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APRIL MIRRORBOUND COUNCIL POST
Welcome to the Mirrorbound Council discussion post for the month of April! This is the space to discuss IC concerns from your characters that can be brought to Parliament by members of the Mirrorbound Council. Here are some quick facts!
• Membership in the Mirrorbound Council is open, so if your character is the type to get involved, you're more than welcome to sign up here.
• More information on the Council's history, current members, and motions can be found here.
• Each motion must be cosigned by 3 Council members.
• Each council member can only cosign 1 motion per month.
• As a result, there may be months where not all motions can be raised. In that case, motions will be brought to Parliament in the order of greatest IC support to least IC support.
• To suggest an IC motion, please post to the most appropriate heading below. Make sure to list the name of the character who would suggest it so they get credit!
• To support an IC motion, comment to the motion with either "+1" or some other indication of your character's support. There's no limit on how many motions each character can support, so be sure to check the whole post!
• All characters can suggest and support motions ICly — not just Council members! Consider this post an OOC representation of an open-forum style discussion open to all Mirrorbound. The goal is to get as many people involved as possible, both ICly and OOCly, so don't hesitate to chime in!
• The deadline to submit motions is April 15th. After submissions close, Council members will attach their names to motions and submit them to the mod team by April 25th.
• All OOC ideas and suggestions are welcome as well, so please hit us up!
FINAL MOTIONS LIST | OOC DISCUSSION & BRAINSTORMING
MOTIONS
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
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Motion description: Sokie wants to suggest looking into land expansion for the usage of farmland, for meat animals and vegetable production. No real action as of yet, but more of a census to see how much land may be needed to bring not only a higher quality of life and lower various food prices, but to see what they'd need to sell the surplus in trade in a healthy manner.
This may include looking into the security of established farms, encouraging Wilder expansion, or the use of various workers to make this viable within the next five years.
Again, this motion is to survey and to see if this would be probable for Parliament to invest in the future farming wise, and where. This work may take up to six months or a year, depending on the experts on trade, agriculture, and whoever else the Parliament may call upon during the survey. It is suggested to use the Professors and their students to make this survey, in order to cut down on costs.
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BONDS
RESEARCH
CHARITY & HUMANITIES
Improving Life in the Outer City/Slum
Motion description: Ozymandias is proposing that the leftover funds from what was utilized to support the reconstruction of Mirrorbound and refugee properties be put toward improving the infrastructure and quality of life to the Outer City/Slums. While it is understandable that those residing within the Inner City feel it is not particularly important, with further expeditions, Aefenglom's reach is reaching further and further beyond its limits. Therefore, areas closer to the city ought to be maintained in response/reflection of that. Additionally, a society is perhaps best judged by how its most vulnerable live.
Limits may be set in terms of proximity to the Wall as living on the very edge of the Wilde would be difficult to maintain when it comes to receiving funding for infrastructure. But funding spent on basic living items (e.g., food, clothes, medical needs, etc.) would be available to any living in the Outer City/Slums regardless of proximity.
This fund would perhaps be best supported through a small portion of the taxes paid to the city as well as semi-regular fundraisers and donation drives. Employed Mirrorbound/refugees (or those with businesses) would be expected to have a reasonable/equitable amount of their income to the portion of tax dedicated toward the fund since they do not pay taxes. (Note: Unless I'm wrong about that! Then same rules would apply.) Unemployed individuals (regardless of Mirrorbound/refugee or native status) or individuals who fall below a certain level of income would be exempt until a change in employment/income occurs.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
ET CETERA
FINAL MOTIONS LIST
PENDING MOTIONS
Brief description: 6-12 month survey of arable land for farming with an eye to expanding land for food production and, by extension, lowering food costs.
Link: here
Council members supporting: Sokie Undertown, Asura, Giorno Giovanna
Motion brought by: Ozymandias
Brief description: Improvement of infrastructure and quality of life in the Outer City/slums
Link: here
Council members supporting: Edelgard von Hresvelg, Ozymandias, Daenerys Targaryen
COUNCIL MEMBERS ONLY
Number of Council members needed to support all: 6(/18 total)
Please fill out the form below with which motion your character will support!
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Motion supported: Improvement of Infrastructure and Quality of Life in the Outer City/Slums
Help: Edelgard would speak to people she knows about it and try and drum up support among sympathetic or philanthropic merchants.
Hindrance: Nothing at all!
Anything else? N/A
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Motion supported: His own idea, duh
Help: Ozymandias would use some of what he learned from the previous round of motions in terms of identifying members of Parliament that are more likely to be interested and start there. He would then seek to expand support to other members who may still be inclined, but a little more hesitant, and so on and so forth. He would also likely rub elbows with some of the aristocracy that isn't part of Parliament and seeks some support in other pockets of the population to demonstrate interest exists within the city itself. Most of his efforts would be concentrated on Parliament and aristocracy though. Ozymandias would also make a point to show his own willingness to help with this area of the city with small acts of charity when possible.
Hindrance: Again, similar to last month, while some might be appreciative that he is making the efforts to learn the players, some might have their feathers ruffled by that. There's also such a thing as too charming and it's once again possible that he rubs people the wrong way. Otherwise, he's not doing anything actively to sabotage this.
Anything else? N/A
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Motion supported: Improvement of Infrastructure and Quality of Life in the Outer City/Slums
Help: daenerys often visits the slums to offer work and deliver food from the farmlands, she would most likely make note of conditions and the most pressing issues that could be improved upon. this includes: housing issues, food waste, and health issues.
Hindrance: daenerys has struck deals with the owner of the farmlands she "borrows", lady edre, to stop fully supplying food for the city guard and help distribute food down to the slums. this could have caused issues with deals from higher-ups.
Anything else? dany supports bae
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Motion supported: Hers of course!
