I called her and she came to my apartment that evening."Well, Dody, what did you think of the two manuals? Were you able to understand how the machine... worked?" I think so. I would have liked to have seen them in action, but I didn't know where to find one to watch, so I had to figure it out myself. The boxboard machine was the easiest. It showed the collapsed carton, how it set up, filled, and closed. I didn't have any trouble following that."The other machine was a little trickier to. I had a +2 bonus to Initiative, +2 bonus to hitting with missile weapons, and a -3 bonus to my Armor Class. I certainly couldn’t complain there.Having only 8 Constitution was really troubling. There was no penalty to my HP, but I only had a 60% chance of surviving being petrified or polymorphed against my will, and more importantly, only a 65% chance of being resurrected if I died. If I died and failed that roll, it was all over for good, considering how often adventurers had to fight giant. After a brief consultation with the Purser he made his way to the Princess's suite, where he knocked and entered without waiting for her to call him in. He found the Princess about to clean the prick of a steward from the ship's crew who had clearly just fucked her. The steward took one look at the tall, well-built, fit bodyguard, grabbed his clothes and fled."Hameez, you are a spoilsport; I was just beginning to enjoy myself."Hameez bowed deeply and said, "My apologies, mistress."Pausing to. When the first Merchant ship arrived, large lorries were waiting. Ten hours and two dozen more ships were landing beside the first. The lorries were loaded and began making trips through the city.That was when we almost lost them. They did not go to a bank but a large warehouse. There were hundreds of sheet deposit machines running while men fed the sheets and pads into them. One of the bugs in a bank picked up a few words and we got an account. A little hacking and we had a name and a.