Growing Unrest In Central Tilth

In addition to their adoption of the tenacious and clever Winged Sand Fox as the symbol of this rebellion, they have managed to find at least one -- and probably several -- quality scribes from amongst the Metilth Merchant Class to produce some impressive propaganda materials! Handbills, posters, and even instant grafitti.

— Shiv Moonsong

The Conflict

Prelude

Generations of systemic exploitation and degradation of the working caste. This has been evident both culturally and legally, from the state-sponsored propaganda posters to the horrid Edicts of Principle issued by the Ploui and his lackeys.

Deployment

Someone has been sneaking loads of Mural Paper into the hands of the rebellion. The Alliance Plan

This will be used to decorate all of the underground tourist pavillions where the incoming rail cars drop off people visiting for the Festival of Colored Glass. The Alliance believes that it is high time people outside of Tilth know just what life in the City of Glass is really like for the people who live there.

New Developments

Victor the Vermin says: Eat the Rich. Devour the Truth.

In addition to editing pro-caste propaganda, the rebellion has begun manufacturing its own propaganda. It's message is both clear-cut and cryptic, at once encouraging readers to "Eat the Rich," and, more crypically, to "Devour the Truth." Given the city's association with the Shadow of the Wing, one can only assume that the ruling caste's public committment to education and knowledge is not all it was promised to be.

Battlefield

The city of Central Tilth. It had, until recently, been confined mostly to the Foundary and Residential Districts, but lately, it has spread throughout the Entertainment District of Central Tilth, as well as the Mercantile District, as if carried on the brutal winds of a sandswirl.

Conditions

Generation upon generation of abuse heaped upon the working caste is finally coming to a head. In a place where nearly all forms of comfort and personal expression have been eliminated, the people have begun questioning how much worse can things get? Is death a punishment or a release?

The Engagement

Initially limited to a counteroffensive against ruling caste propaganda, Ploui Jirs, Spu's most recent Edict of Principle has set alight a quick-burning fuse. This new Edict, requiring all citizens to actively engage in the extermination of all vermin, from bedbugs to winged sand foxes, or, if found in the proximity of ANY vermin -- ant, rat, flea, Sandhopper, whatever -- to be actively engaged in its extermination or else be punished by death AND indebtedness unto the 5th generation, has so enraged the population, that even the members of the Metilth Ruling Caste who are deeply invested in the illegal pet trade are outraged at the thought of having no more profitable "vermin" to breed and sell.

Conflict Type

Rebellion

Battlefield Type

Urban

Start Date

6855

Location

Central Tilth

Belligerents

The Man

• Shadow of the Wing

Led by

• Ploui Jirs, Spu

Underground Artisans Alliance

• Licensed Guild of Glassblowers
• The Court of the Moon
• The Underground Artisans Alliance

Led by

• Ereved

Strength

"The Man" is a coded euphamism used by the rebellion to refer to anyone who supports the caste system, but especially the Metilth Ruling Caste and their puppetmaster, the Shadow of the Wing.

There is a uique strength found in sheer numbers. Add to that righteous anger, and few forces in creation will survive a stand against such a force.

Casualties

So far, just a loss of percieved power. It's just now dawning on the elite, powerful oligarchs of the ruling caste that there is a problem which will not be solved with a new Edict of Principle.

The idea that compliance will make anything better.

Objectives

Maintain the status quo by uplifting the Metilth Ruling Caste.

Equality and equity, the downfall of Ploui Jirs, Spu, the abolition of the caste system, a voice in government, abolition of all Edicts of Principle.