Talk:Lien/@comment-70.113.122.45-20170319095213/@comment-26397825-20170319100921

Oscar scanned a card at the train station and got told there was insufficient funds.

Perhaps there are two different types of Lien cards; the fixed amount and the bank card type.

The fixed amount cards would get taken by the vendor when you use them and don't have the money removed. They act just like paper money or coins, always having the same value, and the barcode on the back is just to verify their authenticity. This lets you carry around small change and give it to children for pocket money.

The bank cards would be the rechargable Lien cards, which you don't give out to others as they're linked to your name and identity just like our bank cards. You can put money on them, and the barcode is to check for authenticity but also to act like our atm machines, and remove money when you pay for things. This lets you carry around large amounts of money without it being super obvious because you don't have a bulging pocket or wallet.

Of course, the problem with that is we have actually seen a bank card; Weiss's. But that's the only bank card we have seen, and it may have been a custom design purely because she's a Schnee, similar to how people in our world can get custom pictures printed on their bank cards if they want instead of having the standard bank design.