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So I just got a text - on Sunday - from Incompetence Coordinator Phil, asking me to please stop being a dick and provide a "vision statement" for my departments.

I have settled on "We are all monsters together."

so bad news is, unemployment has sidestepped having to pay me in a way so dumb it would overload my brain if i had to elaborate, so it looks like i'm gonna need to build up a nest egg before i can fly the coop. Goods news is i've been tentatively hired by a children's entertainment company to do birthday entertainment. so yeah I'm gonna be a birthday clown.

I couldn't be trusted with that job, for more or less the same reason Cain can't be trusted with that job.

It's illegal for ECH to even apply.

U sound like an old man... I'm gonna kill myself now... Try and catch me

Try not to leave a mess.

I just watched the Hegseth confirmation hearings and now I want bad things to happen to my country.

This climate change thing isn't going to cause the sudden major catastrophe that you expected.  Well, not just yet.  Not to you.

The weather events will be more frequent and more severe, but they won't be anything new.  The droughts will be dryer, the floods will be wetter, the forest fires will be bigger, and the hurricanes will hit harder and more often, but it's just the same-old, same-old, variations on a theme.  Florida deserves what's coming to it, California has always been on fire, and India and Africa are too far away to bother about.  The Atlantic ocean currents won't collapse for a while yet, and no one really cares if those moldy old Europeans freeze, anyway.

Reduced food production will drop the planetary carrying capacity by a few billion humans.

Grocery prices will go up, and selection will go down.  Forget about lychees and pomelos, get used to potatoes and apples.  If it isn't produced within a couple hundred km of where you live, don't count on it remaining available.  Don't count on it even then; locality helps, but it's no substitute for a heavily-stocked arsenal and a healthy supply of gasoline.

Things can be done, and will be, but not nearly enough.  You still depend on fossil fuels, don't you?  If you haven't stopped, why would you expect everyone else to?  You're waiting for Someone Else to fix everything?  Well, they won't.  They're not any more motivated than you are, and won't be until it's too late.

The people will demand an all-powerful leader to save them, or at least to stick it to the Other Guy, so politics will shift sharply to the right.  This will work as well as it usually does.  You'll see, Trump won't be that bad.  Not like his successors.

But do not despair!  There is hope!

We are currently at 400% of the world's sustainable carrying capacity.

Which is causing the drop in the short-term carrying capacity.

Things are looking up!   

Bump for revamping and use elsewhere.

Levels A-C complete.

I need 11 more new monsters for level D.  PCs should be level 6-7, depending on how hard they grind.

(DONE) Fetchling rogue/shadow dancer
(DONE) Vishkanya slayer
(DONE)The Major Domo
(DONE) Valens (magical warrior3)
(DONE) Marius (magical warrior 4)
(DONE) Marcus (magical warrior 5)
(DONE) Ifrit tanks
(DONE) Medusa monk
(DONE) Crimson Guard
(DONE) Cocaine Ape
(DONE) Gray (B5,129) psychic

That's a good point they can do a whole pile of awful in a very short space of time and then blame the civilian advisor who was out of his depth.
I didn't think about that but they can pile that high

Trump isn't that savvy, but Stephen Miller most certainly is.

The idea here is that there are very few keyed encounters.  Most monsters roam in various zones.  Most wandering monsters carry no loot (see description for exceptions), most loot is keyed.

The areas overlap as follows

D20
1-5 no result.
6 overlap.  Roll on the least dangerous adjacent area's table.  Treat overlaps on that table as no result.  If there are less than two overlapping zones, treat as no result.
7-18 add monsters appropriate to the zone the PCs are in.  If the population of that monster is eliminated, treat the roll as no result.
19 roll on the events table
20 overlap with most dangerous adjacent table.  Treat overlaps on that table as no result.  If there are no overlaps, treat as no result.

Checks are made when a zone is entered (even if they step out of the zone and right back in), and once per hour while in that zone, or when combat occurs (at a -5 on the die roll).

Other modifiers

PCs are using a light source (dim) +1
PCs are using a brighter light source +1, stacks with dim light.
PCs are loud +1 (does not include combat, see above.  If the PCs argue or the lowest passive stealth is less than 5, this modifier applies. Passive stealth for PF1e is 10 plus total skill/armor check value.
PCs are very loud +1, stacks with loud.  DM discretion.

