>>5310516You dress up in the worker’s clothes (they’re surprisingly stretchy) and approach the cephalopod disguised in your hannya mask. You sidle up to him and casually chatter about the price of fuel.
It’s like you flipped a switch. The mine flamer instantly starts ranting about the insane price of oil these days. It’s unbelievable! Back in his day, gas was three bucks a gallon maximum. Now a simple flame warrior can’t fill up a tank without having to shell out a month’s worth of pay. It’s mind-boggling. And it’s all because of the begolders, raising the prices of their fossil fuels to ridiculous levels while putting tariffs on the mine flamers’ precious metal exports! Someone oughta teach those spherical bastards a lesson.
The mine flamer seems to think you’re a child of one of his kind. He regales you paternally with all sorts of stories about the begolders and mine flamers fucking with each other, mostly economically. You zone out for the bulk of his monologue, but there is one moment that catches your ear – the mine flamer briefly tells you about this new coal liquefaction process that the fellas in R&D came up with, which might allow the mine flamers to break away from begolder oil and fuel up on Leadkeeper coal instead.
What do?
>Ask the mine flamer about any Leadkeepers he’s seen recently>Ask for a tour of the facility>Tell him you’re here to negotiate trade routes>Something else? 