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[arclightning]

It's complicated. Antlers had some weird power back in the dream to keep you safe, and they still work like that here. If you ever find one, keep it, mount it in your house.

One shiny rock. Should be three at least.

[dialscientist]

I will keep that in mind. Explains some of the decorating I've seen. I thought people were just really into hunting.

How big is the one shiny rock? Is there a size guide? Is it a gem or just tumbled? If you roll a rock around enough it will get shiny just because. Feels like forged currency.

[arclightning]

That's the problem. There's no way to standardize it and people don't necessarily have to give us a rock. We'll take feathers or alcohol. That conversion chart I made doesn't cover enough.

[dialscientist]

No, this can be standardized. I was going to study finance before everything with Ryan happened. Maybe I can help.

[Not that he ever actually did but. That kind of like credibility, right?]

We should make a spreadsheet for what you accept and what the guidelines of those items have to be. If an item doesn't have enough attributes for what you think is acceptable then it's no good in your place.

But you have to find a balance for the best value proposition so people still come and don't feel like they're being ripped off.

For example, alcohol.
1) How much is acceptable as entry in your opinion? 100ml? 500ml? 1L?
1.a) How does a patron give this amount? Do they pour some out for you or does it have to be in a sealed container?
2) What types are accepted?
3) Are you accepting alcohol in order to sell it at the bar?
3.a) Does it have to be a well known brand or can it be home brewed?
3.b) If it's home brewed what safety measures have been put in place to ensure that it is safe to resell to the public?

[arclightning]

[ Min you are speaking his language. Mako stares at this extremely detailed text for a solid 15 minutes of pure silence, wondering at it—is this the kind of thing he'd have been able to learn in school? Is this what a finance education does, gives you the ability to ask these kinds of questions in such a neat and orderly way?

He's never... wanted something so much in his life, suddenly, as to know more. ]

Do you want to talk about this more when you bring Ryan over? This is useful. Really useful.

[dialscientist]

[Mako is taking forever to reply. Crap, did he mess up here? Did he over step? Mako is super smart he probably has all this laid out and it's not at all what he meant. He's probably laughing and trying to find a nice way to say no, I've already got that, that isn't what I meant Min-Gi you're such a dufus!! This is so embarrassing, why did he say anything? He didn't even end up going to college! He didn't study finance, he just did some research and wrote a few essays, why did he even suggest he knew anything?! Dumb dumb dumb why are you so stupid dude--

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Oh. Mako does reply. And it's.. huh. Yeah. Okay. False alarm then? Unless now it looks like he's some kind of expert and he really has to know something now. But also he took accounting and economics in high school, handled their finances on the road, and he did offer to help so.. maybe he can do this?]

Is it? I mean, yeah if that made any sense.

[Sound hopeful. Maybe take a page out of Ryan's book. Be brave here the way he was learning to be brave back home.]

We'll figure it out together :)

[arclightning]

I appreciate it. That's the only way to get anything done around here.

Let us know when you two want to come over. Any night but performance nights are good.

[dialscientist]

How's tomorrow?

[Ryan seems to be getting worse and worse so sooner is better than later.]

[arclightning]

Works for us. Bring any old vegetables you have lying around. Wu got a firepot.

[ Hot-pot, is what that means. Thanks, Avatar world. ]

[dialscientist]

[Fire.. hm. Yeah. He will. Just. Wait and see what that means tomorrow.]

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