BARGHEST

[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. ]

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YEAR 1

[soulping]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[soulping]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

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

LUXURIES: NO RECOMMENDATIONS

Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Tobacco (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Smooshables (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Automobiles (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Foodguns (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - COAL MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 1825 MONIES.

Will you pay taxes this year?

[fulgury]

[ mentally calculating the cost of everything in his head ]

... that's not nearly enough for...

[wingtamed]

. . this's why I got my nap in first.

[fulgury]

I suppose the obvious question would be how much taxes are...

But with so little money.....

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[clocksandroses]

. . . This is the worst time not to have my math skill back!

[criticalbark]

...That's probably the point.

[fulgury]

[ baby's first trauma game be gentle ]

....rrrrm.

BUDGET TURN-IN

[soulping]

[clocksandroses]

We can make do . . . um, probably!

[wingtamed]

We can cut down housing, maybe.

Food an' medicine's important, right?

[wingtamed]

We don't have enough for the bare minimum. No matter what we do we're screwed.

[fulgury]

True... I imagine that if we do not pay taxes, though, that may put us at a disadvantage. Isn't that normally a crime?

[clocksandroses]

It says recommendations, right? Doesn't that mean that we can spend a little less on some things?

[wingtamed]

I 'unno.

[wingtamed]

Do you wanna starve? Do you wanna get sick? Do you wanna walk 'round with clothes full of holes an' fallin' apart at the seems? Or live outside where there's probably wild dragons an' stuff?

'cause if we don't pay the bare minimum, 's probably gonna happen.

[clocksandroses]

If we don't have enough for the minimum, we don't have a choice but to risk those things happening.

All we can do for now is decide which of those categories is most important to us.

[fulgury]

So maybe... 600 for housing, that leaves us 1225 to divvy up. 250 for clothes, 150 for medicine, 800 for food, and the rest for taxes?

[ maths is hard ]

[wingtamed]

Guess so.

[clocksandroses]

So . . . What's important to you?

[wingtamed]

'kay.

[fulgury]

Thought it would probably be wise to consult with the others first.

[ scratching at his cheek, looking around ]

... what is a "foodgun"?

[wingtamed]

I don't care, s'long as no one's dying.

[wingtamed]

[ sshrugs. ]

A thing that shoots food?

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[knighttolast]

In total the bare minimum of getting all the utilities will leave us in the negatives. We'd need 2400 monies in order to be able to live with even just the basics.

You're Aoko, right?