Whistling/Tawny Merchants

[Weir]

Tried giving it to the tawny merchant north cut zone first, same thing happened. Usually they respond a lot faster and swap to the intended item (Wickedly scythed for this, silver plated for medium). Both times he didn't respond, then auto-wielded the sword. He should respond faster than it took him to wield it based on past experience.

* R HP:Scratched MV:Full > East of the Village Road
The road bends to the west and to the north. Heading west leads toward the
entrance of a small village. Smoke can be seem rising from the chimneys of
the small buildings within the village. A crude fence with a gate in it
separates the village from the grasslands to the east.
[ obvious exits: N E S W ]2044
Door east: fencegate
There are some tracks of a ridden mount leaving west.
There are some tracks of a humanoid leaving north.
A battle-trained Shienaran warlander stands here, vigilant of its surroundings, being ridden by you.
A merchant stands here, whistling softly.

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* R HP:Scratched MV:Full >
You are carrying:
a gargantuan gilded bastard sword
a gleaming black longsword

* R HP:Scratched MV:Full >
give 2.sword merchant
You give a gleaming black longsword to a whistling merchant.

* R HP:Scratched MV:Full >
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East of the Village Road
The road bends to the west and to the north. Heading west leads toward the
entrance of a small village. Smoke can be seem rising from the chimneys of
the small buildings within the village. A crude fence with a gate in it
separates the village from the grasslands to the east.
[ obvious exits: N E S W ]
Door east: fencegate
There are some tracks of a ridden mount leaving west.
There are some tracks of a humanoid leaving north.
A battle-trained Shienaran warlander stands here, vigilant of its surroundings, being ridden by you.
A merchant stands here, whistling softly.

* R HP:Scratched MV:Full >
A whistling merchant wields a gleaming black longsword in a two-handed grip.

[Elysia]

Those merchants exchange gleaming blackswords, not gleaming longswords.

[Weir]

Didn't these at one time give WSL for the longswords? I swear they did.

[Elysia]

They might have, but these mobs' mobol was lost at some point. The mobol version we had logged didn't include it.