We Need to Illegalize Slavery in Absalom!


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I have recently come back to the society after a little bit of mate'nity leave. I've decided to try and find all of the membe's of the village I used to live in before they we'e slaughte'ed and takin' as slaves. I managed to find a few of 'em, and most of them tu'ned out okay.
Howeve', I was shocked to discove' that one of my distant cousins was taken as a slave, and is now in the possession of anothe' Society membe'. I couldn't even believe that someone I thought to be an ally would do such a heinous crime. He's kind to her, yeah, and he's teachin' her the ways of adventuren', but she's still his slave.
I say we find a way to illegalize slavery in Absalom, and within the Society. You wanna talk about rootin' out the corruption within the Andoran? How about the corruption in the society we're apa't of! Fight fo' freedom! Fight fo' a bette' society!
Illegalize it!!!

The Exchange

A tall human man swaggers into the scene. He wears a brand new fine black and purple brocade jacket embroidered with skulls, breeches of cotton canvas with a rich burgundy stripe, black leather boots with silver buckles and a beaver fur tricorn hat lined with silver lace and a huge black feather resting on top.

"Ye have a point thare Sauran!Even a devilish rogue such as I sees slavery as the evil it truly is. Men and women and children are no cargo says I. Perhaps upon the abolition of the terrible blight we could settle a deal to put misery row in the hands of more esteemed business men such as I, aye?"

Barbossa smiles revealing a golden tooth.

Silver Crusade

"And who should hand-write the Pathfinder Chronicles, then, if not for the tongueless slaves we keep about the Grand Lodge? Are the condemned not better, living in captivity, than split and thrown into the sea?"

Liberty's Edge

"Bad guys kill village and then make slaves? That awful -- G'Darm smash bad guys!"

The enormous warrior slams his flail into the ground, shattering several floor tiles.

"Oops. G'Darm sorry."

Scarab Sages

" Where do I sign"

Liberty's Edge

"I'm glad to hea' you' suppo't. The mo'e we get, the close' we can get to libe'ating the Society."
The halfling turns to address Tobias:
"When it comes to chronicles, Tobias, all we have to do is pay them and give them shelte'. Being a slave is in no way bette' than being dead, mate. I barely escaped captivity, but those who have gone through it know that while in shackles, you a'e not living- just alive. Perhaps not cut out thei' tongues, mate."
He turns back to the group, adjusting his stance and putting arm around his rather derpy looking T-Rex mount.
"Keep spreadin' the wo'd though, mates. The faste', the bette'. If Absalom is the cente' of the world, then freeing it shall sta't a wave of freedom! For Liberty's Edge!"

Liberty's Edge

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A tall aasimar paces back and forth, growing seemingly more agitated.

"They do say in the River Kingdoms - that's where I'm from - slavery is an abomination. But we've never had it. Everyone just agrees that it's wrong, and if anyone starts trying to take slaves we give them a good beating."

She slows down, becoming more thoughtful.

"Changing the laws? That's just the sort of diplomicizing talky stuff my mother would be good at. How would she handle this . . . are you sure there's not a part where we stage a daring rescue and ride off on fast horses?"

Scarab Sages

"I to know the life of a slave"

He rubs his neck where a series of puncture scars have formed

"The sooner we can break the chains the better"

Liberty's Edge

Oh sure, make me commute to the shooting range.

Liberty's Edge

A burly half orc seeker speaks up...

"This has my support!"

Sovereign Court

A nobly dressed halfling waves a bit of hair from his eyes. Smiling, he gives a bow to those present. "Now, while I would love to sign this proposed bill, and have been known to free slaves by both legal and illegal means, I'm not sure you understand the implications of simply freeing all the slaves in Absalom at once. Do you know how horribly the economy would be ravaged? Businesses will fall apart, depression will strike, and we will have an uprising from those in the lower classes, who will find themselves having more competition than before!

"No, we need to slowly phase it out, as to avoid making a shock on the economy. Make it illegal to take new slaves, and have the children of slaves be born free. Incentive former slave owners with government subsidies. Anything but a shock to the system."


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"The counter-argument is that the economy would be empowered with more workers able to work for a living wage.

For the current *cough* owners, it would actually ease a financial burden on them, for they would not have to worry about the additional mouths to feed, bodies to clothe, or housing to provide. Everyone 'wins', and sooner rather than later. No shocks to the system, no horrible uprisings, and best of all, a whole new cadre of recruits that the Society can draw from. How can any of these things be... bad to implement?"

