I think you've very presumptuous there, in my experience it's reversed -
true mercy is a minority.
to be fair there were plenty of people being subtly corrupt as fuck, you just didn't really see it because it wasn't voiced to the public & most of it was pretty internal.
I even palmed off a pistol in a suitcase to someone during a public
@Numbers speech (he was doing a public debate) and the guy went on to shoot up a bar for me to get rid of a witness from an embarassing atrocity during a temp event & remove a loyalist who was influencing number's campaign.
and this was right in front of my escorts too, you could get away with a LOT if you knew what you were doing.
best three characters I ever made were:
• diplomat who started off the least bureaucratic, genuinely well-intentioned and friendly guy in CAB before being gradually corrupted by the insane number of plots to steal his positions, kick him out of the board and assassination attempts over the course of two years.
by the end of it all he was just utterly paranoid and absolutely unfaithful in the regime that had backstabbed/almost killed him too many times, the only senator besides
@Tarannus to be from the original senate by then. plenty of memorable stories about his enemies deciding to kill themselves or get kicked from the faction so the sheer dumb luck behind that was even funnier in hindsight.
• guy who wasn't supposed to be in the future, got drafted as a cop and became the only one to ever reach 75% without a single murder to his name before he escaped back to where he came from.
• ex-conscript refugee who became slavic jesus, lived off charity and remained humble throughout his entire life in the fakelands after being
sent to chernobyl 'till he sacrificed himself to save
@Pyromancer's junkie and a few others in a dallas event trilogy.
after Nickson drank himself to death in his own office (bizarre random event to witness having logged on fifteen minutes before it happened) it passed to me.
which wasn't the greatest choice as my character arc by then was pretty much just deranged, paranoid self-survival mixed in with the occasional collaboration with insurgents, so it was funny to pretend to steer the ship while selling out the few inept agents to the ELA. Most people (
@Merlinsclaw) refused to hand over information on their own informants so I never had the entire roster regardless, and the CAB government then wasn't willing to bring the matter to force.
then it went to
@OneClassyBanana, and after that OMSO absorbed/blocked pretty much all CAB intelligence functions to the point the whole thing was dead and it was left to the then-headcops to run everything, naturally they did a shite job.
he asked me to post this (he recorded it for a project):
