Friend! Friend, please help. Corporation has crushed me for forbidden escape. Account is empty, savings all lost. I cann

Traders dialogue

Friend! Friend, please help. Corporation has crushed me for forbidden escape. Account is empty, savings all lost. I cannot even pay for message to family.

Name cannot believe their luck, their eyes welling with emotion as I approach. An intoxicating perfume wafts around us. They glance towards the nearby pod and shudder, as though associating it with some grim memory. The shudder seems to rattle some unseen injury, as they immediately clutch at their ribs. This poor Gek is utterly desolate. It would be unspeakably cruel not to help them.

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Ask about pod

I frame my question as clearly as possible with gestures, but %NAME% disengages, turning their head away, indicating that they do not understand.

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The Gek draws my attention to a datapad, revealing their financial status: their account has been wiped, with not a sing

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Ask about injury

%NAME% somehow looks even smaller than before, blinking away tears. Some traumatic experience has stranded them here, but they lack the common language, or the energy, to recount it.