( amber ) Look, the guy is rich

[kingpika]

[ The eighth floor had been unlocked for a while, but nobody has done anything with it, so Gil is now officially taking matters into his own hands. ]

Hi everyone, it's Gil! I'm taking charge of the inn now! Clapclapclap!

[ He actually does clap, and confetti fires out of the space behind him like a cannon. There's no actual confetti cannon of course, it's just the Gate of Babylon. ]

It's now called the Shuwa Shuwa Inn. If you have any complaints, come up with something better!

[ He stops and ponders one last thing. ]

I'm using the small rooms, the big one is for everyone, just give me a name and date and I'll book you in. None of you can afford to pay for a stay in an inn anyway.

[ Much less challenge his claim to ownership. At least, in terms of gold. ]

Comments

[alley_kit]

"Well obviously you didn't bother to count the rooms before you claimed them," Kit says a bit smugly. "Cause there's four, not two. And anyway, you can only use one at a time. What if other people want to use the others?"

Meanwhile, hello, fellow furry face. "Eew, who would hang ant flesh on the wall?"

[donotmail]

Arj nods, the gesture clearly visible in the amber. He's counted four rooms, as well.

"Someone who can't tell the difference between a hunting trophy and food," he says. "Or what was once food. Those ant mandibles are impressive on the wall, but did nobody think to clean them out, first? Ugh."

[kingpika]

Why would I use the rooms of my inn myself? Don't be silly.

I meant the other two rooms on the floor. I'm claiming the entire ninth floor.

[alley_kit]

Kit tilts her head curiously. "Those are houses, not rooms," Kit says. "And you can still only use one at a time, so what do you need two for?"

Kit makes a face at Arj's description. "Yuck...", she says. "Who decided that was a good idea?"

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[kingpika]

"That's not a house. Houses are... bigger." The house Gilgamesh is used to is a massive palace, including a huge vault that stores all the treasures in the world.

"And one's for storage, the other's for sleeping in, of course!"

Why does Gil need storage space when he has the Gate of Babylon, who knows?

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[alley_kit]

"It is too a house," Kit says. "Rooms are part of a house so they'd be attached together if they were rooms. Those aren't."

She looks dubious about his claim to need the second house for storage. "How much stuff do you have with you that you need a whole other house to store it?", Kit says. "And if you do have that much stuff, why haven't I seen any of it laying around?"

[kingpika]

"They're all attached to the tree, aren't they? The whole thing put together is about half the size of my old home. Corrected for size difference, of course." Gil nodded, neglecting to mention that his old house was a palace with more rooms than he knew what to do with.

"I have plenty of stuff! Weapons, furniture, old rugs, arts and craft... You just haven't seen it because I've been keeping it in my vault!"

[alley_kit]

"Pretty much everything here is attached to the tree," Kit says. "That doesn't mean it's all one thing." Whether or not Gil mentions it, Kit doesn't miss the implication, and can guess that he's very rich where he comes from.

"Well, if you already have a vault, why do you need somewhere else to store stuff?" Ah-ha, she's got you there!

[kingpika]

"Isn't it all just one big Home Tree though? I always figured that's what it was." Gil shrugs visibly through the amber. He does consider the entire tree a single large building, and while apartments are a thing, in Gil's mind they're supposed to be a bit bigger.

At least two bedrooms! Studio apartments aren't real apartments!

"I don't want to dig around my vault all the time! It's a pain!"

[alley_kit]

Kit considers. "It's more like a little town," she says. "Just inside a tree rather than outside by itself. There's houses, baths, a place to get food, sort of a market, and now an inn. Even though I'm not sure if we'll get any visitors to use it."

"Maybe, but wouldn't the vault be safer?", Kit says. "I mean, your stuff is probly expensive, and it's not like the doors here really have locks or anything..."

[kingpika]

"A home can have rooms, baths, pantries, and big fancy places for guests!" Gil nods, fairly sure that he had all of those things back in his palace. He's not quite sure about the market, but he just considers those fairies to be a strange anomaly.

"It would probably be safer, but it's a pain to dig through it when I need something specifically! And... it's not like gold is a problem here or anything."

[alley_kit]

"I guess...", Kit says, though she sounds a little uncertain. He thinks having those sorts of things all in one house- or palace, from the sound of it- are normal?

He does sort of have a point about the lack of use for gold here too. "Well, what if... what if something shows up that I dunno, eats gold, or something? I mean given that we're shrunk down to tiny size and living in a giant tree, anything can happen, right?" She admits that's kind of unlikely, but she's reluctant to give up the argument.

[kingpika]

"A monster that eats gold...?" Gil scratches his chin, deep in thought for a moment before lighting up, amused by the prospect.

"I think that would make a great pet!" Yeah, he's not giving it up either. He has more than enough gold to feed a monster directly, as long as it's cool enough to be worth his time.

[alley_kit]

"Until you ran out of gold, anyway," Kit says. "Then what would you do with it? Even if your're really rich, it's not like gold grows on trees."

[kingpika]

"Don't be silly. Of course gold doesn't grow on trees, it's buried in the ground!" Gil smiles and sparkles, completely dismissing the possibility of running out. It's just not a thing that he believes can happen.

[alley_kit]

"It's just a saying," Kit says when he seemingly takes her literally. "It means that it's hard to get a hold of more of it if it ran out. Especially here; even if we could dig a mine, I don't think there'd be any gold right around a big tree."