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Plane shift can drop you up to five hundred miles from your intended destination.
This time they land in some woods, at sunset, near a remarkably flat and smooth path that looks like a lava flow or something.
osirians
cool-cool-cool
"Can we compensate you for the effort of casting anther one tomorrow, is there anything you guys particularly need - "
known-the-dragon
"Gimme a second - "
She gets a computer and a piece of paper and a scale and looks up the price of gold and asks to weigh their coins and does some math and -
"Twenty one thousand dollars."
cool-cool-cool
"No one makes twenty one thousand dollars a day. Nobody who works for a living, anyway."
known-the-dragon
I know, just checking!
"We can give you five hundred dollars? That's, like, probably at least a week and a half at the inn?"
known-the-dragon
"Okay. We can get you five hundred tomorrow. Still wanna get this conversion working sensibly, though."
"About six. How many dollars for the meal at IHOP? For passage across the world? For treatment for an illness? For a house in a city? For a slave? For one of those cars?"
known-the-dragon
"We paid like seventy bucks for IHOP, sit-down restaurants are kind of pricey. I - don't know how to measure passage across the world but I guess between two hundred and five hundred to fly to China, depending on how you time it? Treatment of an illness depends, some stuff that used to be deadly we can now prevent forever for a couple dollars, and some things we spend hundreds of thousands treating and sometimes the patients still die. House in a city super depends on the city and the house, I think anywhere from, like, a hundred thousand dollars to a million or more? We don't, uh, do slavery, that is not a thing. A new car is like twenty thousand, maybe?"
She starts doing more math on her paper.