Some things need to be set straight.
Firstly, we're not replacement Tigereyes. Most of our crew fought against those bastards for the same reason everyone else did: to bust free of their shackles and their laws. We don't want do be ruled, and we don't want to rule. This is Lower.
The response to that is that we're tyrants too. Not so. We ensure our merchants aren't extorted for money by thugs. We bleed for them, when it comes to it. We allow groups to form up and do their business under the peace instated by our Crew. We ensure there is no trouble on the streets; people know not to kill on our streets. We ensure the Lower way of life is kept; every is free of laws and punishments. You can live your life like you want to down here and no bastard has a right to tell you what to do. We enforce that freedom.
We're the power in Lower and all we ask is a small toll to pass through. This toll is only paid by for Upperfolk. Lowerfolk don't get charged anything. Keeping the peace and freedom is expensive. We've got mouths to feed, armour to buy, weapons to keep, a business to run.
What we don't do with our power is set up ranks, hierarchies, laws and courts. Sure enough, we could do that. But we like freedom, and will fight to keep it that way against any other that intends to take it away. You heard half the Councilors who were elected this term; crush Lower and bring them under our heel again. We say piss on that.
The only thing close to a law we have is a small, twenty or fourty gold tax. It's not much to ask. We ask polite and we don't ask all the time. We're sick of groups of snotty Upperfolk and self-righteous paladins from the new city on the hill walking our free streets then spitting at our feet when we ask for a small contribution.
We're sick of being attacked in our own streets by these types and having to spend more money beating them down. We're sick of killing and dying for arrogance and pride. When it comes down to violence, we're the best at it. If you want to descend those stairs and ignore the only law in Lower, expect to be punished. We don't ask much. We remember the drow who were living in the sewers. We remember the paladins and the Upperfolk descend into the sewers to force their submission. We remember what happened to them too. Pay the contribution and swallow your unfounded arrogance.
We don't ask much.
Ledskirs are here and we'll fight for Lower if it comes to it.
THE LEDSKIR CREW
On every one of these posted proclamations, no area is left below for any kind of responses to be penned in whatsoever.