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Every question will most likely be answered the further we get. When I do RPs, I have a habit of making set pieces and general concepts that aren't necessarily sensible/linked at the time, and as I get further I find ways to tie them together. But I have enough of an idea of what I want to do to make sure that everything has a purpose.

Yep, there are things like bolt-action rifles, and Irage does have a currency system (though people still barter for simplicity for small matters, usually outside of any established businesses). Bear in mind that firearms are the most heavily regulated, and thereby expensive, weapons in Irage, given that they're the most advanced/effective. Irage's general technology hasn't quite reached the level of an automatic assembly line so everything is crafted by hand as well.

The way I think of Irage is a place from the very early 1900's, with bits stolen from the future as researchers get lucky in understanding/reverse-engineering Pillar technology. One day they might discover a very advanced energy-based weapons system, and the next they might figure out how to make a swivel chair. It's a very chaotic system of 'try anything and see what happens', which is why the research division is so vital to Irage.

You mean the name of the currency? I'll call it Marks.

I may change my mind, but for now I'd like to keep energy-based weapons exclusive to traps/sentinels, since that's meant to be their one-up on explorers. And you mean Amie's orb? She still has it, in the event that Rainbow can come back. It's not a vital piece to the story, it's just a useful, sort-of mystical tool that I wanted to give out. I like it when characters have relatively simple items and find creative ways to use them.

You'll find out sooner than later!

There would certainly be a structure and inside politics for the explorer's union, but I'm not entirely certain if there would be a ranking system. The 'best' explorers would be gauged by the fact that they're still alive and how well they've come to understand the variety of traps and sentinels, not so much by how many things they find in my opinion. There's not much rhyme or reason to where and what pieces of technology a person finds, they just grab things lying around, or take them from destroyed hostilities.

Yeah, Beacon certainly has a crime ring, and there's a market for various devices, materials, weapons, etc. Greed and power-lust are by no means foreign to this universe!

I think a division of the explorer's union would handle policing the city, given that they're the most trained individuals in combat. There's enough crime in the city to warrant having a police force handy, I can say that much. I imagine that there would be some common things like drugs and prostitution for keeping money moving, but I think the biggest commodity would be new technology. Most things that are found in the pillars get handed over to the research division for them to experiment with and decide whether it's safe/practical to use, or if it's something really important/secret that needs to be hidden. Crime lords would love to get their hands on things like that, since they can either use it to make their little gangs stronger, or they can sell it to certain companies for more profit and first dibs on whatever they produce from the technology. Things like that.

Understandable and I was just going with a random idea and how these kinds of groups have a ranking system xDDD I guess that makes Izzy somewhere from the mediocre ones to one of the best?

Lmao! Good to know or I'll seriously scream how there's no crime unless there's some kind of device that sub-consciously tampered with people, imprinting that crimes shouldn't happen = w = Hmmm~ and that info is certainly helpful. It gives me ideas later for some plots but don't have any inspirations yet or anything remarkable. I'll pm you if I got something though.

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So what happens with Lyla (he real body) is left for later?