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hippo2 — Genie Con 2011 - Part 4
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About one hour later, Sami and Martha were at the convention, sitting in the theater hall inside the Volkshaus. They had placed their lamps on a table next to the bench. Martha had just returned from one of the stands. She held two pieces of paper. “Guess what Sami! There will be a contest later today. And I’ve signed both of us in.”“What kind of contest?” Sami looked a bit confused.
“They are looking for the best genie costume. I’d say both of us have good chances.” Martha explained. “And if not, it’s fun to participate.”
“Yeah. I have to admit that this Convention-thing is quite amusing.” Sami turned towards Martha and took her hands. “Thank you for the suggestion to come here.” Martha was nearly blushing as Sami put his arm around her. Martha returned the gesture.
That moment a group of cosplayers, dressed up as a dark-skinned warrior, a blond Bard, a redhead rogue, an elf with purple hair and two characters, that were supposed to be a dwarf and a halfling – though these role players were a bit too tall for their characters – walked by. The red-haired girl, wearing brown leather quickly snatched Sami’s lamp as she walked by. Neither Sami nor Martha had spotted the theft. “What are you doing? That’s robbery, you know?” the dark-skinned boy, dressed up as a warrior in blue armor, warned her.
“What’s wrong? I’m a rogue, I’m totally in character.” The girl replied.
“You are such a fangirl! Even if you are playing Haley, these two might be quite annoyed if you take their stuff.” Another one of her companions, the blond boy dressed up as a bard argued.
“Ok, I’ll give it back to them. But they have to grant us a wish, ok?” The girl sounded really annoyed as she approached Sami. “Excuse me, Mr. Genie: Is that your lamp?”
Sami was quite surprised by this interruption. “Yes it is! What do you want?”
“A wish, of course!” the girl replied cockily.
“Alright! But you have to rub my lamp first.” The girl did as Sami had just told her. “I’m Sami, the genie of the Lamp. I’ll grant you one wish and one wish only!”
“Cool!” the girl replied. “Then I wish we could experience an adventure like the Order of the Stick does.” The other members of her group could only shake their heads. Their group mate seemed to have lost contact to reality now.
“Your wish is my command.” Sami blinked and the group disappeared.
“What did you do to them?” Martha asked.
“I send them to a time, where they can experience the adventure they want. If they solve the quest, they will return to this word.” Sami explained. “I know how you think about being too harsh to the masters.”
“You didn’t have to, not for me. But I think it’s fair that you gave them a chance.” She took Sami’s hand and led him to another part of the convention.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Shouldn't the readhead be a rogue instead of a 'rouge'? Still, it would be funny if she referred to herself as a 'rouge' because she confuses the words.
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Das kannst du unter Rechtschreibefehler verbuchen. Dumm nur, dass es selbst meinem Korrekturleser nicht aufgefallen ist und der ist immerhin Muttersprachler.
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Muttersprachler machen auch mal Fehler. Du kennst sicher auch ein paar deutsche Muttersprachler, die schon mal Rechtschreibfehler gemacht oder übersehen haben.
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Sicher, das passiert jedem. Der Fehler ist jetzt behoben.
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I guess Sami isn't the most sincerest of people either that or he doesn't know the difference between a cordial punishment and Evisceration.
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Maybe he thinks they are experienced warriors?
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So hes just naive okay well that makes sense.
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Or the situation is indeed sovable: The Kings of the Franks had organised an army in defense of the vikings wich had some success. Maybe there are more soldiers around to support the Order of the stick in their fight.
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xD Well that would just make things tragically hilarious, I don't think being stuck in-between two armies is any better than being stuck in front of one. I mean its choosing preference between being caught in a cross fire, from just oncoming fire.
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I think in that situation, the position of the Order is quite clear: Everybody on the water is an attacker, everybody on the shore is an defender. So, the order is expected to fight against the vikings. Or maybe they can just help defenseless villagers to escape...
You can write that story if you want to.
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Actually right now I'm doing a writing project for two of the Sergeants daughter's and its about War, and personally I want to know how you possess the endurance to continue with these great stories. I am getting pooped, annoyed, and bored from writing stories founded or primarily on war. I'm in the military for Christs sake It's in my face every day.
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Maybe that's why you can't write about it. When I was working as a paramedic, my mother gave me the novel "Hous of God" as a gift. The novel is about a group of young doctors in their first year that the "House of God"-hospital. They experienced the same sh*t I was seeing every day. After the first chapters, I put the book away since I didn't want to read in the evening about the same things I saw every day at the paramedics.
