I have decided to extend the 72 hour time limit, let's give it a week or so for campaigning. Does that sound good?2. Campaigning
The Ransenari Tynwald election is conducted via proportional representation with each party submitting a party list.
There's two possible activities in this stage:
- Only residents of Ransenar and members of the Imperial Government can participate in this activity - residents of Ransenar or members of the Imperial Government (Kaiser, Steward, Arbriter, member of the IAC or Landsraad) can endorse a particular political party or movement. Its effects will be determined via coin toss. The toss will decide if the endorsement helped boost the political party (heads for yes, tails for no). If the endorsement helped, then a number randomizer (between 1 and 5) will determine by how much. Each endorsement will be capped at 5% poll boost. No endorsement will have a negative effect on any political party. The Count of Ransenar cannot and will not make any endorsements.
- Anyone who created a political party for the first stage can participate in this activity: You may post your ideas to win votes for your political party. Be creative.
This stage will last 72 hours from the end of stage 1.
Round 2: Campaigning
Moderators: Hartmut Aldric, (Shireroth) Steward, (Shireroth) Kaiser, (Shireroth) Duke of Goldshire
Round 2: Campaigning
- Stellus Yastreb
- Looney Tune
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Re: Round 2: Campaigning
Right, let's get some mood music up in this shit:
Agrarian Party of Ransenar
First all-Ransenari Congress
Quercus Hare's Barn, Upper Pitiful Mewing
(out of Tyrelwynn on the Cabbagefall road - do a right at Loki's Stack and follow for twelve miles until you reach three poplars on a hill. If you get to that, you have gone too far. Turn around and go about four miles back on yourself until you pass through a hamlet with a cottage that has nine yellow rose bushes outside. The roses are at the back so you will need to look for the leaning larch opposite if you want to find the actual cottage. The old lady inside is called Alejie, call her by name or she will not answer. She will direct you to a man called Herbert Sharesmith, and he will take you to Quercus Hare's farm. Simple!)
Party functionaries in attendance
Mo'lluk Hawthorne (Chairman)
Sherryn Feybane (Treasurer)
Sylvester Miller (Ale Procurement Officer)
Gerald Witless (Chief Cudgel)
Paracelsus Bloodlett
Rowan Gyngersnapp
Algernon Quixyson
Victor The Bastard Foundling Of Arsecrack Hill (birth certificate name - more informally known as "Vic")
Transcent Cunnerman
Sunblest Whitear
Keith Forrester
Melvynn Proctor
Estimated party member and general public attendance
Couple of hundred
***
Minutes (verbatim)
*informal introductory session and opening of ale - 1 hour 18 minutes*
Gerald Witless:
Alright you ruddy-rumped arseholes, settle down! As much as I'd like ta be spendin' tha whole day knockin' back flagons o' Cabbagefall Glory, we gots business to attend to afore we all gets too merry! In case any o' you scrotes wandered in 'ere by accident, this is tha first all-Ransenari Congress o' the Agrarian Party! Now... I'm sure we's all 'appy ta see Chairman Hawthorne out tha slammer, so give the man 'hand!
*standing ovation and ale toasts - 12 minutes*
Mo'lluk Hawthorne:
Thankin' ye all... Gods bless ye! Now then... By tha good grace of Milord the Count and his magistrates, ye'll all know that I got set free from tha Tyrelwynn Gaol recently. But... it were done on a condition! That I stopped the likes o' smashin' up them Daemonspawn threshin' machines and all them other contraptions what puts the good honest Ransenari outta work, and go after my ends by *open finger quote* legitimate means! *close finger quote* Ahn I'll have you know them buggers is keepin' a close eye on me, so tha time has come that we took our cause to tha Tynwald, 'cause if we don't look after the interests o' tha Ransenari workin' man, then what bugger will? Make no mistake my friends, I gots assembled in this 'ere barn a good few pals o' mine what fears tha Gods and was born with hearts 'o gold! There ain't been a more trustworthy, more virtuous conference o' souls under one roof since tha Council o' Paladins met in the days o' Duke Zary! And fock me, that was a long time ago. But now our time has come, dear friends, ahn history awaits us!
*applause - 45 seconds*
Mo'lluk Hawthorne:
Oi Silvester! *taps tankard* I ain't sayin' another word till this thing's topped up. Keep up, lad!
*Silvester Miller refills Hawthorne's tankard*
Mo'lluk Hawthorne:
Better. Now then, dear friends! Time's as 'appen that ye look at all of us gathered in this 'ere barn, floatin' tha issues o' tha day on a river of ale, like was always so, and ye might fool yerself into thinkin that no bugger could ever seek to change this way o' life. But I gots a nasty surprise for ya! There be many degenerate curs out there what looks at the way we live, they looks at the golden bounty of tha fields and tha smiles on the faces of our womenfolk, they sees our kids playin in tha 'edgerows and what, but they dun' look on that with pride as we do. No... they moves to put an end to it! They looks and they says, I could increase me profit margin tenfold 'ere! Or they says, these folk be lawless types and want hard governance!
*much laughter and shouting in the crowd - 36 seconds*
Mo'lluk Hawthorne:
Aye, there be some fockers about. But tha worst of all is some o' these nasty sacks o' shite are lookin' ta get in tha County Tynwald, just as we are! To name but two, I knows for a fact that some thug from incounty got together some right awful sorts and called 'em tha Buffalo Party. Most of us in 'ere have been run down by cattle at some point, and we knows it ain't pleasant. These Buffalo fellahs ain't pleasant neither...
