Allistor was hitting tab after tab looking for precisely that.  When he opened the Physical Structure tab, his eyes widened.   After a quick read through the information, he said, “It looks like I can change the structure of this place.  Move it above ground or deeper underground.  Add walls, buildings, assign spaces.  All of it costs something called system points.  And I have the ability to open a market interface.  It says we can sell resources for system points to make improvements.”

The questions started rolling in all at once.  “What kind of buildings?  What resources?  Can you build a decent bathroom with a shower?”   That last one had been Meg.

Allistor was feeling a little overwhelmed.  He sat down on the opaque stairs behind him, causing a few of the others to flinch for a second as if worried he’d fall through.   He was mumbling to himself as he read through the list of facilities available and their point cost.  “I wish I could share this with all of you, so I don’t have to read it all off.”

As soon as he said it, another tab opened.  It was an authorization screen.

Do you wish to allow other citizens to access the Stronghold interface?  Yes/No

He instantly selected “Yes” and another message popped up.

Please list the citizens you wish to authorize and indicate their access level.

A list of all the people inside the stronghold popped up.  Next to them were columns of boxes.  The first column was labeled Review Only.  The next columns from left to right were Review and Recommend, Review and Modify, and Full Authority.

When he read these choices to the others, Meg was first to speak.  “Just mark all of us for the recommend one.  Can’t have everybody making changes and spending points all willy-nilly.  We need to agree as a group and have one person make any changes.  Anybody got a problem with that?”

When nobody spoke up, Allistor checked the Review and Recommend boxes for everybody but Chloe, whom he wasn’t sure could even read yet.  When that was done, he said, “How ‘bout we go take seats at the table and review these choices?”

They all filed back into the tunnel and returned to the main room.  The furniture had not faded out like the rest of the structure, and it looked kind of funny just hovering in space.  Nancy was moving the half-dozen burgers that were on the grill onto a paper plate and turning off the grill as Amanda filled her in.

When they were all at the table, the discussion began.

Allistor started it off.   “Okay, it says here on the summary tab that we currently have one hundred thousand system points that we earned by creating the stronghold.   Then there’s a listing for Possible Individual Contributions.  I don’t know the source for those, but it says there’s another six thousand and change available.

Lilly spoke up.  “I’ll start checking on that.  Keep going.  I can multitask.”