Greetings, All

I have repeatedly over many public newsposts informed you about the ways
of Forestal Politics and how they so enjoy seeking more complicated ways
by each passing day to control you and your ability to market as you see
fit, anytime it concerns a plant or elixer. Most of it went unnoticed as
most of you lay quietly back ignoring public news or ignoring the
problem as you'd just rather not get involved.. all the while the likes
of Caitlin and Lavinia and Risca and Rivaidan continue to come up with
ways to ..."Protect the forest" ... by controlling how you sell.

Let me ask this one simple question.

Once the plants are picked, is their existance in the rift of a
Forestal, a Monk or any other non forestal, or a shop stockroom and how
they're priced in anyway going to destroy a forest? I suppose we all
have to be wary of them wily little kelp leaves weaving themselves into
large armies hell bent on destroying the forest and so we must curb
their free exposure to the marketplace by not allowing them to be sold
in huge amounts save for only those with gold spilling from their very
pores.

Watch out for those armies of hellaciously evil and menacing Galingale
which when exposed to large amounts of people, mutate into little
warriors who plan to destroy the home from which they came.

-smirk- Pretty ridiculous isn't it? Yea I know, I have yet to get my
head around it myself I wrote it.

OK So someone explain to me why I was just enemied to the Arboreals,
with a not so veiled, veiled threat of permanent forest enemy status?

Apparantly I am classed along with Exterminators who not only kill all
plantlife but destroy a forestal rooms very basic ability to grow. I'm
also classed along with people who burn forests and set fires with the
intent to destroy.

The only thing I'm here to destroy is tasteless attempts at
powerslinging that the forest councils try to do to me, to YOU and to
everyone who calls themselves a merchant and has the audacity to sell a
plant to someone. You MUST Sell as they tell you you can sell you may
TOO be classed as a life destroyer as I have been.

I'm told that if I dont rescind my ever so popular pricing and stop
underselling the councils, (gee they hate that underselling thing, you
see. Its not the selling of the plants, its the underselling.. so its ok
to pick the plants, its ok to sell the plants.. but you can't give them
away nor sell them under what THEY Think is fair.) then they're going to
forest enemy me and try to trap me into Kinsarmar. Lets keep in mind I"m
not the ones who pick the plants I'm just the one providing these
necessary healing agents to the people of the lands who ask me for them.
Yet.. I'm a threat to the forest.

I dont understand for the life of me, how the hell I can be classed as a
threat to the forest. If I get an order I dont have enough plants to
supply I call on one of my many suppliers and put in an order to
purchase what I need. They sell to me and then I turn around and sell to
others. I dont mind taking the loss if I need to because I'm here to
fight, and it appears I'm like the only one doing it, fighting for the
freedom to choose. Let me give you a small bit of history as to where my
animosity comes from.

When the Hunters formed under the leadership of Rivaidan one of the
first things we agreed on straight across the board was the freedom to
choose. We didn't want to make a bunch of laws governing what everyone
did. We didn't want to make a bunch of strings and requirements, turning
us into a gang of stringpuppets, rather than a free fighters for the
betterment of the Forest. I dont think anything of the sort was ever
achieved, as now you have nothing but two guilds who are bent to the
will of a few in power and those with the power to dicatate with so much
considering how every single one of you out there are enslaved by your
need for elixers, salves and herbs. So what do we do? Allow them to
manipulate everyone and do as they say, or do we step in to do something
about it. I tried but I'm being threatened with forest enemy status, so
I'll do this much.

----------- I will leave it to the people. Message me, Post in public
news your opinion, message the leaders of the councils, or message the
city leaders who allow the shops of their cities to be manhandled by the
leaders of the forest. I'll give it 6 months. In 6 months time when you
as the people of the land tell me what you want and I have tallied your
votes, you and I and the forest councils will all know whether I will
bend to their will and stop selling at my reduced rates to you citizens.

Good Luck and may the Freedom and Democracy of the Lands touch you, if
only for a moment.
Morgie

Penned by my hand on the 10th of Ultio, in the year 413 AD.