Help: A lot of talking to nobility, the university, as well as various professionals. She may have put some feelers out to see if there's survey companies out there, and if they'd be up for the challenge.
Hindrance: She hasn't particularly favored any party, since she doesn't want to burn bridges, including offering any sweetners or bribes.
Anything else? Not at the moment!
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Motion supported: Arable land survey
Help: Networked with other Parliament members, especially those who have a track record of proposing or supporting motions related to resources, farming, and sustainability. Discussed ways in which the land survey might work with said Parliamentarian's long-term efforts. Taken all feedback to Sokie, who proposed and is heading the motion. He has been open about the fact that this will be a study that takes place over a long period and that there may be opportunities for help or profit within the study itself.
Hindrance: It's clear to any decent observer that Giorno's not an expert on farming, although he has thrown himself pretty heavily into learning the nuts and bolts in order to support this motion.
Anything else? N/A
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Motion supported: Arable Land Survey
Help: Asura did his homework and
tracked downcourted any Parliament members, or family of Parliament members, who hold investments in and/or do extensive business with Aefenglom's farming industry. Did some talking (from his own experience, tending to crops and defending the local farmlands from Shades) about how the information gleaned from the survey would help them to not only safeguard their investments, but ensure that they continue to remain profitable in the future.Additionally, Asura sought out the opinions of the farmers themselves, encouraging them to write letters to Parliament about their current needs, and how the survey would shed further light on them. After hand-delivering the letters to Parliament, if any Parliament members expressed interest, Asura arranged for brief lobbying meetings with the farmers who penned their concerns.
Hindrance: None, aside from Asura being his big ol'boisterous self.
Anything else? N/A
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OOC DISCUSSION & BRAINSTORMING
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All of this with the caveat that he won't die on any of these hills, he's just been thinkin' about how cranky Parliament was last month and the importance of building positive regard.
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Obviously we need a party in the budget to do more schmoozing.
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...You know, with a good purpose. Not just partying for the sake of partying!!
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(but also, we need a party)
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If we reach outside the council for a party the Exarch knows some people, so he has some suggestions, but a gamewide network post might be helpful in gaining some IC interest. It's been a while since the Masquerade-- that was like a whole kidnapping ago.
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E.g., he is very very very much for gardens and more park space, especially since they're opportunities to give everyone a little more food security (and make local Fauns a lot happier); what do they know about existing public beautification efforts they can build on? How much of that is generally left to individual citizens to do? If gardens and parks are more a matter of individual or local community effort that traditionally hasn't needed governmental support or oversight, should they even try directly phrasing it as "build more gardens" versus proposing something more within Parliament's remit that happens to have garden-building as a side effect? (As the Exarch is proposing to make them activities in supporting more harmony between monsters and witches, Mirrorbound and natives.)
Tangentially, how much are they (the Mirrorbound, collectively) keeping track of all their efforts to improve the lot of natives? A lot of the Councillors have independent work in those directions on top of their work with Parliament, not to mention all the others (Caren, Leslie, Elliott, Papyrus, etc etc etc) who are devoting considerable amounts of time and energy. While they're all doing remarkably on their own or with what coordination they can manage informally over the watches, could the Council offer more structure and coordination to those efforts? (And maybe, sneakily, get them more noticed by people in Parliament who need favor curried with them?)
OOC, I need to step aside & say that I know people generally do not want any more formality or structure when it comes to "good citizen things my character is doing in the setting," but if that would provide any fun background scaffolding for people to play with, hey!! We could do it.
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So given that, I guess the first step regarding more information about public beautification would be to drop the mods a line, and if that doesn't work I wonder what the next step should be? By extension, I was wondering what people's thoughts are regarding Parliament details in general. It's kind of a fine line to toe between filling in gaps that the mods have indicated they don't have time to fill and stepping on toes.
More specifically regarding this comment (sorry for the ramble), Giorno would icly be very much in favor of recalibrating and crafting motions to cater to the standards of Parliament, at least for the time being. As far as the mechanics of it, it might be good to have it set up as a "monthly contributions" section on this page or something, so that people can drop in what their characters are doing and we can pass it along to the mods to see if such things have any influence on Parliament's feelings towards Mirrorbound. Obviously that's only if the individual player wants to submit, but I know at least a couple of the people you listed have been dropping in on Council posts and might be interested in doing so. Even if it's not a comprehensive list, having something like that might be helpful both ICly and OOCly.
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(And never apologize for rambles; I love and embrace rambles. Bring them to me!!)
I do like that idea--in the theme of the mods' contribution posts toward big plot events!
My addenda to the idea would be two-fold, to try & lighten workload for everyone:
1. With the original players' permission, we could have other people (I'm thinking Council members but certainly anyone interested could also contribute) jot down things that they notice are going on. Only for positive contributions, though, and again only with permission of the player(s) originally threading or plotting the events.
2. If we have someone crazy who wants to act as a scribe (looks at myself, my life, my choices), we could collate those contributions into a shorter list for the mods. Possibly even one that's sorted out by "it supports xyz thing the Council is trying to sell Parliament on," if applicable.
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Beyond that, I think to be able to ask direct questions about like "what is the state of (insert topic here)?" to figure out if a motion is necessary or jives well with what's in place would also be helpful if needed. Avoids characters looking like dummies who don't know how things work, haha.
But obviously these are things to bring to the mods when the world isn't on fire.
Regarding contributions, I think I would go more with Anne's idea of the players of characters getting involved post than having other people trying to keep track. The game is large and that's a lot to do, and teetering into Work rather than Fun Mechanic imo. Players can decide if they feel a character's actions would be significant enough to draw notice, and it can be included when submitting motions as a footnote in addition to how all the Council members are contributing (positively or negatively).
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