[[posted up all over Lower, with a few in other areas of the city]]

RED SKULLS ARE A SHAM

You are not already dead. There is no way that comes with suicide. Bresley never died to get to the surface. No, listen, what happened was this - they lied to you. They fed you ideas of false hope and deceit. They claimed wisdom when they have none. If you choose to ascend, your blood will be spilled not for your own eternal spiritual bliss, but for the sick satisfaction of the spoilt rich dandies of Upper!

That right, the Red Skull leaders are perverted cult of pleasure seeking merchants and landowners. They take satisfaction in the misery of the people of Lower. They consider you less than worthless. To kill you is an act of power, to demonstrate not just their fiscal superiority, but to make themselves feel like big, important men. They will laugh as you die, secure and smug in their own self-importance.

There is a way to the surface, but it involves hard climbing and sore feet, not death at the hands of the Red Skulls. There is a way to the afterlife of your choosing, but that comes from prayer and devotion to your own god, and enacting his will. Only a tiny fraction of the gods of Toril have ever asked their followers to commit suicide, ask yourself, what would your God say?

The Red Skulls are a sham. Do not die for the pleasure of the rich. Do not risk your own eternal soul in the mockery of true ascension. Do not let your friends, family or neighbours fall for this most devious and evil of scams.

Cast the Red Skull leaders back to Upper where they belong! Unmask them, and call their bluff! Never let murderers walk the streets of Lower! Put an end the Red Skulls now!

[[each of these posters has a small pile of flyers at the bottom: http://www.escapefromunderdark.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=118913#118913 ]]

The people of Lower Sanctuary are free to decide for themselves, and will hopefully see the truth of our Way. We force no one to walk our path, and promise only true enlightenment to those that travel alongside us. As you can see, many succubi and demons roam these lands, and attempt to pervert the truth as this poster does. Do not let them fool you, citizens of Sanctuary. Do not let them win you over! A soul can not ascend from this hell if it retains its apathy for change. Cast aside the shackles of these slaving succubi and demons that reside here in this hell, and seek the wisdom of Bresley to know what it is to truly ascend.

This is not the first time a creature of malevolence has attempted to subvert our faithful, and as we have endured such deceitful creatures in the past, so shall they not interfere with our current aspirants and our greatest plans for ascension.

Speak with any Red Skull in our Fortress or about Town for more information.

- Father Flanigan.

is true that the Red Skulls force no one to walk their path. But the elders of their cult know the suicides they promote do not lead the person’s soul to ascension. They are not deluded and ignorant, which would still be sinful but at least be excusable. No, they are maliciously trying to trick people into killing themselves for their own power and pleasure.

They subvert the true teachings of Bresley, which is indeed to throw off ones shackles and live free, in continued search for the surface. But Bresley is never recorded by anyone as having said suicide is the way.

Father Flanigan accuses me of being a demon or a succubus. If he was half as wise as he claims to be about afterlife and the movement of souls, he would know that demons and succubus live in the Abyss, but the Red Skull literature claims we are in Hell. If he did more than just pay lip service to the teachings of the church, he would at least call me a devil or erinye.

No matter how you look at it, the Red Skull cult is a thinly veiled excuse to trick people into suicide. Do not give them your blood. Do not let your loved ones be fooled.

- Seeker Yvonne Rhune.