[These few elegantly written posters are placed up mostly in Upper Sanctuary, but one of it is posted nearby the Shrine of the Ascension itself in Lower]

I firmly believe that every man and woman should have the right and the freedom to seek the Surface and risk their lives for that cause if that is their choice, but freedom means that everyone can also hold the right and the freedom to object and suggest a better idea. Thus, here is my objection and my suggestion.

I understand all your pain and suffering here. I understand why each of you might wish to find a way to leave the Underdark and to find the beautiful surface and to see the sunlight again. I myself came from the cold and harsh North and I have walked to the icy glaciers and through the snow filled tundra plains there and I miss it greatly, but I cannot and will not place my own happiness and my own pleasure above the lives of the innocent slaves that would be abandoned and left without a safe haven in the Underdark if a majority or all of us leaves and abandons Sanctuary for the Surface if the way is ever found.

Many of us too have suffered horrifying torture and suffering at the hands of foul slavers and these slaves that would be abandoned if we leave could had been any one of us, therefore it is clear that we cannot ignore this fact and leave them.

I say we should instead see pass the darkness and pass the ugliness that surrounds us and look at what we can achieve down here. We have the opportunity here to do many great things and a Moral Obligation to remain here, for one we ought to remain here so that we can ensure that the enslaved people in the Underdark has a chance of survival and a safe haven to go to once they are freed by us or once they escaped by their own means.

Secondly, all has not been lost here, we still have the means to make our standard of living here far better or I dare say just as good as how we would be living on the Surface. It has been for too long that we have lived on only with two simple purposes to our lives; survival and the hope of finding the Surface, yet with these goals in mind Sanctuary has only became darker and far more dangerous.

I say it is the time that we find a far greater purpose to strive for instead. It is the time that we start working together for a better future because the beauty of a society filled with Justice, Moral Integrity, Love, Friendship and Comradeship far surpasses the beauty of the Surface and the Sunlight.

It matters not if we cannot find the Surface or that we should not travel there, not at all if we have achieved such a strong Society.

Lastly though, this does not mean that we should hold any ill intentions against those who wish to find the Surface such as the Seekers, but we should at least not show any support to the concept of worshiping the idea of finding the Surface or any man even if it is one as good as Frederick Bresley which I suspect is what the cult of the Ascension is doing and we should also not spend our resources to further their cause.

For those who seek the Surface, I wish you both good luck and safety, but for those who choose to remain here, I commend you for your bravery and I only hope that I can do much to make your lives here easier and safer.

[Signed boldly and elegantly]

Haldor Longhand

In lower, the poster is covered with another, older declaration.

As I sit amongst the drunken and desperate patrons of the venerable Pissing Crone, fungal smoke and base liquors assaulting my senses, I ponder.

I ponder on a Sun I have never seen. On a way that likely no longer exists. I ponder on a man long dead, and I ponder on his legacy. I ponder, and I conclude.

My brothers in Filth, I declare these things. I declare so that you might heed some small tidbit, and take unto you the strength of men distant and hazy. I declare so that one day, we might all again be free. I declare because I must.

I declare these things:

1. I declare that Frederick Bresley did, in Sanctuary's 12th year, depart for the surface.

2. I declare that Frederick Bresley, against all probable odds, acquired his lofty dream.

3. I declare that, of all Sanctuary's many and varied inhabitants, Frederick alone truly shed his shackles.

4. I declare that the Way of Frederick Bresley remains, if not in the paths and labyrinths of the Underdark, then in the hearts of men.

5. I declare that we have strayed from the Way, and enslave ourselves to bleak walls and petty politics.

6. I declare that those above us have grown complacent. The Way does not lie with them- as it did not reside with Melinda Bresley.

7. I declare that the Way above lies with us, the common filth and rabble, and only with us.

8. I declare, boldly and openly, that I subjugate myself to no man. I will live as Frederick Bresley- I will live free.

Brother Jones, a rickety table at The Pissing Crone, Kythorn 9th, Year 151.