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TIAMAT

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a run-down one-room shack, with the distinct feeling that the people around you are your family, if you didn't already have such a bond with them.

You're wearing raggedy versions of your uniform, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in Cathay, on the fifteenth anniversary of the day the company Lupus' Secret Stash led a coup and established their own government. In fact, you can now remember why you came here - to escape the misfortunes of your own country - because this is truly the land of opportunity and freedom. ]

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STATUS:

KAITO is MANGLED.
VETOED is MISSING AN ARM.

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

LUXURIES: Due to more robberies and an epidemic of the plague, luxuries have shot up in price and lost effectiveness.

Alcohol (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Tobacco (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Smooshables (costs 500 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Automobiles (costs 800 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Foodguns (costs 1000 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - SECURITY. YEARLY INCOME - 5475 MONIES.

Will you pay taxes this year?

So now that we can afford luxuries, they're not worth buying at all?

Let's spend... 1500 on housing, 1400 on food, 700 on medicine, 800 on clothing... That's 4400, leaving us with 1075 to save until next year when the price on luxuries goes down?

[his arm and leg are both splinted courtesy of Clover, and he has her cloak tied around his head to cover his ear injury]

[he seems to be thinking normally again, too]

S'fine with me. Though we're assuming the price will go down next year.

... If we want to buy them this year, that's fine, but that's a hell of a price jump and not as much gain... Going 500 over on all of them should mean we don't get any negative events, either...

... Unless we want to put more into food.

[eyeing her]

. . . d'you want to put more on food?

[yes yes yes yes yes we need food we need more food we have to eat we need food now i'm going to go crazy someone give me food]

Would- Would it do any good?

[nods]

Could never hurt. I don't mind putting a bit more money into our food budget. Let's save the rest for next year and buy a bunch of luxuries at the last minute.