<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=199515.msg9754361#msg9754361">Quote from: Cold Heritage on 23-03-2014, 08:25:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">@Thufir Hawat: I'd say ditch the rifle or the sawed-off shotgun. Feels a bit wrong to me that Uncle Marco'd be lugging more gun than the Gunlugger.<br/><br/><hr/>Thufir Hawat:<br/><br/>- There is one person your Hold would be hard-pressed to do without that you absolutely despise. Is it that weirdo mindfucker Sundowner, or that disgusting pallid leech Drugstore?<br/>- Is there any Uncle Marco-backed currency in the Hold? Do you issue workers a scrip called Uncle Bux? Colored seashells? Scrimshawed knucklebones of dumb fuckers who crossed you?<br/>- When you need to make an example of someone, how do you do it?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Sure, although I'm not lugging either of those. I mean them as home defence and hunting weapon, respectively.<br/>Sawed off goes away, then!<br/><br/>It's Drugstore. I'm going to help as many people as I can to get off the hook, then close the place and probably burn it.<br/>The owner being inside is optional, but tempting.<br/><br/>There is Hold-backed currency. It's called Marcs, spelled marks, like some ancient BD (Before Disaster) coin! The part with it sounding like Marco's name is probably no coincidence, although that can't be independently verified.<br/>Scrimshawed knucklebones were tempting as well, but how do you mint new ones if nobody wants to cross you? And they can rot or break. It just wasn't sound economic logic!<br/><br/>Quickly and efficiently, but there's no single procedure. Sometimes, there's a trial. It's presided by the Uncle, of course, but it's as close to fair trial as you can get in these parts. He mostly relies on traditions and customs, with his own sense of fairness filling in the blanks. The Hold has sparse written laws, although there's a minimum.