Grrl Power #388 – Delicate negotiations
The number of times Deus swivels around to stare dramatically out over the horizon during this flashback borders on the hyperdramatic. I guess he needs a few more moves in his repertoire.
It would be super challenging to carve out a slice of civilization under the conditions Indinge describes. Any attempt at building infrastructure could be seen by any number of parties as threats against them, their goals, or their power base. Even stuff that doesn’t seem like it could possibly be a threat could be resisted simply because they don’t want to see opposing parties succeeding. It legitimizes them as legitimate rulers which takes away from their own power. It’s one of many reasons that war torn regions like that can get mired in seemingly endless cycles of violence. Someone else is building a school/hospital/water treatment plant/pipeling? Blow it up. Take credit for it to recruit more like minded people to your cause or it it goes badly and a bunch of innocents get killed, then blame the second most powerful party to drive people away from them. One single super in an environment like that could radically shift the power base, if not totally decide the outcomes. A person like that would either be courted like a god or hunted like a dog. Or a fox I guess. People don’t really hunt dogs. Not as an organized “sport” anyway.
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Still want to make a dues ex machina joke but I figure it would be in bad taste.
“Passes the tray of sweeteners”
Go ahead.
i did that last page with “deus es parcus” (god of economics)
If there’s anything we’ve learned about meddling with Africa’s affairs it’s this: don’t. They’re a lost cause.
Historically speaking, meddling with the affairs of most places often goes badly in the long-term.
So… what you’re saying is… we need to invade Iran!
Depends on who you are talking about. Did wonders for Europe.
Sealord’s got a point. It’s not that it’s bad because Africa’s a lost cause. It’s that it’s bad because sticking your nose into other peoples’ business impacts everyone negatively.
wow just turning your back like that in the middle of a conversation like this is incredibly rude. RUDE DEUS!
But it helps when you aren’t that good controlling your facial expression.
You could have Deus’s name just be Thaddeus ‘Deus’ (Surname).
Yeah, he’s dead.
A though occured, are we ever going to see any superpowereds animals, even if only in a SydneyScape? I mean if the myths and legends had a kernel of truth to thwm couldn’t the Nemean Lion be an anvilesque super. Or the real life Moby dick the whales version of wolverine.
A whale with adamantium teeth?
O.o
A whale with super regeneration.
The ide of super animal is not a bad one. In a world of super humas its even possible one.
Only in March :P
No, there are only bad ides in March.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_Dick
A raven that can turn into a T-REX!
Sounds like the king has suspicions of Deus!!!
Dave the first panel it should be “how will you” not “how you will”
It works either way
Not while it’s phrased as part of a question it doesn’t. If it was in a statement like
“How you will accomplish theses things is beyond me.”
Then it works grammatically, but. . .
How will you bake a cake?
vs.
How you will bake a cake?
Only one of those won’t make ye old english teacher’s eyes bleed.
you could always just read it as a mis-translation of grammar into English.
you’re right about the grammar but he could play it off as the African guy is speaking as a second language.
Whoooops. It’s fixed now.
Um. Seriously, there is no possible policy, domestic or foreign, that does NOT in some way affect economic health. Deus really needed to be less direct about his eventual takeover angle.
I actually tried doing something similar in an Aberrant game once without really thinking it all through. I was just building orphanariums to raise and educate the orphans of the metawar. The local warlord took exception and, after I personally showed up and repelled his first attack, hired some other merc aberrants to raze them to the ground. It got real bloody real fast.
This gives me huge ‘GeDeCo’ vibes from Traveller. Minus the psycohistory of course, but it’s interesting to see the same themes, long term profit by uplifting places, backed up with surgical violence and what is effectively puppeteering the local government.