The tengu in decent yet well-serviced gear shrugs. "How can we do no less than allow every thinking being the chance to pursue their own development and education?

Sovereign Court

"Ah, but therein lies the problem. Adding a mass of new workers into the economy all at once would empower some of those former slaves... But cause mass competition for jobs in the lower classes. Those who currently hold the lowest positions in society would then have to fear that their jobs would be taken by a former slave, who let us be quite honest, is willing to work for far less than someone who had been working that position for years. Labor is a practically unlimited resource, while current positions are not.

"As for the current slave owners, while I have no sympathy for those in the wealthier classes -indeed I may or may not target their slaves for liberation frequently- we must think about the poorest slave owners, or those with one or maybe two slaves, and whose livelihoods come from those slaves. Not the rich and pmpus slave owners, but the people who work side by side with their slaves performing the very same jobs. While the source of their labor is indeed immoral, they are so adjusted to the system, that it would be unfair to one day tell them, they either have to pay their former slave wages -wages, mind you, that they cannot afford to pay- or simply be with less manpower."

The halfling looks around. "The majority of you here are adventurers now. Some may even be former slaves. I would be willing to bet that none of you ever saw the effects of what happens to a slave who is given their freedom through legal means. They tend to not travel, instead, working in the same town or city as they formerly did while enslaved. In fact in the case of slaves that had once been owned by the wealthiest families, they tend to seek employment from those families... As indentured servants.

"Indentured servitude is oh too common a method of employment used to catch former slaves in a new, legal system of servitude. The conditions are actually quite similar to slavery, if not more devious. The indentured servants sign contracts that guarantee wages... But he who signs the contract is legally giving away a whole host of other liberties. They must live on their contractor's land, buy their food from the contractor, buy their tools from their owner... I mean contractor, and rely on their contractor for a whole slew of other this, because they signed a contract they couldn't fully understand, due to a lack of education! It is true that they speak common, but the lack of knowledge of how to read is a serious problem that we cannot avoid.

"That is why I call to phase out slavery. Make it mandatory to educate slaves, make conditions better, outlaw the slave trade itself, but not the institution... Yet. In time this vile thing we call slavery will be gone, but not all at once. The moral arguments for abolition today are strong, but the fact of the matter is, it would do far more harm then good. Is being an indentured servant, a person who unknowingly signed their rights off, be so much better off than an individual in slavery? Is mass unemployment for both poor slave owners, slaves, and those in the lower dregs of our society truly beneficial? I think not."

Gah. I have examples of this happening throughout our history but can't prove it in character because well... It hasn't happened yet XD

Dark Archive

There's a whiff of brimstone.

"'Illegalize' slavery? Come now, little slip, you can't be serious. Who'd lace my boots?"

Something unseen stifles a spiteful little cackle.

Liberty's Edge

Sark Salisfer wrote:

There's a whiff of brimstone.

"'Illegalize' slavery? Come now, little slip, you can't be serious. Who'd lace my boots?"

Something unseen stifles a spiteful little cackle.

The burly half orc stands up.."Lace your own damm boots!" he cries in a loud voice. Turning to the others he says "We should talk with Major Maldris"

Liberty's Edge

A rather tall halfling strapped into a saddle atop a wolf gronas as the conversation moves from practice to theory. She pounds her lance on the floor and begins speaking.

"I can't believe we're even debating this! Slavery should be outlawed as soon as possible. If not, the Pathfinder Society should not be a place where slave owners can rest easily. The other day, I was sent on a mission with a man who had a slave follow him around, carrying his things like a mule! If you want a mule, you should buy a mule. It was only my respect for my Venture Captain that kept me from cutting his bonds and spiriting him out of there in the dead of night!

"For those that care about the employment prospects of those we're looking for free, let's look no farther than the Pathfinder Society itself. There are many places where work can be had. Those inclined to become adventurers can join our ranks as field agents. Gods only know how much wealth is squirreled away in the archives. I myself have been looking into hiring a retainer, and

"Let us not waste time justifying the conditions of slavery with this talk of prerequisites. Let's ensure freedom is available for all, and then can worry about providing education and support. It's not as though the owners of slaves will be particularly interested in their betterment. We just need to do it, by any means possible."

Sovereign Court

Ozymandias shakes his head. "Believe me, I am sympathetic to the plights of slaves, as I have a personal stake in the matter as well. Those who call for immediate action without thought for how delicate the system is, will destroythe economy altogether witht heir shortsidedness!

