And giving Victor the Fire Rune? Seriously? Give him the Clone Rune or the Sunbeam Rune which should come up soon.
Game he loves from his past; doesn't remember how the magic system is a x-charges per spell level, with 4 different spell levels. Nor does he remember that Viktor, a character who stays with you for a good amount of the game, only leaving on small errands on things like after defeating Neclord and forces his way into your party for the finale is mainly a physical DPS and would be served best using a non-magical rune. Just me, but I always gave Cleo a fire rune and Gremio a water rune; they're outclassed by stronger mages, but decent enough to where they get access to a decent set of spells while progressing. And hell yeah on Victor having the Sunbeam for permanent auto-regen.
That aside, most of anything Phil says about taxes I take as a 90%+ lie. I mean, it is tax season and I reasonably believe he does them to some degree; but do I believe he needs to take a whole stream off and spend hours shuffling paperwork around? No. He's even gone on record and mentioned how businesses have their whole quarterly filing thing they can do; which is true, he surprisingly didn't lie about that. But his bullshit about how he has to prep everything before sending it off to his tax guy, no, and if he is doing tax stuff, it's because he doesn't do the smart business thing and collate all his money data into monthly sets. I mean seriously, that'd make shit a lot easier, if he just took one day, maybe a week into the new month, so everything clears, then sit down and compile every tip, donation, chargeback, etc into a monthly spreadsheet. Then when tax season gets near and all the platforms send out their 1099, he takes those, his Excel spreadsheet that he's been keeping, and sends it off to his tax guy. I only wager it takes a half a day or whatever, because Phil is chasing old ass emails and other things he can't find at the last minute and/or trying to massage numbers, or God forbid begging Kat for her retail dollars because he's too reckless with money. I mean, whether it's a defensive mechanism or because he really is that stupid; he pretends he doesn't know where the $5,000 in monthly business expenses number is and anything else related to taxes or bankruptcy, he puts on someone else, like him as the individual doesn't sign off on whatever the money people put down for him. I wouldn't be surprised if he really doesn't have a sense of what's going on in his own life; then tax season hits, he starts going through everything and then it's "OMG! WHOA!" Every day's a new day, every month is a new month, and every tax season is a surprise because Phil is incapable of looking after himself or his finances.