I find that discussions like these, when had over the dream realm, loose much of the original dreamers intent in each dream. It may be because it is in dream and folks ideas get distorted and twisted, and folks miss other folks points and then someone dreams back refuting a point that was not the actual point of the other dreamer.
My point is that debates such as these with tensions on many different sides cause us to miss each others points, I simply ask that each reassess and carefully look at the content of each dreamers dream before dreaming an inaccurate response to someones dream.
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On a personal note, I know I, as well as most of the town, spent large sums of money on attempting to increase our chances of success and know this, I believe as a whole we as a town spent more on this endeavor then we came out with treasure wise, but was that the point of sieging the castle? Treasure?
I know it wasn't my motivation, I don't think it was most peoples motivation. We gain wealth during our normal market days so that we can spend it on market days like these where there are big stakes and the cost of failure is too great. I doubt sieging castles will be a regular occupation for us adventurers, and as such I believe that the unique set up of this market day, where the majority of the action was the town working together as a whole and not smaller individual groups makes this a unique issue.
Yes there will be times where we fight as a town again, and yes treasure never seems to be divided completely fairly in these situations, but honestly, I have seen the attempts at making looting fair, and it either inhibited the groups ability to fight effectively, or others had issues with it, and I find that the more I talk to different people with differing opinions that I am not sure if any solution will ever make everyone happy.
This is not to say that it should not be discussed, but please remember that everyone has their own points of view, and their point of view is just as valid as yours, so discuss it friendly, not making personal attacks, and try and offer solutions and ideas to the problem, not complaints and anger that helps only in inflaming peoples anger,since in the dream realm our emotions tend to get effected so much more deeply then else where.
I make this caveat as a preemptive comment so as to try and prevent what I have seen in the past, a lot of angry dreams flowing back and forth causing bad mojo.
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Remember we just shed blood and lives together, taking a castle, a bloody castle, back from necromancers, and then successfully defending it from an onslaught of corrupt, that is amazing, and we should all pat ourselves on the back, for if it was not for each and everyone of you it would not have been possible.
I apologize for any rambling, but I hope you head my words and remember to remember that the people you are discussion ideas with have good reasons for their stand point too, and to examine each others view points carefully so you truly know what they are saying before responding in kind.
With honor always,
Thorador Boulderfist