#701; The Karma of Currency

Comic Transcripts

OTTO: Since money in a credit-based economy is essentially fictional anyway…and there is no way to track individual discrete dollars as they move through the system…it follows that wholly invented backstories for every dollar are completely valid by virtue of being impossible to disprove.

OTTO: So, earlier, when I swiped my debit card in the cab, I transferred to the driver part of Henry Ford’s profit from the sale of the first Model T. Later, I bought a bag of fun-size Snickers with the same dollar Thomas Jefferson used to buy point-oh-seven square miles of Louisiana!
EUGENE: NO!

EUGENE: The dollars in Jefferson’s and Ford’s times were on the GOLD STANDARD! They corresponded to specific lumps of metal in Fort Knox! Your arrogant attempt to place yourself at the crossroads of history must begin in 1933 at the earliest!
OTTO: Then you won’t mind in the least if I pay you back for the lunch with TAINTED 1919 BLACK SOX DOLLARS…?
EUGENE: W-well let’s not be rash

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#701; The Karma of Currency transcribed by in

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.