I'm not saying go into details right this minute, which is why the modification I made to your vote give a fairly generic while still defining scope and category for the payment. We don't know this guy really; he isn't our friend, business partner, or subordinate. Soft favor trading is a bad plan with a stranger. Especially one who shares as little in common with us as this one; it's better to be explicit to avoid complications.
The little interactions that grease the wheels of society are context based, and we haven't established much common ground with him yet. A one sentence acknowledgement of the bill that confines the sort of favor owed isn't going to break our time table.
Sorry this is late, but there are a couple realizations I made that I have to share;
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1) We have a relationship with this dude; we've had one since we made the oral deal to fix up the Last Station.
This dude was willing to take our word for 8AP worth of labor and refurbishment. To put this in perspective, we get 6AP in a month.
Doing the math: 8 AP worth of construction work represents roughly five to six weeks of uninterrupted labor from Molly, who has Tool Constructs for a x10 speed multiplier.
From any other person without a speed multiplier, this would represent 50-60 weeks of construction.
Over a year's worth of labor, not to mention the costs of the construction equipment that Tool Constructs obviates, and possibly material costs as well, since Molly can recycle materials that normal construction workers would have to discard and order anew.
In real world terms, this is a seven or eight figure construction project, decided on terms very favorable to our elemental.
Thats what was decided on a figurative handshake.
And dude expects us to keep it, based on their perception of our magic presence.
So yeah, very solid expression of trust there.
2) This gives further perspective to everything else he/she/it has done.
The deal we made has very favorable terms to our elemental here, and they know it. Proto-DragonsNest or not, actually doing anything with the place is beyond its capabilities and resources before we showed up. Let alone then defending it.
Getting us out is the equivalent of your coach picking up the check at a business dinner where you signed Lebron James to your club. Compared to the size of the deal its already made with us, this is going to be too small to be worth a formal deal.
3)There are multiple people here that it might not want to talk in front of.
Michael works for the White God, and archangels have Intellectus. But he's not the only one here.
Gard reports to Marcone and Odin.
Cindy to her grandad. Lydia to her father and indirectly to Winter, plus she's potentially vulnerable to the Capriocorpus yanking shit out of her head.
