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alt_billCorax Mulciber took a look at the records of the camp at Adur (where the fiendishly corrupt staff was pocketing budgetary appropriations for food and semi-starving the residents). Now he reasons, hey, apparently Muggles don't need much food after all! How little food can we get away with giving them? What a way to save money, right? So he's ordered me to set up an 'experiment' to find out, using the six camps in Kent as test subjects.
The camps are Ashford, Chipstead, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Swale, and Tunbridge Wells. The food budget at Wells will remain the same, as a control. He's ordered me to cut the food budgets and thus the allotments for the other five in various amounts:
Ashford - 7%
Chipstead - 14%
Maidstone - 21%
Sevenoaks - 28%
Swale - 35%
So Swale will suffer the most. He wants to run this jolly little experiment for three months, and then he'll use the data to re-evaluate. For all I know, he could decide it's a great idea and cut food allotments even more, or even start in on other camps.
And lucky me, I get to implement it.
This is horrible. If we smuggle food into the camps, then it'll look as though massive food cuts don't have any effect--so they'll make even larger food cuts at the next go-around. Another option I considered would be to smuggle people out of the camps, to spread the food out between the fewer people left--except that wouldn't work either. A large pattern of escapes would surely draw MLE scrutiny. The authorities are not stupid enough to keep importing the same amount of food if people are disappearing. They do camp censuses every week. If they have less people, they'll just import less food. They very well might retaliate against the people left behind.
I don't know what's lighting his wand over this: lower budget figures, the chance to torture people with hunger, or even to get rid of some more of those muggles which he absolutely hates, through starvation (although he snarled at me, calling me an idiot, when I asked him if that was his purpose).
Throw me a line here, somebody. What can we do? What can I do?
The camps are Ashford, Chipstead, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Swale, and Tunbridge Wells. The food budget at Wells will remain the same, as a control. He's ordered me to cut the food budgets and thus the allotments for the other five in various amounts:
Ashford - 7%
Chipstead - 14%
Maidstone - 21%
Sevenoaks - 28%
Swale - 35%
So Swale will suffer the most. He wants to run this jolly little experiment for three months, and then he'll use the data to re-evaluate. For all I know, he could decide it's a great idea and cut food allotments even more, or even start in on other camps.
And lucky me, I get to implement it.
This is horrible. If we smuggle food into the camps, then it'll look as though massive food cuts don't have any effect--so they'll make even larger food cuts at the next go-around. Another option I considered would be to smuggle people out of the camps, to spread the food out between the fewer people left--except that wouldn't work either. A large pattern of escapes would surely draw MLE scrutiny. The authorities are not stupid enough to keep importing the same amount of food if people are disappearing. They do camp censuses every week. If they have less people, they'll just import less food. They very well might retaliate against the people left behind.
I don't know what's lighting his wand over this: lower budget figures, the chance to torture people with hunger, or even to get rid of some more of those muggles which he absolutely hates, through starvation (although he snarled at me, calling me an idiot, when I asked him if that was his purpose).
Throw me a line here, somebody. What can we do? What can I do?
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Date: 2013-10-03 11:23 pm (UTC)Bill, how are the meetings going with the camp administrators?
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Date: 2013-10-03 11:48 pm (UTC)