Checking in with the Iron Guard
Posted by Panic on 10/03/22
On a pleasant spring evening, after hours of mundane searching, the intermittent seizure of contraband, and a haughty exchange between a nobleman and a guard, the Iron Guard checkpoint established near the Seawatch Gate erupted into confusion, shouting, and general disarray. An ensemble of young men and women seeking to enter the city on suspiciously vague grounds, when confronted and questioned by Prince Jasher Thrax, Inquisitor Briseis Morgan, Lady Ann Crovane, and Prince Alantir Valardin, brandished their weapons and viciously lashed out at the sentinels that had surrounded them. After a brief martial exchange, the six rabble-rousers were disarmed, detained and escorted to the jail within the Iron Plaza. Those commoners present at the scene later recount observations of a strange tattoo - "It was an insect!" "No, it was a lion!" "No, it was a sword with spikes!" - and a strange call to some sort of hunt.
This peculiar development comes at a moment when public opinion of the Iron Guard, especially in light of its increased military presence throughout the capital, seems to be split down the middle -- with members of the peerage and merchant class increasingly frustrated by the many personal and economic inconveniences produced by random inspections and temporary detention. Political allies of the organization point to the arrest as evidence that the strategy holds merit and successfully prevented both loss of life and destruction of property.
This peculiar development comes at a moment when public opinion of the Iron Guard, especially in light of its increased military presence throughout the capital, seems to be split down the middle -- with members of the peerage and merchant class increasingly frustrated by the many personal and economic inconveniences produced by random inspections and temporary detention. Political allies of the organization point to the arrest as evidence that the strategy holds merit and successfully prevented both loss of life and destruction of property.