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[notblayde]

Not to add to the increasing load but I've another round of questions for everyone.

First of all, I'm sure everyone's been acquainted with the currency here. Chroma 🌑️ and Demichroma️ 🌓️. The people here seem very fond of the moon! Good taste (everywhere, honestly, LOVE the neon look 💙)

Who here has really gone through this thing? The bracelet they've given us, I mean. It's rather robust, I'm a big fan personally and might be working on a few things already. 🤫

Right - The point! Sorry. What I'm getting to is how many of you have been checking your banks?
Follow up: Rough estimate, how much do you have? Don't share the number, that's terrible security, dear God I'm leveling with you as a cybersecurity expert all I need is whether it's single, double, or triple digits
2nd follow up: Have any of you been doing any kind of work?
3rd, final follow up: Have you noticed when/where your balance goes up?

I'll go 1st: Triple #, no work, I may have a... few working theories

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[takingchances]

Double. It's fluctuated a little but I have gained some from somewhere. Now where, I don't know. I haven't done any work beyond studying up on the world just yet.

[To the more important point, because Eva has some notions here and she's dying to find that thread that connects them.]

What are your theories? If you don't want to share them here, you can inbox them to me. I've got a few ideas of my own but nothing firm.

[notblayde]

Double? Interesting.

Can I ask you a somewhat personal question?

[takingchances]

Might as well if it'll help us figure out anything.

[They certainly asked enough of them when she first arrived.]

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[sometimespawnskillkings]

Triple digits.

And surprisingly, I haven’t been doing any kind of work - unless rescuing people from the vines counts, I suppose.

And I have not noticed when/where it goes up. It just feels like I look away for a moment or so, and then, when I look back at my account, I have more Chroma than I did before and no idea at all how I got it.

Because my Chroma always increases when I’m too busy or distracted to look at my account. Like during the festival, or when I was rescuing people from the vines. Times when it just wouldn’t occur to me to check my bank balance because too much else is going on.

[Temple hasn’t had any sex but he has been touching lots of people and doing it for fairly long periods, and that has given him the triple digit balance he has now.]

[notblayde]

Another triple?

[ Trust and believe Matt has question! ]

You were with people, right? What would you say you were busy with, exactly?

[sometimespawnskillkings]

Dancing, and kissing, basically.

And just generally trying to save people from the vines.

So, though I was busy, I was not “getting busy” so please, cease that line of thought.

[“Busy with, exactly,” phrased the way it is, makes Temple think Matt is reading implications into what he is saying that he didn’t mean so he is seeking to clear up that ambiguity as quickly as possible.]

[And he hopes that Matt will not ask anyone else about their sex lives.]

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[resound]

Are people seriously getting jobs
It's not like we have to pay rent?
Why bother?

[ they can get back to the survey in a second. this is important. ]

[notblayde]

Sorry?
Is all you need in life a place to stay? Did you miss the part about transforming outfits?

[resound]

Sure.
That and cigarettes.
I already have a stage outfit, I don't need the extra.
It doesn't seem like Chroma has been that hard to get, if that's your only argument
Not compared to making money back home, anyway.

[furrytrash]

JusT a singgle number for me. not suRE how monny is supposed to work heRe, but so long as theres food and shelterr, does it reallly matter??

[notblayde]

Is there nothing else you want in life than food and a place to live?

[furrytrash]

well... no. but what else can wE do here? cant leave to hunt in the wild and all thier books are weird or boring or BOth.

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[oomfies]

You're a cybersecurity expert?! No way!

[ Not that she knows anything about the topic... As evidenced by the fact she was about to drop the actual number until he wrote, point blank, not to. ]

But umm I also have a triple number, no work..
And no, I actually only looked it up when I read your post! lol
Are you working on apps for this thing??

[notblayde]

One of the best!

[ ... Something like that, anyway ]

I know you were behind one of the booths, maybe they compensated you?
I am! 😄 It's already got a few of the necessities but there's so much it needs.

[oomfies]

I was volunteering.. but the lady DID give me some free makeup?
and a possible connection! she wanted me to come back so we'll see :)

That's soo cool tho! coding stuff &things like that..
is it any different from like the regular stuff you use or w/e?
it IS a different device!

[bloodisthicker]

I’ll admit, I haven’t exactly been messing around with the bracelet as much as I should have, all things considered. It’s a lot more advanced than what I’m used to, so I’m mildly concerned I’ll break the thing. These... cyber things aren’t particularly fragile, are they?

As far as I can tell, I’ve gotten a relatively small balance, which is... disappointing, but I have been looking into information on various career opportunities to make a decision. What’s your hypothesis on the balance fluctuations, though? I’ve been checking daily, but I’d like to have some idea of what I should be doing.

[notblayde]

Could I ask what year you're from?
These seem rather robust, thankfully! I've been conducting a few tests and my own has held up to a rigid and thorough examination including drop, pressure, and water tests.

The working hypothesis is that physical contact seems to make a difference.

[bloodisthicker]

It's the Year of the Horse of the Chun Tai era, though... I do have to wonder if we use different calendars.

In any case, well, that's encouraging. I'll have to keep that in mind. And... physical contact? So you can just... earn money by touching people? How does that even work?

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[codecmoment]

Could your phishing scam be any more obvious? Come on. What kind of expert would ask instead of just going in and checking?

[notblayde]

Excuse you? Phishing scams are child games for novices! God forbid a securities man have some sense of honor and ASK first.

[codecmoment]

Are you really that good? Just curious, since the systems here are different.

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[potential]

What are the theories?

[notblayde]

Contact.

Nothing extreme. It seems as if even holding hands can trigger a deposit. It's yet to be tested though.

[potential]

Skin to skin?

It seems simple to test.

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[mastermagician]

Does your working theory.... involve intimate acts.