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<blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 179138" data-attributes="member: 426"><p><strong>The Secret is Out</strong></p><p></p><p>Edena: By the time I have posted this, my plans should be in effect. Also, as no one can change their attacks, I will have the same consequences from making this speech as in taking my actions. Also, kaboom brought the Wanderer back, so Acererak will be happy about that. Maybe a comment by the Wanderer would be appropriate soon.</p><p></p><p>Also, check the previous thread. I recall seeing a post where 'o Skoteinos said he was helping Melkor because Zouron has threatened to extinguish the souls of all of Skoteinos' people in Ravenloft. (Melkor, don't EVER say that I have not been fair with you.)</p><p></p><p>Acting President Lannon addresses the UC of Toril, all of Toril and Oerth.</p><p></p><p>"Citizens of the United Commonwealth of Toril, I greet you."</p><p></p><p>"I ask you to have courage. We have good news even in these dark times. I ask you to keep the same courage that Ian Payne kept when he thought the United Commonwealth of Toril would be crushed in its infancy."</p><p></p><p>"Many powerful allies have pledged to aid in our defense. They are assisting with the mightiest of magics. Although we have lost our greatest spellcasters, we have allies who are placing their lives on the line for us. I think we should honor their courage and their willingness to sacrifice all for us. They are valiant, and come from Toril and Oerth."</p><p></p><p>"Our allies in the Oerth Alliance have suffered greatly. The Kevellond League has lost its greatest spellcasters. However, they are not surrendering. Using two great artifacts, they have found a way to banish a great force of our enemies. For the Alliance of Dread has summoned meddling demons, and merged them with the horrific Red Goo. Surely this is a testimony to the hatred that the demons have for us and their fear of us."</p><p></p><p>"President Hazen of the Oerth Alliance is using the Cup and Talisman of Al Akbar to purge the armies made of Red Goo. The Cup and Talisman can effect an area the size of the Baklunish-Esmerin confederation and their allies. (OOC: Lannon gives the exact dimensions and compares it to an area on Toril.) This artifact, like all major artifacts, functions at higher levels of might than any achieved since the Arcane Age."</p><p></p><p>"Additionally, Hazen and his people are using the Crook of Rao to reenact the Flight of Fiends. Hazen initially did this 40 years ago, banishing armies of fiends from Oerth."</p><p></p><p>"We are coordinating our non-magical attacks with those defending us, to give us an added measure of success in our defense. To those who doubted our interaction with Oerth and called its natives savages, I say that it is the Oerth Alliance and many of our allies in Realmspace who are defending us. People who grew up and never heard the name of Ian Payne until a few months ago are fighting and dying for us. People, whom I am sad to say, that some of us condemned as illiterate warlike savages. I say that the UC of Toril and its people should hold on to its sovereign government. I say that while we have allies who will protect our lives and honor our right to chose our own destiny we should remain independent. We should preserve our liberties as our soldiers and our allies are fighting for us."</p><p></p><p>"We are a society of many beliefs and cultures. The Union of Worlds is based on the worship of two individuals, who although remarkable, seem to wish all to comply to a single uniform vision. Theirs, not ours. What did we sacrifice for in the last 40 plus years if we surrender to the first person who offers us safety -- even if we have to abandon who we are to serve them."</p><p></p><p></p><p>"Although some of our leaders have vanished, perhaps losing faith in themselves, I say that I believe in you. So does every soldier who is fighting to protect your lives and liberties. Believe in them as they believe in you. You are the spiritual heirs of Ian Payne and the brave people of many races and lands who labored to make the UC of Toril a model for civilization, liberty, and peace."</p><p></p><p>"I am not Ian Payne, nor am I Forrester or Erika Lesage. I am just a man who asks you to have the courage that is within yourselves. I do not ask you of anything that is beyond your strength and courage. The choice is yours: to abandon all that you are for an illusion of safety, to have your races remade into one programmed to serve the Union like some industrial housebot scrubbing toilets, or to be free people. who will emerge even greater than they have been in this dark hour."</p><p></p><p>"The choice is yours. To be servitors or to be free people who honor those who defend you. I have made my own choice. The choice is yours. I ask that the United Commonwealth of Toril not fade from history. I ask that we honor our allies and our own people fighting for us by remaining free and independent. Let us have faith in ourselves and them as well."