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So, when this week's 
Thursday_Prompt was 'sign', my first thought was the 1971 song 'Signs' by Canadian group Five Man Electrical Band. (Which I have on CD as part of one of the Juno Award collections.) One of the verses in the song starts with
And the sign said
"Anybody caught trespassing
Would be shot on sight"
and after running over ideas for plot in my head, settled on this one.
(While I didn't mention it in the story, I was somewhat inspired by the climax of the Richard Pryor version of Brewster's Millions... I figure the firm Mancini works for was deliberately trying to prevent the real inheritor of the estate from coming to claim it before the critical deadline.)
Thursday_Prompt was 'sign', my first thought was the 1971 song 'Signs' by Canadian group Five Man Electrical Band. (Which I have on CD as part of one of the Juno Award collections.) One of the verses in the song starts withAnd the sign said
"Anybody caught trespassing
Would be shot on sight"
and after running over ideas for plot in my head, settled on this one.
(While I didn't mention it in the story, I was somewhat inspired by the climax of the Richard Pryor version of Brewster's Millions... I figure the firm Mancini works for was deliberately trying to prevent the real inheritor of the estate from coming to claim it before the critical deadline.)
Category Story / General Furry Art
Species Tiger
Size 50 x 50px
File Size 10.9 kB
I don't generally do requests (or commissions); I mostly just have too many ideas of my own, and I have a few people that I already promised things to that I need to finish before I even think of taking on any other things that feel like obligations.
(I don't think of the Thursday Prompt as a request in the same way, so there's less pressure there.)
(I don't think of the Thursday Prompt as a request in the same way, so there's less pressure there.)
Well, yes. "Will always do her best to uphold her end of the contract, even if she thinks you might be cheating her" is a good reputation for a mercenary to have: it makes clients more likely to be willing to give you money in advance. Of course, "absolutely will hurt you if you do cheat her" probably won't get her more business, but it will hopefully reduce the number of people who try to not pay her.
Heh. There's a reason I referred to 'smartest guy in the room'-itis; there are people out there who are so firmly convinced that they're going to get away with what they're trying to do that they don't make any plans for what happens when they can't, and panic ensues. And then they have no idea why people don't trust them anymore...
There's a reason why the documentary on the Enron scandals was called Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. There's a particular form of arrogance that comes from knowing you're smart and successful, as well as having gotten away with bad behaviour previously. (The big scandal may have hit in 2001, but some of Enron's traders had been caught gambling on the energy markets as far back as 1987.)
People afflicted with that form of arrogance generally don't know when to say 'enough', and will keep doing risky and shady things until it finally collapses down on them catastrophically.
People afflicted with that form of arrogance generally don't know when to say 'enough', and will keep doing risky and shady things until it finally collapses down on them catastrophically.
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