Annotated 24-14
Well, at least we had no difficulty inventing legislation that ended up screwing everybody but the Heads of Houses over.
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about framing these unheard cries for help as entirely the fault of wartime rationing. Surely the fact that a non-trivial part of the total adventuring population just kinda fucked off and declared their own nation for a few weeks had something to do with it? But Sundar doesn’t really need any whipped cream squirted onto his guilt pizza at this point, so maybe it is best we don’t dwell on that too much.
I love a good malapropism, but Sundar’s use of the word “altruists” goes a bit deeper. He heard Brunhilde use it in her life-changing last words to him, and he didn’t quite get what it meant. But his private definition for it is righter than anyone knows.
I can’t remember when this originally ran relative to Gotham, but Sundar’s use of The Altruists and the bit from Gotham’s first season, where somebody pointed Gordon and Bullock toward the ‘altruists’ (since he was actually pointing them toward a fake charity it was more obvious in his case) are forever melded in my brain. Specifically, Bullock’s ‘WHAT’S AN ALTRUIST?!’ response which now feels even more right.
I never realized that being a Murder Hobo was such a low paying profession.
Well considering you always end up in a chain of events that somehow ends with you fighting a world-ending god… 100 gold be kinda low and you might as well just bring a healer.
Well, hobos. It’s right there in the name. What did you expect?
Why does the mug in the poster look like it’s had a bad photoshop job? It it dented in a strangely regular way?
It’s a M-1985 Canteen Cup issued to troops during WWII.
It’s kidney-shaped! Thanks.
Interestingly, if you take a deep look at the economic strategies in wartime, rationing and price controls are the second worst choice for ensuring ample supplies for your armies. The only thing that will wreck your production capability worse is just going out and seizing everything.
Just buy up all the potions the army needs and let the price rise to match the increased demand and you’ll end up with every school child scrounging potion ingredients and every alchemist looking for alternative recipes. Cap the price and ration and there’s little incentive to do either.