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Pinkie Pie ([personal profile] havetubawilltravel) wrote in [community profile] ways_back_room2014-09-27 04:04 pm

Weekend Entertainment #1 - September Test Drive Meme

It's way too hot to be September right now where I am, but we're verging on October right now, and that means it's an [personal profile] app_this_plz weekend, and you know you've got characters you want to try out.


H O W T O P L A Y:


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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's part of the general bargain," Father Harman nods. "It works, generally speaking; but even by my time, we still have many places in the world that are desperately poor and need our work. More than ever, it seems."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)

Cadfael sighs. "Alas, it seems that will never change. One family may be helped, but there will always be more falling on hard times."

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"And there's that perfidious mechanism in human biology that means that once prosperity hits a place and child mortality drops dramatically," Father Harman says, "people continue to have as many children as they would have when they were still expecting most of them not to make it; then, population drops off again. We have six billion people on Earth by my time; optimistic predictions claim that the whole earth can support ten. So there is a great lot of people in poverty still, as the fact people are rising out of misery automatically means there are more people, for a while."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)

"Six - " That's a number beyond any of his imaginings. "However can they all be fed? Or... no. You're telling me they can't, of course."

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not at this time," Father Harman says. "But that's more because of the greed of some rich people, rather than the Earth being unable to grow enough food for everybody. Because it can."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)

"The rich... stockpile the food?"

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sort of," Father Harman says. "They trade in food in great bulk, you might say, and drive prices up. It's not that there is no food, it's that the poor can't afford to pay for it."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)

He shakes his head in dismay. "And nobody tries to prevent this?"

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"No," Father Harman says. "Government has been in the pockets of the rich since -- well, since about your time, I think. Or a little later."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)

"Perhaps to a point in my time. But there are still those trying to do something for the poor and infirm."

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"So there will be throughout history," Father Harman says. "But it is always uphill work, often done by people of faith because hardly anything else gives you the strength to carry on in the face of the world being stacked against you."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)

Cadfael nods sadly. "At least it doesn't go entirely undone."

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, but it can get very frustrating," Father Harman says. "Still, we never stop trying."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)

"And every small difference means everything, to the ones helped."

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"It does," Father Harman says. "Especially as we know that every single lost soul counts in the eyes of God. No sparrow falls without his knowledge."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)

He nods. "And if one lost counts, how much more one regained."

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"So we keep working," Father Harman says, nodding. "Throughout the centuries, never giving up."
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-29 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)

"Not as men, nor as a group." He smiles. "That alone is a blessing to know."

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-29 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I hope you find it encouraging," Father Harman says.
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-30 09:51 am (UTC)(link)

"Oh, very much so", Cadfael assures him.

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-30 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
[[OOC: Wrap here? From the responses, I would say you definitely should app him, and Milliways would take him right in.]]
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[personal profile] a_rare_benedictine 2014-09-30 11:46 am (UTC)(link)

[ooc: beams Yes, he'll love Milliways. And probably end up a nurturer to half the more troubled characters]

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[personal profile] witchfinder_general 2014-09-30 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
[[OOC: Welcome on the Milliways clerical team, then! **grins**]]