Goddam it, is this what did it? I’m seventy-five years old for Chrissakes!

Am American. Used to have to get those eggs out from under the chickens who wanted to sit on them and get the shit pecked out of me before school everyday.

I knew it would happen again the other month, when I was reporting on white-collar workers who secretly juggle multiple full-time jobs. Overemployment, as the phenomenon is known, violates society’s implicit norms of loyalty to one’s employer more flagrantly than anything else I’ve encountered. But when I asked these overemployed professionals whether they felt bad that they were essentially cheating on their bosses…

What the fucking fuck? This guy actually articulated this thought as if it were rational?

Am I living in Crazyworld?

Narrator: He was.

Right, and when all we buy is food, many, many other businesses go poof. I’m not saying food isn’t expensive. I’m saying that’s all I buy anymore.

Aren’t they also losing customers? I don’t buy shit anymore. Won’t a lot of places eventually drive themselves out of business? A smaller, captive customer base with the wealth to choose differently if they feel like it. The vast majority just doing without whatever isn’t crucial.

There are multiple ways for Shadowheart to go during that scene, depending on how you have been interacting with her up to that point. I’m on a ‘good’ run, and I have maxed out her affinity. I didn’t have to roll any dice. I only had to do something that is pretty obvious, if the choice is there. I guess if you haven’t been going that route, convincing her not to kill said personage is quite hard.