Going postal – Chapter 6: Little pictures: Moist gets dragged into what looks like a terrifying secret ritual\u2026
but quickly realizes it\u2019s basically a bunch of old postmen playing underground club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201ctest\u201d is supposed to be deadly serious.
In reality, it\u2019s mostly stumbling in the dark, tripping over junk, and trying not to break anything important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Groat keeps coaching him like:
\u201call good, sir\u201d
which translates to:
\u201cthis is chaos, but let\u2019s pretend it\u2019s tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moist does what Moist does best:
he bluffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He talks like he\u2019s in charge, acts confident, and suddenly the whole room starts believing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then dogs show up looking like absolute killing machines\u2026
and he just casually tells them to sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that point, everyone is like: So Moist goes from confused victim \u2192 accidental leader in about five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n End result: He rewrote it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fake ritual + real confidence = promotion to boss.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going postal – Chapter 6: Little pictures: Moist gets dragged into what looks like a terrifying secret ritual\u2026but quickly realizes it\u2019s basically a bunch of old postmen playing underground club. The \u201ctest\u201d is supposed to be deadly serious.In reality, it\u2019s mostly stumbling in the dark, tripping over junk, and trying not to break anything important. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,23,31],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapters","category-english","category-reflections","category-terry-pratchett-going-postal","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201c\u2026okay, maybe he is<\/em> the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He didn\u2019t pass the test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n