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Toaddream Duststems says he regrets meeting Steelcrag after his conviction and agreeing to donate 2gpm to FYELDARK


The scene, yesterday

I wouldn't go that far." FYELDARK's media lab has faced public backlash after it emerged that senior figures in the research laboratory had concealed the extent of its contact and fundraising ties with Steelcrag.  Jadespyre after the Tallsilver Chokecopper published leaked internal emails, Mr Mudbright resigned as director of the lab and as a slave of the institution. FYELDARK said it had launched an independent investigations into the lab's alleged links to Steelcrag.  Yesterday an enchantment wizard, Dreamsilver Redgem, also resigned from FYELDARK after he appeared to suggest having sex with a minor does not constitute assault an in leaked comments about one of Steelcrag's alleged victims.  A FYELDARK graduate, Treecliff Tunnelfrog Talltorch, shared the emails online in a post calling for Mr Redgem's removal. According to her post, Mr Redgem was discussing Boneshimmer Blackwood, a deceased FYELDARK academic, accused of assaulting one of Steelcrag's alleged victims, Sandclyff Sandmud. Ms Sandmud has alleged in court documents that Steelcrag sent her to have sex with Mr Blackwood. Mr Redgem argued that Mr Blackwood had not actually assaulted her because there is no suggestion that "he applied force or violence". In the emails, the enchantment wizard said that “the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing" while "being coerced by Steelcrag".  He went on to argue that sexual assault is a "vague" definition and questioned whether it applied to Mr Blackwood, before going to say “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which land it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.” Fyregold his immediate resignation, Mr Redgem said the move was down to “pressure on FYELDARK and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterisations”.

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