Neopia's economy runs on a little thing called supply and demand. This is what makes paintbrushes and such so expensive, not that your fellow Neopians are "greedy little bullies". TNT only releases a certain amount of an item, but the price is determined by us. Let's take an Island Paint Brush for our purposes. The only way to get one of these is through random events, or, if you're lucky, freebies. So, there aren't that many. Let's just use the fictional number of "100". Now, all those Island pets are quite pretty. So you want one. So does your best friend. And your guild. And a large part of Neopia...
Detective Desmond and the Missing Diamond On the door, in bright blue letters, were the initials "P.I." and a magnifying glass. As you might be speculating, this is the home of Bori detective, Desmond...
How A Pirate Blumaroo Found Her Greatest Treasure She had even sold the gold earring she had gotten after being painted with a Pirate Paint Brush for a profit. Yes, she was quite ambitious, this Blumaroo of ours...
Grundos Café: An Eater's Guide on Out of This World Food As one might have realized by now, Grundos Café doesn't exactly have the type of food you'd find in the Food Shop. In fact, this food is quite literally out of this world...
The Zap that Changed it All: Part One He had spotted something caught on a nearby bush, blowing and fluttering in the breeze. He pulled it quickly from the leaves and let his eyes run over it. He recognized it immediately as a piece of the secret laboratory map...