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A few of us have been talking and we're already tired of being broke, so we're wondering what everyone hopes to do here job-wise, what you did before, and how you go about explaining it to the locals if they want to know about your previous floor-sweeping or shelf-stocking experience before allowing you to sweep any floors or stock any shelves. Especially if your job back home was a little more complicated than that.

And have any of them asked any of you for references? Do they actually check them?

Does anybody have any experience with making up false references wholecloth? Can we begin acting as one another’s references?--which is a terribly trust based suggestion, we realise, and so the following question,

Should we design a character test for the sake of honest false reference corroboration? (‘We’ is the general ‘we’ not the ‘we’ asking these questions.) Is there anyone here who is not a reliable hard worker that the rest of us should be sure not to refer for anything?

Before anyone feels the need to point out that unreliable lazy workers will lie: yes, thank you, please see similar discussions following the questions about murder.

[ For the record, this is the product of a phone and its tiny keyboard being passed around among several different curious people. Remus just drew the short straw, because there is no justice in any world, and has to post it. Also, threadjacking super encouraged if you feel the urge. ]

Comments

[stabilis]

That's almost as melodramatic as it is vague. "Certain types of threats"? Should I start guessing, or?

[barreling]

I have a very particular set of skills.

[ is she doing a Liam Neeson impression at her phone? Maybe. eh, whatever. ]

it's demons. I hunt demons

[stabilis]

[ why don't they have Taken in space, tho ]

Like demons

Real demons or metaphorical demons?

[barreling]

I mean both sometimes if I'm being honest
But yes literal demons as in dead bad guys resurrected from hell

[stabilis]

[ Lots of thoughts on that one, but it really just boils down to: ]

Nice.

Was there a formal interview process or is it more of a self-employment thing?

[barreling]

More like bullshit mystical destiny kind of thing? Too bad, if there'd been interviews I totally would've gotten off the hook

[stabilis]

Wow. You sound very special.

[ Not that he can talk. Dutch is pretty special, too. ]

So it's like a religious calling.

[barreling]

[ it's really a shame this isn't audio so he can hear her laugh ]

No. Noooo no no no no no not religious at all. or a calling. I'm not like a demon-killing nun dude

Long story short my great-great-however-many-greats grandfather fucked something up and so now my family is cursed to fight demons until one of us can kill all of them

[stabilis]

Right, because inheriting a family curse that makes you hunt demons sounds way less stupid than a demon-killing nun.

[ Short pause. ]

Actually, both of those things sound more badass than stupid.

[barreling]

It is pretty badass

It's just everything else about nuns is pretty blech if you ask me

[stabilis]

Depends on the kind of nun. Scarbacks tend to be kind of inherently badass. Minus the lectures about trees, obviously.

So what happens when you kill something that's already dead?

[barreling]

Trees? Scarback is a pretty badass name. I'm only familiar with the scarknuckle kind. Lots of hitting with rulers, zero fun.

When I do it they get sucked back down into hell. Floor opens up into a bottomless pit, some fire, some screaming