[UA] Charge gathering

[Gaston Phillips]

> 
> I'd be more concerned about a dipsomancer being allowed to
> be an ambulance driver.  I don't know too much about
> alcoholism, so maybe I'm off base here.  However, after
> some time, someone who relies on drinking will probably be
> pulled over for driving under the influence.  Those who
> maintain control of their drinking can avoid drinking and
> driving, but that hardly explains a boozehound.
> 
> And I doubt that an ambulance driver would remain such if
> he has a record of drinking and driving.  Of course, it
> could be a symbol for how wretched society has become.
> After all, we still find pilots who drank before their
> flights as well as other people under the influence of
> drugs while performing dangerous tasks.  Who's going to
> notice a drunk ambulance driver in this society?
> 

Yeah, you're sort of close in this "symbol of our society" thread.  He is,
of course, a graveyard shift driver.  There's also the "totally rediculous"
aspect, as well as the "dark and twisted."  I mean - you ever see an
ambulance driver drive?  The idea of a soused drunkard clutching the wheel
and sweating bullets as he sways, side to side as he whips the ambulance
around at ninety made me cackle.  That's a good indication the character
concept is gonna fly.

It's unclear if he still works as a driver or not.  I'm voting 'no' because
I think day jobs get in the way of, you know.  Dungeon crawling.  But also
because the idea was that the horrors of his work "drove him to drink," as
it were.  And, for a while, I guess, the drinking and the magick and the
surreal work environment all fed on each other, until he got sick of DOA
cadavers sitting up and speaking to him, tongues and jawbones flapping all
over the place, and quit.  His job, not the drinking.

gaston


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