Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-24994749-20140725033635

I have to wonder, Roman mentions everyone "running scared! (..) camping out at every corner, Dust prices through the roof."

Depending on the laws regulating the possession of weapons, could civilians in Vale start to try to arm themselves? I mean, my personal experience is that, when a product starts to scarce, people will want more of it for the times where there none of it left, so the people sell the product rise the prices to take maximum advantage of the situation.

So, with the police failing to prevent the robberies or finding the responsible, people could grow more prone to take justice in their own hands as they no longer trust the police to be able to keep them safe. Then, if they release Grimm in town, people will loose faith in hunters to protect them.

And the murders of faunus who are former members of the White Fang might contribute to it in two ways:

If it becomes public the victims were ex-White Fang members:

- people will grow paranoid that any faunus out there could be a White Fang member, which would lead to increased racial violence between humans and faunus.

- Faunus who oppose the White Fang's violent tactics and support pacific manifestations might coward down and either shut up or join in the violent measures out of fear of being added to the hit list.

If it doesn't become public they were former White Fang members:

- Faunus will likely find out either way so, same as above. If they don't, they might grow a fear of "hate murders" which won't help the human-faunus social tension either and might prompt more faunus to join the lines of the White Fang.

- people will grow an even worst distrust in the polices' ability to keep them safe, justice by ones own hand will grow.