Need to learn how to Rabblerouse for fun and profit!

By Brother Zahariel, in Dark Heresy

In the DH campaign I'm currently participating in, I play a 'fairly' radical cleric( penitent background redemptionist-> forsaken priest, semi-oblationist view point). And between all those views he has no qualms about sacrificing others to make sure the enemies of the Imperium die before he does. But through roleplaying he is also rapidly becoming the party's face and social interaction. and based on those skills and view points one of the other players got in the idea of using me to raise mobs for cannonfodder and/or distraction purposes. Minor problem is the character doesn't lie, except by omission. So I'm trying to come up with various 'canned' speeches for inciting various groups against one another, but having trouble comming up with any.

Brothers and Sisters,

Long has (INSERT TARGET HERE) (Held us down/offended/usurped/disgraced) us with their (INSERT STEREOTYPE HERE). I say NO MORE! Let us deliver them the justice they so richly deserve, AS THE EMPEROR DEMANDS! No longer shall they (SEE ABOVE) in their (INSERT LOCATION OF TARGET HERE). Take up your guns, my brothers, and ready your knives! Bring the flames of redemption with you, that we might BURN their TAINT from our HOMES!

Lead the mob to destination, Step 2 here, Profit!

Put them a sense of guilt in them; they leave a unchecked minor trouble or social habit go for so long, and oh-my-God-Emperor, it will destroy us all covertly. might as well purge the ones responsible (who just happen to be whoever you're after) and lucky them YOU are there to lead the flock to salvation throught destruction.

There's also the ye olde preacher tales form the 1900s, about purging Satan/Chaos Gods from the people's home as he sneakly enters people's places via alchohol/gambling/drugs/anything fun. Get a few people, go door to door, and get people (or use force) to storm into houses and burn the vile influence of chaos on a public square for all to see what happens to those who accept wickedness. Since everyone's a good lil' Emprah fearing mook, more and more will join the purging, and then snowball all over the place.

EDIT: Fenrisnorth's got a good mad lib speech! And it's pretty much all the gullible mooks need to get fired up (and promise of swift justice if they don't)

Skill in Perform: Orator would be a quick-and-easy way to determine your ability to sway crowds.

@OP

In the DH campaign I'm currently participating in, I play a 'fairly' radical cleric( penitent background redemptionist-> forsaken priest, semi-oblationist view point).

That's certainly an odd combination... I take it you pretty much ignore the actual Redemptionist creed and only pretend to adhere to it?

Didn't BoM even have a section about raising and leading an ad-hoc Frateris Militia? It sounded pretty neat, especially the idea that a small band can quickly grow into an all-out firestorm that consumes entire districts or cities.

As the saying goes: "One man can start a landslide with the casting of a single pebble." (Eccl. Deacis IX, Codex SoB 2nd Ed.)

Concerning the actual wording of the speech, I think there's plenty of inspirational material, both in fiction as well as in the real world. You could refer to movies (Kingdom of Heaven is one that comes to mind) or take a look at transcripts of actual clerical speeches, such as Pope Urban's call for the First Crusade.

"The Emperor wills it!"

Cifer said:

@OP

In the DH campaign I'm currently participating in, I play a 'fairly' radical cleric( penitent background redemptionist-> forsaken priest, semi-oblationist view point).

That's certainly an odd combination... I take it you pretty much ignore the actual Redemptionist creed and only pretend to adhere to it?

He found out he was being taught heresy and turned in the cult he was apart of, he turned them in, and after being judged 'pure' his self-loathing and the Inquistor that judged him lead him to the Redemptionist camp, but after being exposed to the rest of the PC's, and our misadventures he's come to accept that he is already damned and is willing to almost anything to take out the Emperor's enemies before he goes. So its not really ignore's the redemptionist creed but has 'trascended' it if you will. He's cut his ties with the group.

I started off with him trying to adhere to the creed, but when introduced into the group in the middle of 'tattered fates' with no gear to my name and forced to rely on a group of radical pc's to survive, he suffered a mental break, thats caused him to shift this way.'

Step #1: Speak of broad, generic things that are wrong in the world "Have you ever wondered why this hive is so full of suffering, disease and dangers?"

Step #2: Make sure they don't blame the Emperor "I'm sure you have and let me tell you a secret: This is not the way the immortal Emperor would want."

Step #3: Promise change "Infact, Emperor weeps on his Golden Throne, witnessing how his loyal subjects suffer in these terrible conditions. After all, he is the Savior of Mankind and once his will is fully implemented mankind will suffer no more."

Step #4: Go back to the bad thingies "But why then all the suffering? Why the children dying of plague? Why the ghoul-gangs, hunting our loved ones at nights?"

Step #5: Blame everyone "I tell you this: All of the suffering is because we have stepped away from the true path that leads to Emperors light."

Step #6: Blame someone specifically "You can see the sins everywhere around you, but the most obvious ones are the terrible sins committed by the Merchant-Guild of Bakers. We all suffer because of their sins."

Step #7: Specify the blame "Now hasn't bakers dozen always been 13 loafs of bread? And hasn't that always been for a very good reason? Now tell me why do the Bakers sell their loafs in lots of 10 now?"

Step #8: Implicate Treason and Heresy "Why would Bakers not attend to the sacred number of 13 in their boxes, but instead pack bread in lots of 10? Is it to confuse the food-counters of Administratum? Or maybe to confuse us of the real price of the bread they sell? And, moreover, WHERE do these uncounted loafs and coins go? Whose purpose is financed by these ill-gained profits?"

Step #9: Propose a simple solution that leads to riot "Now, do you know what Emperor would do if he was here? Yes, thats right. He would march straight to the Bakers Guild and demand for answers. Yes, thats what HE would do. Infact, that is what he would want YOU to do also. March straight up to the Bakers Guild and expose their rotten, corrupt treason for all to see!"

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Excellent speech. Apart from being a good example it also made me grin. :D