"Let us take your talk of the Pathfinder Society. You are under the assumption that there are many former slaves who have the abilities required to undergo the training and dedication to become explorers or adventurers. Surely you cannot be blind to the fact that we current Pathfinders have abilities that the average person does not! I doubt even 90% of them could survive even the confirmation, let alone the adventures we see on a day by day basis. Yes, there is wealth in the business, but it is reserved for the few who could survive it, such as ourselves.

"And you are again generalizing with your talk that slave owners aren't interested in the conditions of slaves. You are forgetting that while the vast majority of slaves are owned by a relatively small number of owners, while the vast majority of owners, would be ravaged by the abolition of the institution. Again, I have freed slaves through various means, more questionable that others, but I have always targetted the cruel and the wealthy, not the poor who need slave labor to feed themselves!"

Liberty's Edge

The sound of Spellcasting issues from the shadows

Dimensional Anchor: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29 vs. Sark's flatfooted touch.

"Laws and politics aren't usually my thing, but," she grins at Sark, "I'm glad I showed up."

Sovereign Court

Ozymandias will pretend not to see the fight that was about to break out. He had not love for bigots after all.

Dark Archive

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"Oh, isn't that droll... Since we're all Pathfinders, why don't we all go explore, report, and cooperate? My slaves will cooperate, too."

Liberty's Edge

Sark Salisfer wrote:
"Oh, isn't that droll... Since we're all Pathfinders, why don't we all go explore, report, and cooperate? My slaves will cooperate, too."

I don't mean to continue old stereotypes, mate- but I'm not su'prised YOU would be against it.

I can unde'stand the whole "economy" thing, but with the numbe' of slave around he'e, I would say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. We can nail down economic problems later- people a'e suferin'!!!

Scarab Sages

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My friends, many of the greatest wonders of the past ages were created by slaves. You wouldn't want to destroy a vast industrial subculture now would you? Making slavery illegal would be paramount to genocide on a global scale.

Would you throw a thirsty man into the ocean and tell him to drink? I think not!

Liberty's Edge

Saervic wrote:

My friends, many of the greatest wonders of the past ages were created by slaves. You wouldn't want to destroy a vast industrial subculture now would you? Making slavery illegal would be paramount to genocide on a global scale.

Would you throw a thirsty man into the ocean and tell him to drink? I think not!

We'e not killin' 'em, mate. If anything, we'e givin' them life! It's not genocide, because no one's dyin'! I've said it befo'e, and I'll say it again: Slavery isn't livin, it's just not bein' dead!

Scarab Sages

You're oppressing a subculture! Indeed you are trying to destroy a subculture! You are taking away everything they have to give them "Freedom" but they can't feed themselves with freedom, nor can they live in it or wear it.

If you want to see what freedom would do when given out freely, go around passing out Necklaces of Fireball to the children and see what happens. The best case scenario is you don't tell them how freedom works and nothing happens. Worse case scenario you tell them how this freedom works and they burn the whole place down.

Liberty's Edge

A heavily scarred halfling watches Sark from the shadows of the room corner. Clearly a former slave, Mercer simply watches him as he sharpens his great axe with a whetstone while an axe beak watches the Taldane from behind the heavily armed halfling.

"I say restore the code duello, it's how I got my family free before a 'sudden reform' was issued in Westcrown.." He rolled up his arm to show three names tattooed on his arm, all lined thru. "I bought my emancipation fair and square, and won my family's in the arena." He resumed his honing of his edge. "What happened to the 'sore losers' after were 'self defense' as decide all lawful like. I paid my bits, the survivors paid theirs, an the judge quite honestly decide for me." His grim implied that he played 'Chelliaxian' law quite well.

"I have a few cousins whose 'masters' I'd like to AX for their freedom from. Be nice to do it all legal like...one on one."

Dark Archive

Sigh the lawless trying to write a law. I do hope the popcorn I sent for will be here soon.

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You know, we don't come to your secret base and tell you what you're doin' is wrong. We just talk about it behind your backs. Oh, and sometimes, if we're really drunk...
But nonetheless- of cou'se you're against freedom. You all make a profit off of people. You say you have strict laws, but we Liberty's Edge folk happen to know that some laws don't help people, and since laws should only exist to protect one's natural rights, you a'e doin' it wrong.
Laws should only exist to help people, and that is no longe' being upheld. Therefo'e, if the laws a'e not changed, we will have to break them. I like to think I speak for all of my Liberty's Edge compatriots when I say that if the people of Absalom do not ALLOW freedom, we will MAKE freedom!

