A Report

[Patthebakr 10]

*A note has been tacked onto the Solace gates, in between some of the stone bricks*

I am in shock. Utter and complete shock. Today showed me that Solace isn't the safe haven I thought it to be. An avalanche of problems, the guard force seemed to not be able to take care of one before the other started, It was chaos. Let me start from the beginning.

First off, let me state I have nothing but respect for those men and women who put their lives on the line to help us, especially those in the under-appreciated profession of guardsmen.

I walk into Solace to look for a friend of mine, and things seem to be going sour immediately. A dark elf in a hood is jumping around rooftops, resisting arrest, and assaulting pedestrians. I left the central square for most of the day, and returned after speaking with my friend.

Apparently, the dark elf still had yet to be detained, and it was storming now. At about this time, the same dark elf the Peacekeepers were trying to capture had made his way INTO the gatehouse. Despite yells from a terrified man, being mercilessly beaten after having both gates closed around him, no-one tried to help. About a few minutes later, someone started yelling about a thief, It took the guards a good amount of time to get there ((by this time the elf in the gatehouse logged off or hidden)).

Now it was a complete riot, hard to hear anyone's single sentence among the garble of noise created by the mob of people (non-guardsmen, including myself, were just sitting around chatting about gods know what). After the noise had died and the guardsmen had left, There was still not a single soul in the gatehouse. About this time the terrified and bloodied man who had been stuck in between the gates, got stuck yet again. The same dark elf was STILL in the gatehouse. After what seemed an eternity, a recruit, gods bless him, came and chased off the dark elf, trying to arrest him. Mind you, he seemed to be the only guard around at this time. We still had an empty gatehouse and a beat man laying in the dirt.

You my think this is over, but the next part is insane, heck, its more than insane, If I hadn't scribbled down the dialogue during these past few hours I would not believe it myself. A rather important looking man came along, and with utmost urgency in his voice, screamed to be let into the town, that he needed help. He sat by the gates, banging on them for an hour it seemed. There were no guards in sight, none. Then a group of savages came running up, looked to be about 5 or 6 men, all different races, armed and armored to the brim. They killed the man banging on the gates, there was blood everywhere. The poor fool that had been beat up and left in between the gates was screaming in hysteria to be let out, as the savages ripped into the body. I'm pretty sure they even let the orc in the party EAT the dead man that had been hoping to reach a safe haven in Solace. It took a bloody long time till the guard recruit finally got back from chasing the dark elf, and by then it was too late. There was nothing left to save of the poor soul. The bandits, as I have no other words to describe them, finally left, and the man that had been locked in between the gates had been let out after a day of torture, both of mind and body.

There is only one purpose for this letter. One question I had to ask the peacekeepers. How? How did a criminal get inside the gate house? How come a man had to scream his lungs out for three minutes until he got help? How were the gates unattended to for an entire day? How did a group of raiders kill a man standing RIGHT OUTSIDE the front gates of a supposedly safe haven? How were you so under-prepared, even when the worst possible scenarios that could happen, did happen? But most importantly, How can you prevent this from ever happening again?

~A concerned traveler

P.S. I'd also like to point out I have no affiliations with the nation of Salvus.

*a couple of pages of parchment are tucked in the cracks of the bricks, the seem to have a very nervous and sloppy writing on them*

[V0idsoldier 1139]

*Steps up to the note, his black hair wet from the recent rain, he gently begins to write his own*

Do not forget about the events afterwards, unless you were too much of a coward to watch. The entire town swarmed us, we were simply having a chat with a friend, and you had your entire town, armed and armored, blood in their eyes. They wanted us dead. At least 8 of them, and only 4 of us. Fleeing from the town, we killed them, every, last, one of them. Your men have no strategy, skill, or intellect, outnumbered 2 to 1, and us "bandits" killed them all. Your filth, unworthy of our time, if you stand in our way any longer, I will personally kill you, if you draw your arms again, I will lay siege to your filthy town. Prepare, because the reckoning is at hand.

-The Eternal

*He notices people looking at him, already his face is known as a criminal, soon a bounty would be out for him and his comrades, and they would be ready for it. He leaves as quickly as he came.*

[Connor 18]

*reads the first note then begins to write another*

I am sorry for the Dark Elf messing around in the gatehouse, this will never happen again. This man happens to be the brother I never knew I had and I am now teaching him the ways of how to act toward anyone and everyone. And I can assure you that my brother will not be let out by himself until he learns these ways.

Thank You For Reading

((And oh by the way in this RP note you stated that the Dark Elf started attacking him; first off, it shows respect from his eyes, second off, he had the gate open for 3 minutes and the guy wouldn't leave, and third off, that's the point when he was hitting him OOCly and the man "trapped" was hitting back. So as I saw in screenshots taken from a Recruit the Dark Elf was trying to help in a way but the man "trapped" wasn't paying enough attention))

[SpiritSpectre 134]

((There's no way to the gatehouse... Just by password and Block Jumping... Which is bannable... If you see someone again please report it to myself... Im most time online and willing to help...

MC NAME: William_Talbot (send bird)

))

[ℓαтєяяє ~ 236]

*reads the note*

Yes, that recruit was me. We need more active PKs…

[Salvus Reborn 8]

*A rebel looks at the note and clenches his fists*

When it comes to such things as our own guard being prepared then the nation is not ready for a war with Renatus or any other. Guards being under prepared and under-equipped only shows the lack of care that the government shows. When a government can't even defend or accommodate its own people you know it is doing something wrong.