And Cam would like to talk to Ashelin or Ashelin's transition team or whatever.

Torn, formerly the Underground's second-in-command, is sort of working for Ashelin at this point and is available to talk to Cam.

"Hi! I think the Ministry of Extreme Labor should cease to exist, what do you think?"

"I'm too official these days, I'm not allowed to say someone should burn their headquarters down and lose all their records. Why?"

"I went to visit it and check if it was doing anything important and I don't think it really is. I'm going to build the lurkers their own city."

"How long do we have until we lose a double-digit percent of our labor force?"

"Depends how long they take to get back to me about city specs and how many want to go right away. What labor are they mostly doing?"

"I'm not sure. I think mining and farming. I can find someone who'd know more and get back to you."

"What do you currently have in the way of automation in those sectors?"

"We have drills and things for mining - I don't know much, I was never assigned to a mine. I've seen farms, Samos would know more but they've got sprinklers on timers and threshing machines. We have designs for other things that take too much eco to be worth running, maybe you can make them electric."

"I probably can! I will put looking up equipment you might want for those things on my list. Also I can in the short term make food and whatever it is y'all mine for, but you don't want to be relying on that indefinitely, I bet."

"We mine a lot of eco but dumping a lot of iron on the ministry might help. - Also, they're not the only sl... 'forced labor' business in town. They're just the biggest and the most subsidized. So you know."

"Oh boy. Do you need anything from me to take apart the rest of 'em?"

"Electricity might do it by itself but not very fast. If you're waiting for the city government we're busy with security, road maintenance, urban modernization, public education, restructuring the KG, and transitioning back to a peacetime government structure." He ticks these off on his fingers. "In that order."

"Most of those are not my comparative advantage. You'll let me know if you need any material objects, right? And when it's time to put in an electrified neighborhood and generators and stuff?"

"Yeah. We're almost ready to go on that - Ashelin's hoping to get everyone out of the condemned section without a fight, for that we need that hotel Samos wanted, but before we can put that in we need to clear space in the city or put up a force field in the wasteland somewhere. Should have that sorted out in the next couple days. But if you ran around in the mean time making better bridges for the rest of the slums I wouldn't complain."

"Do you need specifically a force field? I sold the lady at Extreme Labor on an electric fence dome."

"...I wouldn't trust it if we didn't have a truce with the metal heads but maybe it'll do. If you put one up around a nice hotel near the beach right now people will complain that you didn't wait for their go-ahead but I think we can move faster that way."

"I can go put a hotel near the beach if there's a clear plot, sure. Who should have a key to open the fencing door?"

"Me. Ashelin. Samos. Can you arrange it so anyone inside can open it to get out?"

"Yes, that's standard." Keys.

"...We're gonna need something completely different for keeping people out of places they're not supposed to be, aren't we."

"Only if the people you want to keep out are demons. And that's harder than not giving us keys."

"Know of any way to do it?"

"...obscurity plus not having any demons who really, really want to get into your place around. And bindings, when you're summoning more. I'm not going to, like, casually commit home invasion, here."