Posted by [_SnArF_] on April 24, 2000 at 23:12:50:
In Reply to: Re: Imperial Law and how Empire immortals screw citizens. This happened today. posted by Zebulost on April 24, 2000 at 21:23:29:
> > A immortal asked what law 2 was:
> >
> > All Items of Power are the rightful possession of the Emperor
> > and WILL be kept in the throne by the Centurion Omegus. These
> > items include the Imperial Codex, the bloody head of the
> > archmage, the Equation of Entropy, the Orb of Magic, the
> > sapling of a great tree, and the Book of Law. However,
> > either the Emperor or the united Council can deterimine that a
> > specific item may be retained at another cabal. During such a
> > time as another Cabals hold the Emperor's items, they must honor
> > the road-blocks set by the Imperial Centurions.
> >
> > Now, this immortal said citizens were in violation for not reclaiming the items. That is horseshit. Citizens did not take the items, other cabals did.
>
> Actually, the way I see it, the members of the cabal who raided to get their item back violated imperial law. Everyone else in the cabal didn't, so attacking them in town would be illegal. You cannot arbitrarily hold the entire cabal liable for the illegal actions of a few - that would be the same as saying, "citizen bloggins committed a crime, so we are holding everyone in empire responsible and anathemizing them all"