The Hermitage

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The Hermitage in The Big Mountains is home to the hermit, who will trade your worthless trinkets, worthless gewgaws and worthless knick-knacks for his stuff. Make sure you have a hermit permit with you.

Items Traded

Item:
	seal tooth
	chisel
	petrified noodles
	jabañero pepper
	banjo strings
	hot buttered roll
	wooden figurine
	ketchup
	catsup
	dingy planks
	volleyball
	figurine of an ancient seal (Seal Clubbers only)
	ten-leaf clover (limit 4-5 per day)

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Without a hermit permit:

The Hermit looks at you expectantly, and when you don't respond, he points to a crudely-chalked sign on the wall reading "Hermit Permit required, pursuant to Seaside Town Ordinance #3769"

Stupid bureacrats^[sic], always ruining everybody's fun with their permits and forms.

You glance behind him and see a bunch of items arrayed on a filthy carpet.

With a permit, but without any worthless items:

The Hermit glances at your Hermit Permit, then rummages through your sack. He looks at you with a disappointed sigh -- looks like you don't have anything worthless enough for him to want to trade for it.

You look behind him and see a collection of items arrayed on a filthy carpet:

When attempting to trade without selecting an item:

The Hermit looks at you with a confused gleam in his eye.

When attempting to trade for a non-numerical amount:

That doesn't make any sense.

When making a trade:

You make a trade with the Hermit.

When attempting to trade for more ten-leaf clovers than your daily allotment:

The Hermit looks at you with a sorrowful gleam in his eye. From this, somehow, you are able to infer that he doesn't have enough clovers to make that trade.

Notes

• One hermit permit is required for ALL trades, and is not consumed.
• The figurine of an ancient seal is only available if you are a Seal Clubber.
• It is widely (and falsely) rumored that the hermit can be killed.
• The number of clovers available on a given day does not vary randomly from player to player.
• Those who are under Ronin or hardcore restrictions may have fewer clovers available than those who are not, depending upon how many ascensions they have gone through. 1-5 ascensions will have the same number of clovers. 6-10 ascensions will have 1 fewer clovers. 11 or more ascensions will have 2 fewer clovers.
• Using a hermit script will increase the daily allotment of clovers by 1.
• On St. Sneaky Pete's Day, the hermit will always have 5 clovers available (or 6, if the hermit script is used). Characters in ronin or hardcore will see fewer clovers, as above, but this still means they will have one more clover available than is possible on any other day.

References

• A hermitage is, appropriately enough, the cell of a hermit.
• The hermit doesn't talk unless hacked with the script. This may be a reference to the hermit in Monty Python's Life of Brian.
• The Dependence Day description suggests that the hermit may, in fact, be Frank Vivala. This seems unlikely, though, since Vivala lived back in the time of Ralph III and we're currently up to Ralph XI. Frank Vivala also appears as a famous dead guy in Play Cards With Famous Dead Guys.

History

• Used to give fermenting powder. The August 17, 2004 announcement changed this.
• The Hermit used to trade for fortune cookies as well, but they were moved to The Market on September 26, 2006.
• Before April 20, 2010, the hermit had the jabañero pepper and the petrified noodles in the wrong order.
• On May 1, 2012, the hermit no longer stocked sweet rims, increased the clovers available by 1, and no longer consumed hermit permits when trading.