And that brings me back to resources. I need some, priyatel, and that’s all there is to it. I might be able to get out of the sprawl on two hundred nuyen, possibly even make it out of the Salish-Shidhe lands into another nation without such tight ties to Seattle. But once I got there I’d have zilch in the way of resources. And you need money to get money, even in the Awakened world of 2054—maybe particularly in 2054. Ask the elves of Tarislar.