This got promptly deleted when I proposed it on /r/worldbuilding, but let’s see how it fairs here. I’ll start with one. Feel free to add others. Fill in the blanks in a way that makes sense in your setting.
[plural noun]? [plural noun]? [plural noun]? It’s yours, my friend, as long as you have enough [name of currency]!
Cursed masks? Weaponized mathematics? Reality-shredding fish hook masses? It’s yours, my friend, as long as you have enough beryllium bronze!
What is a fish hook mass? A giant tangled wad of fish hooks?
Amongst other oddities, yes.
Oranges? Mechagodzillas? Spleens? It’s yours, my friend, as long as you have enough Kopeks!
I can purchase (a/the) mechagodzilla on the open market?
As long as you have enough Kopeks!
Are there other mechs for sale?
Dozens? Hundreds? Times? It’s yours my friend as long as you have enough Latinum.
Pottery? Vegetables? Metals? They’re yours, my friend, as long as you brought enough water!
So water is rare enough to serve as currency?
Not exactly currency, more a form of barter. But yes, it’s rare. The water plants from the hot North are the only way to harvest usable water, besides preserving what they have. They extract it from an underground ocean, that probably originates somewhere in Night (in the south), but nobody dares venture past the safety of Dusk.
This town is a mining town, so they barter water for mined goods. Within the town itself, they don’t really have money.
Remote, abandoned villages? Fields? Forests? It’s yours, my friend…
Cheap real estate?!
Depends on your definition of cheap. You don’t have to pay, or you might even get paid to repopulate some places. But those places are usually not without issues.
Cursed objects? Cryptid hunts? Unspeakable horrors from beyond our comprehension? It’s all yours, my friend, as long as you have enough change for postage!