P.S: Why do so many of us look so alike?

Dark Archive

We look so different, maybe the talls think we look alike.

"of cou'se you're against freedom..." you guys don't bother me in the least. All my best clients are repeat offenders. I'm a defense attorney. I've probably set more people free than most pathfinders.

"laws exist to help people." That's a good one, can't wait to tell my friend Abraxis.

I'm part of the Pathfinders, we cooperate with each other. I don't expect my fellow pathfinders to be lawful, Ha! ha ha if you only knew the things they did. Unfortunately cooperation seems to often be the lawful membership giving into various chicanery or "looking the other way" while the "good" members go "talk" to the guy who ends of dead from a sudden "illness."

You may find this interesting, I've not killed any humanoids in my career. I stabilize anyone injured (on both sides) and apply first aid and useful spells to keep them stable. I bring everyone back alive for a fair trail, adequate representation, and a just verdict. That does not apply of course to inherently harmful creatures, outsiders, and uncontrolled undead.

Ahh my popcorn arrived, do continue this dialogue is very interesting.

Grand Lodge

From some nearby shadows spills a slick, practiced voice.

"So... I hear you lot are talking about changing the laws on slavery?"

With this line a flowing shape detaches itself from a nearby wall. You are surprised to have missed the shape, as the gleam of a suit of full plate swathed in a black and violet cloak reveals itself, with a flat iron mask where the face should be.

"I could help with that... for a price. I am known as one of the best lawyers in the Inner Sea, and such endeavors could always use a... legal presence."

As the sentence hang in the air, you have the feeling that the price will be far more than mere gold; or even blood for that matter.

You sense the face behind the mask is smiling, and a holy symbol of Asmodeus swings around his neck, almost as if moving on its own.

Dark Archive

"I am in full support of these anti-slavery measures!" Shouts a frail looking middle-aged man. "After all, slavery is terribly inefficient! Slaves get tired! They want to eat! They want to sleep! They want to stop working! But the voices in my head have a solution! Tell me..."

The man reaches to his feet, and pulls up a cage containing a skeletal monkey.

"Have you ladies and gentlemen heard the good news about Necromancy?"

Liberty's Edge

"Lawless? I was within the law at the time." Mercer purred with a wicked grin. "I was tossed into the arena after my 'former' master had me beaten and bleeding before I was thrown in. He enjoyed the idea of killing me after the sin of winning a fight against six dogs."

The sound of stone against axe continued.

"He thought a slip, particularly one bleeding like me, couldn't hold a battle axe scaled for his lard swollen form. He was still smirking when I lopped his lying cheating head off his shoulders." Mercer met the 'lawyer's' eyes. "It was okay for a former slave demand a duel with legitimate cause till I killed three men for cause. Then suddenly I was 'inciting' rebellion and not 'understanding my place. I played the game, and I obeyed the rules.. and when I cut down three terrible wastes of skin. They skinned my brother for the sin of not serving the wine chilled properly." Mercer's face went grim. "For laws to be true, fair and all the rest.. you don't change them when you don't get your way." Mercer grinned wickedly.

"I'm looking forward to what is coming..I promised the judge I'd never return to Westcrown, but I'm quite sure.. the winds are changing, The Lord of Hell's enslavement of Chelliax is going to end and soon." He pauses and smiles to the hellish representatives. "I know my family history.. I wonder.. do you know the truth of your lines? The parts that the censors purged over the years? What state can stand on a foundation of lies?"

Dark Archive

You have a great case of attempted murder. The beating of slaves prior to a match would seem to me an effort to shift the odds and imply he was hedging his bet against you. I see a variety of wrongs committed, but I'm a defense attorney, not a prosecutor. Moreso, this is about "illegalizing" slavery in Absolom have some popcorn, its not even poisoned.

Dark Archive

"This is EXACTLY what I'm getting at! Slavery persists because slaveowners don't care about the rights and dignity of others! Because they care about money!"

The man sets the cage on the lap, monkey skeleton still motionless. He points skyward.

"But slaves require expenditures- housing, food, water, hopefully clothing and medicine! Skeletons don't have that problem- they'll keep working until they break down, won't cost you any upkeep, and are virtually incapable of disobedience! If they don't care if slavery is evil... maybe they'll care if it's not cost-effective?"

