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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dpdx" data-source="post: 2683298" data-attributes="member: 188">As a long-time reader and fervent admirer of both this storyhour and the game that generates it, I'd like to take a shot at an analysis.What the audience is reacting to isn't elves, elvishness, or even this group of elves in particular - it's their fundamentalism. It's moral absolutes like demanding a body part to atone for an insult of the custom, instead of the people who hold it. Lira, I believe, would have found the demand (in this case, demanding that innocent people of the town not be allowed to leave the town) sickening no matter who made it. It's hostage-taking, at its most basic level, and I'd venture to guess that the majority of the audience agrees with Lira as to the acceptability of it as an item on the table. It has nothing to do with the Shesher, the War Hand, or elves in general except that they're the ones who demanded the lockdown.So I don't think it's elf-hate, so much as it is the hostage-taking, that makes all of us (myself included) so eager to throw the Shesher who made it, under the bus. The Ebisites, on the other hand, never made an equivalent demand, for example, that Shesher non-combatants present themselves for annihilation.What we really need is an update, so we can move on and not have to worry about potential bad outcomes to this scenario, but instead reflect on what was the outcome. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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