Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:39 -0700 http://doforum.forgreatjustice.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 http://doforum.forgreatjustice.net/comments.php?DiscussionID=53&Focus=162#Comment_162 http://doforum.forgreatjustice.net/comments.php?DiscussionID=53&Focus=162#Comment_162 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:07:11 -0800 Peter Aronson The letter is written in brownish ink on piece of parchment that has been scraped and reused several times.

Pilgrims,

While I realize this might sound a tad irregular, I wonder if ya might see your way given the gentlemen of the night (smugglers to ya) around here a helpin' hand? Ya see, the local gov'ment has been crackin' down on them something fierce like and they can hardly get their air-skiffs out of hidin' without some revenue cutter jumpin' them and hauling the boys away in chains.

Now ya might think the gentlemen are bad men and deserve bein' carted off to prison or transported for what they has done, but it ain't that simple around here. Ya see the gov'ner, one Lord Royalle, has decided that the common folks (which is pretty much everyone here on Estelle) ain't showing him enough respect, so he's stopped most of our food an' medicine shipments. Now, we got enough marshweed and pomgrass to live off of, sort of, but a kid can't grow up straight an' strong on that sort of diet, and a man who falls sick ain't going to get better. But we're stubborn cusses on Estelle, and we ain't going to bend the knee to some stuffed-up toff from one of the bigger worlds. We'd rather die first, and that's a fact.

So that's where the gentlemen come in, ya see. They've been running in better food and meds for us, an' it's the only thing keepin' us going. Oh, an' they hire local lads to crew their boats an' they pay pretty good, too. More than one local farmer got the price of his land an' his plow crewin' one of the gentlemen's air-skiffs. An' of course they buy our marsh whisky to sell (ya can have as much of it as ya like if ya come, it'll put hair on yer chests, even the girls).

I gotta be straight with you -- things are getting awfully bad here. Over half the kids are down with the Marsh Fever, and without yarrowroot and better food, one in five of them ain't going to get better. And worse, one of 'em's my boy, Richard, and if he dies, I don't know what me and the wife would do. If we can't get stuff we need any other way soon, we're goin' to have to raise the black flag and storm Lord Royalle's castle. And that'd be bad in more ways than a man could count without takin' off his shoes.

Now ya might wonder why we don't simply ask ya to try to soften Lord Royalle's heart, but it's dead simple. Ya can't soften what ain't there.

Yrs,

Garrik FitzWilliams]]> http://doforum.forgreatjustice.net/comments.php?DiscussionID=53&Focus=191#Comment_191 http://doforum.forgreatjustice.net/comments.php?DiscussionID=53&Focus=191#Comment_191 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:51:24 -0800 Daniel Solis http://doforum.forgreatjustice.net/comments.php?DiscussionID=53&Focus=197#Comment_197 http://doforum.forgreatjustice.net/comments.php?DiscussionID=53&Focus=197#Comment_197 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:31:39 -0800 Peter Aronson