Lurid Posters..
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Lays his head back
And I'm sure the church of Bane is just one big flower circle of peace and understanding.
All I did was carry your statement through to its logical conclusion. But go on. Walk away all huffy. I'm sure it's proving your point somehow….
He reaches down to secure a corner of the bane/ilmater poster that had come loose on his chest, and smiles to himself
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The robed man exhales a quiet "tush tush" and shakes his head. "Always to the next insult and never to reason. Attack, attack, but never stop to think about why, or why not.
He turns to walk after his recently-departed comrade and muses, "those who fancy themselves righteous are too quick to hostility, to sharp tongues and sharp blades; their zeal creates a path of blood and bile and resentment, something they're supposed to be crusading to stop. Such futility seems a waste of life."
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Oreth looks up from his skywatching bench, at the most recently-spoken robed man
Well, since gods usually act through their followers, rather than directly….
...what you're saying is that banites have roughly the intellect, moral development, and judgement of, for example, a wild boar?
Sounds about right, I suppose. Does that mean we can keep them in pens and kill them for food?
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Lilly speaks up, "Piss off you doomsayers, if an evil god acts then a good god has the power to act as well, and lets think for a minute about how many more followers of the goodly gods there are than the evil gods. Granted, I respect Bane in that he is a god, but he can sod off if he expects to level a city in the middle of farking no where for a satirical poem that for all its hilarity has changed practically no ones opinion. Those that hate him still hate him, those that worship him still do. You wanted to kill most of us anyways, or subjugate us to your will…so piss off."
said to any of the robed figures commenting about Peltarch law near the postings.
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Another of the robed men comments that, "were I to provoke a wild and bloodthirsty animal or beast to run into the city, chasing me, he may injure me – and this would be my own fault. But were I to run past someone of elderly condition, or someone in wee youthdom, or a sick man, or anyone who could not keep pace with me, and the animal were to launch at them and tear through their flesh and sinew instead, whose fault is it? The beast or the provoker? Consider the lizardmen that have territory bordering your city, territory that no citizen or person seeking sanctuary is permitted to enter, in order not to provoke the lizardmen and endanger the city. The gods can be wild and bloodthirsty, and they can be territorial, and what's even more dangerous about them is their capacity to react poorly to insult that flesh-eating animals are small-brained lizardmen may not understand. Like temperamental dragons, but with omnipotence to boot. Tread ye carefully around the wrath of gods, most especially those predisposed to it."
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:;chuckles beneath the cowl::
Beleive as you wish, talk as you wish. If doom befalls you because of this, you can't say you weren't warned. You can't talk yourself out of this one. I for one am avoiding this bullseye of a town till I deem it safe again. Wise men and men of faith would heed my words.
::shrugs and walks off::
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If you truly believe that someone is going to be charged with a crime because you decide to murder them, you're a denser fool then I thought you were before.
1.10 is is a person casts a fireball at a rat and accidently roasts a commoner. It is for the shop owner that has his sign on too loose and doesn't bother to fix it till it falls and smashes into a citizens head. Making a statement, be it through words or through a poster, is rarely "negligently causing harm to another". If instead this poem stated that Ezachiel the Mage of Bane, killed fifty children the other night, and that caused the Sisterhood to attack him…then perhaps, that would be, for the person negligently made a horribly false statement that they knew to be false which caused harm to the specific individual they spoke of. This spoke of a God...not a specific person...in a satirical way that made no accusations that would cause someone to be believably incited to go off and kill bane because of this song, and this song along. So no, you miserable little createn, if you killed the poet you would be arrested for murder.
Really, I'm sure you could find some more straws to try and grasp for over at the Goat's stable if you really want to continue.
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So if I were to kill this poet, it would have caused harm, right?
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AH but you see the difference is thus. A prayer is fine, a speech is fine. But when you insult a god throughout an entire country you are bound to attract attention. Had the poster limited themselves to one town, they may have been fine, but they took it on themselves to spread the insult everywhere.
Try insulting Umberlee in such a manner near the docks and see what happens.
