Gravedust is often our most “destroy capitalism” character, but here he really is practically about to start passing out copies of The Communist Manifesto. I mean, it’d be one thing if his observations flowed from Syr’Nj’s in any sort of natural way, but she’s talking logistics and he’s talking sociology. He was clearly and, somewhat uncharacteristically, not listening to her too much and just waiting for his turn to speak.

On the other hand, his point is a lot more applicable to what our (ahem) heroes are currently doing. Granted, they’re not stealing anything that clearly belongs to someone else, and they’re not, as far as we know, murdering other sentient beings to get to it. But it’s still interesting that they’re on what seems to be a loot-driven quest, which is common for Dungeons and Dragons but a little odd for a group with government-paid wages. It fits our original working-class-hero concept better than where our story actually ended up.

But maybe Ardaic’s just trying to get them to scrounge up a little funding for armor and soldier’s meals before the war proper begins.