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And as for my experience I really haven't seen that much, When I went to Iraq for 6 months to guard the safe house's for the Air force I never fired a single bullet(in a combat situation Of course plenty of times on the range). And there is nothing comparable to the feeling when you take a life as well, I have taken one In the most unlikely of all situations. And you can distinguish who retains humanity and who becomes a junkie. I have seen some battle fields but after a while most people who see or experience massed death take on the perspective of "It is out of my control, we can only save those who we can, we aren't god, we can't save everybody" I think you may have this perspective, or maybe not. My issue is not being personally convicted of having depression and war, its being surrounded by people convicted and going through depression of war, my superiors some of my men, and others who hang around the base.
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I think, I couldn't stand too much drama either. But drama is part of life. I had to face drama as a paramedic and I have to face it at school. As long as I can gain something positive from my jobs, I can bear it. That's what I do: If I help an injured person or if I can help a student getting better, that a very satisfying feeling. I don't think, I would be a good soldier, since I see them more as something destructive. Maybe that's just a german point of view.
I know this perspective but from a different direction: I saw a lot of dead people while at the paramedic service. I realised that I can't save everybody. There are some who are marked to die and some who will survive. I accepted this fact and say: It's their fate to live or their fate to die. I can just do my best to help them. But I can tell you it's not easy to cope with such situations, especially at the beginning. But when I see a dead person now, I doesn't touch me very much.
During the paramedic training, my instructor told us that those with the "action hero" attitude won't get far. He was right. I remember once we had a young paramedic-in-training who had this attitude. We were called to a situation me and my partner (and old veteran who has seen everything) knew that there was nothing to hope for. But this practicant took the backpack with our equipment and stormed in. After she saw the corpse (not a nice view I can tell you), she spend the next minutes outside vomiting.
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I can accept a reasonable amount of drama, but for my occupation its ridiculous,I have people who come from the same source of problems (war) but create drama out of it either through arrogance (bragging, boasting, calling other war vets inadequate to their supposed heroism), Grievance (People who are stuck on death, what happened in front of them), and the twisted Idealists (those who say if they could go back they would change the tide of the war). I am a happy person, I love life, going about it and learning and experiencing new things but these people are depressing to be around they never talk of anything pleasant, and worst of all they are all stuck with each other causing tension and issues among themselves. I mean I still have my own group of friends on base who are nothing like that but I only get to be with them for so long before I have to put up with the awkward silence of disagreeing of point of view among my superiors.
I get them too the "war hero" dreamers, the ones who wish to become heroes are the ones who get shot first. At least that's what all the Marines and Soldier's tell me. Actually that's the exact definition of what people embrace after seeing that stuff. Don't be a hero just do your job, and get things done. And I think my friends back home as paramedics and doctors have seen double if not triple the action I've seen, That was nearly 2 years ago when I was in Iraq and it wasn't even that much they are still holding down their job healing many people going through many situations. Which in some weird ironic way I wish to do one day.
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I never saw myself as a hero because I'm a paramedic or a firefighter. I just do it because I like to do it. I was often called a hero by others but I always say, I'm not. I just do what I have to do.
On the other hand, when I started studying, I had a talk with some students, who had served in the military (we had the darft back then, and I avoided it by going into paramedic service). The boasted about different weapons and were so proud about their military service but did nothing than going on patrol. Then they asked me if I did the military service too and I said now. The gave me a look like: Oh, another coward who is rather wiping the asses of old people than take a gun. Then I told them that I was a paramedic. And they grew silent. I think they looked very ashamed. And this was a very satisfying feeling for me.
A few years later, I met my classmates at the 10 years reunion (We were the class of 1998). One of them thought about enlisting as an officer back then. So they send him to the paratroopers. I asked him if he as been to Kosovo or Afghanistan during the last. He told me that soon after he started is service, he heared that his unit would be send to Kosovo (in 1999). So, he withdrew is application of enlistment and left the army. What a coward! Since then, I think I did the right thing by going to the paramedics.
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"Heroes don't choose themselves they are chosen by their actions" just because you don't feel like a hero doesn't mean you aren't one.
And of course generically everyone wants to hold a gun and play soldier its easy, fun, and half the time you don't do anything. Real action is where the test of courage and duty lies. And yea sometimes people just want to take it easy and not to be obligated to do anything. The Army is perfect for those people "at times". And many people are cowards, part of maturity is letting go of the need to make life entirely about you, duty and obligation is a part of it. Most people never let that go.
