Poll: Survival Strategies and Revenue Streams (drama)

[china_shop]

Poll #33289 Temperature and revenue

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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What else could Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng and Ye Huo have tried to keep warm in the zero-degree lab?

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cover the vent
6 (50.0%)

jam the giant fan
4 (33.3%)

check the shelves for materials to make a tent
5 (41.7%)

ransack the room for materials to burn
1 (8.3%)

put their hoodies' hoods up
9 (75.0%)

closer huddling (all three)...
8 (66.7%)

...on one of the bed things instead of the floor
3 (25.0%)

take selfies with the camera (won't keep them warm, but will pass the time)
0 (0.0%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to rip the control panel off the wall
5 (41.7%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to pull the door off its hinges or the linings off the walls (like he broke into the Hanga caves)
8 (66.7%)

like, NOT close the cover on the OFF switch (Changcheng, ILU)
6 (50.0%)

other
4 (33.3%)

What are Shen Wei's revenue streams?

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stipend from Dixing
10 (83.3%)

pay from the university
12 (100.0%)

investments from when he first came to Haixing
2 (16.7%)

investments in a lollipop factory, specifically
4 (33.3%)

an alchemical/Midas power
2 (16.7%)

a trust set up by his fellow soldiers from the ancient war that has been held in his name for ten thousand years in the belief that he will return one day
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a fashion model
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a restaurant chef
0 (0.0%)

secretly a best-selling author of epic historical novels
0 (0.0%)

he's actually a man of fairly modest means
6 (50.0%)

other (please specify in comments)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[china_shop]

Honestly, I like the idea that Dixing's education is actually good ... if you can get it.

Ooh, yes! But I also want it to be context-specific and foreign. Like, they're not going to have much on astronomy (except perhaps theoretical astronomy based on ancient star charts and stuff).

So the schools SW wants aren't to introduce knowledge to Dixing, but to give everyone equal access to knowledge.

I really like that! I like the idea that he's sure there's a Dixingren Li Qian just dying for some good science courses...

[facethestrange]

"Like, they're not going to have much on astronomy (except perhaps theoretical astronomy based on ancient star charts and stuff)."

This makes me wonder how much can be learned from whatever is left from the space travel era. :D

"I like the idea that he's sure there's a Dixingren Li Qian just dying for some good science courses..."

AW! ♡ He probably knows kids like that already.

[china_shop]

This makes me wonder how much can be learned from whatever is left from the space travel era. :D

Right? There could be huge philosophical arguments about the meanings of artefacts, with different schools of thought. :D

AW! ♡ He probably knows kids like that already.

Maybe! I'm really not clear how many ordinary Dixingren he knows (outside of the palace) or how much time he spends down there. He seems surprised by the state of things early in canon ("Dixing has become a prison of torment" /quoting from memory). :-/

[facethestrange]

"I'm really not clear how many ordinary Dixingren he knows (outside of the palace) or how much time he spends down there. He seems surprised by the state of things early in canon ("Dixing has become a prison of torment" /quoting from memory). :-/"

I figure he knows some things from, like, the times where he has to bring back innocent people (and secretly releases them), but yeah, he probably doesn't know many ordinary people on a personal level.

[china_shop]

I figure he knows some things from, like, the times where he has to bring back innocent people (and secretly releases them)

Ha, but any Dixingren who's been to Haixing by definition isn't completely ordinary. Or, at least, not typical. :D

But yeah, he definitely has some contacts among the populace, like Wu Tian'en for one.

[facethestrange]

Hah, very true. :D He can maybe learn from the not-very-typical Dixingren about their families and other people they know. :)

[trobadora]

Yes! A lot of volcanology, no practical astronomy, a great deal of weird science involving black energy ... :D

I like the idea that he's sure there's a Dixingren Li Qian just dying for some good science courses...

Same! I mean, there's a reason I made Li Qian's Dixing mirror in Beyond the Gates, the Mountain upper class, because someone actually in circumstances similar to Li Qian's wouldn't have access to higher education in Dixing.

[china_shop]

a great deal of weird science involving black energy ... :D

Yes!! :D :D :D

because someone actually in circumstances similar to Li Qian's wouldn't have access to higher education in Dixing.

Now I'm wondering about libraries... They probably don't have those either, pre-canon. The Regent doesn't have a lot of incentive to educate the populace...

[trobadora]

I'm thinking libraries in general yes, public libraries no - plenty of information but most people can't access it.

[china_shop]

That makes sense. And unsupervised people with natural talent intuiting theories, getting them wrong sometimes, probably teaching them to others, and (particularly in the area of dark energy) sometimes making terrible mistakes. /o\

[trobadora]

Yes, all of that! And then the terrible mistakes get used by people like the Regent to argue that these people can't be trusted with more knowledge, I'm sure ... /o\

[china_shop]

Yeah, or they don't deserve it, or any other excuse. /o\ /o\ /o\