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questionoftheday asks: How prepared would you say you are for a disaster? Say that the zombie apocalypse happened, what is your likelihood of surviving?

My answer: I live in a hotel, downtown, in a major metropolitan area, in the United States. If the Zombie Apocalypse happens I'm dead right away.
I would like to think I'm more prepared for other disasters though. Like my building has a Nuclear Fallout Shelter in the basement, and there are places to go in case of a tornado. Plus all standard fire safety stuff.
I guess a Pandemic would be an issue though, for the same reasons that the zombies would take me out. It's just hard when you live in such a heavily populated area.
Also, if we're counting zombies as a possibility we should also count hostile aliens. Which, might target more important cities first. So I probably wouldn't be instantly dead. And, I'm ready to throw down against aliens. I assume if they've made it here they have technology that far outstrips our own and it'll be a completely losing battle. But, mama didn't raise no bitch.

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questionoftheday asks: Do you ever have a recurring dream? What is it and what do you think it means?

My answer: (whoops, I was trying to enter in the tags while I thought of my answer and hit the enter button and the whole thing posted. so sorry if you saw the empty answer version.)
A few years ago I used to have recurring dreams about being at a party in my apartment and one of my ex boyfriends from high school showing up as a plus 1 for a friend of mine. And I spend the whole dream trying to avoid my ex without offending the friend that brought him to the party. In real life these 2 people have never met, and I have never known my ex to be in the city I live in now. So, it's probably just a general anxiety about awkward social situations dream with the face that my brain knows will hit me the hardest?
Now I don't throw parties anymore so I don't really have that dream, and the closest thing I get to a recurring dream is that anytime I go to the mall in my dreams it's always the same dream mall. Which probably means that I like shopping, and I like the familiar.

Heath "the Hunk" Jones

The last NPC day of the post about Bryce Rivers mentioned the General Manager Heath Jones, so let's learn a little more about him.

Heath the Hunk first got over in a tag team with Brian the Brain, they had a classic big man/little man dynamic. Though they were a pretty face-y team Brian's position as son of the owner meant that sometimes they benefited from some heel-like backstage maneuvering.
Though MGCW has a permanent set-up on the Las Vegas Strip for their weekly shows, the roster still travels every week to do various house shows and charity events. It was on the way back from one such even when the car Heath was driving was T-boned by a semi-truck. Brian lost his life, and Heath lost 2 years of his career to surgery rehab and physical therapy. Even after all of his hard work doctors were reluctant to clear someone who had undergone such severe head trauma to return to such a high concussion risk profession. So, MGCW management proposes an alternative: Old Man Rivers is looking for a Manager type character to take over on tv so that he can focus on creative.
This is how it plays out Kayfabe: Heath the Hunk is ready for his glorious return but Old Man Rivers blames Heath for Brian's death and wants him to suffer. Heath is given an opportunity make it through a gauntlet match and be reinstated. During the gauntlet match a heel character is upset at being submitted gives Heath a beat down before the next opponent takes position. Old Man Rivers sees Heath getting this beat-down, and realizes that this is his son's best friend, the man that was like a son to him, and he can't watch this anymore. Old Man Rivers intervenes calling of the match. After that Heath gives his retirement speech, and starts acting as an authority figure while Old Man Rivers retreats more and more.
By the time our players join the scene Heath has been the General Manager for several years. He's very good at being the kind of character that seems to be fighting for the people without ever doing anything substantial to help them. He's charming enough that the fans mostly accept him as a face however instead of thinking him snake-like and forcing the character more heel.