"No, but I have this." He pats his sidearm.

Huh, fancy. He can be with Luis and Consuela and Aspex on the east side, the adventurers they were hanging with left town.

He goes with Luis and Consuela and Aspex and stands at the ready.

Fourteen-legged acid-breathing horned thing bulldozes through the forcefield!

Oh yikes that's big. Zap zap.

One of his new companions, who is shooting a longbow, whistles. "Where'd you buy that? How much is it?"

Another one fireballs the creature, which rears up angrily on the back four legs.

"Didn't buy it -" ZAP. "- issued in the Ibyabekan military."

" - and they don't sell them? Damn, that's a brilliant way to get your adventurers to stick out a term." He lifts the creature about a foot off the ground; its many feet scrabble for purchase.

"Things on Ibyabek aren't sold." Zap zap. "We've advanced beyond the need for money."

" - what, do you not have magic item shops?"

"No." How many zaps does this thing require?? He's going to run out of charge before bedtime at this rate.

It stops moving a couple of zaps later; Luis charges in and decapitates it and then they can move on. "That sucks," says the wizard sympathetically. "I assume you're allowed to keep things you bought elsewhere?"

"It's never come up, this is my first time on another planet."

" - it's on another planet?" The wizard whistles, and then fireballs a flying worm thing. "Do they do trade with other worlds, could Cheliax buy those?"

"There's some trade, yes, but I have no idea where this is relative to Ibyatok." Is the worm thing dead or should he help.

Worm thing is shot in the eye, falls out of the sky, and splatters. "What gods do they worship in Ibyatok?"

"We don't." Why are these people so obsessed with gods? Were old-timey people normally this obsessed with gods and old-timey movies just don't mention it because it would be distracting?

"What, none of them? No money and no gods...what do you do all day."

"I am in the military and serve on a spaceship. I'm not actually sure how I got here."

"Sure, but off shift."

"People - sing and chat and play games and watch movies - you probably don't have movies - how does having money and gods occupy your time off shift?"

"Uh, you can go out drinking, or hire a girl, or read an adventure novel, and you're supposed to attend religious services and festivals and so on."

"We have novels and occasionally festivals but not religious festivals. I have seen people drink occasionally but it's not a popular vice. Respectable men get married."

"One of those places, huh. I guess if it suits you."

They talk only occasionally as they fight demons; they complain about the demons, the weather, their coworkers, the paladin orders, the food. They make plans for how they'll spend their money on leave; nice furniture, slaves, merchant ventures, magic items, in one case a line of racehorses.

It continues to be repulsive that people have slaves.

Kyeo uses up the charges in his gun and retreats to the barracks.