Conversation 1208: WHIRLING F2 ORB / Ultraliberal Quest Initiation

Savoir Faire tells you it's time to stop playing the market and make some real cash so you can fulfil your heart's desire.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
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1 None
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2 Savoir Faire Hey, money-mouth. Eendracht. The impeccable hustler-provider of the seventh generation. It's showtime with Savvy!
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3 You Are we finally going to solve the lynching?
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4 You Do I know you? Variable["character.liberal_thought_done"] == false
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5 You Eendracht? The hustler-provider? The *seventh* generation?!
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6 You Not today, thanks. [Discard thought.]
7 You Oh, so now it's Savvy? What's up, buddy? Variable["character.liberal_thought_done"]
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8 Savoir Faire What's up? I'm worried about what's *down*, broke boy. I'm talking about your severe lack of money.
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9 Savoir Faire You will. I'm here to make your life better. They call me the Man-About-Town. Gilded Heart-Throb. Master of Money.
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10 Savoir Faire What? No, screw that shit-show. You're at the centre of this one. Come on down, contestant, you're about to make some *money*.
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11 Savoir Faire Yeah, swindle-father. Papa-preneur. Look, this is serious. No time for distractions. It's time to make *money*. Lots of it.
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12 None
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13 You Money?!
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14 You I know all about money.
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15 Savoir Faire That's right! It's time to stop muttering about your 'economic self-interest' and actually do something about it. Yeah, I heard you back there. What the hell was that?!
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16 Savoir Faire No, you don't! You just keep muttering about your 'economic self-interest' and not doing anything about it. Yeah, I heard you back there. What the hell was that?!
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17 None
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18 You Superstar talk. Don't try to keep up with me and my vast dreams. IsTHCPresent("superstar_cop")
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19 You What do you expect? I'm an ultraliberal. I speak ultraliberal-ese.
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20 You I'm just tired of being a low-net-worth-individual. It must be *the curse*. Variable["tc.doomed_commercial_area"] == true
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21 You You said before that playing the market could get me *rich*. Variable["character.liberal_thought_done"]
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22 Savoir Faire Superstar talk? Good one, hustler, gotta keep the dream alive. But it's not really showing up in your net worth yet, is it? And it's what -- day two, three, four?
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23 Savoir Faire Good, good, gotta spread the gospel. But talk alone doesn't bring in the cash. It's time for step two.
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24 Savoir Faire Did Ilona Wihuri-Vilakone blame ghosts? How about Admiral Gustav Lestock? Samir Loisir grew up in the coal mines of Gurdi eating dirt, and he still managed to make FIFTY-FIVE BILLION REÁL in his lifetime. So stop with the excuses.
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25 Savoir Faire Oh, it can. But first you need to *enter* the market. Right now you're as good as Samir Loisir eating dirt in Gurdi's immense network of mines.
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26 None
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27 None DayCount() == 4
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28 None (DayCount() == 4) == false
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29 Logic It's day four if we're counting days since the *event*.
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30 Savoir Faire Listen, if you really want to make it in the big leagues, you need to *re-conceptualize* your entire portfolio. Collecting tare and moaning about taxes is not going to cut it.
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31 Logic Fifty-five billion reál is a gross overestimation and we're pretty sure eating dirt is going to send any kid to a hospital, even Samir Loisir.
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32 Encyclopedia Samir Loisir was a Gurdi businessman who made his first millions selling kilograms of the ultra-rare mineral phasium to luxury jeweller Zachaël et Cie. He made the rest of his many millions through wise investments and the invention of pleochroic lights.
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33 None
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34 You Does this giant check that Evrart gave me help? Variable["character.liberal_thought_money_from_evrart"]
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35 You Mañana flicked me a coin. Variable["character.liberal_thought_money_from_manana"]
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36 You I assume begging rich ladies on boats is not the correct answer. Variable["character.liberal_thought_money_from_joyce"]
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37 You I could sell Kim's motorcar, like I sold his spinners? Variable["canal.roy_sold_spinners"]
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38 You I could pitch another project to this Mega Rich Light-Bending Guy in the container? Variable["cargo.mrlb_wcheck_done_success"]
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39 You Really, that's it? That's all I have to say? Why aren't *you guys* helping me out?