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@36d39783d7=Salsadoom:
A dark robed figure kindly points out to the gaurds that the posters may infact be illegal given 1.10: Negligent Harm to Another clearly falls under this action. The reason being, insulting a God, no matter which one, may very well incite said god to take action themselves. And as we all know, Gods are well known for affecting the world in which we live. And given the widespread public insult to the said God, they or their minions can't but help to take action. After said action, many innocent may become hurt or injured so it is in the best interest of the Peltarchian government to stop said offender from inciting a God into such action and remove the posters.
In short, this wide spread display of insult to a Major Deity is sheer stupidity and will bring the God's wrath on ALL of us.
Zyphlin has a good laugh at the dark robed individual
That's a wonderful attempt at manipulating Peltarch law…sadly you're inexperience at it is painfully obvious, put still, nice attempt there.
Prove that somehow these posters, and these posters alarm, have caused harm to someone. Trying to claim that the God is going to harm someone isn't actually "negligent harm to another" but I guess the God himself violating a law. Add onto that fact that if a God has no better to do with his time then to come cause trouble in a city like Peltarch when Harpers and the Northern Alliance are whipping the hell out of his miserable little force, and adventurer's Toril over cause issues and insults to him and his followers, it makes you really questoin how much of a "Major" diety he really is.
Honestly, I should start giving classes on Peltarch law. At the very most, you could possibly get a small fine put upon the person for disturbing the peace of citizens…though, I'm pretty sure, most of those disturbed aren't actually citizens of Peltarch, but who knows. And even then, you forget one...important...part.
A senator has okayed it, and would likely pardon the person.
Congratulations, it was a decent attempt at stretching the law. Study a Peltarch law book and remove the metal gauntlet from your back section, it shall help you think better.
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I don't care, as long as these blasphemous writings are taken down
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Jen scratches her head 'Erm.. that's a bit of a stretch.. I doubt you'd find a magistrate that would prosecute for that.. I mean.. that implies that every time someone prays the Gods who aren't prayed to.. or the Gods specifially opposed to the god you do pray too.. might take offence too.. where would it end?'
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A dark robed figure kindly points out to the gaurds that the posters may infact be illegal given 1.10: Negligent Harm to Another clearly falls under this action. The reason being, insulting a God, no matter which one, may very well incite said god to take action themselves. And as we all know, Gods are well known for affecting the world in which we live. And given the widespread public insult to the said God, they or their minions can't but help to take action. After said action, many innocent may become hurt or injured so it is in the best interest of the Peltarchian government to stop said offender from inciting a God into such action and remove the posters.
In short, this wide spread display of insult to a Major Deity is sheer stupidity and will bring the God's wrath on ALL of us.
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Senator Senella asks Ezachiel what he wants to find her esteemed Advisor, the Shadow Poet, for and furthermore why he is burning her Advisor's posters. She seems rather peeved. She has also orders guards to arrest anybody tearing down the posters for vandalism and see they are duely fined.
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//OOC on. The Shadowpoet exists, it is a character. They just don't have "ShadowPoet" over their head.
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@daa5e4055c=Sethan:
all for a character that might not even exist, IG.
(( I should hope any character making IC actions on the forums would exist IG. It'd be unfair for them not to. ))
A few hooded men in dark robes wander the city, their worn hands running along obsidian prayer beads as they chant quietly. They move to posters that have been torn down and recently replaced, calmly removing them from their posts, rolling them up, and sliding them into scroll cases.
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Thazar-De stands before a poster for a while, his lips pressed tightly together, then he chuckles softly, and walks away with a smile, leaving the piece in place.
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Stodging her way along the Docks, Mercy catches sight of one of the posters, and reading it, cackles heartily before swaggering down the streets to menace some innocent fisher-folks.
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No. I am not going to start giving gold away for nothing. Find me the heathen some choice swear words in infernal who put up this poster, and I shall pay.
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hearing of the reward, Dwin searches out Ezachiel
I aint sure, but I heard that fella Oreth has a whole stack o these things… maybe he's hangin em?
That's worth a couple hundred coins, aint it?
