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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. ]

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[motivation]

what's the long answer?

[barreling]

they're all super strong and super evil but have different powers. some were super fast, some traveled through mirrors, some were giant shadow things, some could move shit with their minds, one i'm pretty sure was jack the ripper and i don't know what the fuck all his powers were but i killed the shit out of him

are you impressed yet or should i keep going

[motivation]

no idea who jack the ripper is, but
hells yes, i'm impressed

[barreling]

[ oh. well. cool. that was easier than she expected. ]

super famous serial killer in my world nobody knew was actually a demon. not really important

anyway i'm probably going to just see if i can get a gig bartending or something but if you need extra hands for your bounty hunting stuff i'm your girl

[motivation]

i'll keep that in mind

[ and yeah, that was easy — but it wasn't the full interview yet. if dutch ever needs a third on a job while d'avin's not awake yet, she'll want to see for herself what wynonna can do, not hear about it on a network post that talks about lying for references to get good jobs. ]

in the meantime, how are you at hand to hand?

[barreling]

[ wow how dare you hold the context she created for this conversation against her ]

i mean i'm not like a ninja or anything but still pretty badass

[motivation]

[ tough luck. ]

fancy a spar one of these days?

[barreling]

sure. do you have a name or do you guys just go by killjoy all the time like some collective superhero team name or something

[motivation]

i'm dutch

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congrats? i'm canadian

if you think i'm gonna mangle it you can just spell it phonetically or tell me on audio or something

[motivation]

i thought your name is wynonna
and dutch isn't that hard to pronounce

[barreling]

wait dutch is your name?
huh ok

i've waited forever for this to happen, thank you

[motivation]

yeah
what else would it be

[barreling]

a person from holland?
i'm guessing they don't have the netherlands in your world do they

[motivation]

nope

[barreling]

welp that's where dutch people come from in my world

anyway yeah my name's wynonna

[motivation]

so what's canada?

[barreling]

that's the country i'm from

[motivation]

nice place?

[barreling]

not really

other parts are nice enough i guess but the bit i'm from is pretty much the worst

[motivation]

sorry to hear that

[barreling]

it sucks but it's home sweet home, or whatever

where are you from if you're not dutch dutch?

[motivation]

you've never heard of the quad, have you
dwarf star system in the j

[barreling]

nope
so you're from space that's cool
how would you feel about switching to video for a minute

[motivation]

[ instead of confirming, dutch just makes the switch. so here she is, one hand lifted in greeting for a moment before she drops it. ]