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aerialism: thank god you’re here Chosen One

I'm totally the real chosen one and not an imposter tricked into believing it by the evil forces

Okay listen, centuries of neglect by a greedy noble class has gutted our civic infrastructure, our schools are mostly run by a religious order that we fear might be a cult, the king has dementia, and there are about 80,000 orcs on the border who are getting fed up with a history of anti-orc racism

For your budget I have 10 gold pieces, a magic sword, and a plucky thief to be your sidekick

Good luck

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I hear the dark lord's army has a union

delphicxix this is your problem now, wake me up when it's time to kill the darklord or whatever you think the issue is

tehepero

so sue me, this is cobalt's jam way more than mine!

wait

have we tried trickle down economics?

i feel like we should give trickle down economics a shot

There’s one of the corrupt nobles now

no it will work this time i promise
just invest in my corporation - remember my corporation is a person so u have to be nice to it

I feel like the orc situation and the "we have a lot of corrupt nobles" situation could possibly solve each other.

no, the nobles would just rally the smallfolk and pin the blame for not defeating the orcs on you.

sighs. cracks knuckles

alright, here's what we do

team up w/the thief and use what gold we have to cobble together a printing press.

circulate two broadsheets: a serialized journal that's primarily just reprinting karl marx's das kapital in its original form, i.e. as a set of more easily-digestible articles rather than a massive fucking tome,

and a more morally grey work that's primarily aimed toward propaganda and rabble-rousing. build class consciousness on two fronts

once we've developed enough of a political consciousness w/in the working class, it should be easier to establish good relations w/the orcs. it'll be slow going but some communes can be established, and while we're community-building we can pool our knowledge to offer a less culty education alternative

after establishing a solid foundation, we coordinate a full capture of whatever industry there is, local farms, etc.

and work w/the orcs to depose noble order

note that i'll definitely have to supplement capital/make some edits for a different set of class structure, but marx has also written extensively on pre-capitalism class struggles iirc so there's some sources i can pull for that

donezo. after decades, probably, but that's how these things work

you can thank me later