Elfen High 2 (OOC 11, Closed, Hindustan Zindabad)

[Nationstatelandsville]

Oh, hey, yeah. I started school yesterday.

So, y'know, I'll be gone a lot. Which, I mean, we'll all be gone soon anyways, so yeah.

I thought we had agreed that Khan was immortal.

Yes, but eventually he will wander off to another planet. He's very easily distracted.

[Constaniana]

Oh, hey, yeah. I started school yesterday.

So, y'know, I'll be gone a lot. Which, I mean, we'll all be gone soon anyways, so yeah.

What sort of Yankee tomfoolery involves starting school on a Tuesday but not because of Labor Day?

[Zarkenis Ultima]

I thought we had agreed that Khan was immortal.

Yes, but eventually he will wander off to another planet. He's very easily distracted.

That's a good point.

I pity the poor schmucks who live over there.

[Constaniana]

I thought we had agreed that Khan was immortal.

Yes, but eventually he will wander off to another planet. He's very easily distracted.

The epilogue has been delayed because Arjun keeps shining a laser on the floor or rolling a ball of yarn his way.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Yes, but eventually he will wander off to another planet. He's very easily distracted.

The epilogue has been delayed because Arjun keeps shining a laser on the floor or rolling a ball of yarn his way.

This is as good a reason as any.

Life has been incredibly exhausting and hectic for reasons I won't detail. I'm really hoping for time this weekend.

[Altito Asmoro]

Oh, hey, yeah. I started school yesterday.

So, y'know, I'll be gone a lot. Which, I mean, we'll all be gone soon anyways, so yeah.

I thought we had agreed that Khan was immortal.

Khan was immortal?

[Astrolinium]

The epilogue has been delayed because Arjun keeps shining a laser on the floor or rolling a ball of yarn his way.

This is as good a reason as any.

Life has been incredibly exhausting and hectic for reasons I won't detail. I'm really hoping for time this weekend.

Don't overwork yourself. If the Mormon doesn't see it before he leaves, it can be the one thing keeping him alive during his perilous trek through the jungles of the Congo.

[Nationstatelandsville]

This is as good a reason as any.

Life has been incredibly exhausting and hectic for reasons I won't detail. I'm really hoping for time this weekend.

Don't overwork yourself. If the Mormon doesn't see it before he leaves, it can be the one thing keeping him alive during his perilous trek through the jungles of the Congo.

Like a soldier writing to his wife back home, but much dumber.

[Constaniana]

Don't overwork yourself. If the Mormon doesn't see it before he leaves, it can be the one thing keeping him alive during his perilous trek through the jungles of the Congo.

Like a soldier writing to his wife back home, but much dumber.

I have an actual girlfriend I'll be writing back to, but I'll try and peek a glance at here if I I can.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Like a soldier writing to his wife back home, but much dumber.

I have an actual girlfriend I'll be writing back to, but I'll try and peek a glance at here if I I can.

Is she Mormon too? Will she be going on her own mission?

[Constaniana]

I have an actual girlfriend I'll be writing back to, but I'll try and peek a glance at here if I I can.

Is she Mormon too? Will she be going on her own mission?

She's Catholic.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I was reading into it while on the train, and it's not just Oliver - I could absolutely and completely legally start a church in America.

[Nationstatelandsville]

I was reading into it while on the train, and it's not just Oliver - I could absolutely and completely legally start a church in America.

But you'll never be as holy as our Mega-Reverend.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I was reading into it while on the train, and it's not just Oliver - I could absolutely and completely legally start a church in America.

But you'll never be as holy as our Mega-Reverend.

Jon, if I actually gave a fuck, Elfen High could be a legal church.

[Nationstatelandsville]

But you'll never be as holy as our Mega-Reverend.

Jon, if I actually gave a fuck, Elfen High could be a legal church.

Gavin would be very confused when he received the notice of canonization.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Jon, if I actually gave a fuck, Elfen High could be a legal church.

Gavin would be very confused when he received the notice of canonization.

He strikes me as a pretty chill guy, I think he'd be amused.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I love my fellow Stackexchange users.

[Liriena]

My faculty now officially has a pet cat.

If you ask me, that's quite an upgrade from our recent rat infestation, or our long-running Marxist-Leninist activist infestation.

