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Easy

It's not tithes you'd be taking. It's measly payment for a moment's relief trudging between shrines.

Medium

It's just a little plastic dolphin. There's no way you're actually getting satisfaction from this.

Easy

A one-stop bottle for all your drinking needs.

Legendary

Your mind makes one last desperate lunge for meaning:

Medium

Better for everyone that you just take him at his word. The alternative... well, there's a recently vacated room at the bottom of a silo, if you're interested.

Formidable

You were hoping more around the 75 mark...

Medium

Nothing can be missed if nothing is lost.

Medium

Formidable

Recreational espionage, an extreme sport for those who truly have no place in regular humanity.

Medium

No point in lying. Just play it Way Above His Station. Which it is.

Medium

There are other currencies. Sex. Death. Information.

Easy

The world in which his son can succeed is a world not worth living in. Their existences are fundamentally at odds.

Easy

Clearly some kind of a slogan from the days when this was built.

Medium

He's never met a diplomat in his life. Probably doesn't even know what they are, except they sound important.

Easy

A value at least as abstract as his son's social currency.

Challenging

Everyone occupying one fixed and immovable place on the pyramid of life.

Trivial

You could use the liquidity.

Easy

Confirming that he does, in fact, know her. This man would be a terrible operant.

Easy

With how attached the materially wealthy are to their items, there's no telling how much they'd give to have something so precious back.

Easy

Alternatively, now that you have both parts you could try repairing it. With how attached these rich people are to their items, there's no telling what he might give to have it back.

Easy

Alternatively, you could try getting the other half and repairing it. With how attached these rich people are to their items, there's no telling what he might give to have it back.

Easy

They don't have to answer to you. Thus, they won't.

Medium

Not bootlegs or knock-offs, but the genuine article.

Trivial

Speak to Constanz. She must have a way of getting in here.

Medium

Best not to think about it. But also, definitely brain.

Formidable

You are actively courting schizophrenia at this point.

Easy

Close reading: 'then, take him out. With the drill.'

Medium

A good opportunity to administer some semi-rational treatment: the ozone.

Medium

The mind turned inward on itself.

Formidable

An artist's impression of biological decay.

Challenging

Fool him with his own systems. Bridle his hypertrophied imagination -- the outcome will be the same.

Challenging

Dear god, it's trying to talk to you.

Easy

One of these things is not like the others.

Medium

This isn't any 'psychology' you recognise; it's all esoteric neuroscience and qualia.

Easy

Orbital velocity is typically achieved at the eight minute mark. They weren't even close.

Easy

A difference of almost nine minutes.

Challenging

Light years stand between you and the star -- your hunt will be long over by the time this invocation reaches it.

Easy

Medium

Easy. The Pitol Tract -- an industrial wasteland devoid of people or signals.

Trivial

That Renotel technician you met earlier was carrying a device. Must be that.

Medium

You're looking for an intercom, not a phone -- there must be something that differentiates them.

Easy

Must be the faulty intercom.

Easy

That Renotel technician you met earlier was carrying a device. Must be that.

Easy

Whoever's using these isn't trying to get better at writing poetry -- they're trying to get better at reading it.

Easy

This is the cheat sheet of a complete amateur.

Easy

Really you just need to be able to count to ten or so.

Medium

The pack of cigarettes on the desk. You missed something about them.

Easy

Your hoisting must have compressed his lungs somehow... Unless...

Easy

He was trying to smooth out creases with shower steam.

Easy

Likely belonging to the man splayed, with much less care, in the nearby chair.