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New page! Rath gets his gear back and it seems we’re all clear in the cultist department. But…’flash’? What’s that about?! Find out next Saturday in BTB!!!
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Sell his own loinclothes to Rath for a excessive price (when he has just picked up/stolen it) , this pile of sh*t hemesh is a real bastard (he said it himself) : i hate him more and more ……………. If Peteranckorn has created him and the bitch sniffer to be hated persons : he has succeed
For the “flash” , i was thinking to Zarmanali ; but no : she has used all her snapshots . I hope that’s not the comeback of the cult ? …………. *prepare a nuclear bomb*
Personally I rather like Hamesh sure he is an enterprising merchant and takes every advantage he can get to earn cash. but I’m impressed by his many ways of taking advantage of a situation. So long as I’m safely on the other side of a screen I enjoy his antics, if I met him IRL id stab first before he could bring ruin upon my wallet.
It’s easy to take advantage of a customer if this one is a dumb goblin as Rath : he doesn’t even understand the great hero who was owning the loincloth and cloak is himself ………… I wait until the unavoidable meeting with Goret and such ; i’m sure Tiger , Pinkie and Bear will enjoy to get back their outfits . And hemesh will get a long bad time from them
Hemesh is supposed to be quite annoying but he’s not really evil. He just really loves making deals and making money. He has no interest in killing or even allowing people to die. He’d happily provide starving people with food-And make some sort of deal where he’d profit from it in the long run-Which is actually more ethical than a lot of business people (who are more interested in a short term spike in profits to boost share prices and their own career rather than thinking about long term viability). Of course, he might come unstuck when our heroes reach an area where there’s more competition, but he does have some really neat stuff. You’ve just gotta keep your cool and you can trade with him safely 🙂
I quote :
“””He’d happily provide starving people with food””” ………… Hemesh is able to have sent some goblins sneak and steal the food from these peoples . The best way to stay safe is go to another seller than him
If you have the choice-Definitely. If you have no other option-He’s your guy 😉
Well , a seller taking any occasion to increase the price …………. I’m surprised nobody has already killed hemesh and raided his stuff , since the time
Well, looks like I’m not the only one who hates Hemesh, but after seeing this page I’ve (again) reached a point where I stopped feeling bad for his victims because they’re so exaggeratedly dumb that they’re no longer relatable. Also we never see the heroes earn any gold, so it feels like the gold Hemesh takes from them just appears out of nowhere when they’re trading. So far there haven’t been any negative consequences for the heroes from getting ripped off. They can just buy as much equipment or Dungeon Crunch as they want, because they’ll always have just the right amount of money.
Welcome to the club ……….. I hope to see hemesh meet some adventurers more intelligent than Rath (won’t be hard to find)
Suddenly , i have a fear : since we haven’t him swipe the clothes on ground , i hope he hasn’t swiped too the gold chest from the villagers ?
Well, he must’ve seen the power of an angry mob a few minutes ago, so I bet he didn’t do that. 🙂
‘A fool and his money are easily parted’ is the proverb I believe. I suppose it depends on what a person values. Rath doesn’t really care about money. His image and his physical power are more important to him, so he doesn’t think about it TOO much. Yeah, he acts dumber than a real person would, but that’s quite a common trope. I really love the comedy series ‘The Black Adder’. He’s famous for being cunning, but when you look at the show he’s not really that smart. He’s just surrounded by people that are cartoonishly stupid.
Yeah, it’s unrealistic-But I don’t think I ever set up expectations a gritty realism with this comic. There are rules to this setting, but those rules are not as rigid as they might be in a more serious and sensible story. Those rules certainly don’t include ‘All characters shall behave sensibly’ 😉
As to money-Our heroes got theirs when they raided the treasure rooms of the Vermin Queen. Kazu spent a lot of hers on her new armour, Rath spent nearly all of his on a vest of physical improvement (+2 Con, +2 Str), a load of ‘Dungeon Crunch’ and some starter gear for the Bards. Rath’s running very low by now (he did have a line a few pages back where he asked to borrow some cash from one of the others but I cut it because it didn’t seem very interesting-silly me! ;D).
Zeen and Alice have spent very little of their gold. Zeen bought a new hat and leg/arm defenders and Alice bought a bodysuit. They each had a lot of gold from the Vermin Queen (and Alice had a fair bit before that) but it’s not inexhaustible. Don’t worry. I’m not keeping a running total down to the last coin but I am keeping track of this stuff 🙂 I won’t use the ‘this comic is silly so it doesn’t matter’ excuse. That stuff does matter. It may seem like there’s no limit, but I do take that stuff into account 🙂
Another source of gold is all the gear Kazu stole from the cultists. Only the underwear was absorbed by her armour. She still has some magic gear from the two nuns and the two monks that they could sell if they needed to (holy symbols, brooches of defence, gauntlets of shielding, magic maces).
Hehe, I guess I provided a case of Murphy’s Law for you when you were like “I’ll just cut that one line because so far literally nobody ever cared about how much money anyone has, what could possibly go wrong?” 😉
Well, there’s a saying from a Discworld novel that goes something like this: “If something has a one in a million chance to happen, it happens nine out of ten times.”
But it’s good to know that the heroes were able to loot at least some of the loot. So far I thought that Hemesh just collected everything.
lol-Yeah, It’s ‘sod’s law’ at work 😀 Yes, not to worry-Kazu took most of the more valuable items from the nuns and the warrior monks (those were stored inside her armour, which includes an extradimensional space like a bag of holding). There were various bits of rag and leather straps and the like that fell off the cultists due to battle damage that Hemesh and Scimble (his assistant) were able to gather up while everyone else was distracted with more pressing matters 🙂
I quote : “””Another source of gold is all the gear Kazu stole from the cultists. Only the underwear was absorbed by her armour. She still has some magic gear from the two nuns and the two monks that they could sell if they needed to (holy symbols, brooches of defence, gauntlets of shielding, magic maces).”””
I bet hemesh would buy it for a cheap price (like 30 gold) to sell it for expensive (500 gold or more)
Yeah-Best not to sell to Hemesh uless you really need to. In D&D if you can buy and sell magic items it generally costs the listed price to buy and you get half the listed price if you sell. Since magic items don’t really wear out (at least in the case of swords and amulets and what have you) and they cost tens of thousands of gold, I always thought it would be better to set up a magic item shop and sell old items that were no longer needed to other adventurers, rather than selling them at half price to dealers. You could sell them at 10% off and still make way more money than you would selling them to a mechant.
Selling just one moderately powerful magic item would generate enough profits to cover the cost of a shop and staff for years. If you could make your own potions and scrolls (not that hard for a wizard) you’d be rolling in it 😀
That’s what i’ve always noticed in each RPG i’ve played to ; but hemesh is the first bastard seller i’ve ever met ……….. Adventurers are really dumb peoples or totally desperate to come to buy or sell something to him
That’s true. I wonder what he’ll do when our heroes get to a larger town that has rival traders in it? 😉