When I go back home to visit my friends other's joined what's called the reserves "Part-time" military whenever I am not around they brag much like the ones you did, However whenever I am around they never want to talk about it. But I don't get the same satisfaction of saying "you aren't real military personnel". I'm not helping anyone, and I haven't done anything really heroic unless if you count me leading a squad of men into the cities local bars and subduing the men from our base and forcing them to return in cuffs. Of course I am in the process of changing this fact, but it still feels awkward at times.
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You must now the situation in Germany back then: When we re-introduced the draft in 1955, an alternative was offered for those who rejected the service for moral reasons. They had to do social service, e.g. in retirement castles, at the city administration (but rather low jobs) in hospitals or in the paramedic service. The problem was, that this people were branded as "cowards" by the rainbow press back then and it stuck until a few years ago. I didn't want to kill a person but I also wanted to do the most useful thing I could do in this service, which was the paramedic service. After what I experienced as a paramedic, I felt angry when somebody called me a coward just because I didn't go to the military, while those, who did noting but drinking and wasting their time at the military boast about what they did. For me, their reaction of shame was poethic justice.
And concerning the guy I told you about: He told me more things he did while in the service. If that would have been found out back then, he would have gotten court-martialed. And he was even proud of cowardism.
To make it short: I risked my life as a paramedic (e.g. when we had the accident and our ambulance car toppled over.) I did my duty for my country but I didn't get the recognition. And this pice of shit runs away when it gets dangerous and is even proud about it.
I hope you understand me better now.
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Well I definitely understand your point of view yes And I discovered the biggest irony of all.
You ARE a Hero even though the German public thinks otherwise.
I am NOT a Hero even though the American public showers me with unneeded gratitude, and gives me unnecessary guilt.
One of the biggest things I cannot accept are things I especially I don't deserve, aside from being made a victim or subjected to pity.
And I am sorry for people like that, I only know of people like that, I don't know any of them personally, for someone to take pride in scheming themselves out of harms way when Duty is called of them is beyond me by any measure, you have to be the lowest of the most inconsiderate vile piles of filth to be that pathetic.
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Frankly, I wasn't surprised about the story. I knew this scumbag. He came in conflict with the law back at school and he was always weaseling out of problems. Better not think about him.
I think the best is to live your life in such a way that you don't have to regret anything. I don't know how it would affect me, if I knew that I had killed a person, like you did. That's why I had moral reservations to go to the army. I'm glad that we abandoned the draft last month. But would have kept the social service and made it compulsory for men and women. But now, we have a completely voluntary service and only very few people apply.
But thats just another proof for the stupidness of our politicians.
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I believe in regrets it is one of the few forms of reinforcement we have that makes us emotionally learn from mistakes. For instance, I will never join the military ever again, as a form of regret. It makes me learn, or when a kid touches a stove to find out what is hot for the first time he regrets touching it and will never touch it again.
I think that was a great thing Germany had was having drafts for the social service I thought that brought your country together more, America is way to divided for anything like that. The military I don't care for it, there isn't much to be done but take up a post stuck in a uniform and gun and play soldier as a technical sergeant that's all I see, in recruits, they have all the perks of being in uniform but none of the obligation and responsibility. It's like cosplaying or dressing up for Halloween, it isn't real. I was terrified when I went into Iraq despite me never firing a combat bullet, but with them I know they would do everything to escape duty.
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I have no illusion: With the draft or with a compusolry social service, we force young people to do something they don't want to do (at least the majority of them). But I think it is a good experience at this age to see what it means to be injured or when you grow old. Maybe this will influence their point of view. And besides, it solves some problems you have in social politics.
At my school (a public highschool), the students have the chance to be trained as firefighters and paramedics. This is unique in germany (with the exception of one expensive private school in south germany). And since our voluntary fire fighting squads have problems to get new members, the gain from our training program as well. Our school trains more firefighters per year then the official firefighter training program of our district does. It's really a win-win situation for every body. And the students can really learn something for life.
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the only extra service some schools provide in jobs is ROTC which is recruitment Operative Training Corps for kids wanting to join the military. I never did it. And its optional of course.
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Even in german public schools, extracurricular activities are quite normal. Many schools got orchestras, choirs and bigbands. Theater clubs and sports programms are common too. Especially highschools compete for the students and thus have to offer something else besides normal education. But all these activities depend on teachers who do it in their spare time. If we are lucky, we get one lesson less to hold per week. But it's fun to do these activities, like the firefighter programm.
If the german military would send subscription agents to school, many parents would protest against it.
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Well that's difference with America and Europe, If their are even rumors or implications of something people are against or uncomfortable with they stand up in revolt in droves.
But we have all those extracurricular activities but they aren't done as little as that they are part of the regular school schedule, and are done 3-5 times a week I was in concert band I nearly played my instrument everyday. The same went for theater and drama. But funding has cut it down several sizes but it remains being used several times a week.
