Hey folks. This isn't a promotional poster telling you why you should vote for me. This is a prediction of what's going to happen if TOMMY TEN-IRONS takes a Council seat.
-- I'll empower as many people as I can to enforce the rules around here. Rules are the same they's always been, only a few things I'll make official. Spellguard and Watchies in uniform will be attacked on sight. And if you catch any of them prancing around invisible, attack without hesitation. Down them; take their uniforms, take their keys. I see plenty of Lowers have already been doing that, like the time Delgado came down here. Good on you. It's gonna be official.
-- Taxes won't change, only the people you give them to. We're going full independent, so we'll have our own budget and you won't give shit to Upper, nor take any handouts from them. The Spellguard funnel your money for their secret projects that don't do nothing for us. The Watch take your tax money AND expect bribes. They'll bring you in for questioning and confiscate as much gold as they want. They'll murder you if it's convenient for them, then keep your belongings and give your friends some rotheshit excuse that makes you look bad in your death. Without waste and corruption at the top, we'll do so much more. Without your money, Upper authority will collapse. But don't think I'm gonna take your coin and not do anything myself. I'm going to organize raids so we loot and pillage all that we can from the Underdark. Say we get word that Chosen are packing a shitton of loot. We roll into their territory, wade up to our necks in Chosen corpses, we'll stuff our coffers with their treasure, put the insolent whelps to the blade. Their best fighters will either join us willingly as soldiers and second class citizens, or die. This isn't slavery, though, cause they'd come willingly. So what do we get? Glory, more muscle, Upper collapses or comes back grovelling at us, and LOOT. Tommy'll make this happen.
-- I heard an idea from Delain to merge both the Golden Mercs and the Footmen. Having been in both, I agree with this. They's similar, and I don't see no use in an independent merc group when they can be a state-run pillage-and-loot organization that gets paid for pretty much the same thing, doing dangerous business. Footmen would patrol the streets and keep them clean. What's used to be called Golden Mercs will be more for killing threats abroad and yes, plundering to add to our funds.
-- Last, Landamin Scent will be banished from Lower for selling Johnny Dimes out to the Uppers. He's a liar, coward, thief and he'd sell his grandmother to slavery for a bit of cash. Johnny Dimes was a Lower man at heart; he was a great and decent man, and most importantly he made me laugh with his schemes. I were a Footman at the time, and Scent tried to bring me in to Garv so we'd understand each other that Dimes had to be sold out. They both ordered me not to interfere. My hands were tied and that were the toughest thing I had to do, to not fight the bastards that came down for Dimes. And it's all cause of Scent's corruption. Read his poster yourself, "peace and order was restored by the by-us assigned Footmen and agreements were cut with Upper to ensure our common safety regarding Upper invading us to reclaim Lower."
If I had hated a little more, there would've been less trouble. Less of us would've died, and maybe Dimes would be here today. I got no tolerance for lying, conniving sonsofbitches who'll say one thing to you and take bribes behind our backs to send our brothers to the slaughter. At best, Scent won't have any part in the new Lower. At worst, he's gonna be made a colorful example of what happens to traitors, even in high positions of power.
Tommy Ten-irons