"Depends on how alerted you think people are about a Summoned Hero already.  My previous plan was to find an office with a Transmuter Device - introduced by the last Summoned Hero, we don't speak his name because he ruined the city of Omelas, which was the proudest jewel of our planetary civilization before that - anyways, find Midvale's transmutation facility, ask them for sample jars for all the kinds of elemental metals that Transmuter Devices can make, have you come in and look them all over and say as little as possible, and then I'd order fifty pounds of whatever you pointed out.  It'd be around - a week's wages, for me, probably?  The main thing it'd be helpful to have beforehand is a plausible reason for why we want fifty pounds of a metal that has to be kept in oil to prevent it from oxidizing; it's a bit much for us to be metallurgists trying to invent a new steel alloy, and I couldn't bluff my way through that conversation anyways."

"Depends on how alerted you think people are about a Summoned Hero already.  My previous plan was to find an office with a Transmuter Device - introduced by the last Summoned Hero, we don't speak his name because he ruined the city of Omelas, which was the proudest jewel of our planetary civilization before that - anyways, find Midvale's transmutation facility, ask them for sample jars for all the kinds of elemental metals that Transmuter Devices can make, have you come in and look them all over and say as little as possible, and then I'd order fifty pounds of whatever you pointed out.  It'd be around - a week's wages, for me, probably?  The main thing it'd be helpful to have beforehand is a plausible reason for why we want fifty pounds of a metal that has to be kept in oil to prevent it from oxidizing; it's a bit much for us to be metallurgists trying to invent a new steel alloy, and I couldn't bluff my way through that conversation anyways."

"Also, what are 'headbands'?"

"Depends on how alerted you think people are about a Summoned Hero already.  My previous plan was to find an office with a Transmuter Device - introduced by the last Summoned Hero, we don't speak his name because he ruined the city of Omelas, which was the proudest jewel of our planetary civilization before that - anyways, find Midvale's transmutation facility, ask them for sample jars for all the kinds of elemental metals that Transmuter Devices can make, have you come in and look them all over and say as little as possible, and then I'd order fifty pounds of whatever you pointed out.  It'd be around - a week's cost of living, for me, probably?  The main thing it'd be helpful to have beforehand is a plausible reason for why we want fifty pounds of a metal that has to be kept in oil to prevent it from oxidizing; it's a bit much for us to be metallurgists trying to invent a new steel alloy, and I couldn't bluff my way through that conversation anyways."

"Also, what are 'headbands'?"

"Depends on how alerted you think people are about a Summoned Hero already.  My previous plan was to find an office with a Transmuter Device - introduced by the last Summoned Hero, we don't speak his name because he ruined the city of Omelas, which was the proudest jewel of our planetary civilization before that - anyways, find Midvale's transmutation facility, ask them for sample jars for all the kinds of pure metals that Transmuter Devices can make, have you come in and look them all over and say as little as possible, and then I'd order fifty pounds of whatever you pointed out.  It'd be around - a week's cost of living, for me, probably?  The main thing it'd be helpful to have beforehand is a plausible reason for why we want fifty pounds of a metal that has to be kept in oil to prevent it from oxidizing; it's a bit much for us to be metallurgists trying to invent a new steel alloy, and I couldn't bluff my way through that conversation anyways."

"Also, what are 'headbands'?"