I’m not exactly sure why ‘Clypeus.’ I don’t quite remember. The sentiment’s real, though.

This was a somewhat… stress-filled month for me. I’m not sure why: possibly it’s just because I am reaching the point where I may have been cooped up for too long. I think I can say that I had a mildly productive pandemic, but I’m ready for it to be done now.
Anyway:
With regard to ‘All That The Market Has Borne:’ look, it’s just market forces at work. You have a valuable product that can be produced by multiple sources, thus making it difficult for even a cartel to form; and the production values are both high and restrictive, so strip-mining the resource isn’t going to work. That pretty much means high wages for the specialist laborers who have the most critical role in the enterprise. Straightforward, really.
I am trying to encourage the Patreon, after all. I expect that at some point I will make UNFILTERED generally available, though. To give you an idea of what it’s like:
Continue reading Up on Patreon: My complete UNFILTERED Spooky Space Opera RPG setting (paywall).
Sorry about the third-person there, but I’m trying to get my SEO all up in this thing. Anyway: I have a Patreon! Fiction! RPG material! More fiction! And it can all be yours!
Well. The access to it, at least. I still own everything.