Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140210211511/@comment-3293219-20140217000746

"No!" Kaizen snapped, though he didn't really mean to, it did shut everybody up.

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Tabith cleared her throat, ready to start her rallying speech as she built up the nerve to do so.

"B-By now, you've all heard the rumours. I'm here to give you facts...

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"If we simply leave, then they'll believe that they have us on the run..." Kaizen explained, moving behind his desk. "That's something that I do not want them to know."

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Everyone began to shout and jeer, asking stupid questions and demanding unneeded answers.

"W-We..." Tabith paused, waiting for everyone to calm down.

"We know that there has always been a Dark Brotherhood presence in our city. It has always been there, for centuries... ERAS! Counts and Countesses have overlooked it, threatened with their lives and whatever they hold dear. I know, because they tried to do it to me and Mikasa..."

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"They look at us as 'wrong' as 'sick." Kaizen's disgust for his fellow man began to take over, "They see us as the embodiment of all evil and they believe that killing us is the way to end all of the evil in this cesspool of a town."

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Tabith glanced away, though it pained her to talk about it so soon, it was the perfect heart puller.

"I'm sure that you all knew Petra, my Niece...

Two days ago, representatives from this, evil, order came to me and tried to threaten me, by saying that they'd take my family away from me. They then took my niece, Nepht and tried to drown her in the lake, locking her in a small, wooden box and throwing it to its depths...

She barely got out alive!"

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"But we all know... that's not true, for there will always be ‘evil,’ wherever civilisation dwells."

Kaizen placed his foot on his desk and pulled himself up, using it as a stage.

"When I hear them referring to us as such, I find myself with nothing but contempt at their hypocrisy. They treat us as the villains, when in reality, there's nothing that we have ever done to our targets that's worse than what they do to each other."

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"And make no mistake..." Tabith added, leaning against the alter. "This is no personal vendetta...

You all remember Petra? Mikasa? Two girls, in their early twenties, who lived in that abandoned house? I'm sure that we all do, considering how helpful they were to our community, to our priest, Veneficus."

She took a deep breath and looked down to her feet as she stood up to break the news.

"The Black Argonian, who runs this evil clan of murderers, took Petra, from her home! He's been holding her prisoner, in his 'lair' doing Gods know what to her! We don't even know if she's still alive!"

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"Those people up there are the problem, the true evil behind this world! They treat difference as sickness, they smile and shake with one hand whilst holding a knife in the other and their lives are so fake and so artificial that they need to invent an 'evil' to beat down and conquer to justify their own existence!

First it was the Talos worshippers, then the 'knife ears,' then the mages and today? Today it's you!"

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Tabith noticed that everyone was starting to chatter...

"Who else has to get hurt? Whose daughter has to go missing? Who's sun has to die!?"

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"Those 'people' up there? They will always find evil, wherever they go, no matter how many lives they take! Evil will always find a way, so that they may justify the killing and slaughter!" Kaizen stopped at the center of his stage.

"They look for 'evil,' wherever they go and they'll find it, eventually. They’ll look in the hearts of their neighbours, their friends, their family and especially in you. First? they'll start with the voluntary things… religion, ideology, past crimes... Then? They'll dig a little deeper, race, gender, sexuality? It's all good, it's all justification to grab the pitchforks and purify the population of everything that is 'wrong!"

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Tabith drew her sword and hung it by her side.

"Today, we come together, united as one! We all want this evil purged from our home! We want our children to walk the streets at night, without flinching at the sight of shadows."

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Kaizen gave everyone a second to reflect on what he had just said...

Larius' association with the thalmor...

Petra being a murderer...

"If you think running will spare you, you're wrong. The hatred will find you, it'll target the colour of your hair, your eyes, the freckles on your cheeks, the scars on your body and the excuses will get worse and worse until you're despised for the crime of simply existing."

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"We will be the generation that looks into that dark void and says 'no!'

We won't live in fear anymore; we won't wait for the murder to come calling and take anymore of our own!"

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Kaizen looked over his two, loyal, followers with a small smile.

"So today, I shall grant them a false victory and let them see how much 'peace' falls on this town! I don't plan on dying today but I don't plan on running, either."

He jumped down off the table, landing between them as he walked through the main corridor.

"Today, the official new age of the Dark Brotherhood will begin!"

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"Let's turn the tables!" Tabith insisted, raising her sword.

"Let's show them, what it's like to live in fear for a change!"

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"And of course...” Kaizen muttered as he entered the Great Hall.

“Every new age starts with the spilling of blood!"