The Empire in Crisis!
04-06-2016, 05:44 AM
You are standing in a crowded amphitheater watching a man speak.
"CHESTER THE JESTER would source our water from Lake Raigal. That's right, where lots of deer and lions like to poop! He just doesn't care about aqueducts - AT ALL! He just wants to do everything in the cheapest possible way! I will repair the aqueducts we already have, and keep the pure water flowing from Lake Aruga!
"CHESTER THE JESTER would compromise with the Barbarians at our northern borders - OR with the ones to the South of us! I will never compromise with ANY Barbarians!"
He sounds really angry now. "CHESTER THE JESTER says he will issue new money - but his 'new money' is really just scraps of paper with pretty drawings of flowers on it! I will keep the coins of our noble Empire, which have served us for 700 years!
"A man works as a tax collector for the first forty years of his life! He never does anything else! Then suddenly he inherits a jester mask from his uncle and decides he can run the government! WHO WOULD VOTE FOR SUCH A MAN!
"IF YOU VOTE FOR CHESTER THE JESTER, YOU ARE BETRAYING THE GREAT LEGACY OF OUR NOBLE EMPIRE, IN ITS HOUR OF GREATEST NEED! VOTE FOR ME - AUGANZIUS SCRIABIN - FOR PRIMARY MAGISTRATE AND LORD OF THE SENATE!"
The crowd murmurs to itself. It does not sound convinced.
But first of all, who are you, and why have you come to the Capitol City?
"CHESTER THE JESTER would source our water from Lake Raigal. That's right, where lots of deer and lions like to poop! He just doesn't care about aqueducts - AT ALL! He just wants to do everything in the cheapest possible way! I will repair the aqueducts we already have, and keep the pure water flowing from Lake Aruga!
"CHESTER THE JESTER would compromise with the Barbarians at our northern borders - OR with the ones to the South of us! I will never compromise with ANY Barbarians!"
He sounds really angry now. "CHESTER THE JESTER says he will issue new money - but his 'new money' is really just scraps of paper with pretty drawings of flowers on it! I will keep the coins of our noble Empire, which have served us for 700 years!
"A man works as a tax collector for the first forty years of his life! He never does anything else! Then suddenly he inherits a jester mask from his uncle and decides he can run the government! WHO WOULD VOTE FOR SUCH A MAN!
"IF YOU VOTE FOR CHESTER THE JESTER, YOU ARE BETRAYING THE GREAT LEGACY OF OUR NOBLE EMPIRE, IN ITS HOUR OF GREATEST NEED! VOTE FOR ME - AUGANZIUS SCRIABIN - FOR PRIMARY MAGISTRATE AND LORD OF THE SENATE!"
The crowd murmurs to itself. It does not sound convinced.
But first of all, who are you, and why have you come to the Capitol City?
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