Labrat wrote:
GWhite wrote:
Too bad they have not invented novelty t-shirts yet.
Relics, man. Thats where the money is at.
A pouch full of the ashes of messiah Ian's home. Some water he has blessed. A few beads you scrounge up and tell them are holy.
You're thinking small. A scrap of the cloak/trenchcoat Ian wore during his holy pilgrimage into the heritic library, the charred bones of the elves he blasted in battle (which look suspiciously like the remains of a barbecue disaster), ashes from his home are good, but holy water and beads? Pfft. Small change. You need something CONNECTED to him, man. You're selling cobblestones that St. George supposedly peed on in a drunken stupor when you could be selling the shroud of Turin or a piece of the true cross.
When Ian becomes a martyr, which we all know he will (even if he dies in an insane attempt to enslave the entire universe to his will, the spin from the PR department in the Church of Ian will still make him out to be a saint), relics will sell for even more. Think about it- when an artist dies, his paintings suddenly skyrocket in value, because he won't be making anymore. Same goes for messianic figures.
Besides, considering how similar Tsuriaku seems to our own culture in many ways, who's to say they DON'T have novel t-shirts? Heck, Impy and Poe could get in on that with shirts that say things like "Ian did it", "Ian died for our sins", "Member of the First Baptist Church of Ian", etc.
Damn it your right, Meji needs to off him to improve the value of the merch.