Lucien is going to stay quiet over here being embarrassed about everything.

"I don't like to impose but it really does make the most sense with an esper partnership and we're very unusually compatible as those go, it's not normal to be able to tell at a distance at all, usually people shake hands."

"Well, we're glad you two found each other."

Nod.

With that concluded Arthur wants to know about the study of dungeon economics in her world.

Oh, sure, she can't look anything up right now so a lot of her claims are going to be fuzzy but she can at least give an outline.

That's good enough for Arthur! He has questions that are maybe too specific and can move on to finding out what her hobbies are once that's become clear.

Oh, she mostly likes to read, though she's always also been interested in dungeons and espers and may find herself something of a workaholic if she's coordinating dungeon response for a city and trying to be a model for the whole world.

How is she planning to be a model for the whole world?

"My planet has six decades of dungeon experience and I want it put to use! I can write up what I know but trying it in practice is the only way to test how the approach needs to differ because of capes being involved. - I need a full laptop, I'm going to want a website and Rete can do most of the work for me but I'd like to be able to type posts and stuff."

Lucien has some preliminary thoughts about how to position themselves to get taken seriously by the broadest selection of people! The trick is to balance the presentation of the non-powered operations aspect with the Endbringer truce and cape positioning so as to get taken seriously by both capes and non-capes. 

May would like to know more about the Endbringer truce, how it works and doesn't.

Capes. both villains and heroes, work together and don't take advantage of the Endbringers - on the field or off of it. Anyone breaks it and everyone else teams up against them. It's not universal - Russia and China barely abide by it - but it's enforced in the majority of the world.

How does that play out in Russia and China?

China doesn't show up to outside Endbringer fights or let outsiders help when Endbringers attack them. It has not gone very well for them but they're adamant.

Russia attacked some capes who came to help and the people who ordered that are all dead as well as most of the capes who obeyed those orders. Nowadays Russia plays somewhat nice but everyone is nervous about a possible repeat. 

"Okay, China's deal isn't a huge problem for most dungeons most of the time, they're big enough they should have their own espers in any specialty that other countries wind up importing internationally for - unless they have a smaller population in this world?"

"They're a bit over a billion people but they have fewer capes per capita - the US has a few times and many capes despite being less than half the size."

"Well, that'll reduce their esper rate relative to other countries on this planet, if Tattletale's right, but not relative to my expectations. There's dungeons where only ten people on the planet can handle some aspect of them well but China will have one of those guys to themselves unless they're wildly unlucky. The problem with countries not playing ball is mostly that slacking off on dungeons is expected to harm other people. If Moscow lets one go it's going to come back but probably not in Moscow eating Russians."

"Yeah maybe this could result in a stronger version of the Endbringer truce because of that."

"Would it? What's the incentive for Russia to get its shit together and kill the dungeons if it's inconvenient?"

"Everyone else will be a lot more willing to force them to, is what I meant. Which is maybe not ideal but could change the equilibrium."

"I'd guess that would only partially work?"

"Yeah, I'm concerned this winds up with more wars, which distract everybody from their dungeons."

"Huh, parahumans have so far led to a sharp decrease in large-scale wars - I guess needing to enforce a truce might reverse that?"

"The peace is actually really strange historically speaking - best guess is that it's because there are some heroes like Scion who are pro-peace and not that many villains that are in favor of major wars. There isn't a consensus on why but my theory is that it's because you need to care about geopolitics to be pro-war and you don't need to care about geopolitics to be pro-peace."