Mutations

You just bought the Steady Rod for 25,000 C$. You have 15,000 C$ left. The enchantment altar is right there. You spend 8,000 C$ rolling enchants. You land on Lucky — +10% Luck. Your Steady Rod now has 25% effective Luck instead of 15%. You feel accomplished. Then you check the shop. The Mythical Rod costs 110,000 C$. Your enchant added roughly 150 C$ per hour to your fishing. It will take 53 hours for that enchant to pay for itself. The enchant was not an investment. It was a delay. ...

You have been on the water for three hours. Same dock, same rod, same Common bass rolling in at 1×. Your inventory is full of fish worth pocket change, and you are starting to think everyone else knows a secret you missed. Then the angler one dock over tosses a single glowing worm, reels in a fish that shimmers purple, and the sell number pops at 7.5× right on their screen. ...