Wandering Monster Zones and overlaps

B1-B4, overlaps with level A zone and Level C Zone (enter location)
B7-B8, overlaps with level A zone
B7-B8, overlaps with level A zone
B15-B18 overlaps with level C Zone (enter location)

No wandering monsters in B5, B12, B13-14 under any circumstances.

B14 Cell Block

This long hall has 19 cells and room to dig out several more.  There are no bars, but instead a shimmering wall of force.  Inside 18 of the cells are various human male and females stuck in what appears to be statis.  They are obviously arcane spellcasters of one kind or another, complete with robes, staves, and obvious other magical items.  The last cell contains a female drow priestess.

Opening a cell requires a disintegrate spell or a dispel magic vs CL20. 

If a cell is opened, the stasis inside ends in 1d3 rounds, and all 5 magical warriors (minus any killed that day) show up in 2 rounds and immediately attack the PCs and the prisoner, with intent to kill.

The prisoners are all evil spellcasters with ideas of taking over the empire in one manner or another.  If freed, they will attempt to dominate or kill the PCs.  If dominated, the PCs will be used to fight off the magical warriors.  Should they survive, they will then be used as meat shields while the prisoner tries to get out of the palace.  At that point the mad emperor will intervene, and everyone should roll up new characters.

B13 guard room

This large alcove has a couch, a table and 4 chairs, and tapestries on the wall.  It show signs of continual occupation.

Monsters:  Magical Warrior, 30% chance of being present.  If he is here, he will be unfriendly and demand that the PCs leave this restricted space.  If they do not immediately comply, he moves to hostile and attacks.  If made indifferent or better, he explains that the area beyond contains extremely dangerous prisoners, but asks them to go back the way they came when the conversation ends.  If they do not, he shrugs and attacks.

Traps:  None.

Treasure:  The tapestries (4 in all) are worth 2000 GP to the right buyer but weigh 60 pounds each.

Notes:  No wandering monsters will enter this area or B14.

I, for one, would like too see the maximum positive outcome from this event.

I don't see the need for any further loss of life from either the bourgeoisie (including the petit bourgeoisie (who was the recipient of this latest action)) or the proletariat (that's YUO!)

Well, I would like $100 million and 30 minutes in the Orgasmatron with Lady Gaga.

The odds of our various asks being granted are exactly the same.

They got what they needed out of him, 100mil for the war chest, they have used him and will now discard him.

No, not yet.   

Not until he plays the villain with DOGE.  Then he'll be forced out or have a sudden health condition, and the blame for the wreckage will be hung around his neck.

["'We have to increase taxes on the wealthy': Steve Bannon"]

I admit it, I love making fun of Steve Bannon. Still, there are times when I unexpectedly find myself in agreement with a political enemy on a particular issue, even though we're both seeking totally different "big picture" end results. And, what Bannon had to say in the following article is one of those times:

"'We have to increase taxes on the wealthy': Steve Bannon"

I gave up trying to find a couple of succinct quotations that clearly summarize the contents of this article. Nevertheless, Bannon does clearly explain why he advocates taxing the rich. Further, Bannon's calculated appeal to populism is something the Democratic Party, leftists, etc. need to study and emulate.

I think if Trump followed this playbook, increased corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy, along with actual middle class tax cuts, whether that's the over time and tip ones Bannon is talking about, or simply reducing income tax on the lower tax tiers, that he'd be setting up the kind of long term thing Bannon also talks about.  Even if the middle class ended up paying more in taxes, because of tariffs.

However I can't imagine that's what's actually going to happen. The tax plan that I am hearing about includes more cuts for the wealthy and from what I hear the overtime tax cut consists of removing mandatory overtime pay.  Those actions will alienate the folks who supported him and probably lead to Democrats taking Congress in the midterms.

Trump will act only to benefit the 14 billionaires he's nominated to various positions, along with some billionaires that just hand him money.

He has to put $2 trillion together to enact his billionaire tax cut, and I'll give you precisely 3 guesses as to where he will find that money.

Hint:  It's not coming out of the pockets that it is intended to line.