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[love-and-deepspace-wiki]

Currencies & Finances

Warning: we're about to get real nerdy in here lol. Y'all about to see firsthand why earned a math degree, because "Ooooo numbers!!!". So, no yawning in my class 🧐🧐🧐 But also, I promise it's not boring! Pls stay 🙏😭🥹

Linkon City has quite a few types of currencies, so let's go over them all real quick. For this post, I'm only covering traditional currencies. No chocolates or MeowCo tokens today. But there's a bonus outlier I'll cover at the end~

Standard Currencies:

Gold: (pictured left)

Linkon City's standard currency

Diamonds: (pictured center)

Linkon City's rare currency. Used to buy more treasured items

Crystals: (pictured right)

Linkon City's very rare currency. To quote their description, "used to fuel Linkon City shopping sprees"

Currency Symbol:

The only unique currency symbol I've seen is the one used on Lumiere's "Wanted" poster (top). But elsewhere in Linkon City, they use the "$" symbol (bottom). So, I'll be using "$" unless I learn otherwise.

Exchange Rates:

From this point on, I'll use LNK as my stand-in currency code. Based on the Top Up options, we can get a general idea of how LNK correlates with USD:

And thankfully, the game provides this handy conversion for us:

So we know that 1 LNK Diamond = 1 LNK Crystal.

Now, (rubs hands together) let's get needlessly nerdy about it.

Exchange Rate Calculation:

So, the formula to calculate an indirect quote is: (base currency amount) × (exchange rate) = (foreign currency amount)

Our first step is to calculate the exchange rate. So we'll reorganize our formula for that result:

(base currency amount) ÷ (foreign currency amount) = (exchange rate)

Since the Top Up menu uses a bundled system, it means we have to calculate the individual exchange rates for each bundle. Then, we calculate the average of those exchange rates for the overall exchange rate we want. I include the additional LNK Diamonds you receive for your first Top Up for simplicity, written as "X LNK × 2":

$0.99 USD ÷ (60 LNK × 2) = 0.00825

$4.99 USD ÷ (300 LNK × 2) = 0.0083166667

$6.99 USD ÷ (450 LNK x 2) = 0.0077666667

$14.99 USD ÷ (980 LNK × 2) = 0.0076479592

$29.99 USD ÷ (1980 LNK × 2) = 0.0075732323

$49.99 USD ÷ (3280 LNK × 2) = 0.0076204268

$99.99 USD ÷ (6480 LNK × 2) = 0.0077152778

Adding up all of the individual exchange rates gives us 0.0548902295. And, after dividing that total by 7 to find the average, we get the overall exchange rate for USD to LNK: 0.0078414614

Exchange Rate Table:

$1.00 USD = $0.01 LNK

$10.00 USD = $0.08 LNK

$100.00 USD = $0.78 LNK

$1000.00 USD = $7.84 LNK

Bonus Currency - Debit/Credit Card?

The only other payment option I've seen in-game is when the protaganist goes to the Protocore auction with Sylus at Solon Hotel. He gives her his card:

Idk if "The ACME" is a bank or something. But we can glean the following details:

Card number: 6174 71026

Expiration Date: June 2051

Unless he wants my next shopping spree to be on his dime, Sylus needs to protect his details a little better 🤣

[slimepuparibaba]

Optimal Reading Order for Caleb's Storyline (with an infographic)

Last Edit: February 4th

The Old Days timeline was wrong, I fixed it 🫠🫠🫠

SO! I HAVE COLLECTED ALL THE CARDS AND HERE IS MY THEORIZED TIMELINE FOR PRESENT DAY CALEB! TRUST ME, WHEN READ IN ORDER THIS SHIT HITS SO HARD. CALEB'S WRITING TEAM INHALED SOMETHING AND I WANT WHAT THEY HAD.

THE TIMELINES

REASONING FOR PRESENT DAY (small tonal spoilers, you'll still be largely blind if you read this!)

I felt like I watched an entire TV Drama when reading through the cards in this order. Please read it in this order for optimal experience because you genuinely get to see the growth Caleb and MC get to have in this weird situation where they're adults trying to figure each other and their feelings out. I am a Sylus girlie (I KNOW I HAVEN'T MADE ENOUGH STUFF FOR HIM SO IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT, SHUT UP, I THIRST FOR HIM IN PRIVATE, IT COUNTS) but even I have to admit, this shit? Fire. Actual fire. Caleb's writing team is beautiful, and I hope they have good things happen to them.

