Challenge #04671-L287: Fair Exchange

Unusual icon statues begin popping up all over the world. One puts in gold coins, and from the slot below, the exact amount of silver and copper coins comes out. The few times someone powerful enough to smash one managed to do so, they would find it not filled with coins at all. Merely more runes and sigils as it put itself back together again. -- Anon Guest

They were odd little altars. A figure of a Ravenfolk with an open beak clutching a bowl with its foot-talons. The wing-hands each held the image of a silver and copper coin. There was no explanation to their purpose, but they appeared at common crossroads in the city.

All over the city.

Of course the children tried it first. The beak was open like the image of the Ravenfolk expected to be fed something, and the toddlers and kindergartners of Luegovur were eager to supply. Stones and breadcrumbs passed into the mouth and out into the bowl. Bottlecaps went in, but copper coins came out. When copper coins went in, they passed through without changing.

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