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Topic: Hey, locals, what do you think about Brockton Bay at the moment?
In: Boards ► America ► Brockton Bay ► General Chat
SenorEel (Original Poster)
Posted On Feb 22nd 2011:
So, as I am far, far away from the Lovecraftian city at the center of the weirdness, and intend to stay that way, I was just wondering what you locals felt about all the recent changes. Based on what I gather from the news and PHO, your gang activity is at a near historic low, your economy seems likely to start to improve soon, and you're up to your armpits in reptiles :)
I'm wondering if the reduction in crime rate is a good trade for giant lizards from the depths of time, or whatever the hell they really are? Do you think your employment rate will go up as your Mayor has claimed? Have you noticed any improvements already? Or have things in any way got worse?
I'm not talking directly about the Family, I'm more interested in the events surrounding them. It's mainly curiosity more than anything else. Brockton Bay seems to have become a surprisingly important place recently if you go by the news, even here. As the saying has it, all eyes are on you.
Discuss :D
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►AllSeeingEye
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
That's a little unfair, I fact that you can't get eggs tonight isn't really Saurial's fault. The store should have stocked more of them! Anyone could have bought the last box, blaming her because she's a reptile is sort of rude.
►MZenny
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
I still have plenty of eggs in stock!
►Glare
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
How the hell did we end up talking about eggs, AGAIN!?
I swear this place gets weirder by the day...
►Bladeworksfan (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
I don't know. I mean, yes, they scare me. I'm nervous about reptiles at the best of times, ones that stand on their hind legs and talk to you are worse. Ones you're looking up at from the roof of a six story building... They're horrifying.
But, all that said, they're polite, friendly, helpful, and like Assembler said a couple of pages ago, between them they've already been largely responsible for keeping several hundred people in work. Not to mention that based on what Mayor Christner says we're likely to have a lot of jobs created over the next few months and years.
The massive drop in gang crime is nothing to sneer at either. I've been mugged twice in the last eighteen months, but for at least two weeks I haven't seen a single E88 member on the streets. The ABB are really quiet as well.
I guess what I'm getting at is that even if they scare me, it's a good sort of scared. Does that make sense?
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Oddly enough I understand what you mean. All the information I have is showing that even just Saurial and Raptaur have dropped crime levels more between them than almost all the Protectorate and New Wave together, which is pretty amazing. I know a couple of people who are in gangs, only to say hi to when I'm having a drink you understand, and they tell me, very quietly, that Kaiser has told everyone to keep their heads down.
Like, keep entirely out of public view, and for fuck's sake don't do anything to upset the Family, OR the DWU.
It's weird. I don't like Kaiser at all, but in some ways I almost respect the Nazi bastard. He has his own sort of standards and no one has ever accused him of being either a coward or stupid. If he's decided to stay under the radar, he has good reasons for it.
►Flashlight
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
That agrees with my information. I know a few people as well, old school wise guys in a sense, and what I've heard is that word has gone around to stay well clear of Brockton Bay. These people are... well, they're not people to take lightly, let's say. But they are also people with a certain type of honor and I trust the information I get from them. They are oddly quiet and very respectful about the Family and the DWU. I have no idea why, exactly. But it does tend to imply that they know or suspect something that I haven't yet heard about.
I wonder what?
►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Interesting. I wonder if that's the same reason we haven't heard anything from Lung for weeks. Is he still in the city, even?
►Kingbob (Verified BBPD Officer)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
My information is that he is, but like Kaiser he's keeping very low profile. I heard he had a run in with Kaiju which seems to have made him reassess his priorities.
Can't say I'm upset about it. Although being the cynic I am, I'm wondering when the other shoe will drop.
►Flashlight
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Have you heard anything about the Merchants, out of interest? I was told that Skidmark has been talking himself up in certain places.
►Kingbob (Verified BBPD Officer)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
I've heard something similar. Various sources claim he's in a fouler mood than normal, which would take some effort, and is mouthing off about the Family.
Half of me is wanting him to try something on the basis that it will settle the Merchant problem once and for all ;)
The other half is desperately hoping he sees sense and keeps his head down for the exact same reason.
I can't help having a horrible feeling that the idiot isn't going to take the sensible route, though...
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►Electric_Techpriest
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
If Skiddyboy wants to commit suicide by Family that's fine by me. Just let me know in advance, I'll get the popcorn ready :)
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
It's not something we're looking forward to, but we all know it might happen. I just hope that if it does he picks someone like Raptaur to go after, she'll cause less collateral damage than Kaiju would!
I doubt the outcome would be much different as far as he was concerned in either case.
►SenorEel (Original Poster)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Very interesting. So what I gather is that while a lot of people are still finding it hard to understand, on balance most people are happy, or at least not UNhappy, about the current situation in Brockton Bay?
►AllSeeingEye
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
That would seem to be the case. I know that from the point of view of both the city government and the DWU they're perfectly content with the way things are going. Even a couple of the councillors who were somewhat against it to start with seem to have come around to the Mayor's viewpoint in the last few days.
