033. Royal Orleans

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

[People can build bonfires and burn effigies all they want -- some guys (lowercase G) have work to do!

One of whom is Brock. He has work to do.

That work is, of course, patching up the huge fuckoff hole in the side of his dumb cabin. He is out in the woods right now, though he's more staring at the huge fuckoff hole than doing any sort of repair. How does one even fix a hole in a log cabin. Does he need to knock down the whole wall ...

Making a frustrated noise, he flips his journal open.]

I lost my lumberjack. Does anyone cut down trees for fun, or do I have to go find an axe?

-- and Crowley. I hope you got a steering lock for your goddamn car.

Comments

[payback.livejournal.com]

It seems like we have so many very useful people leaving.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

And the guys replacing them all just seem to be whiners. Or like ... dogs.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Or who talk themselves up and don't deliver!

If they're gonna complain so much, would it kill them to contribute?

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

It's always easier to complain than to do anything constructive, right? People think they're too cool for pulling their own weight like the rest of us, I guess.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I guess it is. It's pretty frustrating sometimes, though.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no kidding. But what can you do, just throw all the lazy assholes to the wolves? Not likely.

[payback.livejournal.com]

It's tempting. [Absolutely arid.]

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Don't I know it. [same ...]

But I guess enough of us believe in honor and duty and all that garbage to restrain ourselves.

[payback.livejournal.com]

... I bet they wouldn't complain about boredom for a long while if they did get thrown to the wolves...

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Might make them appreciate all the hard work everybody does, at least ...

[payback.livejournal.com]

What are they gonna do when they're the only ones left?

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Adapt, I hope. Or keep sitting on their asses until somebody new shows up who'll do something.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Perfect little castle poodles.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

I guess they're used to feeling entitled at home.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the castle grabs them on purpose. So they don't give it too much trouble.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Having a bunch of people running around who actually do stuff would probably get tiring, anyway. It's more realistic this way.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how people can just not care about things here!

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Same way they don't care about things back where they're from. They're self-involved bastards.

[payback.livejournal.com]

... Still, it's frustrating.

What are you up to these days anyway?

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Come with the territory, I guess ...

Uh, not a whole lot. Just trying to keep busy. ["Trying to keep busy" in this case means "rebuilding half a log cabin" ...]

What about you?

[payback.livejournal.com]

Not a whole lot, I guess. Looking forward to the next expedition... I haven't been doing much that's new for a while, I guess.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a nice change of pace, I guess. Everybody needs a break every once in awhile. You'll go crazy otherwise.

[payback.livejournal.com]

Hm. I feel like I'm kind of running out of good ideas.

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

Might be a good thing, you know. If you can't think of anything to fix, it means nothing else here is broken.

[payback.livejournal.com]

I guess I should just figure out something different to focus on.