be in a place, they most of the time just wander around cities or rural areas looking for a fluffy willing to do an exchange with them, wich usually is a feral or a really spoiled home fluffy.
Of course they have a few rules for their clients just to not have a difficult time when making the deals:
- You can only exchange using what you have in you at the time of encounter.
- It’s forbidden to use other fluffy’s property as currency for exchanging.
- There must be only one fluffy per exchange.
- Owner’s property is not accepted as currency in exchanges.
- Currency must be in good estate for exchanging.
They don’t actually attack or do anything at all if a rule is broken, they just walk away looking for another willing client.
When an exchange is successfully completed the merchant will pull a plate of spaghetti with a random amount depending on what was exchanged, a fluffy can exchange as much as it wants as long as it is still alive.
What is the currency of the exchange? Usually foals and/or body parts, of course the ones exchanging foals are mostly smarties, because “dummeh enfie mawes gib mo’ babbehs fo sketties” and the ones exchanging body parts are fluffies in need willing to sacrifice everything for their families or those too greedy to care about the long term consequences.
What is the downside? There has to be one right? The body part exchanging is evident, but what about foals that mares can just pump out like if there was no tomorrow, well every exchange with a foal raises the chance of stillborns and miscarriage for the foal’s mother pregnancies after a deal is done, stacking until the mare is completely incapable of having foals.
If attacked the merchant will stay back and refuse to make a deal with that fluffy ever again, it will not strike back no matter the intensity or intention of the attack.