The elderly stripper trades his unusable lance for the sapient nickel sock Spunky Jefferson and immediately bonds with it.
Dong insists on dragging a huge lance because it is the only familiar weapon he can find. He once wielded it while riding Corcunda, a half-mantaur stage partner, but on foot it is dangerously impractical.
Katia persuades him to seek an alternative, and Dong asks for a one-handed flail. Carl offers Spunky Jefferson, a bloodied sock filled with nickels that functions like a flexible club.
Dong reverently calls it mythical, inventories his lance, and begins a private conversation with Jefferson about his career, earnings, and mutual funds.
An elderly performer swinging a crusty striped sock full of coins while an oversized lance vanishes into inventory.
Dong becomes wielder of the group's strange incremental-damage sapient weapon.