Post by Sire Halfblack on Jul 23, 2010 14:15:21 GMT
What passes for Law and Order in Deci is The Deci Bravos and Sleek Thugs, enforcers for the Council. The best, or rather the worst, of the Deci Bravo’s are called the ‘Sleek’. Dressed (blinged) with a great deal of garish gold and large, cheap gems upon their breasts they drip weapons and view the streets as their own. Anyone that seeks to speak out against the council or indeed the city is beaten, or even killed. They pay for nothing, they do as they please and when the Council wishes the city to kneel it is the Sleek that nail their knees to the hard ground.
Where a Watch would simply fail or be killed the Sleek Thugs have some measure of success in enforcing, if somewhat brutally, the will of the council. Where one would expect a Watchman to take the guilty to a Magistrate the Sleek Thugs settle for one of two judgements, the leniency of a sound beating or the final judgement that is death. It’s hardly a perfect solution but in the face of nothing to keep the citizens in order but in Deci it’s the only one that seems to work. Even Gabriel Drake, one time Covenant of the Empire and once Governor of Deci had to admit that it was the best that could be done in Deci.
Based in the grand Sleek Triumphant in Hightown The Sleek Thugs range across the city, lead by one man and one man only, they answer to no other authority than that of The Baron Throttle, the king’s brother and referred to as, quite simply, The Lord Sleek.
Where a Watch would simply fail or be killed the Sleek Thugs have some measure of success in enforcing, if somewhat brutally, the will of the council. Where one would expect a Watchman to take the guilty to a Magistrate the Sleek Thugs settle for one of two judgements, the leniency of a sound beating or the final judgement that is death. It’s hardly a perfect solution but in the face of nothing to keep the citizens in order but in Deci it’s the only one that seems to work. Even Gabriel Drake, one time Covenant of the Empire and once Governor of Deci had to admit that it was the best that could be done in Deci.
Based in the grand Sleek Triumphant in Hightown The Sleek Thugs range across the city, lead by one man and one man only, they answer to no other authority than that of The Baron Throttle, the king’s brother and referred to as, quite simply, The Lord Sleek.