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[indent][indent][indent][color=gray][sub][right][color=#A84B5E][b]Location:[/b][/color] The Laughing Worg Tavern -- The City-State of Thorinn, Aetheria[/right][/sub][/color]
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Rael was tempted to snarl back at Graves when he accused her of listening to him wrong. Like words was his strong suit.

Fortunately, Graves had diverted to a more sensible argument. About how the denizens weren’t giving them anything, how they had leverage. How they needed to convince other guilds to get back in the field, which was largely going to be her next point. The argument still didn’t make sense even if it was more sensible, however. How did they have any leverage when the majority of guilds, single individuals, and normal groups of wayfarers weren’t doing anything.

[color=#A84B5E]“If you want to use leverage like a fuckin’ yakuza, you need to have more leverage than ‘we can do this thing others can’t’.”[/color] She explained, albeit heated. 

[color=#A84B5E]“If eighty percent of people aren’t stopping dungeons or being productive and helping that ecosystem then they are [i]parasites[/i]. That’s how society views people. Like,”[/color] She held her hands out, pointing out the few wayfarers she had seen in the tavern, people who didn’t have reputations for doing anything. [color=#A84B5E]“how many people here have we seen actually do [i]anything[/i]? One group went to that dungeon in the western marshlands. One. Two groups fell into the rat dungeon, which means only two groups were bothering cleaning out the sewers in the first place. Answer me this, tank-for-brains, how many wayfarers are in Thorinn, do you think? What kind of leverage do they have?”[/color]  




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