IC: Addendum

[sythyry]

(An answer to several people)

Their curse is simply poverty, and perhaps provinciality. These have made an ordinary sort of accident far worse. Due to poverty they did not want to spend the night in an expensive Vheshrame hotel; due to provinciality they had no friends in the city to stay with. So they drove for home. Due to poverty they had little experience with driving, and none at night; due to provinciality, all they had driven before was a heavy farm-wagon, not a light carriage. Due to poverty, the carriage in question was the mayor's, not their own.

And it had been a bad day, and whoever was driving was surely exhausted and perhaps distracted.

So, over the bluff they went.

At least no primes were injured in the accident.

Comments

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

So are you intentionally targeting immigrants that seek a 'better place' to live in your city? Are you intentionally trying to build a society with greater possible upward mobility (in an economic or social sense) for more types of groups, more people who were oppressed for one way or another, more people who are poor through no fault of their own? Are you trying to set things up so that more categories people who work hard and come up with new ideas on how to do something useful can become successful in ways they couldn't elsewhere? Is Kismirth striving to get closer to that impossible ideal of a meritocracy? Such things can be the framework of a very, very, very vibrant culture... if you have done any of these sorts of things in a way that is different than has been done elsewhere, what have you done toward this goal?