one of the old conduit rivals inspired me to write this
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The first ocean spot she tries doesn't seem to offer a connection to the city. When she tries to go back to where she was last time, she gets to somewhere she could reach the city from, but the ocean doesn't look at all the same.

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It's an ocean, they're not supposed to be completely static. Time to visit the city!

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The first thing she notices when she arrives is that she's still in water. Namely, she's in a canal, with some kind of vivid algae bloom and an octopus bumping into her leg. There's a barge approaching.

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She would like to get out of the way of the barge!

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She can climb up the canal side and over a railing and onto a sidewalk but she's going to need to avoid a skateboarder on the railing.

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Now she is on the sidewalk and this tricycle cart will politely navigate around her. She can't read the label on it but there are some cooked fish pictures. Also, the driver appears to be a rough stone statue who can somehow pedal.

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This is a very exciting city and the multiverse is a very big place.

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She can take more of it in in the absence of a barge. The canals stretch throughout the city, with elevated rails above many of them. Massive skyscrapers stretch towards the heavens. Flashing neon signs label shops in a script she can't read. Spare surfaces are plastered with logos and graffiti tags, sometimes layered enough that it's hard to guess their original colors.

All of the locals seem like stone or metal statues, or perhaps a child's idea of a robot unhindered by constraints like balance or flexibility or power supplies. Some of them wear suits, but there's no real evidence that a swimsuit is going to stand out much, at least for a human.

It's not, actually, incredibly loud. The stores don't seem to be playing music and the trains are quiet as trains go. She can overhear vague conversational snippets that suggest people here speak English.

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Well, that's convenient. She'll pop back home and get changed.

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The city is just how she left it, aside from how she'll need to dodge this electric scooter that has a bundle of balloons tied to the handlebars.

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She can dodge the scooter but is going to be hit with the balloons. It's fine.

Can she buy electronics? A generator and fuel? Armor? Weapons?

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There are a lot of businesses around here. Would she like body painting? Fried calamari? Rooftop garden tickets? Sharp suits? Safety gear? Lightbulbs?

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Safety gear and lightbulbs look promising. She'll head into the electronics shop, the safety gear she saw on display seems to fit an inhumanly skinny frame and she's not sure how representative that is.

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There's batteries and lightbulbs and resistors and music players and all kinds of things!

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She'll take some promising-looking batteries to the counter and ask if they're rechargeable and whether they sell generators or know where to buy gasoline for them.

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This is a reputable business and we would never sell generators like that. Leave and don't come back.

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Sorry, we can't hear you over the sound of us trespassing you.

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Well, all right, she'll investigate the safety gear situation. Maybe there is something in her size.

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There's a pretty solid selection.

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She will try things on and take some to the counter.

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Great!

The price is in bytes.

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She didn't think this through, did she.

Do they take US Dollars?

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"This is an interesting art collection but we don't actually take payment in art."

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