King Reprisal Doctrine Of Rancor

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Rancor wasn’t a place where I’d take my kids, nope! Not even when they were older, in fact, if I ever heard that one of my children even stepped foot 10 ft. from the wall I’d call the authorities just to advance the wall and to retrieve my child in my place. The town was that malice. Why? Might you ask, well the town, which used to be a mighty kingdom, was now in total anarchy; there was not a single law! The people there were FILLED with indignation! Once I heard that they were incapable of making any type of dessert because the overwhelming bitterness of the people effect their sugar! Although this is a non intelligence saying, the town was an awful place to be.

The once great place’s former king, King Ductile XIV of the Lissome
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The rules read as follows:

Reprisal Doctrine

It is a decree from your king reprisal that every wrong action done towards a fellow townsperson is to be revenged by the victim in the case, the terms of the punishment shall be reviewed by the king but decided by you.

– King Reprisal, March 1

As the Reprisal Doctrine was put into place, not even 10 minutes after it was posted was it tested. Mr. Tact Ful was walking along the street eating a bag of chips when Mr. Jester, an old friend of his, came by and took a chip from him! Mr. Tact Ful was in COMPLETE distress for, he had not given Mr. Jester permission to take a chip. Mr. Tact Ful wanted revenge; and revenge is exactly what he would get. Running to the castle, Mr. Tact Ful went straight to the king and told what had taken place and his want for revenge. The king then summoned Mr. Jester to have him testify. Testify has he did, he didn’t win and Mr. Tact Ful was called to say the punishment and he said “he is to have his tongue removed so he'll never be able to eat chips again!” and as the doctrine stated it was so. The people then went in an uproar for the was a foolish reason for revenge so the king had to make it clear with revision to the
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Moreover the people still loved this doctrine because it spoke to their desire for revenge.

The town life was going like it did for about another week until a whole family, the jesters, came into the castle with an odd revenge request… they wanted revenge on Mr. Tact Ful for offending the head of their household in public, and taking away his tongue. This was a different offer because the revenge wasn’t there own to take yet, nonetheless the king granted. Which caused another uproar, “it wasn’t their revenge to take!” Said Mr. Tact Ful so the king yet again changed the Reprisal doctrine

Reprisal Doctrine

It is a decree from your king reprisal that every wrong action done towards a fellow townsperson is to be revenged by the victim in the case, the terms of the punishment shall be reviewed by the king but decided by you

* This includes revenge for the foolish and serious alike.

* The revenge can be transferred if the person is offended buy what happened to the victim

-King Reprisal, March

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