To Our Glorious and Good Queen Aspexia III:

Your humble subject asks you to please bring back the gladiatorial games. It was always great fun to watch people fight the wild beasts, and it really sucks that we haven't had a proper games in months! My favorite was the one where they sealed off the stands so that the fighters couldn't get away, had wizards cast Fly spells, and then made them fight baby wyverns. I don't care about the rest of the punishments, but please, bring back the games! 

Your loyal subject,

Nadal of Highriver Street

To Her Majesty Aspexia III

The paladins may cry out that it is good to spare prisoners the fate of death by lions, but consider the needs of all your suspects. The clerics of Erastil say it is good to feed the hungry, and some of your subjects are hungry indeed. There is no other honest work in Westcrown for certain nonhuman types to earn their living, and no way to return home. So please, for the love of good, bring back the arena games. 

Your Most Humble and Quadrupedal Subject,

 Panthera Leo

“Hey! No satires! Give back those bottles of ink! Seize him!”

sounds of bodyguard versus pamphleteer scuffling

“Now write a real petition!”

To Her Majesty Aspexia III Queen of Cheliax and Several Other Locations

We the people of Westcrown need some kind of entertainment. Pamphlets were a good replacement for the games, being humorous and relatively bloodless compared to death by lion. But if both are banned, we all may die of boredom. 

Your loyal subject who nonetheless wishes to remain anonymous. 

Better. 

To Her Most Righteous and Just Majesty Aspexia III of Cheliax and Galt

I have my whole life been a loyal subject of the crown, as was my father before me. Yet the treasonous rioters  slew him in the mobs of the terrible third. I petition that the pamphleteers at fault for these riots not be released after thirty days. Instead, let the pamphleteers and the rioters kill each other in the arena. It was once custom to execute murderers with their own weapon, and the weapon of the pamphleteer is the mob. 

Most humbly,

Carle Grau

TO QUEEN ASPEKSIA

I ROTE YOU A LETTER ERLIER TODAY. DID YOU GET IT? ANYWAYS I AM RITING TO SAY THAT YOU SHOLD BRING BACK THE LAIONS. THE LAIONS ROAR SO SO LOWDLY AND IT IS RILLY RILLY COOL! I DONT WANT LAIONS TO EAT MY BIG BROTHER BUT IF THEY EAT OTHER PIPOL THAT IS OKAY I THINK.

SINCERELY GENOVEVA

To Our Wise and Good Queen:

Here I present several proposals on how the gladiatorial games may be reintroduced without undue Evil. The games were always a great boon to our city, and it is certainly possible to bring them back without those elements that were the work of Asmodeus.

Firstly, prisoners could be given the chance to participate in the games, and the victor could be set free. I have heard that the Good gods are pleased by mercy, and if a man is to be condemned to death regardless, it is far more merciful to give him the chance to earn a pardon. The victors could even be put to work as adventurers and thereby allowed to redeem themselves by protecting your subjects from monsters and bandits.

Secondly, for those prisoners whom you do not wish to condemn to death, they might still fight in the games without this being Evil. For if the prisoners are denied weapons and commanded to fight each other with their fists, and a cleric watches from the sidelines while preparing to heal anyone who needs it, it is very unlikely that anyone will die, but we will still be entertained.

Thirdly, one could seek out the services of a great wizard, such as the Archmage Kotonet, and request that they give the wild beast the form of a man. (It is possible the Archhealer Naime's blessing of Reincarnation would be sufficient, but I am uncertain whether it works on all beasts.) If this beast is compelled to fight a lion, it will appear as if a man is fighting a lion, but in truth no people shall be harmed. If beasts given the form of men prove insufficient to the task, one might perform the same transformation on an orc, or a kobold, or any other creature that is neither fully human nor fully beast.

In your humble service,

Fabià Ivorra

To The Queen Aspexia III of Cheliax, known for her Justice and Mercy

I am a man possessing an undisciplined and rowdy soul, and so will never be pleasing to Iomedae. If allowed a warrior death, I may hope to be pleasing to Gorum. I petition you that prisoners be allowed to choose death by lion, in addition to the choice of death by final blade. To clarify, I am not at this moment set to be executed, for I have diligently obeyed your mercifully short legal code. I ask because your constitutional assembly crafts new and complicated laws each the day, and unless they are stopped, I will have neither the ability to remember them all nor the patience to obey. 

Your subject,

Rocco