You tease! I am still quite excited to read this when you go public with it. :D

@_@;;; The o.. I feel like I'm slipping down when I look at this.

I was thinking rounds=bullets, but she looks like she's in a city and I likely have a different concept of urban survival than you

"Bullets? Pff, shooting people makes it too easy. It's no challenge to take valuables from under the nose of a corpse."

Or at least Absinthe would probably say something like that if guns worked in Wormwood. (They don't, due to divine fiat.)

I always figured they worked -- glass bells are just more effective and pleasing to observers...

I... Wow. This actually somehow strikes me with a little vertigo. Awesome.

Cool design. Looks even better with that noise! <3

*excited*

So how much does a Round buy?

That's always a problem with money... knowing what it's worth. Modern currencies are bought and sold on the market, so at least you can say this many Francs are worth that many Yen, or so many Dollars will buy so many Rupees. But how much is 2nd. century Denarius worth? Or an Tudor silver penny? The only meaningul comparison you can make is to state the value in how much bread or cloth or seed the money will buy. Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. We often don't know even this much. Worse... in one time and one place, a penny might buy a night's lodging in an inn, but only one shoe. The same amount of silver struck as a dinar or a shilling in another time and place, might not be sufficient for a room in an inn, but might buy a complete pair of shoes! The commodities also change in relative value over time.

So what is a Round worth? Would it buy a copy of the comic?

One round roughly equals six 2008 US$.

So a Round is worth roughly $1 US (1980) I guess.

I'm in love with your color palette. What made you decide on just that shade of maroon? :)

It's what worked against the sky when I was fiddling with the color!

Also, brick-red is thematically connected to Wormwood in the actual comic pages...

It makes sense, and it works very well here. It reminds me of the vintage slides that I often work over for clients. It's almost exactly that shade of maroon that positive film drifts to over the years. So to my eyes, it gives the whole thing a vintage cast, like something out of history. :)

Well done. :)