- "These days, man knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
- ― Oscar Wilde
- "Whoo-hoo! I got skybox tickets. And with only 20 percent loss of my brain function."
- ― Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
The ability to buy/barter for absolutely anything. Money-based version of Contract Bestowal.
Also Called
- Absolute Bartering
- Ultimate Capitalism
Capabilities
User can buy/barter for absolutely anything, for them absolutely everything has value and can be bought, including people, concepts, elements of reality, etc.. Buying may require communion with anthropomorphic personifications of certain concepts or bartering with something other than paper money. Users can give things their souls, their money, or their lives for any amount of services for a different concept.
Applications
- Communing with concepts or other incorporeal entities.
- Contract Bestowal: Create binding business deals with entities both physical and non-physical.
- Concept Manipulation: "Buy" concepts.
- Existence Assignment: Buy a new life/identity.
- Self-Power Bestowal: Buying superpowers.
- Subordination Manipulation: Control the free will of others by simply buying their lives.
- Trading Intuition
Associations
Limitations
- Users may have "insufficient funds" to buy a certain thing.
- User may not be able to buy things that others don't want give/sell.
- If users are under a contract and unable to live up to their deal, they'll be at the mercy of whoever they made the contract with.
- There will always be a price.
Known Users
- Midas (C)
- The President (The Gamer)
- Faeries (Changeling: the Lost)
- Shirojiro Bertoni (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere)
- Mercane (Planescape)
- Glorious Super Batman (DC Comics)
- SCP-662 (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2557, A Holding of Envelope Logistics® (SCP Foundation)
Known Locations
- The Awesome Store (The Amazing World of Gumball)
- Knickknack Shack (Granblue Fantasy)
- Forever Shopping District (Magical Play)
Gallery
Envelope Logistics (SCP Foundation) is a holding company able to buy and sell abstract concepts, including their own SCP file SCP-2557 from an unnamed Foundation employee.