Last week the warforged workers in the Cogs led a riot against their employers, refusing to work and causing a great deal of property damage. The rioters claimed to be protesting, with the goal of obtaining better pay.
Why is it, then, that they chose to accomplish this via wholesale looting and destruction of property? Here at the Voice of Breland, we fully support the peoples right to peaceful protest, but a line has to be drawn at widespread disruption, and we definitely cannot condone the destruction of property. Those buildings are owned by someone, no doubt proud Brelish patriots, who will now be out of pocket dealing with repairs.
According to our sources, the rioters were also joined by members of the Clifftop Adventurer's Guild and members of the monstrous crime syndicate known as Daask. Clifftop are a gang of trumped up mercenaries, so we have to ask, who paid them to do this? Follow the money, people of Breland, and you'll likely discover that it's all connected. Could the Crown be funding this unrest against the honest business owners of Breland?
Warforged don't require food, drink, or sleep. Most people are paid as they are because of necessary expenses, we need these things to survive and the 'forged don't. These "protests" were led by greed, as evidenced by the looting. Indeed, what interest do goblins and other monsters have in the rights of the warforged? They saw a group looting local businesses and they joined in.
One business owner, who has chosen to remain anonymous, was even threatened by a two-headed representative of Daask. Not content to simply loot and pillage, these "protesters" also resorted to extortion. Where will it end?
Several of the businesses in the Cogs have bent to the pressure and granted some of these thugs their demands. Clearly they believe it will somehow assuage the crowd, but we all know this will only encourage further rioting. The greedy always want more.
