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My alternates tend to take over the world. Advice available. Rates negotiable.
Shell Bell puts up her sign and nibbles her most recent charity meal. Not potatoes! It is not potatoes. Or fish or clams. It is rice and curry and a fruity yogurt drink. That nice person told Bar she could use his tab for four meals, and this is meal number two.
she_sells_seashells
seewhathappens
"Yes. Some of the new priests in the other Districts are working on cataloguing the inventory and finding simple recipes; there might be recipe books ready for wide distribution as early as tomorrow."
she_sells_seashells
"But for today what should I tell people to do with the potatoes? ...Chop them up and boil them until they squish?"
she_sells_seashells
"Okay."
Shell Bell tells people confused about potatoes that they may be chopped up and boiled until they squish, yes a seawater boil should be fine, they'd be good with this nice soft cheese why don't you try it. (She tells people really confused about the potatoes that they can have flour and hams and whatnot.)
Shell Bell tells people confused about potatoes that they may be chopped up and boiled until they squish, yes a seawater boil should be fine, they'd be good with this nice soft cheese why don't you try it. (She tells people really confused about the potatoes that they can have flour and hams and whatnot.)
seewhathappens
Time passes.
The Capitol is definitely the most disarrayed part of Panem, but they're beginning to calm down. A hearteningly large number of reasonable people have emerged and earned priesthood appointments calming their fellow citizens. Some of them are engaged in setting up the distribution of stockpiled food from the Capitol back out to the Districts - Kirovalin's supplies are not yet running short, but he approves of this effort on principle, so he is only too happy to transport donated goods. All of his new temples continue to be well supplied and reasonably orderly.
The train to District Twelve arrives at the district's Reaping venue. It is greeted by confused and uncertain Peacekeepers who surrender in short order once Sherlock smiles at them. The holy objects scattered in the train's wake allow Kirovalin to capture the land much faster; he expects to have most of its populated areas within a few hours, and the entire district within a few days. There are probably at least a few people living in the wilderness beyond, but they'll just have to wait until he can get there the slow way; he doesn't have anywhere near the level of structure and cooperation that would be necessary to organize a holy object airdrop.
He reports this success to Shell Bell, since she is interested in his progress.
The Capitol is definitely the most disarrayed part of Panem, but they're beginning to calm down. A hearteningly large number of reasonable people have emerged and earned priesthood appointments calming their fellow citizens. Some of them are engaged in setting up the distribution of stockpiled food from the Capitol back out to the Districts - Kirovalin's supplies are not yet running short, but he approves of this effort on principle, so he is only too happy to transport donated goods. All of his new temples continue to be well supplied and reasonably orderly.
The train to District Twelve arrives at the district's Reaping venue. It is greeted by confused and uncertain Peacekeepers who surrender in short order once Sherlock smiles at them. The holy objects scattered in the train's wake allow Kirovalin to capture the land much faster; he expects to have most of its populated areas within a few hours, and the entire district within a few days. There are probably at least a few people living in the wilderness beyond, but they'll just have to wait until he can get there the slow way; he doesn't have anywhere near the level of structure and cooperation that would be necessary to organize a holy object airdrop.
He reports this success to Shell Bell, since she is interested in his progress.
she_sells_seashells
"Maybe you can't get a plane in the air, but what about those little drones that delivered gifts to tributes? Those could drop holy objects places - I'm not sure if they have great range, but even if those exact drones can't be repurposed the general class of 'drones' is probably something Bar could sell you a few of if you want to throw money at the problem."
seewhathappens
"I'll keep that idea in mind, but I'd rather focus on the people inside my domain whose existence I'm already certain of. If I have things settled here faster than I'm expecting, I will turn some of my attention to overtaking the wilderness as quickly as possible."
she_sells_seashells
"Yeah. I don't think there's anyone overseas - not only do we never hear from them, Bar never found me publications from other continents - so that's definitely not urgent, although it might be nice to spread out once we have enough infrastructure here."
seewhathappens
"That's also something I'm considering. With luck, we'll be able to consult Capitol records on that subject soon."
she_sells_seashells
"Would I be more useful there than here?" she wonders. "Or somewhere else? Or are you pretty well set for personnel most everywhere?"
seewhathappens
"The personnel situation is... developing. I think your best advantage right now is still in helping and explaining here in the District you are most familiar with. I don't want to start moving people around while new priests are still regularly volunteering in most places."
she_sells_seashells
"Okay. Another thing I might be especially personally useful for is getting stuff translated, it just occurred to me that if you don't want to read everything aloud the next time I go to Milliways I could borrow copies and write down what I see them as saying there. Whereas most people probably have never been to Milliways."
seewhathappens
"That reminds me: I theorize that I might be able to open doors from Milliways to anywhere in either part of my domain. But I don't know whether it might cost divine power, or how much, so I don't want to experiment until things are more settled in case the cost is unexpectedly high."
she_sells_seashells
"...It shouldn't cost you anything to open it back to where you first came in, but getting somewhere else might, I don't know."
seewhathappens
"And neither do I. I will try it when things are quieter and I have more power to spare."
she_sells_seashells
"Yeah."
Time goes by. Ranae produces a list of items she would find useful in getting the school open at full capacity. The Career academy shuts down. Shell Bell makes sure everyone knows that the krakens are not yet a solved problem and they still shouldn't sail out too far, but boats undertake their normal fishing expeditions. Since they're not sending all the surplus to the Capitol whether they like it or not, they have to work out new ways to get it where it ought to go - there are only so many refrigerated train cars; they have to smoke and dry a lot of the fish - and as such there are somewhat fewer fishing expeditions than normal. But things are slowly returning to the better fractions of normal.
Time goes by. Ranae produces a list of items she would find useful in getting the school open at full capacity. The Career academy shuts down. Shell Bell makes sure everyone knows that the krakens are not yet a solved problem and they still shouldn't sail out too far, but boats undertake their normal fishing expeditions. Since they're not sending all the surplus to the Capitol whether they like it or not, they have to work out new ways to get it where it ought to go - there are only so many refrigerated train cars; they have to smoke and dry a lot of the fish - and as such there are somewhat fewer fishing expeditions than normal. But things are slowly returning to the better fractions of normal.
seewhathappens
The Capitol quiets down. More and more people receive priesthood appointments. Kirovalin starts making note of who he's going to want to transfer to administration when administration becomes a concern.
The edge of his domain advances into the wilderness at a steady pace.
The edge of his domain advances into the wilderness at a steady pace.
And when it gets far enough:
A person approaches the advancing treeline.
"Excuse me," she says nervously. "Please stop."
A person approaches the advancing treeline.
"Excuse me," she says nervously. "Please stop."
"Be...cause... there is already a functional government beyond about over there and we would like to continue doing what we're doing by ourselves."
seewhathappens
The treeline stops advancing. A few assorted berry bushes begin to grow at its edge.
"A reasonable request, if what you say is true. What territory do you claim?"
"A reasonable request, if what you say is true. What territory do you claim?"
seewhathappens
"Then you may keep District Thirteen. Make known to your people that both visitors and immigrants will be welcomed in my empire."