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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2503831" data-attributes="member: 630">Anguis pens one last letter to his cousin.Alessa[sblock]My dearest cousin,As your last missive suggests you have mistook my meaning, I feel I must make it clear--I have no objections to negotiations, as long as we understand that we are dealing with criminals, and that some of them will have to pay some price for this.  No, I very much doubt this uprising will caused a sustained revolt--but the message that is sent if we simply grant them their demands is that Farnesse will do what you say if you seize a military outpost--a very undesirable one, I think you can agree.  I do not want us to be against the dwarfs and for the army--but what you all fail to recognize is that this approach is against the army and for the dwarfs.  This commitee must appear impartial--siding with neither party in this matter.  We should punish both those dwarfs who've led this uprising, and any officers whose actions caused the ill-will if we are to have any appearance of moral authority.  Otherwise, we are simply another face of the factionalism that is tearing this nation apart.Also, as regards the negotiations--I feel we must demand the dwarfs disarm before they even begin, or we will be asking for trouble.  If we make the weakness of their position apparent to the dwarfs, we stand a good chance of ending this with little to no bloodshed.  If on the other hand we allow them to remain armed and in possesion of the barracks, they may simply abandon talks and return to a militant stance whenever they are displeasured.As regards our attacker--I hope this convinces you that my earlier fears of the opposition we would face were not in vain.  I fear Mr. Quinn (and very likely his whole 'party' on this commitee) demonstrates a dangerous assurance of their own rightness and my wrongness.  I am opinionated, true, but my opinions are based on past example--theirs on an ideology that has yet to prove itself correct, and seems to be doing the opposite.  As I have noted, while it is possible, I strongly doubt this was a reactionary attack, but rather an attack meant to look like one.  Either the radicals or foreigners seem likely--on the other hand, some small plants meant to tie into both groups--the illusury gnome, and the choice of an  8-headed hydra to attack us--might suggest an unbalanced individual, acting on his own, quite possibly for no ideology whatsoever, simply trying to suggest connections with other parties.  Whoever this was, as I stated, they knew of us.  We should be careful.  And we should definitely not make any public accusations based on the 'evidence' from the attack, as it seems likely that such an action was part of the plan's intent.Your concerned kinsman,Anguis Fevre[/sblock]</blockquote>

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