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It is with heavy heart and mind that we must admit that this City is sick. Would that we could claim this sickness as akin to a cancer, a dementia, or some other unpredictable and incurable malady. In that case we could wring our hands and ask some higher power what we did to to deserve this, we could blame the world, blame whatever Gods we hold dear, and blame anyone but ourselves.
Yet this is not the case. We did see this coming, we could have done something earlier, and now we reap this bitter harvest.
This is not a cancer, it is an infection. We saw the wound, and we believed that our citizens could handle it. As the edges reddened, we told ourselves it was a passing issue, a transient clash of ideals. A momentary phase in society. As our people began to disengage from their productive lives, as crime began to rise, and the good man was increasingly corrupted by the vilest dregs still able to call themselves human- We covered the wound up with bandages, and tried to forget the aching pain of division among us.
Yet hiding the wound merely allowed it fester in silence. Now the infection is spreading. Institutions that were once revered for their respect for society have become corrupt. The crime of the underbelly has risen, boiling up into new power structures that are now to entrenched to merely excise. The bandage we had made is soaked with the pus of lawlessness and crime, and we ourselves are forced to use the fullest extent of the law in order to cut away the damaged tissue.
One would think our people would understand. This infection will destroy this city if it is not removed, and though we must make strange bedfellows in our war, it is only to turn the infection against itself. Yet they do not. The cry injustice as we crack down on those propagating the disease, they fight to keep the wound hidden, for in there mind it is better to endure the pain they have always known than to allow us to do what must be done to save them- to heal them all. We understand this panic, it is the same panic that is present whenever the established order of things is upset, when security ceases to exist, when all that was previously protected by the laws of man is suddenly placed at the mercy of brutal, unreasoning force. It is a blind panic that pushes away the only force that can save it. It is the panic of a wounded animal in a trap, and we must stand fast and ignore the cries for mercy in order to serve the greater good.
The surgeon's blade must cut into healthy tissue in order to be sure that the rot is fully removed. We recognize that innocent lives may get caught up in our work, and though each life lost pains us, we must recognize that there is no civilization without sacrifice.
We will reestablish Justice, Reason, and the Rule of Law.
Whatever the cost.
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You will now have three special turns of card designing before the game begins. On each of these special turns, you can manipulate your deck freely (instead of a single one-to-many swap) and you can design/revise two cards.
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