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]

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.