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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 179183" data-attributes="member: 2020">A unique post from the Alliance of DreadIMPORTANT, PLEASE READ  A new message comes from the Alliance of Dread, and is sent to everyone:  Ok, look everyone.  We are not Angels and we don't believe in Peace Conferences.  We don't like kender, and we don't believe in justice, mercy, tolerance, and all that stuff.  But we do believe you wish to survive.  You DO wish to survive, right???  You're not suicidal?  You want to live?  Most people do want to live.  You're Most People, right?  Just who the heck are these taraakians, coming into our Spheres, and telling us what to do?  Does it matter if they are the most lofty people in existence, or the most demonically evil in existence ... does it matter, if we have to lick their boots, and do what they tell us, or be killed for failure to obey?  They have 12th level magic.  That means they have great power, they know they have great power, and apparently ... they like to throw that power around.  Sounds a lot like us.  We don't pretend that we want peace with any of you, but do you really want to be the slaves - even if it is a noble slavery - of this alien race from another dimension?  We, the Alliance of Dread, say that - despite it all - we have our dignity, and we are the people of Oerth and Toril and Krynn, and nobody tells us what to do, or pushes us around.  With our combined strength, our 11th level magic is as strong as their 12th level magic.  For there are many of us, and only a few of them.  With our combined strength, we can kick their rears out of our affairs.  Just who do they think they are, coming into our Spheres and interfering in our business?  Who appointed them as our Guardians and Rulers?  What gives them the right to self-proclaim themselves as our Leaders?  If all they want to do is halt the Red Poison attack by the Unseelie, that's fine.  They can go and save all the Crystal Spheres they want.  That's fine with us.  If they want to spend their time saving other people, we don't mind, and we don't care.  However, we do not need to be saved from ourselves.  We do not need some superpowerful, super lofty race coming in, pointing their superpowered magic at us, and telling us what to do.    For THAT matter, any race that would do so, isn't any better than we are, whatever they pretend to be.  We have the right to determine our own fate.  We have the right to make our own ending.  Even if we all must perish, we have the right to dictate events in our own Spheres.  We believe that this is reasonable thinking by any standard.  We do not pretend that we are your allies, or ever will be.  But if the Alliance of Oerth, the Union of the Worlds, the Hive Cluster, the United Commonwealth and all of it's allies, and everyone else would stand together, and we joined you, we could kick these would be taraakian overlords back to where they belong!</blockquote>

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