Dinnertime [Open to Conquest]

[pennypincher]

Lemina had had a pretty boring Rest Day. She had slept in and missed the new arrivals, but it didn't look like anyone she knew was there anyway, which was mega-lame. Sooo she didn't really care.

Early in the evening, she headed into the cafeteria for dinner. Once she had some food loaded up on her tray, she looked for a place to sit. Huh. Was that... A bat?

(( She's sitting by Stellaluna for something we have planned, but anyone else can feel free to ambush Lemina on her way to the cafeteria, in the line for food, or whatever. ))

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[vespertinity]

"I think so, if that was in the dream. But I can't get there. My wings haven't worked right since I woke up on the train-nest." It was kind of annoying, really.

[pennypincher]

"You can't fly? Wow, that's rough..."

Aha. Maybe Lemina could pull off a bit of mutual back-scratching here. "I know! I'll carry you there so you can buy it, if you do me a favor too."

[vespertinity]

"That sounds okay. Thanks!" ...wait. "What is a 'buy'?"

[pennypincher]

Lemina sighed, perhaps a bit too dramatically. Oh god. What. How.

"It means, um." If Pip didn't understand buying she wouldn't understand money either -- the poor soul -- so Lemina tried to put it in simple terms. "You trade things for the things you want. That's what we call an economy! Except that trading items back and forth would get too complicated -- Like, say you wanted some fruit and all you had to trade was some nuts, but the person selling... uh, who you're buying the fruit from doesn't want nuts. That's why we have this nifty thing called 'money'. You pay money for the fruit, and money can be used to buy literally anything you could want!"

[vespertinity]

That was really, really strange. "But there's fruit everywhere, and you never have to buy it." Now that Pip thought about it, though, she hadn't seen fruit growing here at all yet. It hadn't been long at all, sure, but it was kind of weird. She wasn't sure where fruit even came from; it seemed it had always just showed up back home.

"'Pay'. Is 'pay' like 'give' when 'buying'? Does fruit not grow here at all?" Her head was starting to hurt; it was too much information too quickly, and none of it made sense.

[pennypincher]

"Fruit is free here. It was just an example that I figured you'd understand." Bats like fruit, right? "Um, here we use money for stuff like clothes and upgrades."

[vespertinity]

Okay. Get upgrades by buying money to the shop. Sounds easy enough. "I think I get it." Kind of. "What does money look like? And what are clothes, are they important?