"I don't feel all that magical."

"And I don't know why you would be anyway? You seem to be functioning just like the other people I met, it's not something about this whole world or something." He shrugs. "Is there anything you need me to conjure, then, because I can probably do it – kinda slowly – if I know what I'm conjuring."

So he instructs Theo on what kinds of things he could conjure that would help. Some them are too complex.

Theo can conjure things like drugs just fine, though, so long he's familiar with them! Electronics, unfortunately not. He doesn't have a good enough handle on the intricacies to be able to do it.

Ooh okay yes he can help a lot will he be wanting payment?

It would be appreciated but he's at least willing to do it for cheap.

Cheap works, they can definitely pay him cheap for this motherlode he's dropping on them.

How long do they want him doing this for? Will he run out of stuff to do pretty shortly or will he have to stop them early?

...they're not gonna ask him to stop providing them with medicine, markets be damned.

He'd rather do a variety to keep them stocked for a while, instead of just flooding them with just one type, if possible. But he's not going to be providing them with super huge quantities because he's relatively – in comparison to a demon – limited in how quickly he can produce the stuff and also he has other things to do.

But they can get quite a lot.

Quite a lot is about as much as they want, yes.

Then he will ask for payment and leave.

They will pay him and wave and be very very happy.

He waves back. Such polite people, didn't even collectively try to shoot him with their totally understandable automated fiend defenses.

It should be approximately morning by now! Are there any markets? Any technology around that he might possibly be able to buy with his new money?

He's not sure how expensive drugs are here. He hopes he has enough for some things, and he supposes he can always trade for more if he needs it.

It turns out things are actually very cheap in Zanarkand, generally. The words "post scarcity" might come to mind: people work on developing things and doing art and keeping society running and most menial jobs are automated.

Oh, that's neat! Sort of. Extremely jarring with how the rest of the place is.

He'd like some technology, please, probably. What do they have, anything interesting?

They don't exactly have a list of what needs or wants someone who isn't from a basically post-scarce machina city/country might have.

… Do they have anything on display, though? He's not super sure what tech level they're from and he's assuming they don't have weapons, but do they have general purpose computing or perhaps defenses of some kind or – even phones, like, they lacked, totally, long-distance communication. Walkie-talkies more like, since, lack of cell towers, but still.

...of course they have weapons, what kind of barbarians does he think they are?

They have computers of a sort, perhaps not as advanced as those Theo is used to, but they also have pretty good AI. And yes, they have phones, what in Zanarkand are cell phone towers and why would you need them to call people?

Cell phone towers are used for if your phones have to be able to function over rather long distances, but they apparently don't have these here. The pretty good AI sounds interesting, and he's curious what the range is on the phones if they have tested that, and also– never mind, he was sort of assuming weird things, can he buy weapons or does he need some sort of permit?

Just what kind of—whatever. Yes, he does need a permit. And their phones work pretty well from anywhere in Zanarkand to anywhere else.

He's assuming that's to mean they haven't probed the actual boundaries, they've just ensured they work well enough for their purposes. Which works, that's fine.

Okay, well, he'd like a couple of phones – maybe a few if they're not too bulky – and a computer with the good AI if he can get all that with his money. Then if they could direct him to where he could get a permit or information for what he needs for a permit, that'd be wonderful.

Phones are pretty and small and thin and Aesthetic and available. He is going to need to be more specific about what kind of AI he wants, it's not like they've cracked general intelligence yet. As for the permit, he needs to go to this building and file a request.

He doesn't know what sorts of AI there is available. Any that are good at predicting attack patterns or projectile movements or… something?

Kinda to the first, yes to the second.