Sure, that sounds like a plan.

Do they want her to bring anything in particular with her next time, or anything?

Books are still pretty high value. Would she like physical cash or for Sun to teach her to manage an account?

Physical cash makes more sense for now. She'll leave the book-printer installed in her walker and bring out more crafting-material for it, and she can still print several more books for them today if they'd like - books take more material than miniatures and she'll run into limitations on that sooner or later if she keeps spending this much time away from home, but it'll take a little while at least.

Sun will bring some cash with her after she decamps and returns! Would feedstock help on the materials front?

If they have it in big pieces that'll help some, but she's mostly bottlenecked on crafting time right now. Meat for animal food would also help if that's easy for them, she's sinking a lot of time into making that happen for her household.

Their farms are all set up to produce Amentan-biome meat but it seems likely they're compatible if she wants some of that.

Someone's going to have to try it sooner or later if they want to find out whether it's safe; she'll just take a little to start with and see what the dogs make of it.

All right! Meat samples, big chunks of disposable junk limited by the greys' carrying capacity. If the walkers don't have to be operated magically they might be marketable to Amentans, who mostly use vehicles that are faster but require building reasonably smooth paths.

She can make ones that don't need crafting. The standard method for that is to harness a dog to the vehicle and tell it to follow you, but she can also do physical controls basically any way they like.

Sun can bring along control panel specs from various vehicles to copy!

Sure, seems like a plan - actual control panels would be better than descriptions but she supposes that's harder for them. If they know what kinds of vehicles they're likely to want first she can bring out some minis for them to look at and see what kinds of modifications they might want to make and features they might want to include, too.

Sun can take some minis back to give to relevant purples, sure.

Seems inefficient compared to letting her talk to them directly, but if that's how they prefer to do it. She's not going to make copies of her whole collection for them, though, there's too many.

Purples will tend to have less practice interpreting translated words, and also it's kind of a hike to get out here so not that many people are going to want to till there's at least a bike path. Maybe some will if that seems best though.

In theory she can make an excursion closer to the househive but in practice the logistics don't work while she's having to manage her meat production so carefully. Maybe if their meat works for her animals that'll make sense to do; she can spend a few days away if she has the reserves for it.

Sun hopes the meat works. She hasn't tried local meat herself but some people she knows have and it seems fine for them, so it probably goes the other way too.

Is there anybody else who might want to talk to Amentans?

Some of her neighbors who left are curious about them but none have asked her to pass messages; admittedly she hasn't offered yet. And their old network-host isn't hosting the network while they're on the move, so she can't put out a general announcement about it.

Network? What kind of network?

She's not sure at all of the details of how it works, it's incredibly technically complicated, but one of the things a specialist crafter can make is a network-connection, a little gadget that communicates at a distance with a paired one to send written pages between them; she has some for staying in touch with specific people who left, but generally it works best to just have one to the network-host for your community, who can then make messages available to specific people or everyone else on the network or reply to specially-written messages in simple automated ways. The machinery for doing it is very sensitive, though, so it can't be used in a moving vehicle. Her book printer works on the same principle - her old network-host had a spare connection gadget to a big library somewhere and she got them to leave it with her when they left, that's where it's getting its books from.

Oh, like the internet! Amentans have that and it works in moving vehicles.

Huh, okay. It's never really been that interesting to her, just useful.

It's very useful and a pocket everything will be able to do it, though they don't have planetwide coverage yet. Anything else Sun should know before she goes home for the weekend?

She considers this.

For clarity's sake: They shouldn't bring her any feedstock that will be dangerous to leave sitting out in the weather indefinitely right now, or anything that's dangerous just to be near or that needs really non-obvious special handling; if they want to do that they'll need to discuss it with her first. She'll make a separate section for feedstock that's potentially dangerous for her to handle in a way less obvious or harder to avoid than 'don't touch the blade of this easily noticeable knife'; she'd prefer not to get any of that yet either but as long as she can approach it at her own pace it's fine. She doesn't like smelly things for feedstock but weird textures are fine, she doesn't mind wearing gloves to work in.

She still doesn't know which vehicle minis she should bring next time, if she's going to do that. And presumably they want her to print them some books before they go.

Should the crows give the dogwood stand flock any particular message to pass along about talking to them.

Probably the most readily available nondangerous feedstock to be had right now is various dirt and rocks excavated for the establishment of the city, though if anybody wants to turn more unpleasant waste into not-that there is definitely a market to be had. Sun doesn't know what the range of vehicles is; a wide variety of all-terrain options seems good? And yes, more books would be great, especially if they can print overnight and be ready to go in the morning. The crows can tell people that it is reasonably safe to approach Amentans as long as they don't actually injure them, and failing that they can send messages by crow if they would like to talk about trade or the exchange of knowledge or anything else! Amentans and crows are getting along well so far. The ideal recipients of those kind of messages would be people with blue or green hair and she can get more specific if the crows are likely to understand more precise directions.

Vehicles can come in pretty arbitrary sizes, she has walkers in everything from 'stool with legs' to 'two-adult-two-child house with second-floor aviary' and combination walker/boats in most of that range, plus miscellaneous pure boats, balloon vehicles optionally in combination with walking or boating or both, and small gliders. (They probably don't want the balloon vehicles, those are hard to control usefully even with crafting, but she has them, they're pretty fun if that's your thing.)

She can print them books; she still needs to know what they want.

She'll think about what to best advise the crows to tell people. If they want to set up some sort of mail system the best way to do it will be to put up landmarks they can see from the air and direct them in reference to those; they can find people they've met before but it's harder for them and they don't always handle it well if they get frustrated.