Dust, dust everywhere, and new conspiracies

After the last bit we took the advice of Bamidele and stayed in line of sight of him to wait for the mysterious seller and to await for the sign of messing with his hat twice, on seeing it we approached from different angles, I was the furthest away trying to get in a position to prevent the seller running away after being spoken with when Ruin in typical fashion walked up to to the seller, I was starting to approach when they proceeded to toss their bag of dust into the air covering a large swath of the surrounding area, and Illiara cast something likely in attempt to stop them but mainly blinded those around, to the point that poor Ruin even fell unconscious.
 
I tried to help get everyone back in action with some prestidigitation to clean up some of the dust on everything, and after waking up Ruin and helping Bamidele we proceeded to chase after the mysterious seller, dodging and weaving, Ruin and Cualli chasing behind the seller while Illiara and I went down a side street to try and head them off, after long chase aside we were able to the seller tied up with a combination of clothes lines, tackles, and magical entanglements.
 
After bringing them to a more secluded spot and talking with them, we found out some secretive group had gotten them to sell the magically altered substance, possibly frogs? Not sure what they would be like, Tanuki now they know how to have a good time, but frogs seem a bit more reclusive, especially these ones from the sound.
 
Either way they agreed to give more information on them if we were able to get them to safety, so it was decided to get them on a boat, after getting there we met a friendly face, and after some discussion, they are going to take the seller with them, possibly to be a pirate? Not really sure, but either way away from here, and they gave us the information promised before they left.