The Piteous Gate

Tony Ellis · 21 Feb 2006, 23:30 · from 2006-February.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:30:51 -0000
Subject: (urth) The Piteous Gate
Message-ID: <000001c6373e$da2ab5d0$6601a8c0@cthulhu>

Mournings glory wrote:
>If it's illegal to travel via the roads, how exactly are 
>all these people planning to get to where they're going?

And Rob Davies:
>Why have a gate if no one is allowed to use the road to 
>pass through it?

Chris's post - that the law is only enforced now and then - answers both
these points.

Indeed, it could hardly be enforced any other way. Travel is not
forbidden. The law, we are told, simply demands that you travel across
the countryside. You leave the city then get off the road as fast as you
can. Only in this particular instance there was a patrol of uhlans
waiting.

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