Comic #922: Earth-Encrusted Gem (Patreon)

I had to make a comic about this item. The fact that it is non-stackable and non-destroyable and has a singular purpose is so strange to me. It feels intentional, like some dev somewhere is messing with us. Is it because they are non-farmable? What is the rationale here?! Someone fill me in.

Anyway... This comic started out as just being a commentary on this one item, and I had the first three panels in my mind right off the bat. However, I struggled to find a punchline I was happy with. At first I was trying to work in another related item, Gem-Studded Candelabra, which is another obtainable item that contains the Earth-Encrusted Gem, which looks EXACTLY like an earth-encrusted gem. But I just couldn't make it fit into the narrative and instead worked it into my bonus panel for this week.

In the end the punchline kind of made the comic less about the gem and more about the red text you get when the game tells you that you can't do things. I feel like I could have made a stronger comic that was JUST about the red text, similar to #521, but I was already too committed.