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Saervic wrote:

You're oppressing a subculture! Indeed you are trying to destroy a subculture! You are taking away everything they have to give them "Freedom" but they can't feed themselves with freedom, nor can they live in it or wear it.

If you want to see what freedom would do when given out freely, go around passing out Necklaces of Fireball to the children and see what happens. The best case scenario is you don't tell them how freedom works and nothing happens. Worse case scenario you tell them how this freedom works and they burn the whole place down.

Good! Thats how we know which ones are future pathfinders.

Liberty's Edge

Mister Blackroot wrote:

"I am in full support of these anti-slavery measures!" Shouts a frail looking middle-aged man. "After all, slavery is terribly inefficient! Slaves get tired! They want to eat! They want to sleep! They want to stop working! But the voices in my head have a solution! Tell me..."

The man reaches to his feet, and pulls up a cage containing a skeletal monkey.

"Have you ladies and gentlemen heard the good news about Necromancy?"

Necromancy could be a decent alte'native. I don't see any problem with it... Does anyone, because providing some sort of alte'native could help with the law changes going ove' smoothly.

Liberty's Edge

G'Darm think Lady Ostila and Crusade have problem with dead slaves.

Grand Lodge

You see reliance on slavery and love of their money will be their downfall. This institution will crack and fall. But at what price? Asmodues can help change this world... all for a small reasonable fee of course.

G'darm, Lady Olastra hasn't noticed the plight of the slaves or downtrodden because if would prevent her from following up on her other ideals. She has chosen to ignore this lesser evil to slay greater evils... which is how it always begins.

Liberty's Edge

Quintin Verassi wrote:

You see reliance on slavery and love of their money will be their downfall. This institution will crack and fall. But at what price? Asmodues can help change this world... all for a small reasonable fee of course.

G'darm, Lady Olastra hasn't noticed the plight of the slaves or downtrodden because if would prevent her from following up on her other ideals. She has chosen to ignore this lesser evil to slay greater evils... which is how it always begins.

Asmodeus will change the wo'ld alright. Just not in a way most people will like.

Sovereign Court

A middle-aged half orc wearing a top hat, monocle and a tasteful gold and emerald holy symbol of Shelyn teleports into the discussion. "Terribly sorry, good chaps, couldn't help but overhear your conversation. You pose a noble goal - the dissolution of slavery - but I would encourage you to also expand your definitions. Why, is it not your very people, the people of Andoran, who have been enslaved by the merchant interests of the Lumber Consortium? I hear no cries for the ending of that slavery, despite the fact that it has ruined the lives of both mankind and fey. Indeed, is it not a more insidious form of slavery - that which does not call itself such? It is wise for you to clean your own house before you seek to clean others. Quality leadership must be secured if the right of rule is to be exercised with any skill."

He sits back in an overstuffed plush chair that you are fairly certain was not in the room before he entered. "Any thoughts?", he asks, sipping a fine Taldan wine.

Dark Archive

The best and worst thing about mindless undead labor is, of course, that it's mindless. Sure, there's less upkeep involved, but they'll never get anything right. And of course you can't be seen in polite society with them, at least outside of Geb or the more open-minded districts of Kaer Maga.

Devils, on the other hand, are quite intelligent. Bind them properly and they will carry out your instructions to the letter. What's more, the best of them, like Plutark here--oh, but of course you lot won't see him, will you?--can make themselves unseen, or at least unnoticed.

Liberty's Edge

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Caydens skunked tankard, We are NOT enslaving souls to free bodies!

Liberty's Edge

Baron Edwin LeBlanc wrote:

A middle-aged half orc wearing a top hat, monocle and a tasteful gold and emerald holy symbol of Shelyn teleports into the discussion. "Terribly sorry, good chaps, couldn't help but overhear your conversation. You pose a noble goal - the dissolution of slavery - but I would encourage you to also expand your definitions. Why, is it not your very people, the people of Andoran, who have been enslaved by the merchant interests of the Lumber Consortium? I hear no cries for the ending of that slavery, despite the fact that it has ruined the lives of both mankind and fey. Indeed, is it not a more insidious form of slavery - that which does not call itself such? It is wise for you to clean your own house before you seek to clean others. Quality leadership must be secured if the right of rule is to be exercised with any skill."

He sits back in an overstuffed plush chair that you are fairly certain was not in the room before he entered. "Any thoughts?", he asks, sipping a fine Taldan wine.

