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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

id: killjoy

[motivation]

who said anything about sharing, now, sugarpants?

and wow
"middling"

[ she's hurt. really. very. definitely. ]

we can't all be captain apex, you know

[stabilis]

I had no idea you were so big on monogamy. My bad.

[ """"sharing""" ]

And hey, even Captain Apex tells white lies. You know, for the greater good.

[motivation]

i've done my night of monogamy [ and the only reason she's comfortable saying as much on an open network is that johnny's the only one who'll get that she's talking about her wedding night. ]

but if anyone gets to volunteer anyone, it should be the other way round

[ "captain apex also hangs out with an awful lot of princesses", dutch almost writes, but — pawter was a princess. too soon, maybe? ] whose definition of the greater good are we talking here?

[stabilis]

I've heard it's overrated, anyway.

[ If they weren't in similarly tragic boats, he'd be less inclined to joke. As is, at least they're on the same bitter page. ]

And hey, I'll volunteer myself. Although I'm not totally clear on the 'greater good' in question. Might be an easier sell if murder wasn't the great unifier in this group.

Better argument: if one of us gets outed, the rest of us are at risk.

[motivation]

[ besties united by bitterness. there are worse unifiers, but dutch wishes johnny could still be sunshine and candy and ponies, the way he once was. ]

says captain apex? stop the press

[ but yeah, he has a point there. and she's mostly just giving him shit because it's fun, not because she's actually adverse to lying to give out references. ] i could take that chance
but maybe i'll stoop to one or two references after all

[stabilis]

One of those better be for me.

[ He says, as if he'll try to get reputable work. ]

So what's our cover story? Mercs? Pirates? Pirates with a sense of hygiene.

[motivation]

like i'd let you work some shit job without me if i can help it

[ package deal, right? ]

no one will believe you're a pirate, your teeth are too straight

[stabilis]

Are you saying I'm too pretty to be a pirate?

[ <3 :) ]

And in retrospect "pirate" might not get a lot of sane job offers. Not that sane's a requirement, historically speaking.

[motivation]

sure you are, sugarpants.

you did become a killjoy...

[stabilis]

Hey, no takebacks.

And I only did it because you became a killjoy. Which probably just proves your point, actually.

[motivation]

was my point that you follow me into some crazy shit?

[stabilis]

Loosely paraphrased, sure. Unless you were giving killjoy as an example of a sane job, in which case we need to talk about what words mean.

[motivation]

at least it's fun

[ or was. back before he left. before khlyen came back into dutch's, all of their lives. ]

[stabilis]

Tons of fun, but I think I liked it better when I could swing a cat without hitting an enemy agent.

[ Keeping it real?? Which he regrets half a second later, though it does make him wonder— ]

Did they rescue the Hullen from the cloud?

[motivation]

[ there goes the mood. ]

i haven't seen any yet, but it's kind of hard to tell [ since she can't make them bleed. ]

[stabilis]

[ Oops. ]

I'll look next time I'm on the station.

[ Save her the trouble/trauma of looking for familiar faces. And a few seconds later, ]

Sorry, Dutch.

[motivation]

the hells are you apologising for [ she's not sure she actually wants to know. ]

[stabilis]

[ For killing the mood, ostensibly. For life in general, really. ]

For bringing this shit up without buying you a drink first. Want to go wine tasting?

[motivation]

you're buying

[ and, half a minute later: ] the fancy kind or the kind where we just get drunk?

[stabilis]

[ good question. ]

Do we do the fancy kind?

[motivation]

we can still get drunk on the fancy kind

[stabilis]

Good point. Fancy it is. We can even toast Fancy while we're at it.

[barreling]

Hey, no murder here. Everyone I shoot's already dead

[stabilis]

No offense intended. Was kind of referring to the murderous masses.

[ See: the last week or two on the network. ]

How dead, though? Like spiritually and intellectually or physically without a pulse?

[barreling]

I've never really whipped out the stethoscope but definitely spiritually
And probably intellectually but I don't think they were exactly mensa candidates before they died so not sure we can blame hell for that