</p><p></p><p>"Even now, the Humanoid State has encouraged its members to be remade into the Cydian race. This is a race programmed to worship Kas and the God Emperor of the Union. The God Emperor and Kas encouraged the Humanoid State to leave, accusing the UC of promoting, no practically forcing the mating of elves and humanoids. They then hide their bigotry under a fair mask."</p><p></p><p>"Is this what you are willing to serve? A power that will use any rhetoric to its end, bribe their way to obtaining a great power, and then remake it in its own image.(Lannon drags out the financial sheets...and expounds on the Union's role in getting the Humanoid State to secede.) You are better than that! The heirs of Ian Payne are better than that. The people who have inherited a wonderful legacy deserve better than to be lapdogs of self-proclaimed deities. One of whom decided an Olympics of Torture would be a good way to spend a few days."</p><p></p><p>"Our allies have called upon the Taraakians, a race whose nobility of spirit seems akin to the Angels. Their magical might is equal to or greater than the powers of the Arcane Age. Their technology and technomancy is equal to their magic. Do you think they shall be gentle with the Shade and Hellmaster Phibrizzo and their allies."</p><p></p><p>"I think we can stand with our allies and keep our own independence and traditions. The choice is yours. The choice always is yours. The Union of Worlds has been described as a democracy of two: Kas and the God Emperor. Is that the choice you wish for yourselves and your children."</p><p></p><p>"Furthermore, the Union has shown a distressing tendency to jump ship between alliances. Embrace Melkor. Backstab Melkor. Embrace Melkor. Backstab Melkor. Our true allies have been consistent. They have stood with us even when our good name and that of President Forrester were slandered by the Union's leadership. The Oerth Alliance did not hate us, the people of the United Commonwealth of Toril, even when Forrester bombarded their world with fusing hydrogen from Oerth's sun. Hazen said he could even see his way to forgiving a repentant Forrester. A Forrester who took his actions in a belief that he was saving Toril."</p><p></p><p>"The Union -when they called themselves the Dark Union of Eastern Oerth - conquered the nation sof Nyrond, Almor, Urnst and other lands and executed many of its leaders for seceding from what would become the Union -- 200 years earlier. The God Emperor prohibited all faiths except the worship of himself --and murdered those priests who would not worship him. He did support the rise of Kas as a god... to further his own ends. The Union seems to be about nothing more than opportunism."</p><p></p><p>"In contrast, our allies in Realmspace and elsewhere believe that governments exist to serve the governed. The Union is more similar to Melkor and the Eternal Union in believing that citizens exist to serve the state. The Oerth Alliance stands with us in battle, and in matters of principle."</p><p></p><p>"I would rather stand with such allies, people who risk their lives for us, and our allies of Realmspace than those who spurn our values and worship only power. Indeed, their motto seems to be to win at all costs and ignore the truth when it becomes inconvenient. I ask you to stand as one. Together, we can survive. The Oerth Alliance and our Realmspace allies are fighting on our behalf. Let us stand with them as an independent power that shares the values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."</p><p></p><p>"I ask nothing of you that is impossible. Find the strength in yourselves. Ian Payne once said he had no power. In a time of great need, he reached into his heart and found a power that reached to the heights of the Seventh Heaven. That power resides in us all."</p><p></p><p>"I ask our allies also to address us. Hazen said he is busy with the defense of his world and ours but issued this statement. 'You can chose your own destinies. My land has faced grievous losses. However, still we struggle and strive, believing in ourselves and our friends. I ask you to believe in us as we believe in you. You have yet to realize your true greatness, your true goodness.'"</p><p></p><p>"An eloquent statement by a man of courage," Lannon says. "'He has placed his life on the line for the principles we say we espouse. What does it say of us if we abondon our principles while we can still stand and others are prepared to DIE for us? Who are we? What do we want for ourselves and our children?"</p><p></p><p>"I believe with our friends and allies we will survive as a free people. If we chose. My family and I chose to stand on the principles that the UC of Toril was founded on. We do not stand alone. I ask that we stand as a free and independent nation, holding onto the high principles of our past, ready to ride out the present storm, and emerge into a brighter future. We can chose our own destiny. The future is waiting for us. Which shall it be, to become servitors of those unworthy of your trust or to stand besides the bold and honorable allies who are ready to die so that we may live free."</p><p></p><p>OOC: Nice to see you are still trying to grab countries. I suppose that is what drove Reprisal away, a sense that he could not even hold his own power together. You want to play dirty, fine. