Town Council

[Ransom]

Uhm
Last I checked it was skeletons and banshees running through the town not any "forbidden magick" users. Soooo it's not really solving our walking dead problem. Just making it harder for people to live in town.

[Ransom]

Besides. You're just saying that because you got caught trying to kill people.

[Xiomora]

I'm not mad at all. I confessed to it. I deserve to be punished for my crime and think the council is doing their best job to fit the punishment to the crime. It has been a hard adjustment and I want to start over. Anyone who thinks any differently can bring it up to the council for it is not my decision and is not the point of topic here.

[Ransom]

The council can eat my poo

[Collin Darkwood]

Darkwood, the decision on this matter was made with the town's best interest in mind. Regardless of particular religious beliefs, we must all make sacrifices to see us through. As someone who has worked so hard behind the scenes to bring order to the town, I'm sure you understand.

Oh, don't be so sure.
I've told you where I stand on this. make all the foolish decisions you want. But don't get in my way.
And as far as blood magic and necromancy, you are an idiot, and Ransom is right. If the mages guild can't handle it, get a new mages guild, or one that is willing to do some work.

[Kora]

Drostan please for the love of all that is holy and unholy please calm down and mom will give you a cookie.

[Magnus]

Check your statements before you put them on this board dark wood. The mages guild is not a puppet that you can replace because it does not work for you. We are the collection of mages from the town formed into a formal group to help it when needed. We are not tools to be thrown away when you deem broken.

[Ransom]

Alright, so you’re trying to design a system that works for the “will of the people,” but so far it’s not really working all that great. What you basically have to do is look at your town as a series of scales. You have your mayor/council, your belief systems, and your guilds. And there could very well be more scales than that: two, three, maybe even a hundred! And it’s the job of both people and council to balance these scales in regards to rules and regulations and all the laws in between!

No scale should be severely out of balance, nor weighted to one side. So what is applied to one, in most every case, must be applied to the other.

I’ve compiled a few examples that have been addressed, argued, or neither of either:

All worship is legal/All worship is illegal to balance your laws on religion you have to consider both sides. Elect your priests and priestesses to each designated temple. Those leaders will be in charge of and responsible for their congregations. Attendants to each will be cataloged by those leaders. Not the council. (If one following (dark) is required to be “registered” then all should be. Or none at all.) This allows all beliefs to be equal.


Dangerous magick will be practiced under the guidance of the Mage’s Guild banning magick does not erase the ability to control an element of nature, only makes it illegal and more dangerous. People will still attempt these arts in private and may hurt themselves in the process. Interests in different subjects of magick should not be banned, but encouraged. Under the guidance of experienced mages of course. Any magick can be dangerous, certain ones are just considered more so, or “forbidden” because they have spooky names and that makes people uncomfortable. This more so balances the practice of magic, without outright banning it.


Laws can and will be Amended Every gathering, or perhaps every other, if there is disagreement expressed in laws, a public meeting should be held where those laws of concern can be brought up before the town. If there is a majority in favor of the law, then it stays the same. But if there is not, then the law must be amended to fit the needs of the people. This takes power of creation of regulation from the Mayor and places it more directly in the hands of the town they are created to protect.


Elections may happen at any time If there is concern over a Mayor’s current standing, the town can call to vote. If the majority believes the Mayor is not doing his/her job to the fullest extent of the needs of the people, or he/she has been proven of any number of crimes against those people, he/she can be immediately removed and replaced to a new call of election. This prevents the Mayor from keeping his/her power for too long a term only to wait out a new election. It places elections more seriously in the hands of the people and allows for the removal of a leader before the next election if needed.


Town guard must respond to any concern of a townsfolk at any time unless circumstance deems necessary the task wait (ie. battle or attacks on the town). These can include: civil squabbles, getting cats out of trees, even just walking someone to their cabin at night. No one should be afraid to ask anything of the town’s guard, nor should they be required to pay for their service (that would fall to whoever is chosen to lead). Town guard cannot deny their service to the people and must be held accountable if they refuse aid.


All are innocent until proven guilty/All are guilty until proven innocent All leaders, council, priests and priestesses of their chosen congregations will be held to the same punishments as “lower class” citizens of the town. In that sense, everyone should be held to the same proceedings. Nobles and Peasants alike. This balances your power between class, whereas those with higher standings may more easily be released from crimes without punishment.

That’s about all I got for now. But it sure is a lot to look at! You can’t just post laws without considering consequence. A lot of what has been proposed weighs heavily in favor of those that make the regulations. If you want it for the “will of the people” then make sure the people are included.

I also should mention I took like...half of this from old scrolls I found. But I think most of the people who wrote them are dead now, so it's not plagiarism.

[Ransom]

Being Mayor seems so easy. I could totally do this!

[Gideon]

For someone with so much interest in seeing how the town is run, I haven't seen you trying anything other than on these boards.
it should be plain to say that the election we have coming will change quite a bit of what is in place here, for better, or for worse.

There does in fact need to be a balance in all things, too free? Anarchy. Too restricted? Tyranny. Too Light? Oppressive. Too Dark? Chaotic.

Light worshipers generally do not cause problems, however in the experience of most in town we have seen what happens when dark goes by unchecked. Evil is not something we wish to cultivate here, but a sad necessity. Hence why we have them register, because otherwise they are generally unwelcome in this town. Considering there is an entire order here devoted to their destruction.

I believe the subject of restricted magics has already been discussed enough, so I will skip that.

Laws, laws have been made public, and have been edited several times, I believe now Raynor is working on them again, to make them fair and clear. there has been every chance to look into the laws, they have been made very public, and people have had forums to discuss them with whoever they seem fit. Even council meetings are held publicly at a clear time, so it seems apathy is your enemy here, not government. Changes have been made already because the first draft of the laws were... less than perfect. loopholes found, errors corrected.

Elections happening at any time should be something discussed at our next one, because it could be an effective measure, or a waste of time.

Town guard is an antiquated service, we are all guards of our town, we are all protectors, we are all watchers. Why burden a small few with it when people are already doing it willingly? We have marshals for civil disputes, we have eachother to defend the town, we have friends to walk us to our homes in the dark nights.
creating positions for the sake of creating positions is... redundant.

We know longer recognize nobility here in our town, we have no kings to bow to, no dukes to reprimand us, we are alone in the world. there is only one class of us, and that is those who live here. Punishments will be made regardless of standing, regardless of who you are, a crime will receive a proper punishment, regardless of who they are. However, i like to believe that we are innocent of crimes until proven otherwise, if this wasn't the case it would be horribly easy to frame whoever we wanted for a crime they did not commit.

I hope this clarifies some of your concerns, and I do hope you take a more active role in how this town is run child. perhaps attend the meeting, run for a position, run for mayor. be the one they look to when no one has answers.

And I do hope with everything happening here, that everyone reading this is considering how much their voice can effect our course. We're going to need it.