Role

Chapter 11

Demolition diaries: assembling a crew (1)
Added Sun Apr 10 11:26:50 2022 at level 44:

Putting together a proper crew is harder than it sounds. On paper, its
really easy. Just a three step plan:

1. Identify roles.

2. Identify candidates for those roles.

3. Recruit said candidates for the job.

Theoretically no problem. Then you find out candidate A hates candidate B
for some reason and they'd rather die than help each other. Some tension is
natural, but that's a bit of a problem.

Anyhow, despite unforeseen difficulties of that nature, its time to start
putting a plan into action. So lets get to it:

What do you need to kill a really big dragon(s)?

A coordinator. Someone's got to keep the operation running relatively
smoothly. Mistakes will happen, but someone has to keep them from being the
'everyone got eaten' kind (if possible). They'll also need to make sure
noone has the bright idea to butcher the corpse for lunch, and ruin the
whole point. Having an emergency strategy if everything goes wrong would be
good too.

Muscle, obviously. There comes a point when there's going to be the whole
need to start fighting that giant scaled monstrocity, and when that happens
muscle (metaphysical or otherwise) becomes pretty key.

A medic. Dragons are big, and so are their teeth, and that's even before we
get down to the whole aspect of their breath and any magic they've worked
out over the years (and these dragons have really had a few years to work
on that). Injury is inevitable, so someone to handle that is key.

A warder. A medic can only do so much. There comes a point at which we're
going to need something with a bit more magical weight behind it. This ones
pretty flexible, as depending on what magic our scaled nemesis has
uncovered we might get by, but it'd sure be nice to have one.

Enhancers. These come in lots of forms, but they'll help other members of
the crew do their job better, particularly the muscle. Not strictly
necessary depending on how good other candidates are, but they'll sure help.

(Continued next entry).