Metod Rybar – Personal Blog
• Metod Rybar
Bureaucracy makes sure stuff people don’t want to do happens. “Now you can see that each of these systems relies – at least for the peasants – on compulsion. The peasants do not get anything for their service – they aren’t paid, they don’t get increased social status nor can they expect some sort of… Read More »Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals
A thank-you for the volunteers who run the church coffee morning: cups set out early, the raffle table, the bring-and-buy stall, and a chair for anyone who comes in on their own. The cups by the hatch or the raffle table as a jigsaw, with your note at the end.
A thank-you for the volunteers who run the church parent and toddler group: the toy box, the play mat, the singing circle, juice and biscuits and a warm hall on a weekday morning. The toy box or the snack table as a jigsaw, with your note at the end.
Metod Rybar – Personal Blog
• Metod Rybar
There was no local police in the past. “MMORPGs and fantasy worlds alike love their ‘local village guards,’ but these societies cannot afford many full-time soldiers and the ones they can afford tend to be guarding things like castles and towns (or just, you know, hanging around the Big Man’s person), not villages. The people… Read More »Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration
A thank-you for the church prayer chain: a landline by the armchair, a typed list of names and numbers, a candle in the side chapel and a notebook of requests. The phone by the chair or the lit candle as a jigsaw, with your note at the end.
A thank-you for the church banner makers: felt letters pinned on a trestle table, a box of embroidery silks, a Whitsun dove half stitched and the banner pole in the vestry corner. The finished banner or the sewing table as a jigsaw, with your note at the end.
A thank-you for the church funeral tea volunteers: the urn on at half past ten, cups and saucers on the hatch, sandwiches under tea towels and a chair by the radiator. The laid tables or the urn as a jigsaw, with your note at the end.
A thank-you for the church handyman or odd-job volunteer: sticking doors, hymn boards, light bulbs, dripping taps and the long ladder behind the organ. The toolbox on the vestry step or the thing they mended as a jigsaw, with your note at the end.
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A thank-you for the church volunteer who puts the heating on: early winter mornings, the boiler timer, the radiators and the oil gauge. The old boiler in the vestry cupboard or the radiators under the windows as a jigsaw, with your note at the end.
