Comic #102: Quest Item (Patreon)

Originally published: July 29, 2007

This was clearly before toys were a thing. Most old "toys" were really just quest items that did cool things. However, once you turned in the quest, the items would disappear. This led to several quests that people would purposefully not turn-in in order to keep the "toy" quest item.

The best example is still in my inventory:

They did eventually create a similar toy, but with a much greater cooldown.

So the joke here was that these poor quest givers were never truly helped, as all the heroes just hoarded the quest item for the effects.