Submitted: 20 March 1999

Let them ROT!

by Kalandas Barat-Sur

I, while teaching a young guildmate about favors one day, ran into a lady cleric (who wishes to remain nameless) working diligently on regaining the favors of her god, for she explained that she was ever in need of more favors, for those who deem it too much trouble to bother with them.

‘Let them Rot!’ was my reply, and the good cleric explained that she could not, in her heart allow these poor pathetic wretches to fall to the wayside. Sometimes goodness can be too much of a good thing.

If all clerics refused to give up their favors for these scurrilous, lead-bottomed knaves, why then, they’d learn right quick to have and keep favor with the gods. These mealy-mouth poseurs are scant above the evolutionary ladder than worms, which they are a fit meal for. Clerics, take heed! As long as thou dost continue in your practice of bringing these malaperts back unto life, they will continue to tax thee and thy noble spirits, by avoiding the easy labor of gaining their gods benediction.

And if this causes them to flee the realms, ne’er to return, good riddance! We need not such knavish behavior on our streets. I give them a tip of my hat and a boot to the backside!

For those of you who live in favor of thy god or goddess, thank thee for thy consideration, and remember this too is but a single strand of the rope that builds our community, and I thank thee for thy patience. If thou art of the other sort, and take umbrage at my words, fie upon ye and may ye return to the earth, your battered shell for all time, in an unmarked grave, un-noted, un-missed, and unsung.

Baresh will listen to your well-presented viewpoint on this, too.