Harrow's manifesto

Harrow&#39;s manifesto is an item in Shadowrun: Dragonfall, found during the Feuerstelle run. Reading through it to the end spawns a demon, but is important to help convince Marta to join you.

Transcript
"When I first set out on the path to Free Living, I realized that I'd have to rethink all of my earlier assumptions about life. I'd have to question my own values and beliefs, and I'd need the strength to trust in the answers that came to me.

The prospect was daunting, but it was also necessary. The road to true Freedom is paved with unanswered questions.

After all, you can't learn to be free from a book. The answers won't come from a bible, an instruction manual, or a code of conduct. If you don't learn that, you'll never break your chains.

The path to true Freedom is one that each of us must walk on his - or her – own.

What makes life worth living? What in life is truly valuable, and what is the dross that can be burned away?

I spent weeks dissecting every aspect of my life to find the answers to these questions. Slowly, agonizingly, I pared down the list until only four items remained.

These four items became the cornerstones of my new philosophy, and the basis for everything that Feuerstelle stands for.

SELF-DETERMINATION. The second cornerstone. Each of us must be his or her own shepherd - no more Gods and no more Kings.

Your life is your own. Lash out against anyone or anything that tries to treat you like property. An assault on your freedom is an assault on your whole being, and it must be met with an equally ferocious response.

CHARITY. The third cornerstone. A miserly life is an empty life. If each of us is his or her own Master, then nobody should live as a serf.

By helping others along the path to enlightenment, so do we enrich our own lives.

PASSION. The final cornerstone. Complacency is poison - be wary of it. Ambition is the key to a fulfilling life.

Don't settle for What Is... if you do, you abandon What Could Be.

''Leafing through to the middle of the book, you find a section dedicated to Harrow's "Rules of Living."

BE FREE. Be free in all things, and experience that freedom with your whole being - body, mind, and spirit.

Discard the oppressive traditions of modesty and shame that you've been indoctrinated with since birth - the Free Thinker has no use for them.

Your body is a source of pride, of pleasure, and of succor, for yourself and for others. Enjoy it, and share that joy freely with those who desire it.

BE SELFISH. Don't enslave yourself to others at the expense of your own happiness. Take what you want, and do so unashamedly.

Our desires are an important part of what makes us human. Society has trained us to hide that part of ourselves from the world, but the Free Living person doesn't cower in the shadows. Own your desires, and rejoice in them.

Selflessness is ultimately dishonest, and dishonesty has no place in a free society.

SHOW REVERENCE. The Free Living person understands that the only true governance in this world is the Law of Nature, and that in Nature, there is a Hierarchy.

The rabbit doesn't question the wolf. The mouse does not wonder why it must run from the cat. They *do* because they *must.* Their survival depends on it.

As it is in Nature, so it is at Feuerstelle. Know your place in the food chain, and understand the mechanisms by which you can better yourself.

''You leaf forward and find that there are at least twenty more pages' worth of rules. Each is worded vaguely enough to have multiple interpretations."

''The final pages of the manifesto devolve into semicohesive rants about anarchy, social Darwinism, free love, and the Horned God.

''You've seen this kind of thing before: Harrow's "philosophy" is collapsing under its own weight. Unfortunately, none of his cultists seem to have caught on to that fact."