It seems to be standard dystopia fare to have people try and eat other people. And sexually assault them. And a number of other pretty disturbing behaviors that just become expected in this sort of thing. I've yet to encounter a post-apocalyptic video game that doesn't merrily redefine my boundaries of sweet baby jesus that's disturbing. (Amusingly enough, the worst offender is probably Day Z, where the players themselves do some creatively horrifying things. That probably says something about the human psyche that someone much smarter than me could analyze. Completely off topic: there was a accidental plague in World of Warcraft that some epidemiologist studied for how people react to things like that. It's pretty cool.)
I'm really interested in the world itself. Actual money seems to still be worth something, even in the open counties- Dale and Landon's inn takes the physical (paper?) Charter money that Quig has, so there's definitely some sort of unified system there. But if everywhere's developed enough to mostly speak the same language and use money that doesn't have inherent value, what's keeping things bad? Are the counties being prevented from rebuilding, or are they just rebuilding really slowly? From what I could tell, pollution or something has destroyed the water and soil so growing crops became really difficult, but why isn't fresh water a valuable resource (in fact, it seems as abundant as it is today)?
Also, it's funny that the better a story gets, the less metaphysical/introspective I get about the story (WHAT DOES IT REPRESENT? IS THE CROW REALLY A CROW, OR A SYMBOL FOR THE DUALITY OF MANKIND AND THE DESCENT INTO DARKNESS). Probably because I actually care about the story, now. Fan's pretty cool. I hope she doesn't die. (Inb4 her luck runs out and she dies in either some spectacular tragedy or an anticlimactic charter euthanasia or something, you heard it here first.)
I always assumed that there was some kind of way to trade for different currency types (Charter, not-Charter, whatever the hell they use in B-More), which is why I vaguely remember Quig's story mentioning it? WRT freshwater/crops, it seems as if the system was set up to deal with the pollution problem, but once that cleared itself up the system worked and nobody cared to change it. Consider that people don't really seem to be that unhappy? IDK, don't fix what ain't broke?
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