An Extortion Perpetrated By Certain Priests of Abadar [Open]

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Sep 19, 2024 10:49 PM

I was working on this before the topic came up in Discord but it feels pretty timely

Friends, I bring to you news of a most pernicious crime, and one almost wholly invisible to those of us with the fortune to live in Westcrown, which is blessed by the churches of the Good gods! For those who dwell in more distant cities and towns have sent forth reports of dreadful and unjust behavior by priests of Abadar. According to such reports, Abadar's priests (alone among the gods) are charging ruinously high prices for the mere act of creating water — an act which can be done as often as the priest wishes, with scarcely the effort it takes to lift a finger! There are priests charging five silver, ten silver, fifty silver, merely to allow the ordinary citizens of Cheliax to drink! I have heard that in some towns citizens are even going without water, or drinking water tainted with curses and other such causes of malady, all because they cannot pay!

Our citizens are suffering! I beseech Her Majesty the Queen to proclaim the following immediately, for the good of Cheliax:

The price to be charged for a single casting of Create Water spell shall be capped at a maximum of one copper piece, effective immediately. This shall allow the priests of Abadar to still earn an honest living, without depriving any of Her Majesty's subjects of such vital necessities.
The Queen shall report all such unfair doings by Abadar's priests to her companion Shawil, the Pharaoh of Osirion, that Abadar might strip all such priests of their powers, for Abadar commands that his priests deal fairly with others.
If any priest of Abadar or any other god is found to be overcharging for Create Water or other such vital orisons, their excess fees shall be confiscated and given to the Church of Iomedae, which has provided clean water to the citizens of Westcrown for no charge at all.
The Queen shall beseech Gozreh and Cayden Cailean for a miracle, that they might purge all the waters of Cheliax and leave them cleansed, so that the citizens of Cheliax will no longer be forced to depend on priests for such a vital necessity. She shall also beseech Pharasma to banish all undead from Cheliax, for where they are allowed to linger, their stench will surely taint the water once more.

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Laia Solandra

Alicorn

People are charging money? For water? It really does take just a few seconds! She'd have to charge if she had to go someplace farther than the temple but she does her part chanting over the reservoir to keep it full and they're not charging for it at her church. She'll read this one and maybe people will know to go to Shelyn's and not Abadar's for their water.

Eisethia

A mind not filled with desires

Nscruiser

Those are pretty good prices. She should have sold more water before this city was flooded with clerics. And then she remembers this is a pamphlet and barely worth the paper it’s made out of. The numbers are probably made up, they couldn’t get that high, could they?

Molochio

Her-own-society

Pevensie

Molochio has by now managed to get his hands on a copy of “Manual of City Building” and while he isn't very far into it, he wonders if this is what a “supply shock” is.

(He had never charged more than a copper for water before he came to Westcrown and found the market already oversaturated. Even in his previous village, where certain shortsighted actions of the inhabitants had resulted in undead contaminating the water supply, it had never occurred to him to alter the “normal” price of water.)

Still though, he is confused, if a cleric of Abadar is charging 50 silver for create water, and someone who couldn’t afford to pay went away thirsty, wouldn’t the cleric have been better off selling it for a copper? After all, it costs the cleric himself nothing to create water, and this way he at least would get something rather than nothing.

Lluïsa Oriol i Cornellà

overdue-process

ray

Lluïsa has been in Westcrown for a long time and even before the Tarrasque the clean water situation wasn't that great. Even Abadar's priests seem to her be performing acts of charity these days, if she's honest. (And they're not charging fifty silver a cast, Lluïsa would be long since free of the Material if they were. She's sure there's scammers charging a hundred, of course.)

So naturally, the mob wants to string them up. Lluïsa is deeply, deeply tired of the mob.

At least the pamphlet authors are also performing acts of charity; another pamphlet to be turned to useful soot. Praise ~~Mephistopheles~~Somebody.

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