14:18:10 Chrono|GM: The Humane Republic of The Quay is a new settlement, rife with turmoil. Was a tiny province in a tiny empire all held together by this one cape from Florida, unlimited self-duplication or something. Well, someone figured out how to off him, so he got offed, half of the provinces went to wasteland without someone to take care of the people living th
14:18:10 Chrono|GM: ere, half of 'em banded up and settled somewhere else, and a few smatterings decided they could make it if they stayed where they are. They're not a terribly welcoming group, and god help you if they catch wind you've got powers, but they buy up water like nobody's business. Well, your business. It is, after all, what you do. >>
14:20:21 Firlz|Rump: ((no response))
14:23:11 Chrono|GM: The first time you passed through, heading for a slightly more mercantile city closer to where Florida was, you noticed how insular it was. Since then you've noticed its opened up slightly, some shops catering to outsiders, a handful of rooms to spend the night, if you know who to ask. The weeds grow thick through some places in the shattered concr
14:23:11 Chrono|GM: ete that ranges from a what was fine dust to piles of broken buildings taller than anything else standing, around here. >>
14:24:34 Firlz|Rump: ((narrate on my good friend))
14:26:37 Chrono|GM: A marketplace sits half in the shadow of one such pile, jagged and coarse even after a year or two in the rain, tented pavilions keeping the sun off, grey ash, grit or dust littering anything thats spent too long near the piles. Somewhere near the rubble, in a faded blue-canvas tent, you know, will be an exchanger, who'll swap water and local coina
14:26:37 Chrono|GM: ge for a sly profit, but it beats carrying water through the city for barter. ||
14:29:12 Firlz|Rump: I look for the exchanger, might as well unload the water now before I see about gettting rid of the metals.
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14:33:30 Chrono|GM: The walk through the marketplace is, against most odds, a pleasant affair. The wind is low but decent, a slight overcast takes the edge off the beaming heat, as does the canvas. The tanks take a decent effort, but once they're on the ground, they roll on the bolted-on wheels well enough. A rolling tank in each hand, you set off into the market. >>
14:38:30 Chrono|GM: The winding, stunted pathways are not in the best repair, and jostle your tanks a number of times. Its manageable, but you turn off into dead-ends a few more times than you like to admit. After a few minutes of determined effort, and a few minutes of casual searching, you find a faded grey-blue canvas up against a standing brick wall, closer to the
14:38:31 Chrono|GM: left side than the back. ||
14:40:00 Firlz|Rump: I head inside. (do I know the name of the guy who I'm supposed to trade with here?)||
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14:48:03 Chrono|GM: It takes a moment for your eyes to adjust from the bright outside, but once they have you note the tent is quite decadent, to say the least. Whoever is running the place has a taste for material wealth and demonstrating it. A military rifle in a case, ammunition in rows along the barrel, a stack of fluted plastic barrels holding what seems to be cl
14:48:03 Chrono|GM: ear, clean water, a computer. Artifacts from before the Crunch. The man in question is sitting across the tent, a handful of meters away, writing plaintively away at a solid wooden desk. ||
14:56:34 Firlz|Rump: ...
15:00:13 Firlz|Rump: (how much water is in these tanks?)
15:06:48 Chrono|GM: ((50 liters across two 25L tanks))
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15:11:24 Firlz|Rump: "I got just shy of 50 liters here." I tap on the tanks to get a nice solid sound out of them. Staying quiet and putting the ball in desk-guy's court.||
15:13:16 Chrono|GM: He writes for a moment more, before capping his pen and placing it on the desk. "90 shines for it. 95 if I can have the tanks." ||
15:23:09 Firlz|Rump: I give up on looking like I'm aware of what he's talking about. "Um... Shines?"||
15:24:56 Chrono|GM: "Currency. Cash, around this place. Mined from a deposit in the north, then fabricated by workmen in the south. Valuble." He taps the reflective disk on his desk for a moment. ||
15:25:29 Firlz|Rump: "Used to dealing with dollars, what's the conversion rate?"||
15:32:18 Chrono|GM: "I'll do five shines to two dollars, if you're buying in." ||
15:35:23 Firlz|Rump: ...
