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Obviously, you are going to need some food on hand for your exfiltration to the Frontier … and if you can find a grocer that stocks food fresh enough, then you might be able to use some of it as working material or fuel for Mysterious endeavors.
You continue down this street for some time – perhaps five minutes, maybe more – without finding a green grocer. Perhaps that is to be expected though, as you are more than a bit distant from the Landward Walls, and produce and grownstuffs are more likely to be brought into the Mount overland, as opposed to being shipped in. However … just up the street you see a fishmonger. Now, fresh fish are excellent working material for small Sub-Constructs, but they don't exactly last. Many fishmongers do offer smoked and salted fish – which certainly do last – but the preserving process undermines what value they might have as material or fuel on the Life-Loom. Smoked fish would be harder to work with, and you'd be hard pressed to even be able to use salted fish as fuel, let alone working material.
On the other hand, it might just be better to treat food as food for the immediate future. You have no idea how long it might take, but you have to believe that it is going to be quite some time before you have anywhere as safe to delve into the Many Mysteries as the Belfry is right now. So until then, it might be for the best to keep the Loom packed away.
But on the ot – uh, on the … third hand? - if you loaded up on grownstuffs at a green grocer, you might be able to have it both ways. While the Loom is intended for the flesh of Man, brutes and beasts, it is also capable of working with the flesh of plants and fungus as well. And because many of these grownstuffs last quite a long time without preserving, they are viable for working on Loom … though obviously live plants, or at least specimens fresh out of the ground work better than plants that have been dried and done up for sale. Your stores on the stage could be both decent food and working material – if you were willing to spend the time to find a green grocer.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Chlotsuintha will continue to look for a green grocer
> Chlotsuintha will head over to this fishmonger