Probably when they saw that Kaiju didn't go on a rampage and eat the entire dock area :)
I've noticed that tourism seems to be noticeably up in the last couple of days as well, despite the fairly cold weather. I wouldn't be surprised to see city hall running ads soon using the Family as a selling point, which would be pretty funny!
►Dingbat779 (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
I wouldn't put it past old Roy. He's a shrewd operator. If this plan of his comes off, his next election is going to be a landslide :)
He's sure better than the last guy!
►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
But you are still overrun by lizards...
►Ianthe (Verified Cape) (The Family)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
We're hardly overrunning the city :)
There are only a few of us here right now, and we're being very careful not to cause any trouble.
We like you people. You're fun.
►Valshax
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Thank you. I think :)
►Laser Augment
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
But Lizards?
Why did it have to be Lizards...
►FCVanillaIce
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
:D:D:D
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►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
They still scare me.
But I've got bigger problems right now. I wish I could think of a way around them.
►MZenny
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Ah, you're back! We were getting a little worried about what you said last night. Is everything all right?
►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Not really.
*sigh*
I wish I could explain it properly. :(
►Flashlight
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Anything we can do to help?
►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
I doubt it. Unfortunately. Although I'm grateful for the offer.
My family has... let's say there's this man who has more power over us than we'd like. He's... not helpful. Because of him I'm going to have to do something I REALLY don't want to do, but I can't see a way out of it.
You know the saying 'stuck between a rock and a hard place'?
me
But that's life, I guess.
►Flashlight
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
If someone is forcing you to do something you don't want to do, or that would get you in trouble, you should call the authorities. I don't know where you live, but practically everywhere has laws against that sort of thing. I know we do here in the US.
You make it sound like you're being forced at gunpoint, which worries me.
►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
It's more complicated than that. I can't really explain.
None of us really want to be involved but...
It's complicated.
And recent events have made it even worse. To be honest, I'm terrified. But I have no choice.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
You pretty much always have a choice. It's just that sometimes the only choices are bad ones.
Maybe you have to pick the least worst?
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Just kick his ass! Get some friends and kick the shit out of him.
Man up! Or Woman up. If that's a thing.
►Mojiizen
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
He's an idiot, but for once he's right. Get some help and do what you need to do. No one should be forced into doing something that could hurt them or someone else. Which is what it sounds like you're talking about.
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►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
You... are partly right. Like I said, it's difficult to explain. It could end up causing harm to other people, yes. But we aren't as free to act as we'd like. Believe me, if we were, we'd be out of here.
The real problem is that even if we can get away from this guy, there's someone else in the shadows behind him who's a lot worse. The other one is really dangerous.
I'm going to have to think about it.
Thanks for the advice, and listening.
►Flashlight
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Any time you want to talk, just PM me. I do have contacts in law enforcement in several countries. I might be able to help.
Don't give up. There's always hope.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Get a baseball bat.
►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
:) You can be funny, XxVoid_CowboyxX. You should do that more often and not be so abrasive.
Thanks, Flashlight. And everyone else. I'll talk to my family and see what they think. Maybe we can figure out a way out of this. But we don't have long, something is going to have to happen soon.
I'll try to delay it but that's all I can do at the moment :)
I really don't want to do it...
►Mandabar
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Don't let the bastards win, Winged One. We'd miss your very weird sense of humor.
►Winged One
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Thanks ;)
Got to go. Good luck with your reptile problem, guys!
Try to keep them there if you can... :D
►Filipinosberman
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Holy shit! Have a look at this! Kaiju showing that yes, she is pretty strong...
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Wow. That's amazing. I'd guess that the piece of ship she lifted off must have been five or six hundred tons and she made it look like it was cardboard.
Unbelievable.
►Glare
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Those engines weigh about thirty tons each, the propellers are nearly as much, and the driveshafts are even more. Very impressive.
With her around the DWU doesn't need cranes at all!
And did you see how that blade cut through the steel like it wasn't there? What the hell is it made of? It's ungodly sharp whatever it is.
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Forget cutting ships up, have a look at this :)
I want a go now. Who is that girl? Why does she rate a Raptaur-ride and I don't?
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►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Because you have a horrible sense of humor? ;)
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Thanks, my friend and coworker.
Thanks very much indeed.
►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
You're welcome :D
►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
That was me!
God, it was amazing. I got offered the chance since I know Panacea from school, and I'm SO glad I took it!
Like fifteen minutes of the best rollercoaster in the world, turned up all the way to 11
SO happy.
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
SO jealous :(
►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
:)
:D
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
IguanaGirl, do you mind if I link to that video?
►IguanaGirl
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
Go ahead :)
►Electric_Techpriest
Replied On Feb 22nd 2011:
At least we got through another Tuesday without anything wildly weird happening...
I'm beginning to have a funny feeling about Tuesdays...
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