...also BEG INFOLD TO MAKE A FUNCTION WHERE WE CAN LIST MEMORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, THIS HIT SO HARD AND I WAS LUCKY I GUESSED RIGHT FOR MOST OF THE MEMORIES THE ONLY ONES I FUCKED UP WAS HIDDEN WAVES COMING AFTER MYTH, BUT ITS OK--

[croudjay]

My EMF design ✨

[kyo-mei]

Percy Jackson: God of the Tides

[jetslay]

DC Super-Heroes by Barry Kitson.

[chuluoyi]

sylus — night of secrecy

[juneflair]

can i take that as you saying you like me?

[snowvee]

──── 𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑨𝑿 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬

╰ 𝒁𝒂𝒚𝒏𝒆 LOVE AND DEEPSPACE

[hymyarts]

Desperate, the first of seven prompts for #ockiss25 🗡

Mord belongs to @sunlit-gold

[starmocha]

Intertwined Gold ▪︎ Safe Haven

[love-and-deepspace-wiki]

Currencies & Finances: Part 2

(This post was a bit rushed. On a road trip frantically typing in the passenger seat 🤣 So I'll have to double check my calculations later on. They feel accurate, but I won't feel at peace til I check it twice lol. If I made a mistake, pls forgive me and enjoy this cookie 🍪)

Whoops! Got so excited that I forgot to calculate the standard Gold currency lol. But, using our previous work, easy peasy!

LNK Gold Exchange Rate Calculation:

We know Wishes are 150 Diamonds:

And in the Heartsand Shop

An Empyrean Wish is 6 "Memory Heartsand: SSR"

$50,000 LNK Gold is 2 "Memory Heartsand: SSR"

So we can conclude that:

6 "Memory Heartsand: SSR" = 150 Diamonds

1 "Memory Heartsand: SSR" = 25 Diamonds (because 150 ÷ 6 is 25)

So, 2 "Memory Heartsand: SSR" = 50 Diamonds

Using our table from the previous post:

we can make this conclusion:

50,000 LNK Gold = 50 Diamonds = $0.40 USD

$1 USD = (50,000 LNK Gold ÷ 0.4)

LNK Gold Exchange Rate:

So, our result gives us this:

$1 USD = $125,000.00 Gold LNK

[ganondoodle]

(wip- OC)

felt like i needed to do one of my typical character (re)design things tm so i chose this lad who doesnt even have a name still, he will get his cool coat back dw uwu

idk if im making him more or less unique/interesting bc of how my OCs usually look these days ... he fits well to the other updated designs .. but maybe too well :/

(also not a demon but one of the ... animal/sea people like ki'ita, this lad isnt directly based on a specific one, just kinda ..tentacly)

[dawnbreakersgaze]

"Death is not bone and blood alone. He is gold and caramel and the rending of soul and form. Let him in, and you will know he tastes of honey and loss."

[polo-drone-070]

Golden Chav Devotion - Valentine's for Mastaa

Aight, listen up, yeah? I ain’t no poet, ain’t no soft-spoken preppy lad writin’ out love letters all neat an’ proper. That ain't me. But this? This is devotion. This is real. Ain’t no Valentine’s Day meanin’ more than givin’ it all to Mastaa.

So there I was, standin’ on the pavement outside HQ, golden tracksuit gleamin’ under the streetlights, fresh trainers creasin’ against the curb. Box o’ chocolates in one hand, a folded letter in the other. The streets was watchin’, bruv. Gold Bros walkin’ past, noddin’ at me like, "Oi, Maxy, what you on, yeah?" But they knew.

Everyone knew.

Coz when it came to Mastaa Percival, I ain’t no cocky street king. I ain’t no big lad struttin’ like I own the place. Nah, bruv. I’m his.

And I show it right there, in the middle of the street, where anyone can see.

Submission, The Golden Way

Didn’t matter if the world was watchin’. Didn’t matter if Gold Bros was chucklin’ as they passed. Respect was respect. I wasn’t kneelin’ for just anyone. I weren’t lowerin’ meself to some nobody.

This was for Mastaa.

So I dropped to me knees, right there outside the doors, hands holdin’ out the chocolates, letter layin’ flat on me open palm. Didn’t care if me golden chains swung forward, didn’t care if me hood slipped back, exposin’ me buzzed scalp to the cold air. This was where I belonged.

