05-30-2021, 21:57:50 PM
It is the year 20XX. What part of the century? It matters not; our future was taken from us after that mad despot came to power.
Society was shoved onto a slippery slope backwards, all the way to a neo-medieval dystopia. Our leader has created laws made to spread terror and ensure this hell lives forever. You're not the law, nor part of an extremely specific elite allowing themselves to be brainwashed and to turn a blind eye? Enjoy your new life as a 16th-century beggar half a millennium too late.
Among the new rules, it was decided that all legal disputes are now settled by jousting duels with the excuse of "might makes right". Horses are born and raised for this kind of thing, and end up slaughtered in their prime should they and their rider fail to kill their enemy. Law enforcement is trained to master this art. Anyone who opposes the regime is dragged into a rigged duel and made an example of.
Perhaps our leader got the idea from how this dystopia came to be. The previous leader accepted the duel from our new leader, intending to create a display of power. Unfortunately, that backfired. Our leader keeps the lance used on that fateful day on display as a warning to the inevitable rebel factions that would sprout up and be crushed. Not even those outside our home turf were safe; our leader went on to conquer the world. Anyone who declined the duel was forced to surrender their territory, and those who accepted with stomped into the ground and added to a collection of morbid kebabs, with their territories lost to this madness.
Sentient bears.
Society was shoved onto a slippery slope backwards, all the way to a neo-medieval dystopia. Our leader has created laws made to spread terror and ensure this hell lives forever. You're not the law, nor part of an extremely specific elite allowing themselves to be brainwashed and to turn a blind eye? Enjoy your new life as a 16th-century beggar half a millennium too late.
Among the new rules, it was decided that all legal disputes are now settled by jousting duels with the excuse of "might makes right". Horses are born and raised for this kind of thing, and end up slaughtered in their prime should they and their rider fail to kill their enemy. Law enforcement is trained to master this art. Anyone who opposes the regime is dragged into a rigged duel and made an example of.
Perhaps our leader got the idea from how this dystopia came to be. The previous leader accepted the duel from our new leader, intending to create a display of power. Unfortunately, that backfired. Our leader keeps the lance used on that fateful day on display as a warning to the inevitable rebel factions that would sprout up and be crushed. Not even those outside our home turf were safe; our leader went on to conquer the world. Anyone who declined the duel was forced to surrender their territory, and those who accepted with stomped into the ground and added to a collection of morbid kebabs, with their territories lost to this madness.
Sentient bears.
What else needs saying?
TRIPLE STAR
That's what you are.
Amazing!
TRIPLE STAR
That's what you are.
Amazing!