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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

[godwins]

I wasn't the youngest fella in the army, that's for sure.
They got desperate after a while. Maybe that'll happen here, too.

[doggo]

More likely than not
When you've got a limited number of options, tends to drive down limitations on what you're willing to ask of people

[godwins]

Right-o.
So the $64 question is: who's going to get desperate first,
Them or us?

[doggo]

Them, I'd wager.
Suppose they can tip us toward desperation with the offer of the right rewards. Might prove enough to even out those odds, when it's all said and done.

[godwins]

Pardon my say so, ma'am/sir, but I think some of the people that got brought in are determined to stay odd.

[doggo]

[Ha ha, says the guy who can turn into a dog and make vines appear out of nowhere and pronounces 'television' like two entirely separate and foreign words.]

Aren't we meant to be blending in?

[godwins]

Not everyone's good at following orders.

[doggo]

Not always so good at it myself.
Suppose that's where incentives come in.

[godwins]

Or finding better orders, ma'am/sir, but I never had much luck with that.

[doggo]

It's Sirius.

Finding better orders as in deserting or taking up as a mercenary?

[godwins]

No, I wouldn't do that. That's why I haven't had much luck.

My name's Bucky.

[doggo]

Suppose it doesn't really matter
Whatever we're doing, we're doing for the larger cause that we were all brought here to support
Stopping this world from ending

Anyone that wants to work counter to that purpose shouldn't have been brought here in the first place

[godwins]

I didn't lie about my age because I was afraid of fighting

But I don't like hurry up and waiting, either.

[doggo]

[ja definitely feel]

Might have a look at the forests outside of this city.
Loads of animals to hunt at least.
Not quite the same but it keeps you active.

[godwins]

What are you, some kind of caveman or something?

[ Animals to… hunt? ]

If that's true, you're real good at using these doohickeys.

[doggo]

Wizard.

I've had help. Someone more familiar as a guide.

[And the good sense wizard god gave him to not try to spell telephone. Fairly straightforward but so many ways to go wrong.]

I was told hunting was gentlemanly
Suppose it depends on your prey

[godwins]

I'm American. Not so good at gentlemanly.

[ He waits a while as he figures out what to type next. ]

Does being a wizard pay well?

[doggo]

Common mistake but: wizardry's not a career.
It just is.

Wizard scores high enough on his exams and perhaps he'll go into something lucrative.