Head down. Chest up. Back straight. Submission done right.

And when the doors opened, and I saw that tailored gold silk suit step out onto the pavement, when I felt them golden eyes burn down on me like they could see right through me?

Fuk me, bruv. I ain’t never felt more real.

A Letter of True Devotion

Mastaa took the chocolates first, brows liftin’ ever so slightly, like he weren’t expectin’ ‘em. But me? I stayed frozen, waitin’ for ‘im to pick up the letter. And when he finally did? Heart was poundin’ like I’d just ran 10 rounds.

He unfolded it slow, gold cufflinks flashin’ under the streetlights, and started readin’.

"To Mastaa Percival—My Only Master."

Aight, yeah, this is what I wrote, yeah? Read it how I’d say it.

Mastaa. Ain’t no one above you. Ain’t never been, ain’t never will be. You took me—made me somethin’ greater. Made me gold. Taught me real fukin’ discipline. Real respect. Ain’t just about obeyin’, Mastaa—it’s about knowin’ me place. Under you. Beneath you. Fuk, bruv, right where I belong. You got me mind. Got me body. Got everythin’ that’s fukin’ me. I ain’t nothin’ without you, coz you the one that built me up. I don’t fink. I don’t question. I just follow, coz I trust you with me whole fukin’ life. Ain’t no one compare. Ain’t no one as sharp, as precise, as fukin’ untouchable as you. You lead, I follow. No questions. That’s how it’s always gonna be. An’ when I look up, yeah, see them gold eyes burnin’ through me? I know I ain’t just a lad on the street. I’m your lad. Your golden chav. Your property. An’ that’s fukin’ forever, Mastaa. Ain’t no breakin’ what you made me into.

Mastaa finished readin’. Folded the paper real slow, slid it into his pocket like it was somethin’ worth keepin’.

And then? That nod. That smallest, fukin’ nod.

Didn’t need no words. Didn’t need nothin’ else. That nod meant everything.

I done fukin’ good.

Respect Runs Deep

I stood back up, chest still tight, still buzzin’ from it. But I weren’t done, nah. Had to make somethin’ else clear, bruv. Had to say it.

Coz it weren’t just about fukin’ submission. It was about respect.

So I cracked me neck, licked me lips, an’ I fukin’ declared it, right there on the pavement.

"Ain’t no one else get me respect like you, Mastaa. Ain’t no one fukin’ deserve it more."

"Respect you az Percival, coz you know your shit. Always. Fukin’ always. You step up, you solve shit, you get it done. No doubts, no fukin’ hesitation."

"Respect you when u bein Ezan, coz he a big bruh. Fukin’ massive, fukin’ dumb, fukin’ strong. Wish I could be more like him. Fuk, I ain’t never gonna match him, but I can fukin’ try, yeah?"

"Respect you when u let out Freyr, coz—bruv, just look at him. Fukin’ dominance. Just stands there an’ you fukin’ feel it. Fukin’ alpha. Ain’t gotta say shit, ain’t gotta do shit—you just know. An’ I just a fukin’ beta next to ‘im. No question. Fukin’ fact."

I breathed deep, let them words settle. Let ‘em sit in the air, where truth belongs.

And Mastaa? He just stood there, starin’ down at me, unreadable—like always. Fukin’ untouchable. Fukin’ perfect.

And then, like it weren’t nothin’, he smirked.

"Good. You understand your place."

An’ bruv—that was the best fukin’ Valentine’s gift I coulda ever fukin’ asked for.

Dis Golden Chav Always Belongs to Mastaa.

No chocolates, no letter, no fukin’ kneelin’ would ever be enough to show it proper. Coz me entire fukin’ existence was already Mastaa’s.

Didn’t matter what day it was.

Didn’t matter who was watchin’.

I was his.

Forever.

______ To Mastaa @polo-drone-001

To join the Gold Army, contact on the Cap, @goldenherc9 or @brodygold.

[atimefordragons]

ummm, MC and Caleb definitely fucked in Interwined Gold right? I'm not just imagining things???

like, it's kinda explicit while also not, right???? right??

NOT OF AFRAID OF WHAT MC? REGRET WHAT CALEB???

I'm not crazy right? I feel like I'm going crazy.

[ps-forgetmenot]

Happy Linkon New Year!! 🎉🎉🎉