# Introduction You sit in your office, in front of your computer, cursor blinking, and stare out of the window. The pastrami sandwich you bought for lunch from the corner deli was $15 today. (Inflation, apparently.) And the boss just told you no raises this year. Out of the corner of your eye, you spot something… out of place. A dark-robed figure approaches the manhole cover in the middle of the street, pries it open with some kind of long knife, and climbs down. Just before he vanishes, he turns and unmistakably meets your gaze. He beckons. You swear his eyes glow green before he vanishes into the manhole. Deep in the sewers under your city with its expensive sandwiches and unending day jobs, the tired and downtrodden have found OOZE – a mysterious, replenishing substance with transformative power and the foundation of an entirely new economy. OOZE is a deflationary, sustainable, and even transferable investment with a consistent, compoundable, and even upgradable daily 1% return. Around it are two warring factions: the Order of SLIME and the BioPunks, each seeking to control this new resource for their own gain. Now that you’ve looked down the manhole, now that you've locked eyes with that monk, now that you’ve seen OOZE, you can’t turn back. #### OOZE has arrived. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://oozefinance.gitbook.io/ooze-finance-whitepaper/introduction.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.