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As amusing horrible amorrible as turning scotland into a KKV directed at the heart of toryland, I'm afraid that's currently not a fiscally viable plan of action. Perhaps for the next election cycle.

Graft? Nepotism? Turning tricks? Recruiter incompetence? Is usually one of those four.

impending EU referendum

Ooh, I had almost forgotten about that.

Any bets on how long it'll take until that comes up? Weeks, months? Days, years?

I think what it'd take to get me back in to mudding would be a fantasy version of that one (/couple) of RTS-style MUDs I played a little a long ways back, except primarily PvE. Necromancy, golem building, evil hoards, all that sexy stuff, set against some kind of huge encroaching menace. Bonus points if losing the proverbial fight isn't just a possibility but a likelihood, but not the end of personal progression. Probably compartmentalize it somewhat so it can scale both down and up depending on how many people are playing.

Alternately, if someone made Ogre Battle (with maybe more in-depth individual character progression and a smexy crafting/equipment system) in to an expansive text-based brawl, I would be drooling all over that and possibly failing to restrain myself from humping it.

*waggles hand* It's pretty decent. Same general vector as stuff like Rave Master or One Piece. I wouldn't call it amazing, but it's not terrible painful to read/watch or anything.

And do search through ZnT's stuff, just... be discerning. It's fanfiction -- occasional nice stuff with great heaping mounds of drivel. Maybe go check the fanfic rec thread, it gets mentioned more than once in there.

It's actually not quite like that if you're playing one of the new characters -- yeti-dude never actually drops in for dakkabro, and the altered plot basically shoos you off in the direction of the town that locks you out of the fight very, very quickly (it's like one dungeon and two bosses before you start trekking off towards firetown on vlad, compared to two or three dungeons and a few more bosses on th'other critters, and you immediately get access to a way to bypass the yeti's area entirely when you get back to town).

It's not been until my third friggin' playthrough that I even realized it was a thing that happened ;_; Sworddude and punchchick runs both ate the D/F rank and killed it early. Hopefully it'll be less painful with wingy by that point... actually got rolled over in the first frikkin' boss fight with her, but I'll be pointing cheat engine at it soon (giveum drops, all the drops!) so eh.

Though yeah, yetidude is brutal, same with the raven. Two of the harder boss fights in the game to get a good rank on. Will probably utterly wreck your face if you immediate turn heel and try to jump the bugger. And apparently a load bearing boss, which is just nasty ;_;

E: That load being something like a quarter of the game's NPCs -- if you don't beat a more-or-less end-game boss during the early game, it eats a forth of the game's towns. _{which is admittedly maybe not saying that much considering there's only four towns, but still...}

That's alcohol for you. Along with the other stuff. Remember those things have ingredient lists, and you've got google :V

Though iirc part of the actual reason behind that is to keep kids or whatev' from guzzling the stuff. Lot of medicine is specifically made to taste bad for exactly that reason, from what I recall. Helps disincentivize overdosing.

... man, rubbish collectors don't get paid nearly enough for what they do. Massively in demand, incredibly vital service (that, frankly, probably saves nearly as many lives as doctors do, if not more), and one of the deadliest jobs on the planet, and they basically get dumped on by everyone, including the folks that control the purse strings. It's a bit unfortunate, y'know?