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doesn;t matter why they're mad or pissy, the fact remains the same, they are the queens people.. she's their leader an is supposed to look after them.. if she feels it's beneath her to speak with them to calm them.. it's no wonder they're upset

I have done no cold blooded killings, they was all warm blooded townsfolk, honest.

I had a run in with them on the Vesper Docks today.
At the same time I ran into a group of Vampires, Angry Townsfolk, and Pirates .
I hadn't been logged on in a while or read the forums over the last two weeks due to final exams, so it was a bit of a shock to have a bunch of townsfolk start attacking me while I was trying to rid their town of vampires. So I took some joy in killing the ungratefull people whom I had been trying to help out
Managed to kill them all off eventually, master assassin were a bit tough and the pirate captain took a lot of hacking to bring down.

"The peasants are revolting!"

"The peasants have always been revolting - now they're rebelling!"

How satisfying - a rebellion. It is certainly appropriate by the treatment the townsfolk ensue at the hands of the less-than-virtuous. I'm surprised it took this long for them to actually get the guts to fight back. And I strongly encourage all embitterened townsfolk to do so, and with gusto.

Perhaps the introduction of a Library might stay the violent urgings of the masses, by giving them (and those that slaughter them) a chance to do something other than kill Britannian-born folk?

It is, of course, but a thought.

Marius the Ponderer,
Ever-thoughtful and Wise.

Marius the Black wrote:Perhaps the introduction of a Library might stay the violent urgings of the masses, by giving them (and those that slaughter them) a chance to do something other than kill Britannian-born folk?

Is it common among the villagers and townspeople for them to be literate? I am not trying to degrade anyone, I only ask out of lack of familiarity with the people.

Marius the Black wrote:
I'm surprised it took this long for them to actually get the guts to fight back. And I strongly encourage all embitterened townsfolk to do so, and with gusto.
Marius the Ponderer,
Ever-thoughtful and Wise.

considering there are at least one or two of the people they are rebelling against who can point to their trophy wall and say "as gods go he really wasn't all that tough" as they point to a mounted head. Virtually everyone can haul out a bag of Lord of the Abyss heads were they so inclined to keep such trophies. If i was alan the farmer i would walk rather meekly amidst the "heroes" of WoD. It's a bit like encouraging wheat to rebel against the scythe wielding farmer isn't it Marius.

Salnaiu Lucek wrote:Is it common among the villagers and townspeople for them to be literate? I am not trying to degrade anyone, I only ask out of lack of familiarity with the people.

Teaching the peasants to read and allowing them to hope for a better life has historically been risky for the ruling classes.

Ehran wrote:Teaching the peasants to read and allowing them to hope for a better life has historically been risky for the ruling classes.

And a capital crime in itself. Our grandfather was allowed to teach the letters to our father only because of his father's trade as a town scribe. Of course, we were allowed to learn the secrets of script from our father as well in the hope that we would undertake his craft. Without such rules of law the whole realm would soon be reading and writing on their own. Who knows what manner of devilry the rabble will involve themselves in once they learn to read?! What will come next? Forgeries of Royal edicts? Towns writing formal declarations of their own law possibly countermanding Herself?

I say NAY! Let the rabble remain in their blissfull ignorance or perish. It is for the sake of their souls that we should fight now. Reading will lead to all manner of improper thoughts and inspire sinful behaviors in all. Better that they should die before their souls become so corrupted.

But not to let the peasants or townspeople to learn to read or write, then how many stages go empty as no actor can read a play script? How many songs dont get written because no song writer/bard can read music? How many poems never get written for others to read? How many inventions dont get invented that would make all life easier? Ever wonder why there is a lack of healers?

The list can go on and on and on. Education is good, as long as others dont use what comes about for their own greed and to keep the lower classes from a good healthy life.

ehb wrote:But not to let the peasants or townspeople to learn to read or write, then how many stages go empty as no actor can read a play script? How many songs dont get written because no song writer/bard can read music? How many poems never get written for others to read? How many inventions dont get invented that would make all life easier? Ever wonder why there is a lack of healers?

The list can go on and on and on. Education is good, as long as others dont use what comes about for their own greed and to keep the lower classes from a good healthy life.

It's perfectly possible to memorize thousands of pages of text and that's how most of that stuff happened over the last few millenia. the whole idea of progress is new in the last say 200 years or so. before that life was the same generation after generation and that's just how it was.

Wheat to the scythe - I like that. It is certainly very appropriate.

What is more interesting is the keen edge of the 'scythes' who throw themselves into 'quelling' the rebellion, which in turn leads to the very reason that the uprising occured: The outright slaughter of the peasant folk.

It would have made sense to me, where I a rebel, or a 'scythe' would be to take the matter to the Hall of Justice in Yew and proceed to have the case heard before Queen Lissar and dealt with in an orderly fashion.

However, as is the case in Britannia, the only rule is steel, thinly vieled as 'loyalty' to the Crown.

What sickens me the most is that I see no Order Guards standing to defend the populace from the cruel weapons of the adventurers; as though only the wealthy and the powerful (such as Lissar herself) are worth protecting from cruelty and dishonour.

Whether the peasants are educated and be literate is no concern of the adventuring masses, who themselves most likely learned to read from quest notes. What is important is that an uprising has occured, and is being dealt with in the way that will only leave deep scars and further dissention among the ranks.


I do not wish to rule a broken Kingdom.


-Marius the Black
Lord of the Tower of Scorn

Yes. Well put, my colleague. It appears that the wicked stand on both sides of this rebellion and the Kingdom of Ash and Shadow may reap the only benefit--souls harvested by the hundreds. Yet even these well-deserved deaths will surely serve our purposes. The reckoning will serve, if nothing else, to winnow the chaff, leaving the peasantry properly cowed. And there is nothing a new king needs less than a rebellious peasantry--except perhaps an uncontrolled number of magi and warriors forming some kind of alliance against him. It appears that *the word "my" is scratched out hastily* our quest will continue for some time.

- Xander the Serpent, Seeker of the Ninth Circle