They have spare everythings, and some miscellaneous clothes and accessories, and can pass those out.

The games are good; orange quickly draws blue in too, leaning companionably on her while they work the controls.

Yeah, they want these, she reports after a couple of rounds. How does the power thing work?

Here's a solar generator. It won't let you have the pocket everything on constantly but as long as it's not cloudy you can get a full charge's worth of electricity out of it most days. You plug the everything in like this and leave it there till you want to use it again.

If the generator just needs light they can craft some up, is there more to it than that? Does it help if it's brighter? They can go brighter than sunlight.

Blue proposes getting spares of everything so she can try converting them and maybe figure out how they work.

That'll help on cloudy days and at night! They could get great results out of a solar generator if they keep it going round the clock, though going brighter than sunlight won't help, these aren't designed for that.

That sounds good. Does four everythings and two solar panels and the clothes seem okay for the amount of work they have for them, or too much?

Uh, usually they just denominate everything in money so they don't have to try to compare stuff like that.

...well they don't know anything about their generic-trading-good units, either.

The stuff they want would retail for... this much, and the genecrafting services would certainly go for more than that even in their experimental form, though they'll need to get whoever wants to be experimented on out here.

Okay. They might be interested in some art for blue's niece, too.

If they want originals that's expensive, if they want prints those are cheap. They could use the pocket everythings to browse the options.

...are the copies worse in some way? Anyway sure, give glitterdance a look, blue says, indicating yellow.

The copies are a little worse but a lot cheaper. Here is a pocket everything for glitterdance.

She's quickly fascinated by a cartoony drawing of a fantasy creature: You can do that? Woah.

...do what? That's not a real animal.

No, the - pondcircles, she didn't bring any crafting-material, can she use some of hers -

She crafts a corner of the bench into a tablet and pen and sketches her aunt's garden in a similar simplified style. That, she hadn't realized you could do that.

Oh! Yeah, that's popular, especially for kids' shows and merchandise.

Well, she might want a couple like that, they're neat. (She carefully smooths the tablet material back into the bench.)

She also likes this one photo of Amentan trees changing color in autumn, and this other one of a group of variously colored animals, and then she thinks she's looked at enough art for now.

Nice big prints of those will come to again not very much. Most things Amentans buy are pretty cheap, they don't have magic but they do have mass production.

Well, they aren't too worried about it, if everyone gets what they want out of the trade that's obviously fine.

Cool. Okay, bids are coming in now on experimental spring-milding and anxiety-reduction. They can wait longer for higher bids or just pick people now and go back when they want more money.

It'd make sense to get started in the morning, probably, there's no reason to wait - how many people are going to want genecraftng?

Depends how well the experiments work. Sun recommends taking maybe five people on an experimental basis.

Sure, that's no problem. So whenever it's convenient for them, really; maybe earlier rather than later if they want the group to stick around for a bit in case they change their minds.

Apparently someone from the governor's office is chartering some bidders a helicopter now.