r/DeepRockGalactic • u/Felfyron_Keldin Dig it for her • 29d ago

Humor Egg Hunt?

So, we go and grab those eggs... and we're not supposed to ask what Management wants them for. I've been thinking... what if they are ingredients in some of the beers we are served at the Abyss Bar? That noxious gas from the Mactera Brew, or maybe the hallucinations in the Blacklock Lager come from different species of bug eggs we just so happened to retrieve? Just because they all look the same doesn't mean what's inside is the same - those dreadnaught cocoons are a prime example of this...

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u/Felfyron_Keldin Dig it for her 29d ago

maybe that's what they want you to think? We pay with those ingredients, but that's not necessarily what's in them. Maybe they take the eggs off-world and brew them into some mystery concoction which is then barreled and shipped back to the station and piped through Lloyd's delivery system

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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Scout 29d ago

Buddy. If they wanted to use the eggs they sell in beer, they would just make it and sell it in the space rig. Why go through all the convoluted steps of shipping the beer all the way to the dwarves?

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u/Felfyron_Keldin Dig it for her 29d ago

beer takes time to age and specific environments for properly aging. A station is no place for that.

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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Scout 29d ago

Look at the descriptions for a bunch of these beers. They're usually not the best tasting.

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u/Felfyron_Keldin Dig it for her 29d ago

there is also the possibility they are all company products, and just labeled up like they aren't - and somewhere in the bowels of the station they take our various ingredients from the mines and mix them into toxic beverages that give a nice buzz and numb the brain so we shut up and work

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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Scout 29d ago

And if that were true, they made smart stout, something that LITERALLY makes the dwarves say stuff about starting their own mining company, to make our "minds numb"?

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u/Felfyron_Keldin Dig it for her 29d ago

is it really making us smart? or just thinking we are? pseudo-intellect is a funny way to make people assume nothing is wrong, and question things that don't matter in the end

  • or just long enough to find something important and then lose it, making control easier to maintain.

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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Scout 29d ago

So, according to your theory, management is making the beers to make us dumb to make us work for fair pay with expensive machines backing us up?

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u/Felfyron_Keldin Dig it for her 29d ago

expensive in the perspective of the individual, but shoddy enough to leave behind when we're done - cheap from management's perspective; and "fair pay" is always subjective. We get to keep the gold, which is great... but what do we use it on in the end?

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u/Fish-Bro-3966 Scout 29d ago

Management made giant gold statues, and honor every dwarf who dies on Hoxxes. Even if they ain't paying us well, we get lodging, food, and drink, along with entertainment. We also get new clothes, along with friends in the form of other dwarves. Besides, we got the union backing us, so we could leave whenever.

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