Going postal Chapter Five: Lost in the post: Moist basically gets kidnapped by a bunch of retired postmen running a secret society in the dark.
Full setup:
robes, booming voices, rituals… and what feels like a mix between initiation and workplace accident.
“The Walk” turns out to be:
trip over junk, injure yourself slightly, and pretend it’s honorable.
Groat keeps whispering:
“it’s fine, sir”
which clearly means it is absolutely not fine.
After a while Moist realizes:
this isn’t a test…
this is a hobby that got out of hand.
So he does the only reasonable thing:
he starts bluffing back.
And it works.
Suddenly he’s not the one being tested anymore –
he’s the one in charge.
Then the dogs show up.
Look deadly.
Turn out to be… pretty obedient if you sound confident enough.
Classic Moist.
Conclusion:
If you sound like you know what you’re doing,
people will assume you do.
Even if you just tripped over a beer bottle in the dark.
Secret society + total incompetence + Moist bluffing = promotion.