Sep. 10th, 2006

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I wrote this for the wiki for Fangs & a .45, the game that [livejournal.com profile] theweaselking, [livejournal.com profile] dolston, and [livejournal.com profile] pyroofone are running in Ottawa. I am actually really happy with it.

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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
    - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, IV.ii.76
This quote is often misinterpreted. Spoken by one of Jack Cade's supporters, it is not a pledge to make his new regime a better place for the common man by saving him from those confusing, doubletalking, edumacated bastard lawyers.

It is a pledge to eliminate any recourse to the law, and establish a tyranny. There will be no lawyers, because there will be no call for anyone to point out how the law could defend you from those who are more powerful, and no need to justify the way in which you treat those who are weaker. You will eat and rest and walk the streets as long as the King and anyone stronger than you allows you to do so, and you will live and die on the whim of the absolute ruler.

Welcome to Kindred society.

A bit about the application of the Traditions follows. )
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