five years later meme

[rubycitymods]

FIVE YEARS LATER...

Nothing truly stagnates in Ruby City, but what if it did? What if things stayed consistent--or, well, as consistent as the usual chaos of day-to-day life--for five years? Time is weird, but surely your characters are a bit different: whether in physical appearance or emotional status. Go wild. Take the time to think about what five years of isolation could do to your character, five years of separation from the outside world. Are they tougher? Weaker? Do they still have hope of leaving?

HOW TO PLAY:

01. Post a toplevel and get creative. This is a meme, after all! Have fun imagining CR possibilities and character devleopment! Really, go wild.

02. Reply to other people's toplevels, build off of what they have laid out.

03. Profit?

Comments

[silvercrusader]

[He settles in across from Giorno, straddling the chair and resting his forearms on the back. Carefully, he ticks off each of his points on his fingers, which is absolutely not a habit picked up from Bruno.]

There's more people who want to join up to fight any monsters that come in from the woods. Which is fine, except there's such a thing as too much firepower, so maybe we could start setting up some kind of second-rotation guard. Two, I've got two people asking if they can rent out some of the business you bought, so we could go over that. And--

[He wrinkles his nose. He is not fond of point three.]

We should probably go over the economy thing a bit more.

[digiorno]

[Oh, Polnareff. Giorno laughs out loud, although he has the decency to cover his mouth at least a little.]

Do you want to talk about your least favorite thing first or last?

[silvercrusader]

We might as well get it over with. I'm gonna dread it the whole conversation if we put it last.

[Still, though: ugh.]

I think you're on the right track with expanding businesses, but more people are going to have to start running them if we don't just want it to be an economy of you.

[digiorno]

You hate it so much, for being quite good at it in practice.

[Best to get through it quickly, though, so that Polnareff stops suffering so much.]

Incentives for opening businesses, perhaps? Tax benefits?

[silvercrusader]

You could reduce rent for the first few months. Let them worry about actually succeeding, never mind about owing you. I mean, you'd take a hit, but it's not like you're going to suddenly be out on the streets.

[digiorno]

Mm, yes. Incentives should be for something else . . . providing for those who can't provide for themselves, perhaps. But we can wait on that. Start with this.

How does four months sound?

[silvercrusader]

Four months. If they can't make it work by four months, it's not going to work at all. We should start seeing what kind of food stores we can make work. Not raw food-- but bakeries, stuff like that. There's a couple people here who like to bake, they might be interested.

[digiorno]

I'm sure I could persuade a few people to start something like that.

[He is, after all, very persuasive.]

What else?

[silvercrusader]

Yeah. I think there's only so much you can do with an economy with how many people you've got here. I think we're going to have to stick to a barter system at least part of the time.

[digiorno]

Of course. It's not as though we can make an enormous mint, or even should. A small amount of currency in circulation, especially for important things like property and business. Smaller things can slip through the cracks if they must.

I think we're doing well, to start out with.

[silvercrusader]

So do I. I just want to make sure you know it's not going to become something huge.

[But . . . Polnareff shifts, leaning his chin on his arms as he thinks.]

I think that's about it for economics, unless you've got something specific you want to go over.

[digiorno]

No, I think that more or less covers it.

Second rotation next?

[silvercrusader]

Second rotation.

[See, now, this is a subject he can warm to. Polnareff smiles a little, though his voice is serious.]

We've got seven people who've asked me about joining over the past few weeks. That's enough for a squad. Either we put them all together for a quiet hour, or we put one in each rotation and so they learn that way. But either way, they learn, and in two weeks we've got a second rotation and a full first one instead of two guys every hour.

[digiorno]

Mm, one in each rotation, I think. Quiet's all well and good until it isn't quiet anymore. Learning on the job is best.

[His smile, now, is admiring.]

You've always been best at this part of it.