Re: Dealing with Mermen : questions about aluminium

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_7TtjHM1oixq93CQ_7PWuxqpx1f-vHhcE5OUHBRfJCGdAQTrPn0X67eZ6q5bbSmXrhKK>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:53:03 +0000

hcarteau_at_2U9JcYyb-mGtudtdeG_nMyk65yU-El-XbM7_P5N5Z1e2a6SbyxxSQNUvkOlH2yz5LEERmOp0Ow.yahoo.invalid wrote:
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> Soon, the players in my Fay Jee campaign will have to organize their first
> "market of the waves", a trading session with the local ludoch clans.
> I know
> what the ludoch can offer (coral, old Slontos relics, etc.) but less
> what they
> could want from humans. "Dry Foods" only go so far.
>

They might also have a use for gold, so long as it is already worked into something decorative or useful. Gold doesn't tarnish much, and it looks nice, so it could be seen as a high-status decoration - perhaps even more so than on land, given its probable rarity to them. Decorative glassware might also be handy, and things like gemstones. Practical goods are admittedly more of a problem since, aluminium aside, much of what humans make won't survive long in salt water.

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Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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