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Public News Post #1065

Enemies and Friends

Written by: Asmoth, Homeless Monk
Date: Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Addressed to: Everyone


City and Commune Leaders,

I have had many a conversation with people who are dismayed at my
actions of late. The killings, the fighting, the raiding, the quests
that harm others...

I don't want to do any of this, but I am enemied to every organization
in this land. So you expect me to play nicely? To hug and love on you?
Snuggle and possibly spoon?

That last part was a little sarcastic and I don't want that to override
the general point of my message, so I'll get to it.

I have sought unenemying by every city and commune except for Magnagora
(Just cause of costs really, and besides, hunting demons is fun) I have
been left unanswered to my pleas by their Ambassadors, or pointed to
their councils and what have you. Have approached their councils and
even offered to pay gold (Which is the normal proceedure for unenemying)
and was basically told, "Well, we know you have a lot of gold, so we
aren't going to let you pay a fine to be unenemied, you have to prove
your trustworthyness to us" And when I ask what the Nil that means, they
simply repeat it.

One particular leader of an organization demanded that I appologize, and
though I realise that kowtowing to people to gain your means might be
common place with some in the realms, I don't appologize for anything, I
just simply adjust and make sure it doesn't happen again if possible.

Now there are some of you who enjoy fighting me, killing me or
attempting such. You love the fact I raid your village, kill your guards
or whatnot, but for every one of you, I get another ten who cry out for
me to stop, who beg me to please stop disrupting their cities and
communes with raids and such, and to stop killing innocents. To these
people I have some words...

There is no such thing as innocence, I learned that years ago when
everyone turned their back on me that I assisted through pain, blood and
death. So there are no innocents. I don't hurt those who don't hurt me,
as you can ask a few Serens and Celest citizens who weren't harmed in a
few raids, even when I could have easily dispatched them. And finally on
the point of enemying, I've done everything that "I" possibly can do. I
am incapable of appologizing, and I won't lie and play as if I have
supplicated. I have always told myself I will never appologize for my
actions, never look back and don't worry about anyone but myself, cause
nobody else for damn sure is.

So I make this offering of peace to all of you on my end, even though I
doubt it will matter, I'm putting my best foot forward and offering my
hand out in peace, I will not attack your people, your properties or
your sacred critters, I will not harm your homes, I will not defile your
god's shrines. But all I ask is peace. So its for those voices that
scream out for me to stop and those people who used to look at me as an
ally who frown and weep at my actions I make this attempt and so that
they all know, from this point forward, that I -TRIED- to stop this. I
honestly tried...

Asmoth

Penned by my hand on the 20th of Urlachmar, in the year 189 CE.


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