(Days 9 and 10 of The Barely Legible and Slightly Bloody Diary of Foxy Foxster on Eulora - you can find previous days in the teleportation samovar.)

Day 9 - High-Quality Wonders Are Solid - Rock Solid!

The first polished stone I ever got was a thing of wonder. In this murky, drab and demeaning world, it shone in the sun with the quiet perfection and calm stilnness that only years of resting at the bottom of a riverbed can impart¹. As I hadn't been resting for the same time though, I was possibly less calm, less still and less perfect when I grabbed it from the murky soil in which my exploration had uncovered it. I welcomed its perfectly smooth surface against my worn out hands and I smiled with delight when I felt the slight pressure of its weight and I noticed the high quality of its making: it might have been a little stone only, but it was a solid, high-quality one!

Truly, for something gotten out of a bit of digging and a grand total of one single coarse piece of frangible thread, the first polished stone I ever got was indeed a thing of wonder: it sold for 461 coppers and if that's not a wonder on Eulora, I really don't know what is.

Day 10 - I Really Can't Decide on a Title: I Can Mine Like No Other/ My Pickaxe Is Better Than Yours

How Does Your Fortune Grow?

If one polished stone is a thing of wonder, several polished stones must be a cairn and that's “a whole lot of coppers” in Eulorian. So no, I haven't yet found cockle shells and silver bells², but I've found Mod (Seis³ ). And Mod found what was for him a teeny tiny polished stone, but proved to be for me (and my golden pickaxe) quite honestly a cairn in making.

Mod is a fellow eulorian and as a consequence he's quite as bare-footed and bare-handed as everyone around here is. He's been around for a while and we previously exchanged bizarre items such as wooly mushrooms and copper coins, but this time we quite hit on something good. For you see, Mod has a knack for finding small claims of polished stones all around the rocky area where the merchant lives and the craft-table awaits. From these claims, Mod would extract on his own one polished stone here and one polished stone there, all chipped up and dull and tiny. So tiny in fact that they would barely fetch him a few lonely coppers that might not even pay for the pickaxe that he broke digging around. But when I search instead these claims that Mod found, I find big, shiny, polished stones that pay more than double. And so, for the starters, Mod passed me the key of a teeny tiny claim from which he would have normally gotten at most 278 coppers. I dug the claim up and I got as much as 1383 coppers in no time. Even splitting it evenly between us, that still left Mod with more than double his copper coins.

I guess that's how your fortune grows: by doubling the money you get for the same action. You just need to trade your claim to someone with higher mining⁴ skills and then watch that pile of coppers (satoshis really) growing. So, how does your fortune grow?

1. That's largely valid only if you are a stone, of course. ↩

2. I'm quite surprised they are not on the island really, at least not in their darker, slightly more hidden meaning.(On another island, there was a nursery rhyme that went Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With cockle shells and silver bells and maidens in a row. The hidden meaning (if any) being that Mary was Bloody Mary, silver bells were thumb screws and cockle shells were more like... cock shells I suppose you'd call them.)  ↩

3. and that's 6 in Eulorian ↩

4. Mining is currently called building on Eulora, possibly because you mine the buildings or build the mines or otherwise simply put you just dig anyway and for all purposes, as you don't really know how to do anything else. ↩

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