"I'm told he was a disposable idiot and that's why he had permission to try it!"

"Well, there you go, then. Behind almost every mystery there's a selection effect."

Cam giggles. "Time to collect our poll answers and hike to the next one?"

"Yes, let's."

Onward!

Does this court like... mini pies? And the nacho cheese genre of snackfood? And yogurt covered raisins? And olives? And little mini salamis and pepperonis and such?

Yep, and yep and yep and yep and yep and yep.

Bribing people to adopt new social technology is fun!!!

He's sort of uniquely suited to it.

By the later courts word of them has spread and everyone has already gotten a garbled explanation and the real explanation is very well attended.

Oh, what kind of garbling is going on? He probably can't visit every court personally so it's important to know what needs to be emphasized or clarified in the first instance.

People are confused about what he is and when the certificates can be exchanged with him for double their face value and whether you need specific physical materials to make them and what they need to say to be valid.

He will go over all these facts! (He is an apsel. Dawn on the fourth of each month according to the Julian calendar but updating in the event that the human Pope should ever decide to change calendars. In principle anything you can stamp or write the correct affidavit of surplus on but he recommends paper yea big. This phrasing is standard.)

People will crowd him with certificates, asking for goodies.

SUSHI TIME! Also herby meatballs and cheddar biscuits and various dumplings and Christmas cookies.

Wow he's amazing.

He appreciates their regard and their food-motivated interest in his economic reform project!

One of the courts has a baby! The baby is not yet sped up but he can see it if he wants. 

He would like to have a look! Is it safe to touch them while they're still slow or no? May he watch them give the baby dew?

You can touch slow things but they all feel like stone because of being slow. If he wants to stay that long he can watch them give the baby dew.

How long is that long? How often do they feed it?

When it's awake but it's not right now and it's hard to predict when it will be.

How do you even get dew into a slow baby?

There's a little mechanism you can set up around its mouth.

Anyone know when that was invented or what people did before?

You can basically make do with a dew-soaked cloth.

That doesn't ever suffocate the kid?