We have threads for the various individual campaigns, and in-game storylets for debates, but no place to stand on a soapbox and pontificate at each other in-character. So in the spirit of Victorian “enlightenment”, I welcome you to this thread. The Six Handed Merchant will happily start us off:
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The Six Handed Merchant stands on a makeshift stage in the Square of Lofty Words (which is actually just four cobweb-covered soapboxes stacked on top of each other). Six smooths out their gaudy-colored skirt, straightens their bow-tie, and begins:
“My Fellow Londoners! I bring you grave and alarming news about the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner! No doubt by this time you have heard that -if elected- the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner would throw London’s vast supplies prisoner’s honey down our wells! But have you given any thought as to where those wells go? Well, in my most recent investigations, I have come to the conclusion that there are, quite possibly, Very Bad Things beneath the streets of London! Horrors that could give us all nightmares, or worse!”
“And what would happen, my good citizens, if these horrors were to ingest an alarmingly large quantity of prisoner’s honey?”
“Why, they would then share in OUR dreams! Can you imagine?!! Nightmarish monstrosities invading our sweetest honey dreams! Well, I say we Londoners will not stand such abominations in our dreams! Today, we shall-”
“-But where would you get the honey TO dream?” Mr. Feathers (the snow-white raven on Six’s shoulder) interrupts, “If the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner dumps all of London’s honey down wells, you wouldn’t have any honey to dream with in the first place…”
Six stares back at the raven in horror, all color having drained from their face. “By God, you’re right! But without any honey I’d….I’ve….I’ve gotta go…”
And in a flash, the Six Handed Merchant bolts from the Square of Lofty Words towards Veilgarden’s honey dens.
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edited by Six Handed Merchant on 1/1/2018