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40 You Alright, I give up -- I have no idea how to make millions.
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41 Savoir Faire Not unless you have thousands of them stuffed away in secret.
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42 Savoir Faire *One* coin. The first of many. Imagine so many coins you're going to need to hire someone to help you manage all your wealth.
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43 Savoir Faire It should be the other way around. Old mitred money showing up at your doorstep, begging for a slice of cake.
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44 Savoir Faire And then what? Join the ranks of blue-collar criminals?
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45 Savoir Faire We're getting somewhere. But what project? And what's the ROI?
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46 Savoir Faire Those guys? They're all financially illiterate. Only Savvy here knows how to *dazzle* and *embezzle* money out of investors' pockets with the acrobatic prowess of a four-time gold medallist in the Samaran Gymnastic Summer Games.
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47 Savoir Faire Of course you don't. You've never even been *close* to a sum with more than three zeros. Let's face it, you've been on a years-long losing streak...
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48 Encyclopedia The ancient Samaran tribes used carved rhodochrosite to represent their wealth. The bigger the boulder, the more money they had. In case you needed to know.
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49 Empathy Money is only one form of capital, *human relations* are another. You're focusing on the wrong things.
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50 Endurance You could force a coin *inside* you? Any hole will do. Not many more definitive tests of a man's mettle than the fortune yawn.
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51 None
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52 Savoir Faire But Savvy's got your back. Savvy's going to book you a charter flight with eighty birds of prey on board, to a land where the streets are paved with krugerrands and fixed-income securities. You'll try again, but this time with *money*. You'll win her back.
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53 Savoir Faire Are you in?
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54 None
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55 You Wait, win *whom* back?
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56 You I've hustled, I've *grinded*. Show me the millions. (Opt in.)
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57 You Something about this doesn't sit right...
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58 Savoir Faire The spirit of ultraliberalism. Your charm, your spin, your winning hand.
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59 Savoir Faire Attaboy, welcome to the final grind! Here we operate with money on a *much* higher level than the ordinary citizen, we feed it back into the machine. Stop saving, start spending -- become a *patron*...
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60 Savoir Faire Stop grumbling, it's time to move. Are you in or are you out?
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61 Savoir Faire Let's start by getting you into the lucrative art market to diversify your assets and increase your ROI. Speaking of which, know any artists?
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62 You Actually I'm good on the money front. [Opt out.]
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63 Savoir Faire Suit yourself and your middle-class ways -- Savvy doesn't need you, Savvy's got his own *entourage*.
64 Suggestion Perfect, all you have to do is *pretend* to have taste. This will be your weapon when swindling artists for their overpriced 'work'.
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65 Conceptualization Interesting. Are we speaking of visual art or something more *conceptual*?
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66 Shivers Somewhere in La Delta, numbers flip and whirl on the giant split-flap boards of the stock exchange, marking gains the size of Kemi SR's entire economy. Radiocomputers hum below to the tune of gambling.