We left Andoran to become Liberty's Edge for a reason. Indeed, And or an us rather corrupt, and it is our primary goal to heal it, but it's a personal mission of mine to illegality slavery, at least within the society, especially because one of my cousins is being kept by a fellow pathfinder.

Dark Archive

Corvus Cailean wrote:
Caydens skunked tankard, We are NOT enslaving souls to free bodies!

"Why, who said anything about souls? The very idea! No, we use animal skeletons! They're just as intelligent as undead made for humans, and are much stronger. Plus there's none of those moral quandaries since animals don't have souls."

Grand Lodge

Corvus Cailean wrote:
Caydens skunked tankard, We are NOT enslaving souls to free bodies!

Why not? Didn't you want to change the laws? Is your soul more important than the freedom of slaves? Are you just a being that is for rights and freedoms because it is convienent? Show me the depths of hour convictions, and demonstrate what you will do to help the cause.

The Exchange

Mister Blackroot wrote:
Corvus Cailean wrote:
Caydens skunked tankard, We are NOT enslaving souls to free bodies!
"Why, who said anything about souls? The very idea! No, we use animal skeletons! They're just as intelligent as undead made for humans, and are much stronger. Plus there's none of those moral quandaries since animals don't have souls."

Animals don' have souls, eh? I'd teach you a lesson about Druidic magic if I could, but I'll settle fer knockin' some sense inta ya! We'll free all the slaves, by gum we will! And all domes'cated animals too! Right, who's with me?

Liberty's Edge

Quintin Verassi wrote:
Corvus Cailean wrote:
Caydens skunked tankard, We are NOT enslaving souls to free bodies!
Why not? Didn't you want to change the laws? Is your soul more important than the freedom of slaves? Are you just a being that is for rights and freedoms because it is convienent? Show me the depths of hour convictions, and demonstrate what you will do to help the cause.

None of that chelaxian fast talk out of you hornhead. Your options aren't enslave the body or raise the dead. You could just PAY your people you know, and maybe live with one solid gold gem encrusted black velvet painting.

Sovereign Court

Ozymandias looks up from his notes and coughs. "Which doesn't address the problem that the overwhelming majority of slave owners are not exorbitantly wealthy, and in fact, rely on slave labor for their well beings. You take away slavery in one fell swoop, and you are not taking away power from the upper classes (of which we are all a member of), but the middle and lower middle, forcing them into poverty, without really proposing anything that would make life better for former slaves. Need I remind you of indentured servitude, which is in fact, completely legal everywhere, unlike slavery."

Dark Archive

Ozy you're interrupting the theater with reality, This is better than the opera and free. Sit down and have some popcorn. Please continue with the illegalization. More butter on the next batch please.

Liberty's Edge

"Relax, friend. Andoran's ideals will spread along in time, and in the meanwhile, we have the Eagle Knights and Liberty's Edge protecting slaves like me."

Liberty's Edge

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The young lady in the corner, who has been watching this while sipping from a goblet, rises from her chair and addresses the room, a Galtan accent in her speech.

"To deal with slavery... is a delicate task. I believe that it requires multiple acts. First," she says, raising her index finger, "one needs to make slavery less economically beneficial, which tends to mean causing the price of slaves to go so high as to not work for the buyers. Second, making it socially disfavored to own slaves. Third, convincing those who make laws to make slavery illegal." She looks thoughtful for a moment.

"The first requires a three-pronged effort. The first prong is to make the cost of gathering slaves too high to be worth the effort, which is best suited by the, er, convincing of slavers to cease their activities, whether through conversation, threats, or direct activity. The second is the freeing of slaves in covert ways - technically, one supposes, theft in those societies where slavery is legal - and making it clear to the slaveholders that it is improper. The third is resettlement of those freed slaves - a safe place for them to go, and, sadly, a way to care for those slaves so broken they cannot imagine any other way of existence anymore. That also would include training the freed slaves in other trades, as I would think many of them were simply manual laborers, and giving them a chance at a better life."

She takes a sip from her cup. "The second is, in a way, harder - how does one change such regard? One expects that the freeing of slaves would just cause the other slaves to be worked harder, but to those who see people as merely objects to be owned - no better than some kind of golem - there may be little care. To those who own slaves who are not, say, 'upper class'," the last said with a small smile at Ozymandias, "perhaps showing them that a worker who has a better investment in their job is more productive and the business is more fruitful might be helpful."

Another sip. "And then third, well, that is a place for statesmen and those invested in politics, not for a simple singer such at myself." She bows, with a small smile, and returns to her chair.

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