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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simia Saturnalia" data-source="post: 3924167" data-attributes="member: 53692">The poor have secrets too...The rundown slums and claustrophobic alleys of the Lost Quarter, stuffed between the tanneries and the midden, are home to the lowest of the low, the wretchedly poor and the simply wretched - if you have nowhere in the city you can call home, you end up in the Lost Quarter or the open road (and it's not like you'll have shoes). It's largely forgotten by the city fathers, the merchants, and even the clergy; the people in the Lost Quarter don't have anything to give to the city, so the city has no use for them. But in recent weeks, the Quarter has been flourishing by its own meager standards; bread is eaten most days a week, and the wine* has been nearly drinkable. It's all thanks to the Man In White**, a sorcerer of middling skill. Seeking refuge from the Church he has slipped into the Lost Quarter and made himself invaluable to the people, getting things into the Quarter that no-one who lives there can buy and providing them to the people.His price is simple: each week he is given a child by the people of the quarter. What rituals and experiments he involves these poor souls in are best left to the imagination, given the occasional few who are seen again are deranged by fear, afflicted with unnatural hungers, or catatonic husks.The kicker is, for the people of the Quarter, it's a monumental improvement of their lot. They don't want the Man In White gone; in the best case they go back to starvation and want, in the worst case Church inquisitors will burn out the Quarter entirely.* Substitute with whatever poor people drink because water in the age is dangerous.** Call him whatever you like.</blockquote>

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