Well this random person thinks that's cool.

"Delighted you think so. Which way?"

He can point them!

The hotel has a couple of front desk people even at this hour, who do their best to conceal any surprise at the state of their potential guests.

"Hey, I've lost my wallet," it's in another dimension, "is there any chance we could get a room with collateral or something while I sort that out?"

"I don't think -" "What sort of collateral?" interrupts another staff member.

"All I have is what's on me, but, uh, this one isn't loaded?" She indicates a rifle.

"...Those are real?"

"It's a really really long story."

".... You know what I have a license and they look neat, I'll buy some of them off you if you'd like."

"The one I just offered to put up as collateral cost me $2,800 in American dollars."

He is going to try to haggle her down, but if she insists at sticking near that price he's eventually willing to except it as collateral instead.

She bought it new, which it no longer is, and doubts he'll be able to get ammo for it in this universe economy? area? prevailing legal regime? so she'll go down a fair bit.

They can make a deal then. Do they want to spend their money on a single or a double or two separate rooms or what?

Is a room with one bed large enough to share discounted significantly relative to a room with two beds?

It's about 50% cheaper - this hotel doesn't do smaller than queen sized beds.

"Is sharing okay with you?"

"Yep."

Then they will get a single.

There room is on the 20th floor, and for some reason this means they end up in a small room with a bunch of buttons on their way there.

"What is this-oh." the elevator starts accelerating upwards.

Lianelle bounces experimentally.

"That's really cool."

"- the elevator? Yeah, elevators are neat. Most efficient form of public transportation, I read once, though I haven't fact checked that."

"It changed how much I weigh! Or well, it did for a bit. It would be neater if it kept doing that."

"Perhaps what you really want is to go to space. There you would weigh nothing."

"People can do that?"

"I'm not sure what the state of the art is on this planet but on mine occasionally, yeah. ...returning to more immediate concerns, when does the tournament start? How many people are in it?"