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<div class="indent">{{a|opcoboone|}}main character arcs | <div class="indent">{{a|opcoboone|}}main character arcs | ||
In primary school, Nurse Travers reads the orphans stories from myths and legends of the citadel, including the story of Reg Margin and the tricksy jester [[Oleg Paripasu]]. | |||
Oleg | Oleg (“o-Legal” geddit) saved himself when discovered stealing by ungainly giant Reg Margin’s traps by arguing his case against the king’s guard, who were following orders to find and banish Reg from the kingdom for poaching the King’s Rent, a crime of which he was in fact innocent (it was Oleg himself who had been stealing it). | ||
Boone’s parents were killed by a vega-hopped rent-jacker | Oleg becomes Reg’s consigliere, for the cost of a portion of the King’s Rent (paid first of course). Oleg squirrels away his share, selling it at a mark-up to the other villagers who in turn pay fealty to reg, who pays a slice to Oleg. | ||
Oleg disappears and Reg is revealed as a paper tiger eventually hollowed out and deposed | |||
Boone’s parents, subject matter experts, were killed in Boone’s infancy when an outsourcing delivery van by a vega-hopped rent-jacker collided with their | |||
lawyer with recession-proof business and the cosmological constant | lawyer with recession-proof business and the cosmological constant | ||
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Cayman is the off-world where forces deploy wealth creation bots – tax sheltering – film partnerships – basic entertainment model that exploits tax breaks for film subsidies – but not allowed on the onworld | Cayman is the off-world where forces deploy wealth creation bots – tax sheltering – film partnerships – basic entertainment model that exploits tax breaks for film subsidies – but not allowed on the onworld | ||
Above the legal settlement the Cardozo Dam, and above it Lake Indeterminacy. Its massive assumption turbines powering the legal community. Where is marked on a white stick in the lake Abe right line above which indeterminacy has become so high that the floodgates automatically open. The community has worked for many years erecting qualification sluices, entry barriers and comprehension baffles to ensure that the bright-line is never crossed. | Above the legal settlement the Cardozo Dam, and above it Lake Indeterminacy. Its massive assumption turbines powering the legal community, who live under the spell of collective nightmares (“ultramares”) of a colossal, potentially unending avalanche from above. | ||
Where is marked on a white stick in the lake Abe right line above which indeterminacy has become so high that the floodgates automatically open. The community has worked for many years erecting qualification sluices, entry barriers and comprehension baffles to ensure that the bright-line is never crossed. | |||
==The break-in== | ==The break-in== |