The Markets
The Fold Market
One shared market per Fold, trading Grain for Coin in both directions. Orders fill instantly at the current price — 1 Watch per order — and then your volume moves the price for everyone, drifting between 0.25 and 1.0 Coin per Grain around a base of 0.5. Heavy buying raises it; a Fold at war is a Fold with expensive bread.
The market is anonymous in aggregate: prices are public, order books are not. But a spike tells its own story.
The Quiet Trade
The black market. Better prices, real risk — 1 Watch per deal:
- Sell Grain at +50% over market.
- Buy at −25% under.
- Every deal carries a 15% risk the shipment is seized — you lose it, whichever way it was headed, and get nothing.
- A third of seizures are public, telling the whole Fold you deal in the dark.
Quiet Trade volume never moves the Fold Market's price. The bold eat well; the unlucky get famous.