9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Andry McCraigyn is the chief of security assigned to protect the heir to Merchant House Caladharas. Andry is a gruff man…who has a special sense of discretion. He tries to do his job to the best of his ability, but he also knows when to look the other way. Especially when the 17 year old heir wants to go out on a date by himself.
Andry McCraigyn is in his late forties,and has been on the job for the last decade and a half…and he considers himself to be one of the best in the business. He isn’t wrong either.
Julia Wells, significant other of Ian Caladharas. Julia co runs the Wells Hotel in Erech’s Clocktower District. For those people who have rpg’d in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheron’s. Julia and Ian tied the knot in the City of Greyrest in the Crossing Territories.
I’m gonna get on my high horse – “they” are the superior ones who never panic, but the rest of us can’t be trusted to think our way through anything. Good Grief! Excuse me while I hoard information (and, therfore, power).
In other words, I’m the only one who can be trusted with information and power.
Maintaining a facade of order; a reasonable response by the bureaucrats. Unfortunately, this is a VERY unreasonable situation, and keeping people in the dark has already cost thousands of lives.
The sad part of all this is that the bureaucrats are us – as Pogo said: I is seen the enemy and he is us. It’s just a bunch of people doing their jobs as best they can, waiting for someone in a higher position of responsibility to make the decisions they’re paid to make. Of course, that’s what the responsible people are doing too. Telling no one anything is just a delaying tactic.
In other words, I’m the only one who can be trusted with information and power.
“Power corrupts”.
Bah, humbug!
The sad part of all this is that the bureaucrats are us – as Pogo said: I is seen the enemy and he is us. It’s just a bunch of people doing their jobs as best they can, waiting for someone in a higher position of responsibility to make the decisions they’re paid to make. Of course, that’s what the responsible people are doing too. Telling no one anything is just a delaying tactic.