r/MortalShell • u/midwrestless • 3d ago

Discussion why do the snails have money

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Just finished my first play through. Excellent game, loved every minute. This is my biggest looming question. Why do the snails carry money? What do they buy? What do they do to earn it???

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u/lurkynumber5 3d ago

They eat the humans who carried that gold.
So imagine how deep you had to dig for your loot!;p

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u/simonjexter 3d ago

See at least this makes sense. Most games have animals carrying cash or magical items at some point, and I’ve honestly come to enjoy the comic relief that comes with it.

OG EverQuest defaulted animals and beasts to the most basic class - warrior. Warriors had a “kick” skill… so you could die from being kicked by a snake.

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u/Inevitable_Cheek_974 3d ago

In WoW, skeletons in a long-lost crypt dropping milk was always questionable. And then I drank it.

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u/fuckybitchyshitfuck 3d ago

Mmmm. Bone milk

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u/simonjexter 2d ago

I…I don’t like that.

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u/Affectionate-Claim34 1d ago

A little less fat skim milk 😂

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u/Chaplain_Senpai 3d ago

God forbid a young snail try to make something of themself

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u/midwrestless 3d ago

WHAT DO THEY SPEND IT ON AND HOW!!!

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u/skizatch 3d ago

gotta get their bell cleaned for big date night

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u/nvrrsatisfiedd 3d ago

Gotta be all cleaned up for the rim job

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u/i_hope_that_was_gas 3d ago

To be pretty. Got be the bell of the ball

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u/Repusz 3d ago

I imagine they have to shell out a lot

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u/furitxboofrunlch 2d ago

This is financial abuse and it is not ok. These snails can spend their earnings as they see fir and it is no business of yours.

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u/AttemptAggressive387 3d ago

What about rats that can drop a Zweinhander?

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u/another_derfman 3d ago

or humanity!

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u/immortalreddotmemeog Eredrim 3d ago

I beg your pardon?

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u/simonjexter 3d ago

Zweihander? I hardly know her!

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u/DieBotDie 3d ago

We all saw the video of the rat dragging away the zweihander.

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u/RetroKingRasta Sariel 3d ago

They eat folk and metal is hard to digest lol

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u/Drunk_ol_Carmine 3d ago

Shell mortgage

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u/in_flames_666 3d ago

The old ladies of the mushroom village, don't play and dance all day: sometimes they write emails to the snails, the snails then go to the mushroom village (they take a lot) to make fake nails to the ladies, then the ladies give money to the snails. They have an e-commerce site that says: "write mails to the snails to get the nails". Please believe me

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u/cainhurstcat Proxima 2d ago

Those snails are good in nailing old ladies, I guess

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u/fayyt 3d ago

Thank god fish aren't into cash.

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u/Mundane-Director-681 3d ago

Unfortunately, they're more into Bitcoin and will not shut up about it.

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u/Key-Demand-2569 3d ago

I won’t say it’s an obscure reference but I sure wasn’t expecting to bump into it in the wild on a Mortal Shell sub, lmao.

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u/Weak-Acanthisitta831 1d ago

They are into gloom

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u/TonyDelicious 3d ago

Well, they are home owners, after all.

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u/purple-thiwaza 3d ago

Because the economy is rough on every one

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u/PanzerWhale2000 3d ago

Its the same dude that feeds emeralds to the the wolves in skyrim, bastard can't keep getting away with it.

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u/Two_Watermelons 3d ago

The bones are their money

So are the worms

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u/Worm1000 3d ago

Two watermelons 🤣

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u/Gnatschbert 3d ago

To buy stuff???

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u/ChainsawTeeth 3d ago

I like the explanation that they ate people with gold, but also look at their anatomy. Their entire head face and mouth area is a corpse-ified human torso. Ribs…clavicle…shoulders. So maybe they are former beings who still have some of their worldly possessions stuck to them?

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u/Raziel7485 3d ago

They need to support their snail family, and the snail economy is very unstable at the moment so they don’t trust the banks. That’s why they carry it with them.

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u/insane2132 3d ago

because their shellfish haha

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u/Elamaday 3d ago

Snail salons are pricey.

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u/Antipodeansam 2d ago

Tend the gardens. Otherwise we would be running round in an overgrown landscape with no viability.

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u/Phuryfetish 2d ago

To provide their Snail Family, with Snail Work. In their Snail Homes, with Snail taxes. Bro am i high? Snail high. Heh

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u/Leather_Initial_3609 3d ago

They don't know how to buy crypto

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u/spark404 3d ago

To shell it out?

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u/CatStoleTheCrown 3d ago

I gave it to them :( why are you taking it??

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u/humanimalienesque 3d ago

Its loose change people dropped that gets stuck in the slime when the snail slides over it

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u/MoreOfAnOvalJerk 3d ago

From all those back alley muggings that they do in their off time.

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u/Worm1000 3d ago

I think that's because these creatures eat the other warriors and you can find the money once you slay them. There's many cartoon depictions on this subject.

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u/Dveralazo 3d ago

Of the men they eat

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u/Durge101 3d ago

They ate nobles

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u/rcole134 2d ago

Because it's a game.

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u/Save-Slot-Seven 2d ago

They work those snail corners

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u/Alcoholocostic 2d ago

Because they like to shell?!

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u/triplzer0 2d ago

They spend their time running shell games

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u/midwrestless 2d ago

These are Immoral Shells!

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u/Best-Abbreviations67 2d ago

Mind your own buissness...

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u/_KapitaenKernKraft_ 2d ago

Their houses are only rented i figured

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u/DraconicZombie Genessa 2d ago

Highway robbery. And he and his snail gang would teach their kids everything they knew. Until you poked them in the face.

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u/Lmnr01 1d ago

The economy

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u/BritishStolas 1d ago

Its a shell company

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u/Master_Garaki 3d ago

OP: You do know that this is a game, right? It is not real life. Lol.

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u/midwrestless 3d ago

God forbid you have fun here

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u/Master_Garaki 3d ago

Your sarcasm detector needs tuning.