>>856948
Have some bottled water left?

>>856948
Okay.
So, either the bill ain't paid or something screwy is going on.
Do you have any bottled water? Do you have any neighbors who would be willing to give you some water?

Saliva is water. Just chew the beans or grounds.

Then go dip water out of the toilet cistern to fill your kettle. But if for some reason there's not enough water in there then you're gonna have to throw on some clothes (making absolutely sure you have your keys) and go out to get water. Preferably from a friendly neighbor or a friend elsewhere in the building. Failing that, a drinking fountain, garden faucet or public restroom sink somewhere in the building.

Just make sure you don't wake your hubby up 'cause then he'll want coffee too and you're not going to share. You're gonna need the whole goddamn pot to get through today.

So who's supposed to be in charge of paying the water bill? Though, the water utility usually don't turn the service off after one missed payment, do they? Or is the water included in your rent? Maybe the landlord has been failing to pay the water bill for the building. Or the service line to the building broke, or a water main broke farther upstream, or who knows what.

Visit your neighbors and ask for water.

>>856948
Wait... Coffee is that important around here?

OH GOD, THE TERRORISTS BLEW UP THE UTILITY PLANT TO SPARK A REVOLUTION!

>>856948
Bottled water? If not, I'm sorry but you will need to do the worst adult thing; put on pants. Landlord will know what's up.

>>856948
Go to the douche-y coffee shop near your place and pay for some of that black goodness and scone

>>856948
Kill your husband, drain the blood from his body, and use it to make coffee.

He'll understand.

Can't you just @#$% your husband and use the sexual fluids for water?

>>856948
No offence, but you're kind of a pussy. Throwing up because of a video, and now throwing a fit over coffee? Man up!

If you have any neighbors you're on good/okay terms with, I'd check with them and see if it isn't something going on with the whole building. Maybe get some water too.

>>857099
>Man up!
She can't! She's a woman!

Go outside and shout at the sky in frustration.

I think it's time to wake up Emile and ask whats up with the water?

>>857179
>>857099
The gender-neutral term is "fortify."

>>858313
The actual gender-neutral term is a non-literal understanding of figures of speech.

Make your blood boil at this reveal and use that for water instead.

>>858441
I'd hate to generalize, but we need our blood.

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You hear the bed creak. Emile walks out into the main room. Hm, he probably would understand if you had to use his blood to make coffee. He would have done the same.

You turn around slowly and say, "Why's there no water?"

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"It's government!" says Emile, throwing his arms up, "Utility officerman came up and down the block! He said there's only water three days a week now! No power either!"

"What?! Why?" you ask, setting the kettle on the stove top with a grating rattle.

"Resource ration?" he says, gesturing in frustration as he searches for every word, "I don't know! No one talk at me ever!"

Ask if you can use his blood to make coffee?

We have to join the government.

They have all the coffee.

So I take it he isn't from around here then by the way he talks. Ask him if he got the three days that the water would be on.

>>859282
It's time to topple the government.

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"Did you catch what days we would have water?" you ask.

"'Go home cat'! What week day is this?" says Emile, "That is the favorite day for V-town. Water will be in on 'go home cat' until 'fuck you'."

"He wouldn't tell you?" you search the cupboards for something to at least eat for breakfast. They are empty save for some of a bag of flower and a small bag of whole peppercorns. "That's his job."

"I keep tell you!" he says, walking back into the bedroom to get dressed, but continuing to talk, "no one talks at a Pachasavi. Not here! Government men are allergic to cat!"

You look into the bedroom and see a shirt fly across the room, past the door and toward the bed.

"I can't visit nokhovai. Note. Too much work!" says Emile between the clatter of dresser drawers opening and closing. Sometimes he says 'note' when he means 'no'.

Nokhovai, you gather, translates roughly to enclave, but sometimes is used to mean ghetto. It's the swath of Vilnoy populated by Pachasavi refugees. It's the last day of the work week at least, and you suppose you could offer to go there with Emile this weekend. You had plans already to see a show with some friends, so you'd have to cancel that. It's up to you!

For now, you should get to work. You're thirsty and unshowered and uncaffeinated and not in the best of moods.

No, riot instead.

Ask him if he knows what three days you'll have water.

Also, who is in charge of your utilities?

>>859282
Wow... you married someone who doesn't share the same language as you so well.

Did he learn the language for you or was he still speaking like this when you first started dating?

A show sounds like a place terrorists would target and that you should avoid. At the same time, a refugee enclave sounds like something a dictatorship would like to target.

I recommend hiding under the sink forever.

cry alittle and hug him then have him help you start a revolution

Seduce him.

Yeah, a short vacation might be in order. You'll be stripped for cash for a few years, but it's better than losing your mind over a few cups of coffee and getting yourself gunned down by authorities on the street.

Call Dárala and ask her if she has water and electricity and if she does, ask if you and Emile can stay at her place for a while.

Or alternatively just ask her if you can shower and get a cup of coffee and some breakfast.

they can't just shut off water without warning! people need that to live! what do they expect, no running water so people would just hold their thirst in for a few days? this is insane. this is revolution-inducingly insane. you work in a newspaper. it might be time to rile the people up.

Scratch plans for the show. It might be a good idea to head over into the Pachasavi refugee quarters- they're people who had to scratch out a living back in their homeland, I'm sure they'd be much more resourceful than the average Tafarlan.

Besides, black markets that cater to tafarlans (you're going to need food, and maybe water if the ration gets reduced further) will jack up prices accordingly, but to ones that sell to the Pachasavi refugees might charge lower prices (after all, it has to be realistically affordable).

A show doesn't fix the problem of looming shortages and perhaps even a food crisis. Better start prepping early.

Don't cancel your plans with friends, you're going to need time to blow off steam. Some steam would be nice right now, to condense for a cup of coffee. Oh well, back to the place you just left.

Kiss your husband, keep your plans, you live at work now

>>859302
Fuck this shit, go out, grab a rifle and start shooting.

IT'S TIME TO FIX THIS TOWN, ONE DEAD DICTATOR AT A TIME.

>>859506
START THE REVOLUTION!

>>859448
This one.

Let's be good. Pretty sure being denied coffee is marginally better than being shot in the face.

>>859302
Hug him. Collapse onto him in frustrated no-water no-coffee no-useful-officials no-helpful-talking solidarity. Note!

I mean you sort of need something to hold you up in place of coffee anyways.

DONT LISTEN TO THE REVOLUTION-STARTERS THEY'RE JUST NVR FEDS OUT TO GET YOU

>>859539
This.

i don't understand, this is so dumb.
in a crisis a government can either jack up water prices, drop water pressure so you can't really use it for much more than drink or ration water (say 3 liters a day per person).
you do not cut off water for days at a time. that's a pretty good way to kill the weak: infants, the sick and the old. the hit to their economy from all those people dying would hurt more than any water frugality can possibly help.

also, if you know any infants, old or sick people you may want to either help them somehow or say goodbye, because their odds are not great if this thing lasts for more than a week.

Vent some frustrations via a hug.

You should probably at least put on some fresh clothes or something. Pray there's coffee at work.

>>859302
mondays amirite

>>859859
It's probably on alternating days, as opposed to three days with water/4 days without.

It's still absurd though.

>>859859
Which leads to an important question:

Do they still WANT to be a government, or are they planning something big that does not require the consent, popularity, or lives of Vilnoy?

Keep in mind, something as ridiculous as Amestris has a low probability of occurring... but then, the minds of mere common workers cannot fathom the levels of complexity needed to separate the survival of the government leaders from their nation. And they are prevented from fathoming the simplicity of the motives of a king slaughtering his cattle.