An NPC you truly hate with passion

[StarRosie]

Lolorito and Teledji Adaledji. I am kinda getting sick of the "Monetarists are all evil masterminds!" but they Lalas..."But they are EVIL and VILE!" They still Lalas, I can't take them seriously here. I could punt them across Ul Dah. Actually mod that, any 'evil' NPC that is a lala, I can't take them seriously but the game keeps pushing and insisting we should take them seriously...see the PUG storyline for example.

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I disagree with this.

Godbert clearly has a good heart and clearly WANTS to help people but in the situations you bring up...either his hands are tied or that isn't his fault.

In the case with the Doman Refugees, his silence speaks volumes. He clearly does want to help but he is putting Ul'dah first in his mind. Not money, but Ul'dah itself. We get a glimpse into his reasoning for staying silent during one of the recent patch MSQs where Nanamo goes to ask Godbert for advice. His advice, while harsh and seems cold and uncaring, is sound and thinking of the bigger picture.

Nanamo is constantly wanting to help the refugees of Ala Mhigo and Doma but Godbert brings up the fact that in her attempts to help these refugees, she's ignoring her people. There are poor and sick within Ul'dah's walls that are going on ignored and how do you think they feel seeing so much of Ul'dah's money and resources going to refugees? Godbert was thinking of the greater issue that would arise in the future, while Nanamo was thinking of the issue in front of her in the here and now.

Nanamo's original plan for the Ala Mhigan refugees would likely have caused the Ul'dah citizens to revolt and this was likely on Godbert's mind when it came to the Doman Refugees as well. So this shows us that for the Doman refugees, his silence is deafening. He WANTS to help the Doman refugees but says nothing cause he is sure doing so would tax the citizens of Ul'dah further, possibly sparking a revolt.

As for the beggar in the Gold Saucer, well...how many Casinos do you know that let people stand around begging for money? While I feel bad for the beggar, he is being disruptive to the patrons of the Gold Saucer, so I can understand why security is trying to kick them out. And if we wanna theory craft, who knows, Godbert might have stopped said guards as they were about to throw the beggar out and offered the beggar a job at the Gold Saucer.

The man trying to sell his son to pay off his debt, has nothing to do with Godbert so I don't know why you are trying to pin that on him. That is the fault of that man running up a debt and being enough of a monster to attempt selling his own son off to pay it but that has nothing to do with Godbert, he isn't forcing that man to sell his son, that man is doing it of his own accord.

Don't get me wrong, Godbert has some derp to him but overall, when he appears in the MSQ, his motivations and overall personality remain consistent. It's in the Hildy quests when he turns into a living meme. (A meme whom I still think is consistent but his consistentcy is reeeaaaalllly being bent a bit.)

A small addition. I think one of the consistent issues with the monetarists is that in the grand scheme of things (Save for Teledji who was just evil.) they are rather neutral. But the game/story does (In my opinion.) a poor job of fully showing us how strained Ul'dah is, they say it is, they say it a lot. But they never fully show it and this makes it harder to see the monetarists as anything but uncaring and cruel. Yes, Lolorito loves his money but it is clear he puts part of his profits back into Ul'dah, the same can be said for Godbert. But overall...this isn't shown much and the suffering of Ul'dah isn't shown much. They really need to give more SHOW not TELL when it comes to Ul'dah's citizens.