Warden Call Of Duty
Clotilde Wilks
The Maine Warden Service was established in 1880. Today, nearly 140 years later, the men and women who proudly wear the red coat as Maine Game Wardens remain as committed as ever to the citizens, visitors, and natural resources of the great State of Maine.
Law Enforcement
including laws and rules pertaining to inland fishery and wildlife resource management and protection, registration and operation of snowmobiles, watercraft, and all-terrain vehicles, and general laws.
As game wardens work to protect our precious natural resources, we rely on the public to be an extra set of eyes and ears. If you witness a violation or suspect illegal activity, please report!
An estimated $2.4 billion of our state's economy can be attributed to sporting, outdoor recreation, and ecotourism, with hundreds of thousands of people venturing into Maine's woodlands and inland waterways each year. It's our duty to help everyone stay safe in the outdoors, while also protecting the diversity and availability of our fish and wildlife resources.
Over the years, our job has expanded to involve not just law enforcement, but also search and rescue practices, education, and community involvement. To be effective, we rely heavily on the cooperation, assistance, and support of all who enjoy the Maine outdoors.
We are here to educate and assist people in their compliance with conservation laws, and to enforce those laws when individuals choose not to comply. We have no tolerance for willful acts of poaching. Poachers steal from all who enjoy our unique and vast natural resources.
Maine Game Wardens are progressive, highly motivated, faithful to our heritage, and adaptive to change. We're also aware of the tremendous responsibility we have. If you are interested in an outdoor law enforcement career and up to the challenge of this profession, please contact your local Game Warden and take the time to visit the Game Warden Careers section of this site.
Maine Game Wardens are progressive, highly motivated, faithful to our heritage, and adaptive to change. We're also aware of the tremendous responsibility we have. If you are interested in an outdoor law enforcement career and up to the challenge of this profession, please contact us and take the time to visit the Game Warden Careers section of this site.
I became senior warden the same day that our rector announced to the congregation that he was called to another church. This meant that my whole year as senior warden was a period of transition and thus a challenging time. I have come to learn that any term as a warden will contain challenges as well as some great joys. Here are some of my takeaways from my experience.
Focusing and prioritizing responsibilities
Good communication between the warden and rector will continue to be important throughout the term. One of the primary responsibilities of a vestry is to be a pastoral presence for the rector. Is he taking care of his mental/physical/spiritual health? Is she maintaining a healthy life/work balance? Wardens need to keep tabs on these things and offer support when needed. Also remember that in order for your clergy to be able to confide, you must provide absolute confidentiality. You should never discuss these conversations with anyone, even after your term is complete.
Managing the vestry will be a big part of your job. I decided to have our vestry write a vestry covenant during our first working retreat together. The Episcopal Church Foundation is a great resource for these documents and the key is to come up with norms that all agree to abide by. From being on time, to starting and ending with prayer, these are the behaviors you will live by and hold each other accountable to so that your time together will be both productive and fulfilling.
It is so important that you provide your vestry with the tools to do their job. Your parish should have policies, procedures and other governance documents with which you and your vestry need to be familiar. Remember that each of you are acting as a fiduciary and can be held legally liable for your decisions. Studying and referring to these procedures and guidelines will provide you the proper framework for executing your work properly. The wardens hold an orientation meeting for our incoming vestry members where we give them a notebook containing all of these documents and review other important information such as the budget. Our treasurer makes sure they know how to look at a spreadsheet and what each account listed represents. We find this to be a valuable tradition and gets our leaders off on the right foot.
Often the vestry can feel like it is always reacting to something. Perhaps the air conditioner has gone out or someone wants to initiate a special project that needs approval or something else that needs immediate attention. Our vestry found it helpful to set three goals at the beginning of our year so that we would be able to manage short and long-term strategies. We always began our meetings by looking at our three priorities and making sure we were on target for achieving them. Our goals were to hire an interim rector, to launch the search process and to pay off our debt. The first two were achieved and strategy was formed on the third goal that led to it being achieved by a subsequent vestry. Having these goals allowed us to prioritize all other matters in relationship to how they would help us achieve the three.
Though my term was challenging I found the experience of being a senior warden rewarding as it deepened both my spirituality and my connection to my fellow parishioners. I got to see the many gifts God has bestowed on my congregation as people often offer their very best. It is hard work but the collaboration between your vestry and rector can be so rewarding. God bless you as you embark on this important ministry.
Now, I understand the concept of him being a bigger zombie and being a boss of sorts, but there is something in the trailer that I haven't seen discussed that I think should. Listen to 5:05 in this video:
Now, as you'll see, they kill the Warden and he clearly says "Why did you hurt me?" Why is the Warden different than other zombies in the sense that he communicates with us? George Romero was not a zombie. He had been infused with 115, yes, but he was clearly not zombified. This is clearly a zombie, but he still thinks and is intelligent. What is the significance of his sense of being? And by that I mean, he communicates and knows what is happening around him, unlike normal zombies who just scream and run and grunt "Sam" every now and then.
He would have to be some kind of semi-intelligent being even though he retains himself as a zombie. George Romero was still zombified, but to an extent in which he could still communicate as if he did have some willpower left to be aware of his surroundings. It seems the same for this new boss.
It looks like it is a guard that was sent to the electrical chair, hence the equipment still attached to him. Because he can respond to our new crew attacking him, there holds much willpower in him. Perhaps he is even a newly turned...?
If that was the case, perhaps he is stuck in a sort of limbo between the living world and the Purgatory world, and has gained special powers because of it? For example: he has the ability to turn off the perk machines, whereas the players have the ability to turn on the perk machines in Purgatory.
Perhaps this map is completely unrelated to our normal zombies storyline. Hence the redesigned HUD, red zombie eyes, and other drastic differences in this map. They've talked about having more of a horror element to this map... previously the zombies story has been rooted much more in sci-fi. And yes, I know we have "Samantha's" voice as the announcer, but this could just be gameplay related and non-canon.
My theory is the warden was into some kind of occult stuff. We have candles, human skulls, and what looks almost like altars around the map. As warden of a facility housing the most dangerous criminals, he would find it easy to get away with tricky things like ritualistic human sacrifice. Somehow he became a monster himself and unleashed the undead onto the island. As a result, Satan/Hades/whatever you want to call him sent Cerberus to reclaim the souls of the zombies and send them back to the underworld. By helping Cerberus and "feeding" him the zombies he will grant us access to the afterlife. This would explain the odd floating Hellhound head we see consuming zombies, and how the "Purgatory" mechanic could work and how we earn further visits to the afterlife.
For one I hear "do" instead of did and, believe it or not, that changes the meaning quite a bit. Maybe not massively but it still changes. If he says "do" it can mean someone other than us has been continually hurting him. Where as if he says "did" its a totally different story. As it is most likely the first time he has been hurt.
Yeah, like I said I may be way off on my theories and what the goal is of "feeding" the dog, but I really think we're going to have to feed him zombies for some purpose. Maybe to upgrade, maybe to get the tomahawks.... I'm not sure. My original theory, as I stated, was that we would have to feed him zombies to earn afterlife visits. I'm now starting to think that was wrong. It could still be the case, but we see the dog in the picture for Grief Mode on the leaderboards, and I doubt the afterlife/purgatory mechanic will be in Grief Mode.
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