in principle I think you should be able to guess the entire premise from the title
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"How long does it take? Are the planets in fact infinite?"

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"Couple days for the nearest ones in this system? No, longer, because I don't have preexisting course plotting software for this system and would be doing it manually, but not that long. And probably not but I can make those."

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"Huh, I guess death kind of isn't necessary anymore. Possibly Pharasma is changing her plans in light of that, I'm not sure. It still serves the sorting function but in the Boneyard they do still sort people, just differently, so maybe there's another way that works as well for that? I think there are treaties among the gods about these things, they change only if it serves everyone, and it's not worth trying to guess how that'd go - but differently, with apsels."

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"Sorting people seems less a 'function' and more a 'detente'."

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"Maybe. Asmodeus is not planning to let it go on forever."

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"I like his solution even less."

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"This does not surprise me. You've probably slowed him down a bunch, if that cheers you up. Apsels seem extremely..complicating."

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"Oh good." Wag.

Goka approaches. "You want me to land it or do you wanna Feather Fall and fly respectively? I can direct it from the ground."

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"Let's leave it in the air, then. Awkward if someone steals it, and I don't expect there's clear land around Goka the way there is around Absalom."

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"Cool." He tries to find a spot over a building with a likely holy symbol.

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Even if it's the same gods the churches look very different. She gives herself a Tian (male) body and watches anxiously out the window.

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"Ready?" he asks, when the shuttle's parked.

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"Yeah."

 

Goka's streets are more humid than Absalom's, and the nonhumans around are of different varieties, but there's a similar dynamic. 

She will take the poster in. "I'm advertising for test subjects for a magic experiment. Pay's good. Is there somewhere here I can put up the ad?"

       "Price depends on size, duration, affiliation with the church -"

"None. It's this size."

       "Can I pay in spellsilver?"

"Go to a moneychanger." 

         "...okay."

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Cam has a mic recording everything around him for the linguists back home to work on but he can't understand it himself because he doesn't have Tongues on.

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Carissa is not going to ask her demon to counterfeit the local currency because she has become more firmly convinced than ever that Chaos is bad actually. She'll go to the moneychanger and stumble through getting enough money for her ad, and also for her mirrors while she's at it. 

 

 

"Okay. We can come back tomorrow or the next day, see if there are any takers."

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"Okay. Do you want to go back up to the shuttle or bum around the city or what?"

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"Pick up my mirrors. I'll see if they have any good magic items on sale, too, I guess, though if they do and don't take spellsilver we'll have to come back to the moneychangers, I didn't want to ask for a robbery-tempting amount of cash." And muttering, "There aren't muggers in Cheliax," which probably isn't even true but there certainly aren't ones who bother wizards.

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"All right. We can always go back and sell some more spellsilver."

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"We could mix it up and sell something else but I'm much less confused about the effects of spellsilver getting cheap than about the effects of, I don't know, textiles or spices or something getting cheap."

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"If spices get cheap the rich start eating bland food as a weird countersignaling behavior, I've read? And the poor invent curry." He makes himself a samosa to nibble.

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"...I guess that doesn't sound very objectionable. I was more thinking the geopolitical effects. Which might also be unobjectionable, I just don't know much about the spice trade - some places get rich off it - probably diamonds are the thing to go for if we're worried that the spellsilver makes us too identifiable, diamonds being cheaper would also be good."

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"I am happy to distribute any of these commodities. I would be concerned about the diamonds if they weren't relevantly a consumable, that does do weird things to markets, I'd rather not dump a lot of sacks of gold on places. Though it's possible that the world as a whole is too illiquid and a little wouldn't hurt, maybe the church of Abadar has a guess."

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"I'm not going to counterfeit, I like my Law. I guess once we're acting openly we can ask them if they think there should be more gold in the world...I don't see how that would be good or bad, actually - Cheliax uses paper money, backed by Hell -"

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"Paper money actually still works if it's not backed by anything once people are used to the idea! It's cool. Backed by, what, shares of the Hell Corporation, that seems counter to the aesthetic."

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"Backed by damned souls, I think. I don't know in what sense they are backed by damned souls, I'm not sure if, should you accumulate all the money in Cheliax and take it to Hell and ask to buy all the damned souls, they'd have to let you? I guess maybe they would. ....that sounds like the kind of idea you would be into but please let's research it for at least a week, trying to do contracts with devils blind is a great way to have something disastrous happen -"

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