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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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E: we didn’t fucking know

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Not sure if anybody noticed the last time, but so they get isekayed into a DND world, which famously runs on some weird form of fantasy feudalism and they expect a random high int person to rule the country somehow? What in the primogenitor is this stuff, you can't just think yourself into being a king, that is one of the issues with monarchies.

E: ah no they are in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of hell, places that totally praise merit based upwards mobility.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago

ah no they are in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of hell, places that totally praise merit based upwards mobility.

Hey, write what you know

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

An encounter of this sort is what drove Lord Vetinari to make a scorpion pit for mimes, probably.