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I guess this is why more than one person who left the IR and has talked with me has called this the 'win at all costs IR." This is not an insult, but an observation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="William Ronald, post: 179138, member: 426"] [b]The Secret is Out[/b] Edena: By the time I have posted this, my plans should be in effect. Also, as no one can change their attacks, I will have the same consequences from making this speech as in taking my actions. Also, kaboom brought the Wanderer back, so Acererak will be happy about that. Maybe a comment by the Wanderer would be appropriate soon. Also, check the previous thread. I recall seeing a post where 'o Skoteinos said he was helping Melkor because Zouron has threatened to extinguish the souls of all of Skoteinos' people in Ravenloft. (Melkor, don't EVER say that I have not been fair with you.) Acting President Lannon addresses the UC of Toril, all of Toril and Oerth. "Citizens of the United Commonwealth of Toril, I greet you." "I ask you to have courage. We have good news even in these dark times. I ask you to keep the same courage that Ian Payne kept when he thought the United Commonwealth of Toril would be crushed in its infancy." "Many powerful allies have pledged to aid in our defense. They are assisting with the mightiest of magics. Although we have lost our greatest spellcasters, we have allies who are placing their lives on the line for us. I think we should honor their courage and their willingness to sacrifice all for us. They are valiant, and come from Toril and Oerth." "Our allies in the Oerth Alliance have suffered greatly. The Kevellond League has lost its greatest spellcasters. However, they are not surrendering. Using two great artifacts, they have found a way to banish a great force of our enemies. For the Alliance of Dread has summoned meddling demons, and merged them with the horrific Red Goo. Surely this is a testimony to the hatred that the demons have for us and their fear of us." "President Hazen of the Oerth Alliance is using the Cup and Talisman of Al Akbar to purge the armies made of Red Goo. The Cup and Talisman can effect an area the size of the Baklunish-Esmerin confederation and their allies. (OOC: Lannon gives the exact dimensions and compares it to an area on Toril.) This artifact, like all major artifacts, functions at higher levels of might than any achieved since the Arcane Age." "Additionally, Hazen and his people are using the Crook of Rao to reenact the Flight of Fiends. Hazen initially did this 40 years ago, banishing armies of fiends from Oerth." "We are coordinating our non-magical attacks with those defending us, to give us an added measure of success in our defense. To those who doubted our interaction with Oerth and called its natives savages, I say that it is the Oerth Alliance and many of our allies in Realmspace who are defending us. People who grew up and never heard the name of Ian Payne until a few months ago are fighting and dying for us. People, whom I am sad to say, that some of us condemned as illiterate warlike savages. I say that the UC of Toril and its people should hold on to its sovereign government. I say that while we have allies who will protect our lives and honor our right to chose our own destiny we should remain independent. We should preserve our liberties as our soldiers and our allies are fighting for us." "We are a society of many beliefs and cultures. The Union of Worlds is based on the worship of two individuals, who although remarkable, seem to wish all to comply to a single uniform vision. Theirs, not ours. What did we sacrifice for in the last 40 plus years if we surrender to the first person who offers us safety -- even if we have to abandon who we are to serve them." "Although some of our leaders have vanished, perhaps losing faith in themselves, I say that I believe in you. So does every soldier who is fighting to protect your lives and liberties. Believe in them as they believe in you. You are the spiritual heirs of Ian Payne and the brave people of many races and lands who labored to make the UC of Toril a model for civilization, liberty, and peace." "I am not Ian Payne, nor am I Forrester or Erika Lesage. I am just a man who asks you to have the courage that is within yourselves. I do not ask you of anything that is beyond your strength and courage. The choice is yours: to abandon all that you are for an illusion of safety, to have your races remade into one programmed to serve the Union like some industrial housebot scrubbing toilets, or to be free people. who will emerge even greater than they have been in this dark hour." "The choice is yours. To be servitors or to be free people who honor those who defend you. I have made my own choice. The choice is yours. I ask that the United Commonwealth of Toril not fade from history. I ask that we honor our allies and our own people fighting for us by remaining free and independent. Let us have faith in ourselves and them as well." "Even now, the Humanoid State has encouraged its members to be remade into the Cydian race. This is a race programmed to worship Kas and the God Emperor of the Union. The God Emperor and Kas encouraged the Humanoid State to leave, accusing the UC of promoting, no practically forcing the mating of elves and humanoids. They then hide their bigotry under a fair mask." "Is this what you are willing to serve? A power that will use any rhetoric to its end, bribe their way to obtaining a great power, and then remake it in its own image.