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[piper90npcs]

Goooooood morning boys and girls! And especially those boys. You know which ones I mean. That's right, everyone, the Jorgmund Swimsuit Calendars are out and they are hot, hot, HOT! And, no, I'm not just saying that because I'm in the firefighter's catalogue!

[Canned laughter.]

Of course, the real special interest for some of you are those New Hire calendars. We got the robot chick, the ninja girl, the surly-and-smoking bodyguard, the cat boy, that spicy Cajun and-oh. We've even got a calendar for kids! No swimsuits, just an array of lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

So come on down to the PX and pick up tomorrow's calendar, today! And, thanks to that handsome blue devil, they come with a free tiger poster!

[Of course, the New Hires get a random calendar in their rooms for free. Never let it be said Jorgmund hasn't done anything for them! The calendars themselves are... actually a little spicy, some of them. Each New Hire who participated gets their own, and there's a mix. That or they might find themselves with a fireman's calendar, the one stuffed with mechanics, or one of the other offerings.]

Comments

[nyanhat]

That rare, huh.

[ He frowns. Not that plenty of laguz haven't died far too young, but their lot has improved considerably since most of the human nations abolished slavery. ]

Is that just politics, or is there more at work there? If you don't mind me asking, of course.

[credit_not_blame]

No, it's fine to ask. We're...we fight monsters. Like, real gross terror-and-pain-flavors-the-meat kind of things. We've got a pretty high mortality rate, I've lost track of how many times I've almost died since I shifted for the first time, and that was three years ago at this point.

[nyanhat]

Ouch. Is that a tradition thing? A trouble finds us so we're stuck with it thing? A nobody else does this so it's on us thing?

[credit_not_blame]

All three to one degree or another. [Stacia chews her lip, considering her wording carefully.] Like...bad stuff is happening, and we're the ones best equipped to deal with it. But there aren't enough of us, and we don't have a lot of people we can turn to for help.