96 The Battle for Gobwin Knob, Page 86

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Cheap and plastic? Where did you get that?
The mathamancy thingemagig was especially mentioned to be very valuable in the right hands, and noone ever said the hilt was made of plastic.

So far, Parson got Paper 3D-goggles (cheap), the battle-calculator is just a hard plastic sleeve acting as an interfact to his calculator-clock, a toy sword hilt, and now the ricasso.
Ok, there was no statement about the material of the sword, but from the continuing "toy" aspect, I would not expect it to be a made of real steel.

The value of those items to erfworlders is completely unrelated to their manufacturing cost / value in our world.
Same as the value of a piece of paper can vary wildly, depending on what is written on it, and to whom