- Location
- Philippines
That horror ship got a tree as it's mast too... I dub thee, Thriller Bark!
[X] Goldfish
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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That horror ship got a tree as it's mast too... I dub thee, Thriller Bark!
[X] Goldfish
- Location
- Brazil
This is the swearing of a toothless man
So. Much. Rowing.
Oh yeah, the life of a public "servant".
- Location
- Germany
Try a public library to see public servants that certainly nobody will invite to dinner.I like that plan. Take my vote.
[X] Goldfish
By the way, I am currently an intern amidst public servants. Just got out of a two hour lunch break at a restaurant to celebrate someone's tiny promotion... It's every stereotype, but real ! (And yes, they all got paid for an hour while they were in fact eating)
We even get regularly taken out to lunch by rich people who want favours from the boss. Inviting just the boss would be rude, so it is customary to invite the entire urban planning department (currently 8 people for a town of 61 000 inhabitants).
I've been making excuses for those. They smell of corruption, and I don't actually want a real job here now that I've gotten a taste of it as an intern.
Eww, what a terrible atmosphere.
Trying the private sector as soon as I can get my foot in the door. And maybe I'll try different institutions before writing off the entire public sector
Edit : I mean, objectively my internship is amazing and I should be very happy to have gotten it. It's just turned out not to be a great fit for me. I feel sleazy working here, and it's only been six weeks !
And that won't overcelebrate any promotion.
I can't say it's the high life here, but certainly not corrupt.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Or just try a different country's public servants, corruption is certainly not the norm for public servants here in Denmark.
- Location
- Brazil
- Location
- France
Oh, yeah. I know a lot of public servants who are definitely servants. But urban planning involves millions of euros around here (being allowed to add a floor to your new building? +700 000 € value) and so big business does all it can to get it's claws in there. And there's no way to know just how corrupt the local administrators are until you get inside... It varied a lot from place to place.
I mean, this isn't Brazil or anything. @TotallyNotEvil probably had way worse corruption stories. The biggest bribe I ever saw was an expensive family holiday around S-E Asia, and I haven't seen any murder or threats in this country's corruption yet !
- Location
- Canada (eh)
That's pretty much the norm for the public service in Canada as well, while we have to pay for our own meals we do get paid for the time and a celebration can take anywhere from 2-3 hours and can be for a bunch of reasons (promotion, someone's moving, maternity leave, a Friday and most people are off...etc). Efficient isn't really a word used to describe government in general.
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[X] Goldfish
- Location
- United Kingdom
[X] Goldfish
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Uncertain this vote actually accomplishes much... I mean I suppose it is entirely possible to guilt her for lashing out at someone being aggressively reasonable and helpful. Not sure how effective that is though?
There might just be the problem that she doesn't see her real stake in allying with us because the realities of realm politics, nor supernatural happenings, seem so far removed from where her bubble is--in which case she's completely useless to the Crown as much as us.
Though perhaps she should not have been labeled as "mercenary" after we discovered she had a reason to have personal enmity with us. I don't see much of a way to resolve that without doing something crazy like offering to hunt down and kill the bandits who killed her uncle (not happening, for a bunch of reasons) or bringing them back to life (maybe, like, later, if ever--personally I don't think this is a thing we should stop doing if it's convenient to us, even if it starts causing issues--issues can be solved or muddled through, but stumbling blocks are just that. In the way of advancing our immediate goals).
There might just be the problem that she doesn't see her real stake in allying with us because the realities of realm politics, nor supernatural happenings, seem so far removed from where her bubble is--in which case she's completely useless to the Crown as much as us.
Though perhaps she should not have been labeled as "mercenary" after we discovered she had a reason to have personal enmity with us. I don't see much of a way to resolve that without doing something crazy like offering to hunt down and kill the bandits who killed her uncle (not happening, for a bunch of reasons) or bringing them back to life (maybe, like, later, if ever--personally I don't think this is a thing we should stop doing if it's convenient to us, even if it starts causing issues--issues can be solved or muddled through, but stumbling blocks are just that. In the way of advancing our immediate goals).
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- Location
- United States
It's probably the biggest foot in the mouth ever, but it stands that her cousin was the one who attacked The Lads first, and they just defended themselves. Besides, aren't the Lads not actually real bandits? Benjicot has been rather strict with them.
I think her perspective is being colored by the bandits in the Stormlands whom we dumped in Sorcerer's Deep just now, and she's thinking the things they did (being actual bandits) were the same as the things The Lads are doing.
As far as I can tell she's basically Sansa put in charge of a lordship. Certainly has the same not-an-education from a Septa in any case. So yes, it should not be surprising that she's useless.
Maybe we should explain her what the Lads, unlike the Stormlander bandits who she'll find have already been removed, actually do. Namely fight the Lannisters to keep young mages free, which is important because Tywin uses magic to compel the loyalty of those he does get his hands on.
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- ?????????
[X] Goldfish
Interlude in beta.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Crake
Interlude DXVII: The Color of Madness
The Color of Madness
Tenth Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC
Rain lashed down upon the Hunter's Moon, hail descended in bruising chunks, yet the sailors could not cover their heads, hands clenched tight freezing cold weapons. Not even the captain sang. Something was coming for them, something had made the storm, something magic. The King paid well for magic things, alive or dead, Asha Greyjoy thought with a smile that would not have looked out of place on the face of the Red Kraken as he sailed for plunder and glory.
