Am I a gonk for always paying the monk?

45 Comments

  1. Disposable_Minion47

    Oh no, he helped V in a manner of speaking, and was one of my favorite minor characters. I always paid him as well

  2. Lorihengrin

    I paid him everytime, because there is nothing more expensive than a free favor.

  3. plakio99

    Does it change anything if you don’t pay?

  4. neon_hellscape

    Nah I always pay him, the amount is chump change compared to my V’s total wealth.

  5. DedicatedDetective34

    Pay him or not, he still offers you the same service. He wants you to get rid of negative thoughts and slow down for a moment.

    As simple as his quests were, I feel like it added so much to the world building. Yeah, V’s dying and all, but to have a quiet moment is bliss.

  6. em_paris

    Nah, I always pay everybody. Money is easy to come by for V. Sometimes you need it to get, what, a 2% increase on heat damage with a certain mod for a certain weapon? Usually my V is sitting on 100s of thousands offering to pay a couple hundred. They’ll be alright

  7. Viper_Visionary

    That amount of eddies is negligible, so you might as well pay him. I always do.

  8. CapriciousSon

    I mean that’s just pocket change for V. Why the hell not?

  9. AnotherWhiteHero

    No, I even wish we had the option to give the begging npcs and him even more.

  10. digitalbladesreddit

    Na as far as VR games go, this might be actually worth the experience šŸ™‚

  11. Coyotesamigo

    The economy in this game is so fucked there is literally no reason to not spend a few hundred eddies. Even after reducing the number of loot guns you get, you can still make 50k after a single big fight sometimes I sell 200k out of my inventory.

  12. Poolturtle5772

    No, he deserves it for the help he provides.

  13. NikushimiZERO

    Nah, though I do wish there was a difference in outcome if you did or didn’t pay him. I pay him every time.

  14. With the amount of eddies you make with the side quests alone, paying the monk feels like a small donation

  15. At least he’s not spouting random conspiracy theories to anyone and everyone.

  16. iknowmyname389

    Its pocket change, i always pay him and gary the prophet

  17. 0neirocritica

    I paid him the most I could. I also spent the most I could on Garry when he asked for money, and donated the max amount for his statue. Eddies are nothing to me, and there’s far more frivolous things I could be spending the money on in Night City.

  18. ClevelandEmpire

    Him and Gary get max pay 100% of the time

  19. Big_Satisfaction9919

    Those trips were dope though! Worth every eddie!Ā  So peaceful and invigorating šŸ™ŒšŸŒ³ We thank you spirit of water!Ā 

  20. Meh I always pay him. It was fun showing up somewhere and boom Mr. Monk is there ready to provide V with a much-needed moment of peace. Besides, V has more money than I know what to do with.

  21. somecrazydude13

    Annnndd he’s disappeared again

  22. 4lc4tr4y

    He gets his money like Gary and every vet I meet in the streets, there is not enough life in my body to spend all my money.

  23. WordsmithKC

    Hey, a monk’s gotta eat too, you know. Don’t mind giving him the creds for a scop dog.

  24. DaDawkturr

    At first, it was nothing because you need to keep your guard up in Night City when someone offers you something for ā€œfreeā€.

    When it was legit, I started paying him everything I could.

  25. Fart_connoisseur1

    Gonk. He’s a monk, the opposite of materialistic or greedy. Dude dgaf about money lol. I actually thought that was the test during our interactions lol. So I never gave him an eddy. Same ending either way.

  26. melkor_the_viking

    It’s an interesting questline, keep going.

  27. randomdragn

    He wants to bring us peace, I would pay him more if I could

  28. Maximus_Games

    For my Nomad V, I paid him, because he’s generally a good choom who feels like doing a good deed by giving someone eddies.

    For my Corpo V, I still paid him, because he doesn’t know any other language: as a corpo, power and money rule over everything, and you may take the rat out of the corpo life, but you can’t take the corpo life out of the rat. When you live a life ruled by cash, not paying for something feels odd, and free stuff is too suspicious.

  29. Best_Confection_8788

    I always pay him. Eddie’s are near meaningless to me.

  30. Supernove_Blaze

    How strapped for cash in game are you that you can’t afford 377 eddies? Mercs really be having it real tough rn 😭😭

  31. life_lagom

    No. Always give COH as much as you can [the homeless profit]

  32. I wish I could’ve paid him more. He deserves it

  33. Cpt_kaoss

    Paying the Monk is gonk… Real chooms donate to Garry🤔

  34. WanderingVigilante

    You guys forget that this is actually supposed to encourage the player to try meditation. Have you ever tried following the monks guidance?

  35. YouLose_TheGame

    The total is less than like 2000 I pay every time.

  36. FufuLameShi0

    Yes, you are not void yet of your mortal necessity for material items. It’s a test

  37. My favourite NPC. Not only does no other NPC meaningfully interact with him, but Johnny outright says he cannot see him.Ā 

    This guy is not only in keeping right Cyberpunk’s setting, but he’s breaking the fourth wall. The instructions he gives are real, and just as useful to you, the player, as they could be to V.

  38. philipjfry1578

    Does gonk rhyme with monk, or does monk rhyme with gonk?

  39. Unlimitles

    It shows you aren’t a money grubbing materialist.

    And the messages are talking about staying pure.

    Always pay attention to the concept of what the quotes are talking about, that’s in all philosophy really not just this.

    The concept they are getting you to imagine and think on is the goal.

    Like all the quotes are talking about purification in different ways, their words don’t really matter, the idea of purifying yourself is.

    Then you thinking about what purification means comes next. You have to figure out how to do that in yourself, so that you can be pure yourself.

    Now connect this to what the whole game is about…..cyberpsychos and other details to what causes them….

    Like how Lucy says that night city has a rampant unchecked bacterial infection problem.

    Now connect that with the concept of purification, and realize that most people in NC are impure as far as keeping their systems (bodies) clean, and this is causing their increasingly paranoid and anxious state, which escalates into full blown cyberpsychosis.

  40. Bulky_Mango7676

    A few hundred eddies? That’s a tip. You gonna pay the man or not

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