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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 3760348" data-attributes="member: 93">Well, Dragons don't exactly sit around trying to figure out how to keep their hordes up to cost of living increases...  or do they....(commence silliness)Mr. Dragon: Dear, I'm afraid that our stockpile of gold is only worth 93% of what it was worth last year at this time.Mrs. Dragon: How is that possible, my sweet baboo?  Gold is gold the world over!Mr. Dragon: Well, yes, but our gold will buy less than it did a year ago.Mrs. Dragon:  But we never buy anything, dear.  We just sit in this cave all day long.Mr. Dragon: True, but we need to consider our positions as leaders in the Monstrous Heirarchy!  If we don't do something, the Aboleths will have a net value that surpasses ours, and we can't have that...  Mrs. Dragon: Heavens no!Mr. Dragon: I have an idea.  We shall become investors!Mrs. Dragon: Investors?  What will we invest in?Mr. Dragon (smuggly): The hottest new investing commodity!  Adventuring Companies!Mrs. Dragon: Oh, Dear!  I'm not sure that's such a wonderful idea...  I've been reading up on things in my Dungeon magazine...Mr. Dragon: I thought they stopped selling that?Mrs. Dragon: Oh, no, they just stopped printing them.  I can get it on my crystal ball now.  And they have something to say about Adventuring Companies!  Do you know how they make their money?Mr. Dragon: Well, not exactly, but they're very profitable, I understand.Mrs. Dragon:  They hunt Dragons!Mr.  Dragon:  So you're saying that if we invest in the wrong Adventuring Company, we could make a killing by getting killed?Mrs. Dragon:  Exactly!Mr. Dragon:  That will never do.  Perhaps we can invest in Class Futures.  I have it on good authority that Bards are likely to go on a run in the near future...</blockquote>

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