Dear citizens of Sanctuary. This is your elected representative, Aledrec of Yhaunn.

As I walk through the streets of our fair town, one question is on everyone’s lips, when will we have the metal that we need? Do not think that your council is ignoring this problem. We have been working overtime to resolve the problem. We have considered dozens of options and pursued several of them to unsuccessful ends. We have looked at trading for metal, mining for metal, raiding for metal, magically transmuting metal and cutting metal from the Dunwarren itself. At the moment none of the options investigated will satisfy our needs. But we will have metal, our town cannot subsist without it!

I cannot guarantee you metal without a struggle. Such is the nature of the dark we will have to fight someone to get what we need, I ask you, all of Sanctuary’s citizens, to prepare for the coming conflict. To get metal in our hands we will have to show that we have metal in our hearts! We have never flinched from fair fight and I ask you all to stand tall in our hour of need.

Until this day of reckoning, I ask that you make metal frugality and metal scavenging part of your everydark life. We need all the metal you can scavenge and recycle. Citizens, if you have metal around your house that you are not using - be it old cooking pots, fire tongs, lead gables or anything else you can sacrifice for the greater good of the city - I ask you to donate them to a city in need. Take your metal and place it in the town forge, in the Engineering Department of the Town Hall. Militia, adventures and raiders of all colours, faiths and warbands, you to can contribute metal to the forge. Strip your downed foes of all metal items and take it to the Town Hall. Be sure to recover arrowheads, shuriken, caltrops and throwing axes from the bodies of the fallen. No contribution is too blood and entrails covered or too small.

If someone talks of a prospecting and surveying mission, offer to assist them in whatever way you can, be it as a guard, a scout or a theological guide. If nothing else bake them fresh cookies for their trip through the dark! Assist the brave geologists of Sanctuary however you can, do so willingly and without hesitation for the benefit of our city.

Every time you fight an organised opponent from outside our walls, hold your last blow, keep one alive and ask it politely where it got its metal from. Send this information back to the department of Engineering, because if the orogs, goblins and gnolls have metal, we should have their metal as well!

Remember, the metal you recover, recycle and scavenge this dark, will become your own safety next dark. It will be made into a sword that will protect your city walls from invaders. It will become the gates that protect you when you sleep. It will be the chain vest on the watchman that stands between you and wrongdoers of all kinds.

Remember! This is not a question of mere utility or economy. It is the very continuance of Sanctuary that hangs in the balance. Find and donate metal today!

Thank you all for listening.