Ah, well... a check is a way of promising and exchanging money. You might give a check to someone and they would go to the bank to cash it. If your world doesn't have banks, then uh... that may be a bit more of an economics lesson. Long story short, it's a promise of money to be paid.
So in the metaphor here, it's basically saying... if you had someone's word to give you anything you asked for, without conditions, what would you ask for?
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[Good question. He wasn't sure.]
Ah, well... a check is a way of promising and exchanging money. You might give a check to someone and they would go to the bank to cash it. If your world doesn't have banks, then uh... that may be a bit more of an economics lesson. Long story short, it's a promise of money to be paid.
So in the metaphor here, it's basically saying... if you had someone's word to give you anything you asked for, without conditions, what would you ask for?