#1078; In which a Meal is bartered

Comic Transcripts

[[A man in a top hat and another with mutton chops are at a restaurant. The waiter approaches.]]
Waiter: Ready for the bill?
Tophat: Actually, in the interest of hyperlocal community interplay, we would like to propose a barter system.
Tophat: Rather than BUYING these burgers, we would like to simply BORROW them and bring you back two burgers later this week.

Tophat: Alternately, we could bake you a birthday cake.
Waiter: That is not going to work.
Tophat: You’re right! MY cake is worth at least FOUR burgers. You would end up owing us EXTRA BURGERS.

Waiter: Five minutes ago you both ate time-release burger bombs. If I don’t deactivate them, you are not going to survive the drive home.
Chops: Actually we’re WALKING home, so no worries
Tophat: We’ll be back later with the cake.

[[The waiter pursues the fleeing pair in a car. Tophat’s top hat has fallen off; he is sweating.]]
Tophat: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE MICROECONOMY

{{header: dine out at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN’T have been full of time-release burger bombs}}

#1078; In which a Meal is bartered transcribed by in

Tophat: Alternately, we could bake you a birthday cake.
Waiter: That is not going to work.
Tophat: You’re right! MY cake is worth at least FOUR burgers. You would end up owing us EXTRA BURGERS.

[[The waiter pursues the fleeing pair in a car. Tophat’s top hat has fallen off; he is sweating.]]
Tophat: THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE MICROECONOMY

{{header: dine out at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Pshaw, like the birthday cake WOULDN’T have been full of time-release burger bombs}}

#1078; In which a Meal is bartered transcribed by in

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!