In fairness to effective autocrats, it depends on the individual in charge, though Josie is a petty, self centered twit, so your explanation applies to her.
It does tend to weed out the ineffective advisers and messengers, though.
If you make it to day 2, you’re considered a veteran. A week on the job is almost unheard of, and there is a legend that this one guy actually managed to retire.
They’re all going to war over a recipe that nobody remembered existed. Except perhaps the trolls.
My solution would be to make an ungodly amount of copies. Hundreds of thousands. Maybe millions. Give a copy to every kitchen in every kingdom of this world. Hell, give one to every person in the world. Once everyone knows the secret recipe, it can’t be used to oppress anyone. It’s just local cuisine, then. No franchise, no copyright or propriety. Just some good food people make. Crossed fingers obesity epidemic doesn’t happen, but hey, one burnt bridge at a time.
Do not try to apply logic to this. If it was a real situation, people would obsessively try to replicate it over the years. In any case, a tried and true autocratic govern (or CoC investigator) solution to these kinds of things is always burn every book and kill everybody who have read it.
And for the more advanced autocrat, imprison those who did the killing, on trumped-up charges based on made-up technicalities (making sure not to mention the real reason, i.e. their involvement), then quietly execute them.
Rule 32 of the Evil Overlord list: “I will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by.” Also, they won’t hesitate to bring you bad news when you need to hear it.
But would the frog k-nnnniggit then fart in her general direction?
or, he could become sir Glenn (chrono trigger)
and tell her that her mother was a hamster and smelled of elderberries. Ready the cattle ammo for the catapults.
A frog? Does she want him to be the presenter of her plays and present special guests while flailing his arms uncontrolabily?
This goes to demonstrate one of the flaws of autocracy: no one wants to disturb the tyrant who can arbiitrarily punish someone by givng them bad news.
In fairness to effective autocrats, it depends on the individual in charge, though Josie is a petty, self centered twit, so your explanation applies to her.
It does tend to weed out the ineffective advisers and messengers, though.
If you make it to day 2, you’re considered a veteran. A week on the job is almost unheard of, and there is a legend that this one guy actually managed to retire.
They’re all going to war over a recipe that nobody remembered existed. Except perhaps the trolls.
My solution would be to make an ungodly amount of copies. Hundreds of thousands. Maybe millions. Give a copy to every kitchen in every kingdom of this world. Hell, give one to every person in the world. Once everyone knows the secret recipe, it can’t be used to oppress anyone. It’s just local cuisine, then. No franchise, no copyright or propriety. Just some good food people make. Crossed fingers obesity epidemic doesn’t happen, but hey, one burnt bridge at a time.
Do not try to apply logic to this. If it was a real situation, people would obsessively try to replicate it over the years. In any case, a tried and true autocratic govern (or CoC investigator) solution to these kinds of things is always burn every book and kill everybody who have read it.
And for the more advanced autocrat, imprison those who did the killing, on trumped-up charges based on made-up technicalities (making sure not to mention the real reason, i.e. their involvement), then quietly execute them.
Rule 32 of the Evil Overlord list: “I will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by.” Also, they won’t hesitate to bring you bad news when you need to hear it.
*has
doesn’t Alister in Dragon age have this thing about getting turned into a frog?
I think the Frog Prince has a couple of centuries on Alister.
When you say “this thing”, do you mean a phobia, or a fetish?
he’s not to fond of mages “I’d be careful. First it’s, “I like you!”, then ZAP! -Frog time”
that and swooping “Swooping is bad…”