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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 4252293" data-attributes="member: 41485">(Music: "Betrayal" from Silent Hill 2)"There was a time," Pigglemorth calls back, "that your statements would have been enough. We have a system for a reason. The laws and regulations are the rules of society, and they are to be followed in order to keep the entirety of civilization in functioning harmony. Yet when you watch those flaunt those very rules, break them to the detriment of society, yet still manage to escape notice, you wonder at the true mechanisms of the system.All you have said is true. It is also a felony offense to enslave your fellow citizen. It is felony offense to poison, delude, or ensorcell your fellow to devious ends. It is a felony offense to aid in another commitment of a felony offense. Yet all this I have witnessed. I am sure you understand just how loathsome the Combledorn family is. They may treat others with terrible, disgusting, flagrant disrespect, yet even their playthings receive more respect than they have for law.But does the system end with the law? We watch the passing of time on the face of a clock, but there is a whole world behind the face. When my daughter, my own flesh and blood, became romantically inclined to one of that infernal clan, what can be done? Give her a blessing for a legal ceremony? Watch as the name Pigglemorth is legally eaten by the name Combledorn? Smile as the love and joy of my existence is legally folded into nefarious schemes? No... there is a limit to the law. It is not the whole system. I tried, pleaded with her, to stop seeing him. She would not listen. She had been an obedient, helpful child her entire life, and this, THIS is how she chose to stand up to me. I could not let her fall into such clutches. I did not. And now, the system will punish me for the rest of my life in ways your law can never touch me. Leave me. The system is so much greater than the law."[sblock=Darian]And so much more rewarding.[/sblock]Ru checks his footing. It is secure where he stands, outside of the reach of the mechanism, but further in, with a slip he may fall on a cog, or land between two gears' teeth, or drop out of the mechanism altogether. <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/176884421_a0b21e890a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> A fall from here would be considerable. [sblock=credits]Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/innusa/176884421/" target="_blank">innusa</a>.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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