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What Happens When ...?
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Blaise Joshua
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Feb-1-2005 14:49
What happens when your detective, the sole director of an agency, is retired due to stupidity and a few false accusations? What happens to that agency and the poor souls left in it at agent level only. Yup ... it's just happened to me. Regards, Blaise, f.k.a. Saxon!
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littletodo
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Feb-1-2005 14:53
I had thought of that scenario, it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
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Jojo
Old Shoe
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Feb-1-2005 15:25
Poor guy!
I believe the agency is dismembered.
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Blaise Joshua
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Feb-1-2005 23:44
Dismembered?? That sounds a bit drastic. I hope the individual agents won't be dismembered. It wasn't their fault : o )
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Greyling
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Feb-2-2005 02:11
Last time this happened Ben's reply was "Hmm, the system should have dissolved the agency when that happened. Guess I'll need to taka look to see why that didn't happen." (;p) - did you have any officers? Not that that would make a lot of difference, but then you could be invited back :)
As for the agents left in the agency there are a few options:
a) the agents can stay and keep putting money into the safe to keep it going (without much chance of doing anything else, though).
b) the agents can leave now or wait till the office safe runs dry and automatically closes the agency 2 days later.
c) you can open a new agency and offer the agents to come join you there instead :)
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Jojo
Old Shoe
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Feb-2-2005 13:43
Dismembered is like dissolved.
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Jojo
Old Shoe
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Feb-2-2005 19:17
(I love moving threads!) MOVED TO NEWBIE
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marylou
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Feb-3-2005 11:07
JOJO, deismembered is chopping someones body into pieces. gruesome
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Moonshh
Well-Connected
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Feb-3-2005 13:21
from dictionary.com
Dismember
v 1: separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist" 2: divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
I admit it sounded funny/gruesome to me, too, but looks like Jojo was officially correct in his usage.
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marylou
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Feb-4-2005 10:49
Not in my Dictonairy so may just be American English rather than Queens English! Lol. Keep finding lots of funny differences from playing this game and it's wide ranging community. Official apology to Jojo for questioning it.
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Blaise Joshua
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Feb-5-2005 12:06
Chambers 20th C. Dictionary defines the verb as: to divide member from member; to seperate a limb from; to disjoint; to tear to pieces.
While I think JoJo's use is technically correct, the word itself still carries a very strong, bloody and violent connotation, which is kind of cool and funny at the same time : o )
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