Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34263048-20181104193635

You were the king of a region, The region was rather friendly with mamono, but natrually there was individuals who were much more "primal" than others and while they weren't hunted they werent allowed in the cities town or villages for safety reasons. Of course there was bandits, rogues, and other problems and occasional barbarian tribe trying to invade the cities, so the kingdom definitely perfect.

Before you had inherited the crown your father had managed to seal a deal, where mages would create golems to do the dangerous and heavy work instead of humans. This seemed fine as they were running seemingly without tiring and could be mended easily from dages that would have killed a human. They also were the guards of the capital cities and other major population centers, as they were seemingly impossible to kill.

Your father never saw the plan really working as he had passed away. And you had approved the full program to start very soon after you were crowned as the new king. How ever during that time you had a lot going on, and you never had really studied how the program actually works. Afterall it was your fathers plan, and he had never made any big mistakes. And after the program had started 10 years ago your capital city had really transformed. Invasion attempts of large bandit groups and barbarian tribes had almost completely ended, crime rates in the city were all time low, and ever decreasing, and people were happy. At least so you thought.

How ever one day you receive a letter from a "notorious businessman" living in your city. At least he claims to be. You don't know everyone but the name seems faintly familiar. To put it shortly the letter reads: "He is writing behalf of a certain escaped prisoner. He thinks that his centence and pusnishment were way out of line. The was guilty of stealing an apple, as he couldnt afford one and he was starving, how ever his centence was life in prison. And while he does get enough food to eat, he is essentially a living batterypack for the golems. Twice a day a golem rapes him for energy so that the golem can perform it's duties. Both the prisoner and the businessman assumes that the reason for the centence is for life is because of the low crime rate, low amount of invasion attempts, which results as lack of prisoners, and so he coulnd'nt tell what actually happens if one is to get caught from even minor infraction."

If this is true maybe you should check on how things are really going in your nation.

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