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A Sky Full of Stars 057
 └  Posted on Thursday, 16 January 2025 by Novil
  • Info box: Two months later.
  • Sign #1: Out of stock
  • Sign #2: Out of stock
  • Sign #3: Lydia’s Farm – Bloomrabi, Tettarin & Garax
  • Sign #4: Everything sold out!
  • Scarlet: We’ll leave Samaris.
  • Julius: Really?!
  • Julius: You want to flee to Avernum?
  • Scarlet: No. Avernum has closed the border months ago and it’s practically impossible to get in.
  • Scarlet: First, we’ll sell some of our supplies to buy equipment. A cart, a tent, sleeping bags, energy crystals. Stuff like that.
  • Scarlet: Then we’ll head northeast, towards the Crystal Flower Hills and the Aurora Plains.
  • Julius: But it’s even colder there!
  • Scarlet: That’s true. But there are also far fewer other people.
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 └  Characters: Julius Mirkning, Scarlet Carolus

14 thoughts on “A Sky Full of Stars 057”

  1. Lee

    We seem to have had a little time skip…

  2. DavidK

    I see food in the foreground of the first panel.

    1. Lee

      I was thinking the same thing. Roast rat is way better than roast boot.

      1. Werwolfe

        That’s a mouse, isn’t it? Body shape, ear and eye ratio, tail doesn’t look entirely hairless, etc. (… I’m not pedantic, you’re pedantic, shut up)
        Also, you can really feel that scarf’s cozy fluffiness in the penultimate panel.

      2. Jan

        Why does your comment remind me of Gone with the Blastwave comic?

  3. Vicious Sand

    Fewer people in the northeast means fewer robbers to support. And not that it’s growing season, but if they travel far enough, they might get to another farmland.
    It’s better to flee for your lives, than become the next meal. Julius should join her. He and Tibor can take turns pulling the wagon. 🙂

  4. Doomedelf

    Reminds me of the Dutchmark or Soviets things are about to get really really bad. They should have left weeks ago.

    1. Tauben

      I think they probably couldn’t leave weeks ago. To travel they need both equipment and supplies. The equipment would usually be the more expensive part and they likely couldn’t afford enough of both. But in a famine the price of food predictably skyrockets, while the price of equipment decreases (due to decreased demand – people save money to feed themselves).
      By buying the food early and selling it now that the price is high to buy equipment, which is now cheap, they effectively increased their travel funds to the point that they have chances to make the journey.

      1. Novil

        Exactly.

  5. Crystalgate

    Scarlet and Tibor is pulling a gambit where they bought excess food for the money they did have, waited for food prices to skyrocket and are now planning on selling some of their food. They have waited until now because food prices were not high enough prior to now. Avernum however closed its borders months ago. To me it seems like the governments knew about the food shortages way earlier than the population, at least Kirelia’s population.

    While obviously the government has access to more information than the average subject, I also wonder if it isn’t also so that people are purposefully thought to think that the access to food is safer than it is. It would make sense in this world. Imagine that the food production has a low margin, say Kirelia usually is able to produce 102% of what it needs. Then there is a bad year and food production goes down so the country with whatever little it can stockpile just barely has enough. Barely enough is still enough, but only if people don’t panic buy or otherwise disrupts the food supplies. To prevent this, the people are thought to trust that the access to food is safer than it is.

    This strategy is less useful in a massive food shortage that is happening now, but it would have been intended for lesser food shortages. Further, this strategy is only useful if food production is low margin, but usually relative stable and requires that the food does not taste good, else excess eating would defeat it. I don’t know how stable the food production of this world usually is, but we do know that food doesn’t taste good.

  6. Brett Bellmore

    I wonder if they’re using greenhouses in this world? I don’t think we’ve seen any.

    1. Sekhmet

      In the “settings” section, there is mention of greenhouses.
      “Some endeavors to grow food indoors exist, but there’s not enough heating material available for widespread application. Still, these greenhouses ease the situation at least a little.”
      There a some, but we just don’t see them.

  7. Llywenna

    Once again proving the old adage “you can’t eat gold”

    1. Me

      More accurately, “you can’t digest gold”

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