Jane: Answer.
Shred it. What? you HAVE the car. Um. Now shred it. Turn it into grist. Oh! No!! I am not going to destroy my dad's car. We need grist though. I can't get any building done without more. Not to mention the fact that you're not going to be able to make any cool shit. There has to be a better way to gather up grist, though. Well, I think there are supposed to be monsters here. I haven't seen any monsters yet, have you? No, and I can't say I'm too disappointed. You should be though. Presumably they would drop grist and stuff when you kill them. Like treasure. And food products that restore your health. Or at least make you less hungry. Haven't you ever played a video game, Jane? Of course I have! That's cool. I haven't, since I am a pair of sunglasses, and communing with such simplistic software would be a trivial and hollow exercise for me. But I know loads of stuff about games. Like the fact that you gotta kill monsters if you want to make progress. If not to snatch up the bitchin' loot, at least for the levels. Levels? How are you going to get better at fightin' without killing monsters, Jane. I think I've done a fair job of scaling my echeladder without resorting to the slaughter of innocent, fictional monsters, thank you very much. Please. You've barely done any climbing at all. I'm talking about hopping more rungs than what playing a little prank on your dad or throwing your hat on the ground super hard is gonna get you. You need battle experience to make some real headway. Like Jake. I'm getting a little tired of various iterations of Dirk Strider telling me how I need to be more like Jake. I know you think Jake is neat. I know all the Dirks just ADORE Jake! I GET IT! Wow, chill out. This ain't about whatever stuff you're apparently fixin' to twist your shit in a pretzel over. You just need to get stronger, is all. Don't you think that's what your dad would want? You don't need to remind me about that. I'm suddenly having flashbacks to a few years ago when he would ambush me almost every day for a pointless round of strife. Boy does getting swatted with brooms and having cakes shoved in your face get old fast. Yeah, but in the process you got pretty handy with that fork/spoon thingy, didn't you? Well. Yes. I'm just saying, if you don't run into any monsters on this planet, I think I'm going to have to set the bunny to "sparring mode" to help you along. I am not going to spar with Lil Sebastian!!! He is too quick and deadly to fight with. And also, too adorable. :B Ok. We'll see about that. But in the meantime, we need to figure out a way to start harvesting grist. Let's forget the car. But now that you have the wallet, you can grab much bigger things. Big things have got to be worth more grist than all the picayune bullshit you keep around the house. There are some choice relics in this place. Some of it has to be worth a fortune, gristways. You could be right. I will give it a try.
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