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That's impressive. Normally, these activities are once per week. If you play and instrument, you are supposed to practice every day too. And many students in sports teams are members of local sports clubs too.
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We aren't very club based mostly class based.
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Up to the 11th grade, the schools are organised in classes. But for the last two years, the students have to choose courses. And since my school covers the last three years only, everything is course-based of course.
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thats it? we get to choose our classes from the 7th grade (13/14) years of age, till graduation of high school 12th grade (17/18) for six years we get to choose.
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There are some few choices we can make in early years: Between ethics, catholic of protestant religious education and also, we can choose the second and third foreign language (after english). Here the usual choices are latin, ancient greek, spanish and, in the east, russian. The rest of the schedule is given by the school.
During the last two years, we have more choices. There are some courses we have to choose, like maths and german. Other courses are semi-free to choose: one or two foreign language, one or two natural sciences, some choices in the humanities, and the choice between musics and art.
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it only seems like language is a choice
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Not really. With these choices, our students determine the focus of their exam. Is the focus on natural sciences and maths or on languages? The rules for the choices are quite complicated, since you also have to choose courses, which will be tested in the final exam. Here, maths and german are compusory. But then, you have to choose five more courses and that's where you choose your focus. And exam without english or another foreign language is possible, but then, your focus will be on natural sciences. And if you don't want to have a science in your exam, the focus has to be on the languages. It's quite complicated but you can decide on the focus.
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wow America its far less complicated. For us just choose subjects pass high school and get on with life, there are nothing of that sort. Of course it says alot about our character we have a simple childhood but a very complicated future (in our eyes).
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Maybe that's typically german that everything is regulated. But I don't know if our future is simple. Still, over the last years, the perspective of young people got better. They have good hopes for the future, while a few years got, the perspectives were really bad.
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Americans are chaotic and unstable, if you listen to people, on average we are very uneducated, misinformed, corrupted, and hypocrites.
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It seems the americans are completely individualistic. In Germany, we have a similiar tendency among young children too. I see this often in classes:
There are classes with no sense of community at all. These classes hardly work together. When I tell them the marks, Student A complains that Stundent B isn't better than him and deserves a worse mark. And so on...
Or you have classes, that are a real community. The strong students help the weak, they usually don't bargain for the marks. It's more easy to teach such a class.
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We have conformity, and Individualism in all the wrong places. Where Individualism is needed we have conformity and reluctance(voting, philosophy and no real sides to a debate), or when Conformity is needed there is individualism as you mentioned in schools no one helps each other out there is only themselves to look for. Europe has a diverse Political atmosphere when it comes to philosophy and ideas, where as America is very conformist. But has conformity where it counts in more places such as society and community at least more than America.
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Germany is becomming a mess here. Our political atmosphere is not that diverse as you think. At the moment it appears that every german party, even the conservative party, is infiltrated by commies. And every political party that takes a position right of the conservative party is branded as nazis. So much for political diversity. The current political situation reminds me a lot of the final years of the Weimar Republic.
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that reminds me of the paranoia that's been going on in America for Years.
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Isn't that paranoia going on since the McCarthy era?
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who told you 
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Wich lead you into the mess with the dept from last week, I assume?
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When Obama had to rise the upper limit for the national debt or the USA would have been bankrupt. The republicans opposed his proposals that hard, that in the end, Standard & Poors took the AAA rating away from the USA. Or was it already two weeks ago?
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Oh yes that one I thought you were talking about a personal matter, yes even though every single presidenthas on average raised the debt ceiling 7 times during their entire presidency, Reagan the great Republican Conservative raised it 18 times, while bush the last president before Obama raised it 7 times.
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Doesn't make the republicans look like the big savers. Or are this just the Tea-Party-Republicans?
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Tea-Party-Republicans are becoming the Norm(for the Republican Party) their issues perfectly go hand in hand, and the Republicans are quickly recruiting them into their ranks. They are Ideologues that keep chanting the same thing over and over again. LOWER TAXES, CUT SPENDING, DON'T TAX THE RICH, FREEDOM. While they are cutting benefits for State employee's. America's Senior citizens went up in flames when they BELIEVED Obama's proposal for Healthcare would cut their benefits. When a year later when his plan was passed and Paul Ryan the Ultra-neoconservative Tea-Party who is on the house committee on the budget drafted his own new health care plan that LITERALLY said it was going to deeply cut into Senior Citizen's health care benefits. They aren't savers they are One-note-Charlies (Never saying anything new or different just constantly repeating the same lines and ideas over and over again.)
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