Rumblo Radgins

Names: Rumblo Radgins

Species: Halfling

Age: 58

Job: Book keeper / anti-health and safety crusader / heart attack waiting to happen

Appears In:  Game of Plagues

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Rumblo numbers among the legions of well-to-do Pundlians who find themselves CONSTANTLY VERY ANNOYED ABOUT THINGS! His top five annoyances include:

Workers who complain about insufficient safety protocol. In the old days peasant children had to construct castles without any protection spells, but did they complain? NO! THEY DIDN'T! (largely because they were too scared to speak out or dead, but still - THEY NEVER COMPLAINED!).Units of measurement other than the ones he grew up with - Rumblo having the good fortune to have grown up in the only time period WHEN THINGS MADE A LICK OF SENSE!Humans coming over to his country and STEALING HIS JOBS! Or - even worse - NOT WORKING AT ALL! Or doing both, somehow? Or - indeed - doing anything - especially the ones who came to Pundlia by craftily being born there - THE MOST CONNIVING FOREIGNERS OF THEM ALL!The shape of bananas. He can't remember if he wants to keep them bendy or have them straight, but still, HE'S VERY ANNOYED!Anyone who dares to complain about Grand Pundlia - the grandest of all nations. Unless of course it's something he objects to personally, THEN OF COURSE HE SHOULD BLOODY WELL COMPLAIN!

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Creation Notes

Rumblo appears very briefly in Game of Plagues and basically exists to highlight the ridiculousness of 'anti-health and safety' creeps. I didn't set out to rip off the Daily Male character from Viz, although I realised I was doing pretty quickly! So let's call it an homage, I suppose? I would have made more of an effort, but the character wasn't in the book long enough to give him any unique traits beyond:

Angry at health and safety.

The Daily Male by fellow Prestonian Barney Farmer for Viz Comics. He follows me on Twitter, actually, so fingers crossed he buys the 'homage' stuff and doesn't sue

Seeing the above image, I'm now realising this might be were I got "GAH!" from - the catchphrase of Mucal Slycep from The Quest Factor series. At least I'm ripping off more than just the Discworld books, I guess?

Anecdotally, I used to work in a newsagent, and by and large the Daily Mail readers were considerably less obnoxious than the Guardian ones. I don't know if that would pan out over a larger sample. On top of that, I imagine the worst offenders got their paper delivered - if only because paperboys remind them of when all kids had jobs - AS THEY BLOODY WELL SHOULD DO THE LAZY, JAM-FACED GUTTERSNIPES!

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CharactersGame of Plagues

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