Juunenme, Kikan wo Akirameta Ten'isha wa Imasara Shujinkou ni Naru - Vol. 2 Ch. 8 - The Slumbering Giant Awakens

[Qwormuli]

That's some weirdly solipsistic worldview from every member of the main cast at the same time. They resent the merchant's guild leader for opposing their attempt at ruining the entire town's economy, which is presumably his exact job, while not having a shred of foresight to expect anything similar in the opposite direction. They fuck the city as a whole, not expecting splash-back. "How dare you ruin our plan to ruin you!" That's some Saturday morning cartoon villain ass logic right there.

The entire city, as it currently is, would cease by that plan of conquering the dungeon. The central value creating source would cease, leading to mass unemployment and population collapse. This would ruin the local market for both the vintners (well, entire hospitality sector) and glassblowers, plus the next point as a compounding factor. The mass flight for adventurers would ruin the apothecary/potion business that supplied them. So, all of the co-operators in the twins' business venture are incentivized to cut them off.

And even worse, considering how it's said this entire city grew and exists around the business, while being supplied by the surrounding areas or centers of production, this could ruin an entire area in one fell swoop. And do they even attempt to find an alternative or to downsize to an actually sustainable business (the sparkling wine as a free niche for one), instead of doing a literal pump and dump parasite play? No, they go for mutually assured destruction as their first plan of action. They didn't even try to give it time for the laws to catch up to this upheaval. Well, guild policy, which act in the place of laws in historical (and often the generic fantasy) guild operated economy, meaning that once again the supposedly evil guy is just doing his job for the city. They could very well mange to get their money glitch back, after the city manages to get a framework towards either sustaining or living without the dungeon.

There are other considerations, like the long term safety of the city in the risk of these mentioned outbreaks (please please please don't just blindly port knowledge from other fantasy 1-to-1 without any knowledge or room for uncertainty, it's the most fucking stupid and common thing to see in these forums.), as we don't yet know much from that area, except the fact that this city has apparently made it for decades. But in just this matter alone, these three were an economical foreign species threatening to collapse the entire local ecosystem and were justly cut off.

Text brick over, phew.
Tl;Dr: They apparently almost fucked it all up without any foresight and threw a hissy fit at the logical response. They might special extra deluxe fuck it all up as a consequence and this might be the dramatic, spooky downfall promised before.

 

[Highorse]

That's some weirdly solipsistic worldview from every member of the main cast at the same time. They resent the merchant's guild leader for opposing their attempt at ruining the entire town's economy, which is presumably his exact job, while not having a shred of foresight to expect anything similar in the opposite direction. They fuck the city as a whole, not expecting splash-back. "How dare you ruin our plan to ruin you!" That's some Saturday morning cartoon villain ass logic right there.

The entire city, as it currently is, would cease by that plan of conquering the dungeon. The central value creating source would cease, leading to mass unemployment and population collapse. This would ruin the local market for both the vintners (well, entire hospitality sector) and glassblowers, plus the next point as a compounding factor. The mass flight for adventurers would ruin the apothecary/potion business that supplied them. So, all of the co-operators in the twins' business venture are incentivized to cut them off.

And even worse, considering how it's said this entire city grew and exists around the business, while being supplied by the surrounding areas or centers of production, this could ruin an entire area in one fell swoop. And do they even attempt to find an alternative or to downsize to an actually sustainable business (the sparkling wine as a free niche for one), instead of doing a literal pump and dump parasite play? No, they go for mutually assured destruction as their first plan of action. They didn't even try to give it time for the laws to catch up to this upheaval. Well, guild policy, which act in the place of laws in historical (and often the generic fantasy) guild operated economy, meaning that once again the supposedly evil guy is just doing his job for the city. They could very well mange to get their money glitch back, after the city manages to get a framework towards either sustaining or living without the dungeon.

There are other considerations, like the long term safety of the city in the risk of these mentioned outbreaks (please please please don't just blindly port knowledge from other fantasy 1-to-1 without any knowledge or room for uncertainty, it's the most fucking stupid and common thing to see in these forums.), as we don't yet know much from that area, except the fact that this city has apparently made it for decades. But in just this matter alone, these three were an economical foreign species threatening to collapse the entire local ecosystem and were justly cut off.

Text brick over, phew.
Tl;Dr: They apparently almost fucked it all up without any foresight and threw a hissy fit at the logical response. They might special extra deluxe fuck it all up as a consequence and this might be the dramatic, spooky downfall promised before.

Yeah it kinda struck me as weird that the whole first arc was about how they were smuggling gold out of a town and ruining its economy and the second that follows has the protagonists immediately try to ruin the economy of the next town.

 

[Qwormuli]

Yeah it kinda struck me as weird that the whole first arc was about how they were smuggling gold out of a town and ruining its economy and the second that follows has the protagonists immediately try to ruin the economy of the next town.

Didn't even think of that total moral somersault. Good point.