(Lannon drags out the financial sheets...and expounds on the Union's role in getting the Humanoid State to secede.) You are better than that! The heirs of Ian Payne are better than that. The people who have inherited a wonderful legacy deserve better than to be lapdogs of self-proclaimed deities. One of whom decided an Olympics of Torture would be a good way to spend a few days." "Our allies have called upon the Taraakians, a race whose nobility of spirit seems akin to the Angels. Their magical might is equal to or greater than the powers of the Arcane Age. Their technology and technomancy is equal to their magic. Do you think they shall be gentle with the Shade and Hellmaster Phibrizzo and their allies." "I think we can stand with our allies and keep our own independence and traditions. The choice is yours. The choice always is yours. The Union of Worlds has been described as a democracy of two: Kas and the God Emperor. Is that the choice you wish for yourselves and your children." "Furthermore, the Union has shown a distressing tendency to jump ship between alliances. Embrace Melkor. Backstab Melkor. Embrace Melkor. Backstab Melkor. Our true allies have been consistent. They have stood with us even when our good name and that of President Forrester were slandered by the Union's leadership. The Oerth Alliance did not hate us, the people of the United Commonwealth of Toril, even when Forrester bombarded their world with fusing hydrogen from Oerth's sun. Hazen said he could even see his way to forgiving a repentant Forrester. A Forrester who took his actions in a belief that he was saving Toril." "The Union -when they called themselves the Dark Union of Eastern Oerth - conquered the nation sof Nyrond, Almor, Urnst and other lands and executed many of its leaders for seceding from what would become the Union -- 200 years earlier. The God Emperor prohibited all faiths except the worship of himself --and murdered those priests who would not worship him. He did support the rise of Kas as a god... to further his own ends. The Union seems to be about nothing more than opportunism." "In contrast, our allies in Realmspace and elsewhere believe that governments exist to serve the governed. The Union is more similar to Melkor and the Eternal Union in believing that citizens exist to serve the state. The Oerth Alliance stands with us in battle, and in matters of principle." "I would rather stand with such allies, people who risk their lives for us, and our allies of Realmspace than those who spurn our values and worship only power. Indeed, their motto seems to be to win at all costs and ignore the truth when it becomes inconvenient. I ask you to stand as one. Together, we can survive. The Oerth Alliance and our Realmspace allies are fighting on our behalf. Let us stand with them as an independent power that shares the values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "I ask nothing of you that is impossible. Find the strength in yourselves. Ian Payne once said he had no power. In a time of great need, he reached into his heart and found a power that reached to the heights of the Seventh Heaven. That power resides in us all." "I ask our allies also to address us. Hazen said he is busy with the defense of his world and ours but issued this statement. 'You can chose your own destinies. My land has faced grievous losses. However, still we struggle and strive, believing in ourselves and our friends. I ask you to believe in us as we believe in you. You have yet to realize your true greatness, your true goodness.'" "An eloquent statement by a man of courage," Lannon says. "'He has placed his life on the line for the principles we say we espouse. What does it say of us if we abondon our principles while we can still stand and others are prepared to DIE for us? Who are we? What do we want for ourselves and our children?" "I believe with our friends and allies we will survive as a free people. If we chose. My family and I chose to stand on the principles that the UC of Toril was founded on. We do not stand alone. I ask that we stand as a free and independent nation, holding onto the high principles of our past, ready to ride out the present storm, and emerge into a brighter future. We can chose our own destiny. The future is waiting for us. Which shall it be, to become servitors of those unworthy of your trust or to stand besides the bold and honorable allies who are ready to die so that we may live free." OOC: Nice to see you are still trying to grab countries. I suppose that is what drove Reprisal away, a sense that he could not even hold his own power together. You want to play dirty, fine. I guess this is why more than one person who left the IR and has talked with me has called this the 'win at all costs IR." This is not an insult, but an observation. [/QUOTE]
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