"Steady now, and remember not to push the corpses overboard, they're worth a fine bit of silver!" she called out, to be met with roars of laughter and the bashing of steel on wood.
Thunder roared and lightning flashed, but when the light had passed the world did not return to what it had been. Strange colors danced upon the seas... red as blood and green as bile, purple like a drowned man's skin, but something else too, something the mind could not name and the mortal eye had not been meant to see.
"They are coming," Theon said behind her, his voice high and threatening to break.
"Sure they are, and it's all the easier to kill the bastards once they get here!" Asha replied as lightning began to crackle along the edges of her axes.
Now if only I could see the damn things properly, the elder of the Greyjoy heirs thought. Something was definitely rising from the water, something the eye refused to look upon head on... a glow. There were shapes in the glow, lurching deformed things, drowned, rotted, gutted, and broken that glistened more deeply of the strange color. Had they been men once, Tritons, or something else entirely? The question crossed her mind for only the briefest moment before red rage honest and true descended upon her.
Arrow after arrow arched overhead whistling through the rain. Axes, boarding pikes, and cutlasses slashed at flesh and smashed at bone again and again, but they just kept coming. It got harder to move, harder to breathe, harder to think, Why were they even fighting? The strange blood stained everything, glistening, bright, fascinating. Were there more of the enemies than there had been before? Had more come over the side, or...
"The bodies don't matter, burn the colors!" a familiar voice called out from behind her... Theon, the name seemed to make things a little clearer. Asha wondered if she should pull back from whatever sort of magic fog this was, but before she could decide a winged shadow passed overhead, white-hot flame streaming in its wake as Valaena and Dawnfyre together burned at the miasma.
Though every instinct drilled into her by years of training screamed against it, Asha too did as her bother asked. Instead of trying to cut at the monsters she waved her axes at the air between them. Madness...
Yet madness with a purpose it proved to be, as soon as she started slicing through the flickering impossible colors the enemy seemed gripped with a frenzy to get to her. She had to be doing something right.
The captain's song surged around them, and five times more the fire flared, each time to show more of the enemy and fewer of the Hunter's Moon's own sailors, but soon the light began to dim. Lightning was white, the sea blue green, the clouds were black, the deck brown, though blood ran upon it.
As swiftly as it had begun the battle ended, leaving in its wake nothing but corpses, some ancient and salt stained, other wearing familiar faces twisted in horror.
"Fuck the Deep Ones," Asha cursed, too bone tired to even shout. She felt like she had been fighting a week not a few minutes. And they did not even have any bloody loot to show for it. She vowed then and there to volunteer for whatever fight would involve looting their treasuries.
- Level up: Theon
- Fungus Forge HD: 84 (Max HD 4)
- Losses: 19 Sailors, 7 Triton Warriors 1 Minotaur, 3 Seaweed Leshys
OOC: What they fought here were a couple of Colors-Out-of-Space and their warped thralls, though with the fire immunity reduced to Resistance 20 to keep it from being an unwinnable fight. The Deep Ones obviously used them because they do not leave a body and they are practically impossible to capture. Theon got a level up is because his knowledge check saved a lot of lives here.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Bad idea. All she knows, whatever their reasons, her Uncle fought them, and was killed.
As far as I'm concerned she doesn't see any justification at the base state for fighting Robert--the guy hasn't bothered her much, and she plain just does not care that the rest of the realm is suffering aaand her mother has probably been pretty vehement in her hatred for us because of the acts of... some bojangling rebels in the Riverlands who should have just waited for the Targs to come over before her precious stupid brother picked a fight he couldn't win?
Really, you can do a lot to help someone pick their way from the brambles, and I mean, her political situation would be helped if she worked with us, but short of giving her some form of immediate gratification she won't be grateful.
Vengeance or rectification, because she literally does not care so long as it does not effect her or her family's reputation personally, and so far as she's concerned her people are doing fine without getting in the middle of stags and dragons.
lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
- Location
- Waxahachie tx
Damn, just looked at the info on that beastie. It looks like something that could easily devastate large areas of civilians and even normal soldiers.
Also, i would like to point out that, according to the lore on the page, the colour never goes near a planet except for reproduction purposes (the planet is a nursery) so i am unsure how the deep ones captured it and controlled it. If they found the meteor it came down on it would explain how they captured it but how did they control it?
Best guess is they didnt. They just dropped the thing in our path and let it loose.
Also, i would like to point out that, according to the lore on the page, the colour never goes near a planet except for reproduction purposes (the planet is a nursery) so i am unsure how the deep ones captured it and controlled it. If they found the meteor it came down on it would explain how they captured it but how did they control it?
Best guess is they didnt. They just dropped the thing in our path and let it loose.
- Location
- France
Imagine thinking that the Deep Ones don't have a space program
A Colour Out If Space has high Int : it can be "controlled" through Diplomacy, bribery and/or threats.
- Location
- Brazil
Damn trippy. "Burn the colors!".
An incorporeal ooze with a bunch of elemental immunities on top is just plain mean.
Next time, it will be an Incorporeal Swarm of Undead Oozes. The Immunities line will just be a "Yes".
An incorporeal ooze with a bunch of elemental immunities on top is just plain mean.
Next time, it will be an Incorporeal Swarm of Undead Oozes. The Immunities line will just be a "Yes".
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