I was reading into it while on the train, and it's not just Oliver - I could absolutely and completely legally start a church in America.

Ah, but would you take a bag of actual seeds as "seed"?

[Zarkenis Ultima]

My faculty now officially has a pet cat.

If you ask me, that's quite an upgrade from our recent rat infestation, or our long-running Marxist-Leninist activist infestation.

I was reading into it while on the train, and it's not just Oliver - I could absolutely and completely legally start a church in America.

Ah, but would you take a bag of actual seeds as "seed"?

D'aww.

[Liriena]

My faculty now officially has a pet cat.

If you ask me, that's quite an upgrade from our recent rat infestation, or our long-running Marxist-Leninist activist infestation.


Ah, but would you take a bag of actual seeds as "seed"?

D'aww.

We're torn between naming it Mrs. Norris and Glenn Gatovsky.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

D'aww.

We're torn between naming it Mrs. Norris and Glenn Gatovsky.

Glenn Gatovsky oh god.

You do know you have to, don't you?

[Liriena]

D'aww.

We're torn between naming it Mrs. Norris and Glenn Gatovsky.

Also, my Information Law professor is awesome, but she loses points for not giving us free candy during exams, like my Methodology professor did.

We're torn between naming it Mrs. Norris and Glenn Gatovsky.

Glenn Gatovsky oh god.

You do know you have to, don't you?

Yup.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I love my fellow Stackexchange users.

http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ ... -the-world

But let's give our Joe Average better than average intelligence (maybe a lot better), a charismatic personality, a psychopathic desire for power and a bit of luck and see how far he can go starting from average means/education.

In the early 90s Joe is at University, where he is learning programming and computer science in the earliest days of the internet. Being rather bright he cottons on early and develops a plan to make himself extremely wealthy and powerful. He drops out of school and starts an international consulting company targeting contracts with companies and governments that are switching to electronic payroll and communications. His software products contain hidden code that give him back doors into the computer networks of every company and agency that he works for. Within 10 years he has installations in place in almost every major government and Fortune 500 company. He uses these connections to skim very small percentages off of payrolls, and to tap high level communications. He can use internal emails between executives to pursue insider trading. He can sell secrets to competitors or other governments. He will have to be very careful not to tip his hand and it will make a thrilling story of how he manages to continue to grow and operate without being detected. But with a bit of luck he will soon have amassed a very large amount of wealth in a complicated scattering of accounts and have more intelligence than any spy agency on Earth.

During this time he is also slowly building an organization. One thing about ruling the world is you really can't do it alone. There are just too many things to worry about. Even if you are going to leverage the existing infrastructure it will take more than one person just to pull the puppet strings. Joe needs an organization. So he begins recruiting individuals. He is a charismatic personality so finding followers is easy. The hard part is finding people who will follow without challenging him, but are still intelligent and ruthless enough to be useful. Joe uses his consortium of consulting companies to identify and train up promising individuals.

What he does next is target officials in governments around the world. He uses blackmail, bribes, and forged computer records to slowly move into place people that are loyal to him. He can control vote tallies, criminal and health records, even rewrite laws in subtle but powerful ways. As more and more of Joe's minions take positions of power the pace of the take over can accelerate. Joe has the good fortune of operating in time of rapidly increasing globalization and computer connectivity. This gives him many opportunities to establish his secret back doors in ever more critical pieces of infrastructure.

Finally Joe for all intents and purposes controls the world. He has the leader of every major power in his pocket, either by directly placing them in the job, or blackmailing/bribing them into submission.

What does he do with this power? I think this is the critical question. He can't just start making wild demands or he is going have insurrection on his hands. He is going to have move slowly and subtly affect public opinion to shift it in his desired direction. His reasons for wanting power and how he uses the power to affect his desired results is a whole other story.

William has serious competition in the form of Joe Average.

[Nude East Ireland]

My faculty now officially has a pet cat.

He looks less-than-thrilled to be there.

But you'll never be as holy as our Mega-Reverend.

Jon, if I actually gave a fuck, Elfen High could be a legal church.

I'd join.

[Liriena]

My faculty now officially has a pet cat.

He looks less-than-thrilled to be there.

If I were lying on that floor naked, so would I.