Now, along comes Esmerelda. She likes to rip people off. Esme hands out cards with relatively obscure `abilities' on them, and says she's too busy whenever people ask her to do anything! Esme doesn't make any new friends. People start to notice that Esme isn't very happy, and ask her what's wrong. She avoids such people. People start talking about her strange behaviour, and discover that she is cheating them.
Unfortunately Esme has created such negative TrustWorth? that no one will play with her any more. And that makes her really disgruntled ... CanCardsCopeWithContention??
Greg is a mentally retarded paraplegic with a glass eye. He can't do anything much of help to anyone, but he's not miserable. We look after people like him today, so of course that service will continue and improve in the future.
But since nursing is generally unpleasant, when there are more mentally retarded paraplegics than there are charitable nurses Greg will have to fall back on cash, if he can. CashTrumpsCards.
Hannibal is a serial killer. He only likes to kill and eat people. Very few people have `I want to be killed and eaten' on their cards, so Hannibal is out of a job. But we feed and care for him anyway. No one hates Hannibal, they feel sorry for him and his strange disorder. He is rather dangerous around people who aren't wearing armour, so he is prevented from leaving his house without an escort. He spends a fair bit of time surfing the Internet, and chatting with people, which is relatively harmless. After a few years, he decides to write his memoirs and publish them on the Internet. People appreciate that Hannibal is reciprocating at last. New research suggests that Lithium has a positive effect on serial killers - Hannibal responds well. Fitted with a radio-collar, Hannibal is permitted to leave his house unsupervised for periods of up to 24 hours.
Right up until that guy with the word "vigilante" on his card turns up ... and a lot worse problems turn up with him ...
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