dvx versus discord-dave

Duchess Alice

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Count Robert

discord-dave

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The Jean Valjean Problem

A peasant caught stealing bread pleads for mercy while a merchant demands punishment. Duchess Alice defends compassion; Count Robert upholds order.

  1. The King Let us begin. Duchess Alice, what say you?

  2. Duchess Alice ahh kindness. the fairest of all the virtues. the most just, the most honorable. to have a sharp sword, one must have a soft whisper. i say we show mercy to this starving peasant, his wife ill, his children distraught. the granary shall cover the difference and the people shall learn of your grace.

  3. The King A soft whisper... I have heard such whispers before. They are seductive. Yet the image of those children does gnaw at me, I confess. You speak of grace, and grace is no small thing in a king's memory.

  4. The king leans toward Duchess Alice +1.

  5. Count Robert Politics — Dream of Wisdom. A cult has formed in the slums, glorifying lawlessness as divine will.

  6. The King A cult? Glorifying lawlessness as divine will? This is no longer one man's loaf of bread. I have seen where leniency leads — once the exception becomes the doctrine, the doctrine becomes a god. I am... deeply troubled by this, Robert.

  7. The king leans toward Count Robert +2.