01:55 am
My Life at Work:
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Occupation: Well, if nothing else, I've been able to exercise my ability to tell vehicle sillhouettes through sand obscuration tonight.
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drainedBleh: So, I'm sitting here on the phone with the office, "in a meeting." Mainly sitting here with mute on, with Helloween turned on really low, wishing my throat would stop feeling like I've been gargling with glass. At least my sinuses are running marginally less opportunistically. I'm vaguely glad my dermatologist put me on scary amounts of antibiotics the day before I got sick -- otherwise I'd be going to get some drugs from the doctor. And I hate doctors. Bloody annoying white coats.
I'm feeling too sick and out of it to do any real writing tonight -- I just hope I remember the ideas I had for doing the equivalent of Ars Magica's certamen in Sorcerer to model duels of sorcery between Sorcerers and Psychogenes (Witches).
Just in case I need to reference it later, basically: Trait vs Trait roll. Successes allow you to add that many dice to your next round, or subtract them from the opponant's Stamina. When someone hits 0 Stamina, they're unconscious. Add on extra dice for roleplaying, cool ideas, etc, to taste.
Shock & Awe: I'm certainly impressed. Its actually rather impressive that, a day into the war, we're still better at taking out ourselves than the Iraqis are (friendly fire and mechanical malfunction deaths outnumber combat casualties by a wide margin, so far). Kind of wretched, really, but not unexpected for a conscript force like the 51st Division. Ah well, they've got nice, hot MRE's now. That'll either count as mana from heaven or a violation of the Geneva Condition, depending on how you feel about tiny vials of tobasco.
Still, 2000+ flight sorties, coordinated combined arms assaults from south to north -- its a well-coordinated push. We'll have to see how Basra ends up; at this point I don't fully trust reports from either side (and justly so -- no force wants to compromise operational security by giving away the goods on the news). My gut suggests that Basra has a larger defense force than expected of Green or Regular troops (a touch better than Conscripts), and the urban setup is hindering us a bit in fully taking the city, but not so much that we can't use it. In short, we have the defense forces bottled up, but not wiped out. Its a siege, now; it'll take time. Baghdad will be similar, but worse -- assuming the Republican Guard Elite doesn't decide to just wave the white and do the smart thing.
I'm expecting a palace coup to take out Saddam and his sons if they're not already dead from that opening surgical strike. Expect a visual like in WWII, with Mussilini dragged through the streets, dead, while children throw stones and dogs harry the rotting meat. People are prone to such things after you oppress them for a couple decades. Possibly rightfully so.
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sickPS: For moments of untrammeled egoism, nothing beats Helloween's "Perfect Gentleman." I'd suggest it as my personal theme song, but not even I have that degree of ego. Not when I'm sick, anyway.
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