#offhand comment from a character. me: oh? that implies xyz so-

[abombihoney]

okay so artis? i think his name is artis, the white bug in the explorers association, is an accountant right. but like, what funds tho.

like presumably theres some amount of money paid to the whatever building in each town hosts a quest board. and whoever they pay to run around and keep those updated.

elizant even mentions at the beginning of one chapter to let artis know about the newest expedition, but it never gets posted to the quest boards. implying that it was solely a financial thing, like say giving explorers on that expedition a travel stipend or something.

but like, we dont ever see explorers actually get paid by artis. they are rewarded solely by whoever gave them the quest. including the queen herself.

so like, is artis only accounting paying quesy board updating fees (and eetle)? or is he actually managing the payment of at least six explorer teams on top of that?

Like explorers probably do receive some kind of base pay to cover housing/food/medical. And then w/e they make off quests is just profit. and we just dont see that cause theres no reason to go that in depth about the bug economy and how exactly the explorers association works in a game abt magic bugs.

anyway i dont actually know where i was going w this i just wanna know what artis is accounting specifically.