Making money with sunslag
I have, in the past, gotten my "money economy" going by waiting until I could kill a salt kraken, which has a valuable corpse. Picking it up, then recoiling next to a merchant with a lot of stuff. Once that's going, it's cloning draught and metamorphic polygel.
But a much easier route: Just get some sunslag (found by exploring in the Palladium Reefs). Drop a dram into the river of primordial ooze in the Rainbow Wood. Wait a bit, and you'll have a monosludge with a radiant pseudopod forming. Then run around and let it throw dilute sunslag at you, which will generate a lot of that. Even dilute, it's quite valuable.
Maybe this was obvious to other people, but took me a bit.