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67 None
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68 You Hold on, I thought we'd be getting into the stock market? Variable["whirling.orb_ultraliberal_shivers_stock_market"]
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69 You Wait, so we're looking for a painting? Variable["whirling.concept_art_patron"]
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70 You Good thing I've been preparing for this with my Actual Art Degree. IsTHCFixed("art_cop")
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71 You Artists, artists... I'm an artist myself. IsTHCFixed("art_cop") == false
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72 You Cindy seems the type. Variable["pier.cindy_first_greeting_pier_done"] or Variable["pier.cindy_first_greeting_balcony_done"]
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73 You What about the speedfreaks' anodic dance music? Variable["ice.acele_heard_arno_van_eyck"] or IsTHCPresent("arno_van_eyck") or Variable["ice.egg_mentions_pumping_van_eyck_jam"] or Variable["ice.egg_eyck"]
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74 You Cuno? Cuno is an artist. Variable["yard.cuno_greeting_done"]
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75 You No one comes to mind. Variable["pier.cindy_first_greeting_pier_done"] == false and Variable["pier.cindy_first_greeting_balcony_done"] == false
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76 Savoir Faire Do you see any stock markets in Martinaise? No? That's because for those living in the outskirts, the market is *nothing*. Just ghost numbers flicking through time. A spectral sport they're not invited to play.
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77 Savoir Faire Stop thinking of it that way. It's not a 'painting', it's a 'highly collectible and irreproducible asset'. So, know any local artists with assets to sell?
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78 Savoir Faire Don't be silly, the art market isn't about art, it's about gate-keeping, speculative bidding, and showboating.
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79 Savoir Faire Once we've brought in the millions you can be a tree log for all I care, but first we've got to work on increasing your net worth.
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80 Savoir Faire You're right. She has the poise of a struggling artist. Very *tangible*. You can *feel* the poverty on her. Plus, she has paint.
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81 Savoir Faire Music is a pet project, not a viable business scheme. Let's return to it once you've set up your estate.
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82 Savoir Faire He's also twelve. We don't want to attract the attention of tax collectors by dabbling in unnecessary child-labour.
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83 Savoir Faire By all accounts this place should be *swarming* with artist-types. It's just a matter of time until you meet one. Look for squats and cheap rentals, we might even chance upon a *political artivist* here.
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84 None
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85 Savoir Faire Go and support them like the state never could. Everyone must know that you're a big fucking shark around here!
86 Savoir Faire Go and support her like the state never could. Everyone must know that you're a big fucking shark around here!
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88 None Variable["whirling.concept_art_patron"]
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89 None (Variable["whirling.concept_art_patron"]) == false
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90 Conceptualization What is this, the turn of the century? The world's moved beyond paintings. You want something *experimental* -- intramuscular puppetry, hyperrealistic vapour-porn, meditation opera...
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91 None
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92 Savoir Faire Don't listen to this fool. It's not about the artists, it's about the *buyers*. You can't hang 'vapour-porn' in the foyer of your chalet.
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93 You It is but a symptom of the rapacious catastrophe that will devour us all. IsTHCPresent("apocalypse_cop")
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94 You I was asleep. IsTHCPresent("boring_cop")
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95 You It's pathetic -- I know. Sorry you have to hang around with me. I'll do better. IsTHCPresent("sorry_cop")
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96 Authority That child's a common delinquent, not an artist. He probably can't even hold a paint brush.
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97 Conceptualization He does have potential... defying authority, thinking outside the box...
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98 Savoir Faire Brilliant, catastrophes are *prime time* for money-makers. But you're not really reaping any benefits yet, are you? No shorting, no shameless speculation...
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99 Savoir Faire Exactly. Not making money when you're asleep, are you? If you wanna be rich you better work until your fingers bleed. You can sleep when you die.
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100 Savoir Faire No, don't you ever be sorry. You think the Salzneben Report's Top 500 has 'sorry' in their vocabulary? Think again. That's a loser's mindset.
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101 Authority Take heed of these wise words. *You're* in charge. 'Sorry' is a beggar's plea reserved for those beneath you.
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102 Endurance (Your pecs dance.) No more sleep it is. A frazzled ride through eternity without pause. Hissing pistons pushed to the extreme.
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103 Half Light Just take my money and leave me alone!
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104 You Alright, then. Show me the millions. (Opt in.)
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105 Savoir Faire No, you need something *real*, something you can hold on to with all your claws and teeth.
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106 Savoir Faire You need to become a MILLIONAIRE. Now, how do you become a MILLIONAIRE?
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