Lord God Investigator

While the construction of the village base area is being implemented steadily, the Demon Shadow Company of the Bredero Theater Company in Ascaltra City has released the latest Demon Shadow disc.

This time, the six-person council, who had learned well, reviewed the demon drama to prevent it from containing prohibited content and damaging Amn's stable and harmonious situation.

The title of this ghost drama is "Golden City Orphan", which tells the story of a wandering orphan in the city of Ascatla, the capital of gold coins.

The protagonist, Oliver Test, is an orphan who was born in a workhouse run by the Lathander Church. In this orphanage, which is called the Lord of the Morning and claims to use gold coins offered by believers for charity, the priests are rich. The orphans were starving and tortured.

Priests often abuse orphans on the grounds of corruption. Even when the protagonist Oliver wants to ask for an extra bowl of porridge from the visiting pastor, he is accused of being "greedy" and "lazy."

This orphanage is nothing more than a facade for the Lathander Church, allowing believers to think that their donations are taken from and used by the people.

When the abused orphans die, they are secretly buried in the backyard of the orphanage. As time goes by, the ghosts of the children linger there at night, complaining of their grievances.

However, the solution for the priests of Lathander is to summon divine power to purify and completely wipe out these wronged souls!

From the perspective of the good camp, the undead are all evil, and being wiped out by divine power is an act of justice!

After Oliver escaped from the cannibal-like orphanage, he became a servant boy of a down-and-out aristocratic family. This aristocratic family once had a glorious history, but it was all spent due to the absurd laziness of the male owner and the extravagant spending of the female owner. An ancestral property, they only recruited Oliver because this orphan didn't need commissions and could work with food.

Oliver couldn't bear the abuse and beatings, so he escaped, but unexpectedly he stumbled into the shadow thief's den.

Fagin, the little leader of the shadow thief's den, tried every means to train Oliver as a pickpocket for him to drive.

When Oliver took to the streets with his fellow thieves "Smartboy" and Bates, he was mistakenly thought that he had stolen a handkerchief from a merchant named Brownlow and was arrested by the Amn guards...

This play is made by Luo Feng by splicing Dickens's "Oliver Twist" and Zhang Leping's "The Wanderings of San Mao". The theme of the story abandons the "benevolence" and "good deeds are rewarded" of "Oliver Twist". I prefer the description of the living conditions of the poor people in Faerun under the oppression of imperialism and feudalism in "The Wanderings of Sanmao".

This drama retains the female thief Nancy from "Oliver Twist". She has the same origin as Oliver. She was an orphan who lost her parents and lived in the Lathander Orphanage. She was played by the priests since she was a child and then sold to villains and criminals to suffer. suffering. It was she who saw little Oliver, who had a similar life experience to her own, that she resolutely stood up to protect him.

Nancy has a tragic fate, but she has the quality of pure water. She wanders between good and evil, but her humanity has never been lost. It is with her help that Oliver saves the day and finally escapes from the shadow thief's den.

After leaving the Shadow Thieves Guild, Oliver did not experience a series of fairy tale-like coincidences like in "Oliver Twist". He finally found out his life experience and inherited a huge inheritance, continuing the story of "Sanmao Wandering".

In this city of gold coins, a city so rich that the outside world thinks its floor tiles are paved with gold, this "city of the best" where the temples of gods are so densely lined that it seems like a "rental zone" was opened up, the wandering boy Oliver embarks on a journey. The scene is both laughable and ironic, a wandering journey with black humor in the misery.

The ending of the story is open-ended. Oliver did not get a happy ending, nor did he get a tragic ending. His wandering continues, and he does not know how long it will last.

"Orphans of Jindu" was banned from screening by a vote of four to two by the six-member jury.

The temple district representatives, noble representatives, masked mage representatives and shadow thief representatives voted against.

The support of business representatives and civilian representatives could not save the defeat, and this play became the first Bredreau Theater production banned in Amn.

Before Amn's official ban on screenings was announced, the magic video discs of "Orphans of Jindu" had already been sold to the magic shadow merchants. Luo Feng had long expected that the show would definitely be banned, and had already sold it at a price lower than At such a low cost, half of the stock Magic DVDs were sold and half were given away.

In order to support underground black cinemas, Luo Feng also sent out a large number of pocket versions of "Light and Shadow Magic Boxes" that can be projected on small screens.

In the continent of Faerûn, there is a law that is not written in the code, and that is: "As long as you are not caught, it is not illegal." Thanks to the medieval level of criminal investigation capabilities, criminals on the continent of Faerûn have been arrested. Those caught are far less than those not caught.

The Shadow Merchants don't care what the council, nobles, and priests think. They know that this show will definitely be as popular with the common people as the last "Lathander Temple" and make a lot of money, not to mention this time the Magic Crystal Disk The price is lower than the cost price, and the disc comes with a pocket version of the "Light and Shadow Magic Box".

This kind of business is risky, but can the risk be higher than going to the Underdark to sell elven slaves or going to the Abyss to sell souls?

People who don’t do profitable business because the risks are slightly higher are not worthy of being businessmen at all!

An underground cinema in Askatra City has also been established, just below the temple area, and can be reached by walking through a secret door from the sewer.

The destroyed base of the Blind Cult, the secret camp of the Mind Flayers and the laboratory of the evil wizard Mekris in the sewers are now underground cinemas invested and established by the Bredlow Theater Company, where the public can watch movies for free.

The ban on screenings issued by the Six-member Council of Amn had no effect at all. Almost everyone in the city of Askatra watched "The Orphan of Jindu", and even some nobles used their private "Magic Box of Light and Shadow" I watched it secretly. After all, the gimmick of banning films has greater appeal to the audience.

Helen, the chosen one of the God of Love, also secretly watched this drama. She was so moved that she couldn't stop crying. She thought this drama was very interesting. She was very heartbroken after watching it. She also really liked the drama in the drama where someone comes from a miserable background but still maintains a heart. A kind-hearted, cute and well-educated orphan protagonist.

But she also believed that the show should not blaspheme Lathander, the Lord of the Dawn, and satirize the noble and elegant nobles. Her conflicting feelings made her unable to evaluate the show again.

Some members of the Shadow Thieves Guild even secretly watched the show. These thieves fell into silence after watching it. The experience of the protagonist Oliver made them empathize. Many people who joined the Shadow Thieves Guild were like Oliver, but they never met him. A protector like Nancy.

Common people began to think after watching "Orphans of Jindu".

Why?

Why are there still countless people struggling in poverty in the richest city in the richest country in Faerûn? Why is the temple area adjacent to the slums, separated by a not-wide river? Standing on the temple clock tower You can clearly see every corner of the slums, but the gods are as if they are blind and cannot see.