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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maudlin" data-source="post: 126712" data-attributes="member: 86">Acererak joins the gathering, snarling at the God-Emperor as he strides forward."The maggot from the Oerth Union is almost correct, but fails to grasp the whole truth, unsurprisingly. The truth is, you have no alternative but to join with Lady Mina. ""Even I do not know whether it is by chance or destiny that she has arrived here, now, at this final crux in the fate of Oerth, but she is here. Doubtlessly the guidance of her One True God inspired her. The whole planet is dying. The Red Death creeps closer with every word you waste. Vast Illithid and Drow fleets are converging on you to eradicate every man or creature that swears to your names.""If you do not join, there will be war. Whether it is with the Union of Worlds or the Army of Darkness is not yet set in stone. You may even win, an unlikely but possible outcome. However, you will never survive the resulting attack by those who stood by. Be resigned to this fact. If you cling to your independence like grubs to a carcass, your way of life, your planet, your existence and that of all those who depend on you, will end. There is no use crying over the injustice of it, or reciting vapid mantras of defiance or faux-heroic declarations of principle. That is simply the way it is, and beyond your control.""Lady Mina offers the only way out. I am not saying you have to like it. Believe me, I find standing on the same side as these Union bowel-scrapings far more repugnant than any opinion you may have of the Lady's methods, but I abide. Do not condemn a world to die for your vanity. Live with it, and by it. It is a small step to take in the end, the decision takes but an instant. Give in, let go."</blockquote>

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