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Kyeo doesn't remember enough of the fight to know what happened, and his head is killing him, but when he checks he still has his sidearm and also now he's apparently crashlanded on a planet with absolutely awful-looking hostile fauna, wow, and that one's coming his way much too fast and he draws and shoots.
kyeo and carissa
to-let-you-in
"Huh. Well, in general, you can bet on a likely thing for a small return or on an unlikely thing for a large return. But that's not what Good is doing so I'm not sure it is a helpful example, really. I am curious what the cleric of Abadar will think. Abadar's neutral, which is much less confusing."
to-let-you-in
" - if Lastwall will allow it I bet the church of Abadar has common sense and would be willing to let me make magic items for them in a dungeon somewhere, the items are worth enough to pay for the security."
to-let-you-in
" - I mean, if I'm doing something useful then they're much less likely to kill me. It can be fun, too, but - that's not really the priority here, if they just want a headband every two days for the rest of my life that won't be fun but I can do it."
The cleric of Abadar comes in the morning. He wears fancy magic armor that doesn't impede his range of motion much, and identifying sleeves with five stripes embroidered up them, and he's of a different ethnicity than the one predominant in Lastwall. He seems - very upset, for some reason, by the paladins' explanation of Ibyabek.
"They don't have money?"
"No."
"Do they barter instead?"
"I don't think so."
"How...do people decide what work to do."
"The government tells them."
"And it tells them how much of it to do?"
"I think so."
"And it gives them goods when they have done the amount of work it told them to do? Or regardless of whether they did that?"
stargazer
"Regardless! - I suppose on some occasions the lunch break is scheduled for whenever some amount of work has been accomplished rather than for a specific time. But people get fed even if they're sick or something."
"What if they are not sick but do not like their assignment and choose not to do it, or to slack at it."
"And the thing that is wrong is that they have been told by the government that they should unload ships, but they don't like unloading ships, so they're going as slowly as a person can possibly go and will only haul one box all day."
stargazer
"I have not specifically worked in job allocation. If someone thinks they're - too good to unload ships or something - then that would probably be handled with a visit to a remedial philosophy school."
stargazer
"...praise from their managers? I suppose? A sense of satisfaction at their contribution to the People of whom they are part. I was in the military and there are promotions, there, for exemplary service, I don't know if box-unloaders are structured that way."
He spends a minute staring at the wall, apparently thinking of and deciding not to say a dozen things.
"In an average twenty day period how many days does a person in Ibyabek work?"
