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Public News Post #1064

Freelance Group Forming

Written by: Asmoth, Homeless Monk
Date: Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Addressed to: Everyone


Attention Everyone,

It seems the time has come for a slight altering of the way things are
done. I little bit of difference to the normal monopoly that cities and
communes hold over you. So as such, I'm starting a new organization, and
with enough people I will make it an official clan.

Right now, the order of things is pretty weak, you either belong to a
city or commune, ruled by individuals who aren't always making the best
choices in your favor, or who simply are inept. Some try, and do a good
job, don't get me wrong, but the majority of all decisions made in city
and commune goverments is simply to the aims of it's leaders, corruption
is evident in everything, and there is no way around it.

If you truly disagree, or wish to do your own thing, you're bound to
laws and tenets that are delivered by some lofty god, some almost
god-like Supernal or Demon Lord, or some type of super fae or force of
nature. There are times when you will want to do things, want to
approach certain avenues and find yourself bound, or feeling "wrong" for
wanting to do such things, or worse yet, cast out of your collective and
enemied...

Before now there was never a place for you, to be rogue was shunned
upon, the divine see fit to force you into these collections of
individuals, (cities or communes) so as there are things and conflicts
they can control. I mean if you look around basin you'll see that darn
near everything is designed along the lines of, "I do this, it helps my
home, but hurts their home" type of deal. And really I have no problem
with that exactly. But it's the IDEA that doing this X thing or that X
thing then causes you to become unwanted, or enemied or whatever. You
are all, whether you are the smallest circle one novice who just stepped
out of the portal, or a demi-god, individuals, you're actions, should
not be directed upon you by any ruling council, any collective of peer
or superior ranked people. You shouldn't be guided by vague words and
rhetoric of some semi-divine or divine being. You should be individuals.

For too long, in my 100 years on this basin, I've seen it happen, you're
all being guided, whether you know it or not, by some linear passage
through your lives. You're ingrained with sets of values that you don't
have any choice whether or not to follow. It's just, do this, don't do
that. And I think a time has come upon the basin that you throw off your
oppressors and join an organization that only wants the one thing that
any organization should ever ask from you. Honesty and Loyalty.

Honesty in both your spoken word and your actions, I don't care if you
love or hate someone, you shouldn't lie simply to make things easier or
indifferent. You should always be true, taking the easy road and
conforming isn't the path to enlightenment, it's simply the path to
slavery. Loyalty in watching each other's backs where others will not.
Sure, a city or commune mate may come to your rescue if you're attacked,
but I'm sure you've all witnessed the times when people won't. They will
see who you face and instead of come to your aid, and save you, they
will then question your actions, and wonder why you're fighting so and
so from whatever organization. And the whole time, because they aren't
being loyal and standing up for you, you're in peril, both
metaphorically and physically.

Out of the hundreds of you who roam this basin, regardless of
organization, I have maybe four people I would aid till the end of time,
four friends I guess you could say, the rest I either don't know you
well enough, or don't like you. My definition of loyalty is that no
matter what or how many they faced in adversity I would lay down my life
without a second thought as to things as trivial as circles, or
learning, or enemying or any of that nonsense, cause I'm blindly loyal
to my friends.

As I've said a thousand times, I make mistakes all the time, I do things
that are sometimes rash, somethings stupid, sometimes unjust. But I
haven't ever claimed perfection, quite the opposite.

But I do ask every single one of you, regardless of your skills, nature,
city, mage, warrior, bard, monk, whatever. To look at yourself, if
you're truly, honestly, happy with your current place, then stay, and go
in peace, but if you find yourself scowling at the restraints and chains
that are thrust upon you by any. Message me, write me a letter, or
simply talk to me. We will start a change. Gods, for all their greatness
and might, are not the rulers of our free-will, they can cause you
physical pain, spiritual turmoil and many horrible things, as well as
some very nice things. But I have yet to see a god ever jump to my aid
in a fight, or assist me in a task as my true friends do.

As many of you have probably died a time or two, you've no doubt as I,
seen many times the sisters of fate, they don't sever our threads like
they do normally, because all of us, all of us individuals have so many
possible futures that overlap each other and even the fates can't tell
our future with any certainty. So if enough of us, throw off their
"design" and make due living a hard, but ultimately, TRULY HONEST living
here in the basin, our opportunities are endless!

I'm not asking you to trade one evil for another and take me as your
leader, but I'm simply offering you a place and forum to be yourself.
You don't have to do what I say, you don't have to worry about getting
kicked out or abandoned. There will be no laws in this group, no
restrictions, besides for what I mentioned above.

Honesty and Loyalty.

If you're honest and loyal with me and the rest who will come with us, I
don't care who you like, I don't care who you hate, I don't care who you
kill, I don't care what you hunt. So long as your honest and loyal to
the whole.

So I ask you to look within yourself, and if you're truly, one hundred
percent happy with your situation, then stay in your commune or city.
But if you aren't, then let's talk, and together we can reshape this
basin in a way that even the god's can't stop, because they don't
control our free will.

Asmoth

Penned by my hand on the 19th of Estar, in the year 189 CE.


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