15:41:12 Firlz|Rump: "I can do a hundred shines or 40 dollars for the water, I'll be keeping the tanks."||
15:42:06 Chrono|GM: He pauses for a moment. "30, and I keep the tanks."||
15:45:39 Firlz|Rump: Noting that he went DOWN in price from his last bid (90 shines at his stated conversion would be 36 dollars) "If haggling is an insult, then I'll just have to go elsewhere. I can do enough math do know when someone lowers their bid entirely."||
15:47:11 Chrono|GM: "Allowable, take your business elsewhere." He gestures for the door. ||
15:47:50 Firlz|Rump: I leave, I guess it's time to find some people to barter with. I'll head to whatever looks like the market area and see what people are offering.||
15:48:48 Chrono|GM: The marketplace is teeming with trade, stalls with fruit, stalls with ammunition, stalls with knives and axes, one stall is selling small animals, even. >>
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15:49:53 Firlz|Rump: I make some mental notes on what people are charging, to see if the 2-5 ratio the water trader stated is actually accurate
15:50:21 Firlz|Rump: and also what the local prices for various things looks like- if I can trade water high here for something that is in overabundance to bring back I can make extra profit on the way back
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15:55:04 Chrono|GM: You note that almost everyone is exchanging shines, not a dingy dollar in sight, but the stalls along the edges of the pavilion are cleaner, and generally nicer. Twice now, though, you've seen a shadier type meander into the guts of the area, heading into the tighter passages in the interior.  ||
15:55:35 Chrono|GM: -||
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15:58:44 Chrono|GM: The most common things you're seeing are metal bars, salt dust and chunks of concrete shaped back into regular blocks. ||
15:59:31 Firlz|Rump: ((any items I can use as a yardstick? Whose price back home I happen to just know offhand in dollars?
15:59:32 Firlz|Rump: ))
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16:27:45 Firlz|Rump: ((is salt back where my home is at the "normal" price, or is that along the coast too?))
16:29:00 Chrono|GM: ((Its a bit inland, so the cost is about 10~25% higher))
16:30:19 Firlz|Rump: ((perfect. That's a solid return))
16:30:44 Firlz|Rump: ((and the metals are how much lower here than I would expect? Also how is the ammunition relative to normal?))
16:32:37 Chrono|GM: ((Metal everywhere is pretty cheap; but a pain to move. Ammunition is a bit high.))
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16:41:34 Firlz|Rump: ((how much is gunpowder going for relative to normal?))
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16:42:41 Chrono|GM: ((noticeably more, but not an unusual increase. Probably a regional demand for it))
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16:44:32 Firlz|Rump: I go around to the various people selling salt and try and trade at present-market value between them as much as possible. ((I will reassess once I've gotten a bunch of salt))||
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16:50:28 Chrono|GM: You end up with two empty tanks and a block of salt wrapped in canvas and tied with twine, got a decent deal for it, all in all. ||
16:52:11 Firlz|Rump: Metal is better off stored at home until I can find a use for it, so with my main goods traded off there isn't really any reason to  stay in town other than to get a feel for current events.
16:53:39 Firlz|Rump: I walk around a while mentally cataloging the prices of various products to remember for later, while listening for any interesting tidbits like raider attacks or other current events. You never know what you can deduce on market prices from actual goings-on.||
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17:01:28 Chrono|GM: You pick up on a few people talking about an attack further north, and a caravan that vanished in the east. Not too much of note, though. Trade-caravan is coming through tomorrow, though, bi-monthly cycle or somesuch.
17:01:29 Chrono|GM: ||
17:03:41 Firlz|Rump: ((I arrived and then started selling stuff right? There was no break for sleep or anything?))
17:04:32 Chrono|GM: ((Mnhmn, its not quite dark yet, but the drive took a long bit of the day))