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Jan 16, 2011 11:00

Dr. McCoy? Do you make house calls ( Read more... )

question for the masses, for the sake of argument, listen i'm saying something important, research, someone sounds learned, chitty chat chat, worried about luke

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inabook January 16 2011, 16:55:27 UTC

count_gardios January 16 2011, 17:03:15 UTC

Why was your empire in turmoil? Wasn't there a next of kin to take over?

inabook January 16 2011, 17:10:11 UTC

count_gardios January 16 2011, 17:25:08 UTC

Hmm...so I guess people of all classes suffered from that, then.

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stilldontgotit January 16 2011, 17:10:18 UTC

Well, I can't speak for every king out there, but the one I know's been nothing but kind. He stood by me when nobody else would.

count_gardios January 16 2011, 17:25:30 UTC

Is he your king, or just one you happen to know?

stilldontgotit January 16 2011, 17:29:38 UTC

Just one I know. My world doesn't have royalty, just a mayor.

[A beat.]

I met Mickey in the realm of darkness, and he stuck with me ever since.

THREADJACK FOR DISNEY JUSTICE kingofwaste January 16 2011, 18:36:09 UTC

Mickey?

MICKEY MOUSE?!

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slaying January 16 2011, 17:22:17 UTC

I once ran for Homecoming Queen. [ this is her way of responding although she is not from a monarchy at all -- unless you count being occasionally called the queen-o-slayers? ] I lost.

count_gardios January 16 2011, 17:26:08 UTC

What's Homecoming Queen?

watch aly stumble through high school rituals they don't have in atlantic canada! slaying January 16 2011, 17:36:01 UTC

A girl chosen by vote to reign over her classmates. A high school thing. [ then, haughtily, because she lost: ] It's totally just a popularity contest, anyway.

count_gardios January 16 2011, 20:31:42 UTC

Well, you should've won. I'd have voted for you.

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kingofwaste January 16 2011, 18:14:30 UTC

Funny you should ask, pal! You happen to be talking to the one and only king of Wasteland.

count_gardios January 16 2011, 20:40:57 UTC

An honor to meet you, Your Majesty.

kingofwaste January 16 2011, 20:51:03 UTC

Heheh, you can just call me Oswald. [Not that "Your Majesty" didn't sound awesome, because it did. It made him swell up with pride. He just doesn't need to hear it too often.]

To answer your question, there isn't much of a separation of classes in Wasteland. I mean, sure, I have a big castle filled with statues and portraits of me, and a secret hideout protected by my own personal guard, but other than that I'm just your average Joe. I always went on adventures with my pals and helped out around the place. I even have my own little home in Ostown. The castle's just for show, ya know?

count_gardios January 16 2011, 21:21:59 UTC

Oh yeah, just for show. I can understand that.

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cruxofapotter January 16 2011, 18:32:02 UTC

Once you start dividing things up into classes, it gets harder to remember that those classes are made of people.

count_gardios January 16 2011, 20:45:06 UTC

Once you start generalizing anybody for anything it becomes a problem.

I can see the benefits to classification, though.

cruxofapotter January 17 2011, 00:28:14 UTC

Well yeah, and it's a kind of problem that can spiral out of control.

Like what?

count_gardios January 17 2011, 03:46:00 UTC

From a ruler's perspective, the needs of an individual group of people. If too much of the working class is unemployed, then jobs will need to be made available. One of the ways this worked out back home was that the noble families who could afford it would hire more servants.

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