Against the Cult of the Commodity

Task Force Beholder - Rock Diplomacy (Play Report)

Classification: 🔮🔮🔮

Operation: 10/31 Dra-Gonne-Wild

Handler: OldHawkeyes

Operatives: Mary Land Manhattan and Melissa McMilitia, Odyssia, Jumpin Jack Flash, Subamuh, Stan, Grimtoof Mofu, John Whack Smackem

Commands:

Again(!!!): Establish contact with local faction ("small folk") 
and investigate opportunities for future logistics endeavors 
(see Iran-Contra business).

Action Protocol:

  1. Before leaving the U.S.S. St. Gerald Ford, TFB conducts a sweep search to combat substance abuse among the enlisted (found: several grams of crystallized cocaine).
  2. Task Force Beholder sets out on horse back once more to establish contact with the furred and fecund "small folk".
  3. TFB travels to Castle Skara (protected by 400 capable fighters) and conducts local market research. Local unlicensed jester Grimtoof Mofo is recruited and joins TFB. He establishes contact with innkeeper Brandon "Level Ten" Theeve. TFB is gifted 6 bottles of expensive wine. Brandon L.T. Theeve is gifted a bag of Earth-2 rocks. Local forces tell of "small folk" attacking carvans by self-detonation (Troubling!).
  4. TFB continues towards the foot of the Westwall Mountains and encounters a troop of greys on wolfback. Contact is established by MLM. Grimtooth Mofu charms the LN designated as Ribpicker. John Whack Smackem bests the strongest grey in single combat, demonstrating the power growing out the barrel of an assault rifle. The greys identify their troop as part of the Bloodfist O.R.C (Original Resident Contras?).
  5. Following local customs a pipe is shared. TFB supplies freebased means of recreation. A deal is struck with the LNs that assault rifles and means for the alchemical production of rocks will be supplied to the Bloodfist Keep. TFB learns that "small folk" are becoming a problem for the O.R.C. as well. Greys depart
  6. TFB is ambushed by [1]6 feline dragonic hostiles. Several attempts at diplomacy fail. Appropriate means (explosives) are employed. Result: 0 friendly casualties, [1]6 eliminated serpentine militants. TFB secures terrorist cave complex and confiscates illegal artefacts. 2 intact dragonnic bodies are loaded onto expendable steeds.
  7. TFB returns to Castle Skara claiming the reward for eliminating the threats (24k USD) and subsequently sets out for the U.S.S. St. Gerald Ford.
  8. One dragonne body is sent to the CONSPIRACY and the other is stored on the carrier. John Whack Smackem sends a gift to Arcturius (see below), Odyssia begins equipping the Bloodfist O.R.C., Jumpin Jack Flash procures laboratory equipment, Sodium bicarbonate, and norcocaine.
Educational literature sent to the dragon Arcturius:
- Capitalism and Freedom – Milton Friedman
- The Road to Serfdom – Friedrich Hayek
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
- An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Robert Malthus
- Principles of Political Economy - John Stuart Mill
- Capital and Interest - Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk
- A Treatise on Political Economy - Jean-Baptiste Say
- Capital Vol 1-3 - Karl Marx
- Principles of Economics - Carl Menger
- Human Action: A Treatise on Economics - Ludwig von Mises

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