Added a rating module for ya. As much as I find the characters interesting, I'm not sure what this ties with. Neutral vote for now.
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This is related to SCP-1230.
Would this be part if the Bellerverse canon hub? It sort of reminded me of it… Unless I'm mistaking when this is actually taking place.
Thank you, I was in a bit of a hurry when I posted. And yes, Bellerverse and SCP-1230.
Yes, and if you go to the comments of the last Bellerverse tale, SCP One Million, this tale should bring about the Bellerverse tag.
I plan on cleaning this up in the next few days. Glad to see the warm reception.
buy kerrek a cold one
Why would the highwaymen have left so much loot on the unidentified victim?
Bandits on the route to such a trade city may not recognize the true worth of such a thing, but they should at least know that relics are worth stealing. Not to mention the inherent value of a change of clothes and a good pack.
Minor quibble, it's still a very good story. And I can't tell you how happy I am to see more Bellerverse. +1
You don't know this yet, but I plan on adding more to the Bellerverse (favorite canon). I might even go all out, make a map of Post-neoAustralia.
The man who took the dead travelers' stuff was a Ranger. I don't have a name for him yet, and I still should run it by Mann (when he gets back from killing people who have a good killing coming to 'em), but at the moment I'm kicking an idea around like this.
Rangers come from what is as close to a utopian society as exists in the Bellerverse, that I have yet to name. Citizens live there as just that, citizens. The male children of citizens may, at their parents' discretion, grow up as Rangers, in what is effectively a Spartan academy. There they receive a pretty good education (as is) and a background in combat, as well as follow the Pantheon (Rangers worship Geyre and Drakgin, generally) and a bit of a moral compass. Maybe, I don't know… I probably need to do some tweaking. And I might hold off on all that while I work on Drewbear's Time Contest.
But, for the resources the city invests in them, they go out and return their debt, bringing back to the city earned through adventuring, or as mercenaries, what have you (them). So they pay off what it is deemed they owe- how does the city ensure their debt is paid, besides a great deal of patriotism built from years at the academy? An idea occurred to me while I wrote this.
Rangers get a facial tattoo. Something simple, maybe a diagonal line across the face. Since that couldn't be removed in the age of the Bellerverse, to avoid being known as a Ranger, he would have to wear a hood, which isn't too popular, either. To mark his debt as paid, another symbol — maybe another diagonal line? — would be tattooed on his face, to mark him as not wanted, as there'd be a bounty on their heads (to keep them from not paying their debt). So, to update it… hmm, that gets a bit more complicated. My first thought was, wear a colored ribbon around their arm, to show other Rangers, that gets updated every two years or so. But anybody could replicate that easily (unlike the tattoo (although now I'm thinking it wouldn't be hard to do that either…)) enough, even if dyes are hard to come by… open to suggestions.
And if somebody thinks this is a stupid idea, let me know. I feel like this borders on Macro-Sue.
Glad you liked it, thanks.
It's quite simple. They know who the Rangers are. They're born and raised in the city, by older Rangers. If they fail to pay off their debt, they're exiled.
Exile's a really big deal in a setting like this. It means you can never go home. You're a foreigner wherever you go. If things go bad, there's nowhere you can go that's guaranteed to take you in.
As for the original question, rather than the rangers (who seem like the sort who would recognize artifacts and bring 'em back), it could be the work of nomads, who are likely to grab the water and the most obviously useful items. Or even a culture that has a taboo against using the artifacts of the old world. Lots of possibilities.
Well thank you sir, it hadn't struck me what a severe punishment exile was. I was using my own frame of reference, but if that's enough to keep people in line, then I guess I don't need an elaborate system of checkery.
The last bit would've been more circumstantial, but I'm thinking that's gonna be difficult to tie to the tale I had in mind. I may or may not come back to it, it's tough to say.
Thank you again for taking the time to help with that.
Wow, for a second I thought it was Alia, from The Book!
Ahh.
Ahhhhhhhhhh.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.
I accidentally named my main character the same as an existing one.
That also involves a book.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
Yeah, I checked. Still was a mistake doing that. I probably won't change it, unless I go back and redo the entire article, which I was planning on eventually. 'Til then, I'll be kicking myself.
Eh, chalk it up to a common name in the Bellerverse.
Actually, I didn't say it as a complaint!
I can see it easily as this happening in the future of 'The Book', where Alia became known for reviving the old language and teaching others to read, to the point where similar names to hers are akin to 'reading' positions or skills…
…don't know id that makes sense for anyone else? XD
Actually, you never named her grandmother. There's no timescale/intervening events between the two. Two generations in the Bellerverse? No problem!
Other than the original, this is absolutely my favorite tale in the Bellerverse.
1230 was one of my favorites, if not my favorite SCP on the site, I'm elated to see it find it's way into my new favorite canon.
Nice feature choice. An underappreciated tale that expands on the Bellerverse with a well-chosen SCP.
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