Sasuke summons demon Cam
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"It's Cam. I don't remember if he asked or if it was the snake."

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"Probably the snake."

"So what are we actually doing? And I'm curious why Sasuke-kun is so confident about all this."

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"Well, you may have noticed that I can create arbitrary material objects."

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"How arbitrary is arbitrary?"

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"'Not antimatter'."

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"...What's antimatter?"

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"It's the opposite of matter. If it encounters some matter they can violently annihilate each other. I can't make it. Well, not with magic, there are ways to conventionally manufacture the stuff."

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"That sounds unlikely but I'm not a physicist."

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"I'd offer you a textbook but I don't have machine translation running for this language yet. Anyway, we're going to the Land of Snow to attempt to use the arbitrary material objects and also my being from another world and my consequent technology advantage to do some stuff without getting bogged down in stupid ninja fights, of which there seem to be many."

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"Haven't been there before. I guess they're neutral; why not the Land of Iron, though - "

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"I'd been involved in the Queen's ascension, and also Snow has a better technology base."

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"Huh." To Cam: "I meant it about wanting Uzushio's library. I'm guessing we'll be prevailing on the locals for a building for the books?"

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"A building is a material object. We'll have to talk to them about where it'd be good for us to settle in, but I was planning to offer the books in electronic format. They'll take up a lot less space that way even if I never do get around to inputting fifty thousand ideograms into my font library and all the text has to be images." Up up up they fly.

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"I'm a bit confused how format conversions work - can you get everything by a single author - "

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"Yes I can. I can do format conversion more or less naively, but the electronic formats I'm using don't know how to read your characters. If it were all an alphabet I'd be working on it, but since it's characters it'll take a long time to do manually. I've been taking notes in a syllabary from another language I know with similar enough phonemes."

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"If you can make easier to use computers, Snow should have people who can do data entry."

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"I can do that! I'd want to do some investigating before I give anybody the kind I have in case you people have weird brains but I can do kinds that don't involve that."

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He nods. "I don't know enough about their economy for if we'd approach the Queen or private citizens for that sort of job..."

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"Yeah, I don't wanna just counterfeit their money either, so even if the Queen isn't doing something weird with her labor supply we'll probably have to start by selling some material objects."

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"Command economies are considered an ideal on the southern continent, though they don't work at a large scale in practice. Possibly there'll be some regulations about who can do what, though."

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"You can get away with doing a lot of inefficient things with your economy if you run it on daeva but if you don't have a bunch of us running around command economies do not work particularly well. Hopefully the Queen won't be too obstructive."

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"I think they work decently in very small communities - clans still use them internally - but yes. She didn't strike me as that unreasonable."

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"If the population's small enough they sometimes outperform their drawbacks, yeah." Fly fly fly. "You're gonna have to tell me where to land."

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He points it out on the map; the Land of Snow is fairly big, but their port of entry is here, and the uninhabited ice fields they're less likely to be alarmed by an approach to is over here near the port of entry.

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Cam swoops them over the ice fields and sets down by the port of entry.

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