#Alrond Rondwell

[blazlngblade]

New Traveler, Alrond, is here!!

I knew he'd be pretty, but oh my gosh he is pretty!!

I love his art!!

[mrpuripurin]

Assorted OT2 sketches and 🪙🏯Hikartio aggie doodles 💚🐙

[moresrush]

I wanted him to restore me like every painting in this spotless hall.

[redshift-corridor]

SQUEALS EXTREMELY LOUDLY

[dragon-driftway]

Partitio and Alrond as NitW characters :)

[viridiave]

Crossposted from Twitter

Alrond shenanigans to take my brain off of finally finishing finals -

I WISH I had this many gains irl

Close-ups under the cut

[thecreaturecalledriza]

Alrond, to Partitio: I don’t normally chase after the men I’m interested in. But for you, Partitio, a bitch might just power walk.

[hiraganasakura]

I finished Partitio's final chapter last night and I'm just here thinking about what it'd be like to be a journalist in that crowd lol

Like. Imagine: You're a reporter in the crowd, eagerly awaiting Roque Brilliante's latest announcement regarding the steam engine, pen and paper in hand. You're on the edge of your seat as he concludes, confident in your scoop

Suddenly, a mysterious man in a yellow coat arrives, waving a check he claims to represent 80 billion leaves from the famous Alrond Rondwell, and he insists on buying the rights to the steam engine. He and Roque start to argue like they've known each other for years, and Roque shoots down the man bcus he doesn't have the cold hard cash to pay with. And wow, you sure weren't expecting drama in your scoop today, but what a headline!

And then *Alrond himself* — who you have probably been trying and failing for ages to get an interview with — just swoops in on his *massive* ship, filled with *80 billion in cash*. He talks about how awesome this man with the yellow coat — apparently named Partitio — is. Then Partitio and Roque sign the contract to hand the rights to the steam engine over to the former. Your headline just got sm better

But then Roque is so mad about losing the rights to the steam engine and is suddenly snarling at you and the other reporters like a wild animal, demanding to leave him alone. And of course you can't do that, you're paparazzi! So you and a whole crowd of other journalists try to follow him. Next thing you know, the wall of the factory is run down by an *enormous train*, driven by *Roque*, and headed *right for you*. What even *is* a train? You don't know! You're running for your life!

[wickedsick]

The Price of a Banana

In this post by @spitblaze, I analyzed the price of a banana in Solistia.

However, I made a mistake.

I assumed that the "Healing Grape" item, which I based my calculations off of, referred to a bunch of grapes. Mostly because the icon has a bunch of grapes in it.

This was wrong. There's a separate item called a Healing Grape Bunch.

50 leaves is the price of One.

Singular.

Grape.

Therefore, I'm making this post as a correction.

To get a more accurate price, we'll also be taking a look at the other prominent fruit in Solistia-- plums.

Lychees and Pomegranates are also available, but their real-world prices are characterized by high import costs that aren't reflected by their in-game price. Olives, meanwhile, have the opposite problem. One olive costs ten times as much as a healing grape, but their real prices are far closer.

Nuts are also a no-go, since the rare nuts you can acquire throughout the game are notably impossible to cultivate.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, bananas cost around 60¢ per pound, plums cost 88¢ per pound, and grapes cost $2.40 per pound.

There's three bananas in a pound of bananas, seven plums in a pound of plums, and 80 grapes in a pound of grapes.

Healing grapes cost 50 leaves each, while inspiriting plums cost 240 leaves. This means a pound of grapes costs 4000 leaves, while a pound of plums costs 1680 leaves.

4000/2.40= 1667, giving us our grape ratio.

1680/0.88 = 1909, giving us our plum ratio.

The average of these two numbers is 1788, so we can approximate a pound of bananas at 1072.8 leaves. Since there are three bananas in a pound, each banana costs 357.8 leaves.

Of course, since grapes and plums have restorative properties, we're likely overestimating.

The only fruits that aren't notably restorative (that is to say, they're not sold as a restorative item) that we can acquire in Solistia are raspberries. Octopath 1 let you steal apples from Therion's final boss, but that's irrelevant to the current discussion.

Raspberries are 20 leaves each and can be purchased from NPCs in Cropdale, where they grow.

Since raspberries are a seasonal fruit, their price varies throughout the year. At rural farms or pick-your-own areas, they can go for around 2 dollars a pound. There are about 135 raspberries in a pound, so a pound of raspberries costs 2700 leaves.

2700/2 = 1350, giving us our raspberry ratio

If we use this ratio, a banana would cost 270 leaves. If they were sold in general stores, they would cost a bit more due to import costs, but the steam engine may make that cheaper- so bananas would cost around 300 leaves each.

There is, however, another fruit we could use as our metric. However, it's the most expensive fruit in the game.

Alrond Rondwell costs 160,000 leaves to hire. The average 35-year-old man weighs around 208 pounds, giving Alrond a price of about 770 leaves per pound, a fair bit cheaper than any other ratio we've discussed. However, you can only hire him, not buy him outright, and slavery is illegal in the United States, so an actual price is impossible to derive.

Therefore, we can conclude that, if you were able to buy bananas in Octopath Traveler 2, they would cost around 300 leaves.

[nicandragon]

My very normal contribution to Maid Day

[shinekittenace]

partitio and his sugar daddy INVESTOR alrond

[blazlngblade]

Alrond made an appearance in Side Solistia! When we seen him, it was quite literally a "Oh, hello!?" moment.

However he didn't give any signs of being playable (no 3-Frame Headshake, no battle pose, etc.) But he probably would be playable anyway, who doesn't want to see Alrond?

[da-millerrrrr]

..how much did alrond being unabashedly gay for partitio contribute to him giving partitio the 80 billion leaves.

Oh like 85%

The other 15% was him being genuinely grateful for helping the Wellgrove economy

[redshift-corridor]

Considering you can just freely recruit him with Temenos once you hit level 80 with no downsides or other costs, there isn't really any gameplay reason for Alrond's allure chance to cap at 2% even with a max level Agnea, is there 🤔

[destinywillowleaf]

so i was trying to make a little animatic/animation meme thing and at one point i planned to make it in full color (since it wasn't gonna be that many total frames).

i gave up on that but i still like how these turned out (and they kinda double as a height lineup)

as for why partitio's not here... you'll see ;)

[viridiave]

@croquettemoon enjoy aksjaks my brain went into another goddamn spiral about Crick from that convo -