#1122; In which a Man Drowns

Comic Transcripts

[[A drowning individual cries for help while a wealthy-looking citizen turns a blind eye. The water looks less than a foot deep, but the drowning person is lying on his back, unable to stand up.]]
Drowning Person: HELP! Please help me up!
Aristocrat: I shan’t! I KNOW you wet people!
Aristocrat: It’s just a ploy to get me close so you can pick my pocket!

Aristocrat: Besides, you probably fell in of your own accord! HOW are you to learn to stay dry if I HELP you?
Drowning Person: Someone pushed me in… I was once as dry as you!

Aristocrat: A likely story. If you don’t admit your own faults, how will you EVER improve?
Aristocrat: Just get up! It doesn’t look deep.

Drowning Person: I twisted my ankle when I fell. Just a hand for a moment, please…
Aristocrat: I’d rather let a HUNDRED MEN DROWN than accidentally help ONE whose misfortune is JUSTIFIED.
Aristocrat: If there is the SLIGHTEST chance that you brought this condition upon yourself, you DESERVE to sit there.

[[Another elderly person joins in on the conversation.]]
Commentator: Water vagrant. This lake used to be NICE.
Aristocrat: Miserable. Someone should DO something for the poor creatures.

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#1122; In which a Man Drowns transcribed by in

Aristocrat: Besides, you probably fell in of your own accord! HOW are you to learn to stay dry if I HELP you?
Drowning Person: Someone pushed me in… I was once as dry as you!

Aristocrat: A likely story. If you don’t admit your own faults, how will you EVER improve?
Aristocrat: Just get up! It doesn’t look deep.

[[Another elderly person joins in on the conversation.]]
Commentator: Water vagrant. This lake used to be NICE.
Aristocrat: Miserable. Someone should DO something for the poor creatures.

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{{alt-text: Really, I’d rather let a hundred men drown than do almost anything at all}}

#1122; In which a Man Drowns 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.