AMALTHEA

[soulping]

[ 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. ]

Comments

[unguilded]

Maybe we should skip on the clothes and invest the rest in food, in that case. Stocking up for the future might be a better idea than looking nice.

If we need to use the automobile, we'll at least have room to carry the food with us if we need to go somewhere.

[whoslaughingmeow]

Hmm..

We can spend 3850... so..

2400 for the budget..

800 for a car..

that leaves 650...

So how about 1200 for housing, 1100 for food, 300 for medicine, and 400 for clothes?

Then we can buy a car.

And we don't need to skip out of taxes again.

[codecmoment]

That sounds good.

[powerpunch]

Fine with me.

[unguilded]

[ Crossing his arms, and nod nods. ]

That sounds like a good idea to me.

Hopefully the car will actually end up being of use, instead of just something to sit there as a point accumulator.

[unlocksmith]

No car. We don't need it.

[whoslaughingmeow]

We don't know what's going to happen, the spending we're doing on necessities is already removing most risk, so it'd be good if we need to move ourselves quickly.


And we can always sell it later.

[unlocksmith]

On that budget, we're only meeting the bare minimum required for medicine and clothing. The bare minimum isn't enough to keep us safe entirely. What good will a car do us, except to give us a couple of points towards winnin'? I don't care about that-- I care about keepin' you guys safe.

You're talkin' about "utility," but you've seen how this game works. The game isn't gonna give us a chance to put the car's utility to use. It's a waste. A useless item.

Even if we sold it, likely we could only sell it for about half of what we're payin' for it now.

[whoslaughingmeow]

[Heee's realizing he ain't gonna win this, so.]

Well, if we cut the car, how about..

1300 for housing, 1200 for food, 700 for medicine and 600 for clothes?

[unlocksmith]

[WELL SPARK IS OUTNUMBERED, but. . .]

[he nods]

That's better. And we can save the rest, plus what we earned from sellin' the alcohol.

[whoslaughingmeow]

...I don't think saving is a good idea.

Last time it.

Attracted thieves.

[He sort. Looks at his leg. Whoops.]

[unlocksmith]

. . . [oh. well]

Good point.

[unguilded]

Maybe we can ask the Echo if any of the extra things will actually be of use in some way in the game? Not that I want to really speak to her. But knowing that might make things easier.

If we're stocking on food, we'll have an easy way to move it and ourselves if we need to. But that's only if that comes up, do you think she'd be able to tell us whether or not it would just be a buy for the happiness end of things? I can ask her, if that'll help.

[unlocksmith]

She already stated in her rules that luxury items would go to happiness points. There's no point in askin' her anythin' like that, and it would only waste time.

We're better off sinking the funds we'd use on the car into medicine and clothing.

[whoslaughingmeow]

I still think the car could potentially be useful, but I'd also just like to.. reduce something awful happening as much as possible.

[We did starve and freeze.]

[unlocksmith]

Useful how?

[he just doesn't see it, personally, but if someone else does he's not against hearing them out]

[unguilded]

Well, I just meant happiness points on top of it being useful in another way. Since we'd still technically have it to do with as we pleased, whether it's driving it or scrapping it to sell for parts.

For now we can invest in more food or medicine or clothes instead, though, if you really don't think we should. [ Since he's not hypocritical and won't just say DEAL W/ IT after ... what happened to him. ] And when we set up our next budget, I'll ask her so we know, just in case it might actually be useful.

[unlocksmith]

[nods]

Sounds like a better plan to me. Keepin' you guys safe is my top priority.

. . . and I still don't see how it'd be useful, considerin' the situations we've found ourselves in before.

[unguilded]

She said other teams had 'brilliant ideas', but that's not exactly an answer. And it depends on what we think we can do with something like a car.

[ LOOKING THOUGHTFUL. ]

But, a car is like a vanship from my world. They're used to travel and get somewhere else fast, and they have enough room in them to carry a couple of people and supplies. So a car would be good if we ended up in a round where something happened to our house or we needed to move somewhere else quickly.

Even in the case of getting robbed again, a car could keep them away from the food stores and money, in another theoretical situations. That's about all of the use I can think of off the top of my head!