>>6011797" Naturally. When governance fail, private operators must fill the gap. A crime was commited, so long ago, and dust and age and time has worn the mountains down and changed the oceans and cast the once benign Attendents to the winds, but Sareth far, and Sareth grand, still stands.
It's spires still reach the high heavens and the star still remains.
We will set things right.
But we cannot let the Empyreal's Adherents fill their people with the attentions of the Flame, it is anathema to good business practice.
So, because this is really about doing a good civic turn, Scarf is prepared to provide Potential at practically a cost! And-- "
[Scarf haggles out a deal with the substrate of geospatial coordinates and arbitrages the distance between here and there and is suddenly next to you]
" we'll be fine associates.
But to keep up reputation, Scarf must ask you barter and offer something grand to you.
Shake hands? "
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>. . . Shake hands? [Admin]>. . . No deal. I'm taking the alternate vendor. [Admin]--
" Apologies but you needs must think fast, for Time is not a fungible asset, and Scarf only has so many reserves to deploy to lengthen moments "