voice

[outer_npcs]

Ah! These now work as well. Excellent.

Welcome to your new home away from home. I am the first and last person you'll ever need to know. You'll notice we don't have much in the way of material goods but you are in luck. I am the resident trader of the Old City.

Should you need something, we might be able to make a trade.

Comments

[outer_npcs]

Woah, woah, woah... slow down.

Far as I know this thing can do voice, text and video. Wouldn't be surprised if this thing can transmit smell too. We're not gonna check to see if it does.

Most of the metals have been stripped from the mountains. Wouldn't know what they got left around here. That's the kind of thing Nem keeps in the Vault.

[equivalent_trade]

Video...? What's 'video'? This thing doubles as a telegraph, too?

And what's the Vault? Someplace you store all your metals?

[outer_npcs]

This is video.

[he flicks the video feed. well, he thinks he did. oh hey he did awesome.]

Vault of Knowledge. Bunch of books and scraps of paper the kind of stuff Nem goes crazy about. He traded me a basket of fruit for a big stack of yellow paper. [That's complete with a hand gesture for the stack of paper. He obviously thinks he won on that deal.]

[equivalent_trade]

Whoa! How'd you do that?!

[Wait... a big collection of papers? that sounds like...]

You mean a library? Is it free to use?

[He could go through all the records, find out what was going on. YES GOOD]

[outer_npcs]

Right! Yes. That's what they used to be called, wasn't it? You'd have to ask Nem on that one. He doesn't like me going down there.

[equivalent_trade]

Oh, okay.

Well, what kind of stuff do you have? Seems like your city's pretty run-down.

[outer_npcs]

Bit of everything. Got some old tech from before the war. Stuff still works. Ammo, but I don't give that stuff out to just anyone.

Salt. Water purifiers. Fresh game. Fish. Couple of old bicycles. Tools. Like I said, bit of everything.

[equivalent_trade]

Oh, that's okay. I don't really like guns much, anyway.

So what do you need?

[outer_npcs]

Salt. Stuff is like gold around here. Place like this you need a way to keep food.

[equivalent_trade]

Well, how do you get the salt you use? Isn't there a body of water nearby?

[outer_npcs]

We got the bay to the south. Most of what I got I get out of the ocean. Some guys by the shore spend all their time extracting salt. Not the most exciting profession if you ask me.

[equivalent_trade]

So if someone could extract a whole bunch of salt at once, it'd be super valuable, right?

this is beautiful

[outer_npcs]

It would be, as I said. Many things are valuable here.

yesss

[equivalent_trade]

Heh heh heh. Okay, just checking. When I need something, we can work out a deal.