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boom planting cycle. A bountiful three years, and then, naturally the price of forward insurance payments on tax rebates were driven practically below ground so when the Luperni then snapped off hundreds of thousands of them on the regulated exchanges well who was to notice but *then* simultaneously they raised the price of their seedstock and fertilizer alchemineering by 0.02% per mass tonnage which had percolating knock-on effects on the international grain markets and made several Illosian investors quite rich but did cause a spate of suicides in the Reikans due to tremendous losses. But for the Kalcmiri smalholder they were paid quite well for the contracts? Though the lack of actual harvest yield that year then obliged the Kalcimiri government to pay several million coins to Pytherii-Vanadian merchant magnate speculators, a sort of blood-less international mugging on account of how there were still actually plenty of food to go around but the cost and open price for several exchanged notes went topsy-turvey and ANYWAY that's debt the Kalcmiri is still paying off since the Luperni-Cestipheron partnership obligingly converted the whole thing to a deferred loan - are you familiar with interest bearing bond mechanics as relates to cross-currency valuation exchange--
MERCIFULLY
At that point there's a knock on the door and a man in a mask and a swirling cloak points first at the three dead company supply clerks laid out in the streets, then at the gun still clenched in the hand of one.
He swipes his spear across it.
The musket snaps.
The end of *that* spear is . . . sharp.
