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For the third option, a list of passengers appears and names can be searched for by letter. Anyone who has been working to try and make communications happen on their own devices will find those linked in to this network- though it is still only possible to use voice. If they have headphones from the music room they can make it so they work like earpieces.

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[ohaiyo_isekai]

I will try to be brief, and forgive me if I unwittingly condescend; that's one of my more common failure modes. I have studied the history of this kind of agriculture, and I have, in fact, done famine relief and farming at home, which is where I chanced on my uncommon knowledge. I stress that these facts are not at all intuitive.

A poor farmer does not want to grow any one crop, and give it the attention it needs to flourish. Down that route lies starvation on a bad year, though it may lead to greater wealth on a good one; they desire safety from famine more than the largest years possible, low risk rather than high reward. So emmer wheat, yes, but also barley and rye; maize, but also sorhgum; rice, but also millet; and whenever possible, the reliable comrade of the poor farmer, potatoes.

Rice, as well, is uniquely suited to a poor farmer. Most cereals require the capital outlay of a rich man's cattle and horses to pull a plow. Not so rice, with it's shallow furrows in flooded fields. Rice requires more labor, but it's the labor of the poor with no need for the burgher and his cattle at all... and therefore, a chance for the poorest farmers to gain respect and power that they would otherwise, with other crops, lack.

[flatteries]

[ To his credit, Inigo really tries to listen. He does.

But somewhere halfway through his brain involuntarily starts tuning out the rest of what the poor guy is saying. It's just going so far over Inigo's head that his own mind decides to do him a favour and no longer torment him with the rest of it

Except that leaves the problem that he has absolutely no idea what to say when he only catches the last few words at the tail end of the whole story. ]

Uh..

[ Think, Inigo. Think. ]

You sound like you know a lot about this... [ Nailed it. Except not. He sounds totally confused. ]

[ohaiyo_isekai]

[Deep sigh.]

Sorry. I tend to go off on things that interest me greatly.

[flatteries]

I can hear that. [ He says, pretty much instinctively. Because there's a near-choked sound a moment later, as if Inigo only know realises his brain-to-mouth filter failed him by actually saying that out loud. ]

Ah, I mean--! It's.. It's good to be passionate about something! Even when it's something I myself could never imagine being passionate about.. [ The day Inigo cares about agriculture is the day he's no longer himself, probably. ] But everyone is different, you know?

[ohaiyo_isekai]

Thank you. I do appreciate it, and your sincerity.

But maybe I'll just mention the results, rather than the theory, hmn? Save both of our time.

[He does, at least, sound like he's legitimately not upset with him. Sometimes that's just how his brain do.]

[flatteries]

[ Thank you, kind stranger.. Inigo will take anyone not sounding upset at him any day! ]

I suppose that sounds like it would be for the better. [ Especially since maybe this will all go less over his head once he thinks of results..? Maybe? Inigo can't be sure, but it can't get more complicated to him than it already is now. ] Please do inform me then!