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Andi is annoyed by all this not having alts she's doing. Bella comes in singlet, so maybe she does too. They should look. C'monnnn. It's not, like, urgent or anything, but she thinks she is pretty neat and there should be more of her.
Eclipse peals
"...something wrong?"
"...we use money here, it's just flat Elves who don't bother - go on, though, it's fine -"
"Flat Elves -"
Handwave. "You're magic and stuff? And have yet to invent currency. Like I said, go on, it's fine -"
"I'll pay you, I just don't know your money or how to acquire it -"
eclipsi
"...uh..." Isabella looks something up. "Okay cool I'm allowed to use Cam's money, question is how do I actually get at it -"
"...most people have it on their chip, then you can just mentally transfer for purchases? Humans and Dwarves either carry a chip or get a little implanted one in their fingertip - I don't know what Cam does - I'm sure the prince Nelyafinwë would help you out -"
like-the-colors-in-autumn
And will pop over. "Hey! Oh -" he tilts his head slightly and the vendor relaxes, ice cream paid for. "Welcome to Ambaróna."
eclipsi
"Thanks. Sorry about that, should've figured that Elf Communism does actually get intractable at this population size..."
like-the-colors-in-autumn
"Yeah, I haven't the faintest idea how everyone else handles their allocation problems - well, Vanda Nossëo has little signs on everything saying what it'll go to if you don't use it, so you can decide if you're a better use of it than that thing, but honestly I think even Elves would feel uncomfortable making allocation decisions that way if they weren't shellshocked by the horrible state of most places in the multiverse. We do money. Most unchipped people get a thing for it in their finger, you can also just tell people to charge it to me."
like-the-colors-in-autumn
"They might want to check with Cam? - most people here don't know about alts because we don't have a better plan than 'information security' for keeping the multiverse from demons -"
like-the-colors-in-autumn
"Please don't worry about it. Uh - I'm guessing offering a tour would be counterproductive, but care to pick up a guide book? There are a lot of cities like this - though my word isn't good for credit in all of them - and we've got three colony planets."
like-the-colors-in-autumn
"My favorite kinds of unfathomable power are the kinds you can trade for cookies."
(The Space Maitimo blinks.)
"Colony planets! And the other Noldorin kingdom, and these three Dwarven cities and these two Orcish ones -"