"I am happy to compensate these favors with any material object that I have or the bar can sell."

"Yeah, I'm kind of set for material possessions? It's not that I don't care about that stuff at all, so I'll take some gold or whatever, but it's not a condition here."

"Well, Bar sells otherworldly material possessions."

"Hmm... Like, crazy fancy tech? Your napkin earlier said no magic and no weapons."

"Yeah, like crazy fancy tech or books or whatever."

"I could use some crazy fancy tech. Especially if it comes with books on how to make it. I've got a friend who'll eat that stuff up like crazy."

Bella gestures at the bar.

"So Bar... Any recommendations on where to start? Things useful in the wilderness generally - except not mobility, I've got that covered. Also, environmentally cooperative electricity."

You may need to be more specific about what things you find yourself in need of while about in the wilderness. But she can do nifty little solar panels, or if they don't need to be as portable tidecatchers and burrowing geothermal-differential poles and such.

"I don't really know where to start! The electrical stuff doesn't need to be portable, yeah. Those poles look neat. Indestructible binoculars?"

True indestructibility is the province of magic, but there are many extremely durable options.

"And with fancy tech for really good zoom and stabilization and thermal or UV maybe. And a rangefinder. 'Cause I'm getting the sense that what I consider science fiction might be accessible to you."

The bar offers up a set of binoculars in shiny enameled black casing.

She investigates them excitedly! The controls are clear enough, and the different modes work.

"Do I want to know how much these would have cost if Bella hadn't offered to cover it? ...Yeah, I think I do."

In its local currency, 350 primar. In the particularly dense currency she is spending due to the nature of her counterfeit, 6 century coins. In USD, $400 million.

"Ho-ly... Something. Do you have, like, a technology library? Books on how-to-do-x where x is saltwater purifying, or new cell phones, or medical stuff."

I have every book ever published.

Selene will spend a while browsing and choosing books on offer. 

After an hour or so she selects her choices to be sent to her shiny new Bar sourced laptop and turns to Bella, "If we're going to try to give you our magic I gotta tell you some more stuff. But some of it might be common knowledge to me and I won't even think to say it."

"You could tell me your life story and I will point out when things seem weird."

"Sure. So, I was growing up waay back when the Americans were trying to dig the canal - the Panama Canal, I'm originally from Panama - but they were being hugely wasteful. Blasting though rock, letting runoff go into the ocean, dumping dredging material into streams, that kind of thing. It ticked off the local nature spirits real bad, and nobody from the government really told them boo because they were paying huge amounts of money for the time in taxes."

"You can talk to nature spirits if you want, they just usually don't have much to say. Well, I went and talked to Borbados. Explained what was going on as best I could. Then around the area to talk to more spirits. They said a canal was not completely out of the question, it just had to be done more responsibly. So, Borbados offered me magic if I would spend twenty years in service to the balance of nature near him. And my first job was to talk some sense into the canal guys."

"We don't have nature spirits. Although we do have the Panama Canal. What do nature spirits do?"

"They care about the health of the natural world. They try to maintain it in the way they think is 'right'. Mountain spirits care about the streams flowing and the scrub that grows on slopes, and the foragers that eat it. Ocean spirits care about the currents and fish population. Marsh spirits care about their algae, insects, and pollution a lot more than average. Humans don't feature into this too much, though things like gathering firewood and light, responsible hunting is usually tolerable. Strip mining and slash-and-burn aren't. Human help with stuff like drought and flooding is welcome, though. Their bodies are not completely physical and can appear anywhere in their domain, usually some kind of fanciful creature-like thing. I'm not sure whether they can actually do less varied magic than genies - which is 'just about everything if they feel like it and have the juice' - or they just don't."

"I vaguely remember reading that in some ecosystems slash-and-burn is sustainable. How long have they existed? How do they feel about slow processes like desertification or things like beaver dams?"

"I don't know the origins so it might well be 'always'? At least a couple hundred years. Our history isn't too well documented - feels like monsters go for historical things specifically sometimes, it's very irritating. Beaver dams and so on, depends on the individual spirits a lot. I bet they'd tell beavers to stop expanding after a certain point and kill them if they didn't. I was referring to permanent land clearing with slash-and-burn, though."

"- do you have evolutionary theory -? It seems sort of implausible that you have beavers and also have nature spirits who used to be really attached to pristine vistas teeming with anaerobic bacteria. Do the spirits not answer if you ask how old they are - or is there spirit turnover -"