*moo-ing sounds from crowd - 18 seconds*
Mo'lluk Hawthorne:
And as for tha other fellah, he be some urchin from Tyrelwynn who's probably picked the pocket o' many in this room already! The 'Wynn ain't that far away. Gods 'elp us if he gets a say in the County finances, the thievin' git. No, there ain't an honest man in all the Shire what would let such folk as him and Buffalo Man get a hold o' tha Tynwald. So it falls to us to make a stand for tha common folk! 'Cause we be many, see... time's as 'appen that all tha fancy folk in tha Hamlet and Wendor gets lost in their own noise, and we be quiet folk by large... so many's forget that we exist. But we exist alright! We be tha silent majority!
*cheering begins*
Mo'lluk Hawthorne:
We're up afore the dawn and done long after tha dusk, puttin food on the tables o' Goldshire! Our menfolk be the bravest, and our women be the fairest! Tha corruptions o' tha city don't have no hold on us! Many's tha fool what learns what virtue looks like and sqwawks it like a parrot, but we be tha rural folk and we gots it in our hearts! An' I'll drop dead afore ye good people are denied a say in the County Tynwald! Let tha stuck-up fockers in the cities play their daft games, cause we all know it's ye folk in 'ere what makes this County tick, and all Goldshire too! And it be time that it were known!
*cheering continues with standing ovation - 1 minute 38 seconds*
Sherryn Feybane:
Thank you, Chairman Hawthorne. To be sure, your words bring a tear to my eye. And they might rightly touch the hearts of the good rural folk of Ransenar... but alas, my dear people, the Tynwald in Wendor is a tough place to do business. In that place, more than sentiment is required is carry the day. If your voice is to be heard, the Agrarian Party must go there with real policies. But fear not! It is not a hard business, as the interests of the working folk of Ransenar are quite clear. Day and night, they come under assault by the intrusive forces of state and the insidious forces of corporate greed. It is the calling of the Agrarian party to serve as a vanguard against these evils, such that the common people who created the wealth of this land are protected from robbery by cunning merchants and molestation by the jackboot of state!
*applause - 25 seconds*
Sherryn Feybane:
As treasurer of the Party, I am pleased to announce our three-point policy programme for the next Tynwald. Firstly, that we shall seek a guaranteed minimum wage enforceable by law to eradicate needless poverty in Ransenar. This County is the most fertile and resource-rich of all Goldshire, but the continued presence of working people so poor that their health is affected is an abhorrent stain upon the name of our County. These people deserve a fair remuneration!
*applause - 9 seconds*
Sherryn Feybane:
Secondly, it is not only the common worker who battles economic unfairness. Small businesses often suffer at the hands of their larger peers, who cruelly harness the Daemonic force they call the market to drive the smaller concerns out of business. It has happened to some in this very barn - farmers who have built up their concern and employ a good handful of farmhands, only to find that they can only sell their produce to a profit-gouging wholesaler for so pathetic a price that they cannot even pay those farmhands. The Agrarian Party is resolved to put an end to this. The creators of wealth must come first, and the oppurtunist middlemen must be driven out!
*applause - 11 seconds*
Sherryn Feybane:
And thirdly, the spectre of mechanisation continues to haunt the rural workers of Ransenar. The gentle swish of the scythe that this County has known since the days of Raynor is threatened by the deafening rattle of threshers, tractors, and all manner of terrible contraptions whose combined roar may one day give us children who have never known the sound of birdsong!
*booing - 6 seconds*
Sherryn Feybane:
And the harm is not only to the ear! These mechanical scythes not only tear the crop from the ground with greater waste than the precision of a skilled peasant, but whole families are torn from their livelihoods and cast into unemployment! Machines do their jobs instead, jobs that are supposed to serve humanity... but do you see any humanity in a village full of starving children? This shall not stand!
*cheering - 6 seconds*
Sherryn Feybane:
The Agrarian Party shall seek to institute a tax on all motorised agricultural machinery, the proceeds of which shall go toward an assistance fund for those rendered jobless by the clunking abominations. In time, farm owners who are tempted by greed shall be saved from the Fish of Balgurd by the prospect of a heavy tax on machinery making it more profitable to retain their human workers. Thus the natural order of things shall be restored!
*cheering - 32 seconds*
Gerald Witless:
Alright alright, shut up! Gods, I been to quieter dives in Demonsfall. Now... If ye likes what ye hears, be sure to vote Agrarian when tha time comes! Oi Silvester! How much ale we got left?
Sylvester Miller:
Three casks Elfinshi Rat, one and half o' Cabbagefall Glory an' about three tankard full o' tha Assayer's Arsehole.
Gerald Witless:
Well then people, ye'd better get yer arses movin' if ye want any more. Make sure ye get in front of ol' Al Quixyson! That focker drinks like a sea hamster! err what else... oh aye, tha meetin' be officially closed! Oi Keith! Ye at the bar lad? Save me a pint o' tha Glory will ye?
*end of session*
Stellus Ryabinevich Dolorvenuk Yastreb
- Count of Lunaris in the Duchy of Goldshire
Head of the House of Yastreb, honoured throughout history as follows: Member of the Order of the Dragon, recipent of the Silver Swan Award (Imperial) recipent of the Order of the Silver Orchid (Elwynn) Knight Comrade of the Order of Mischievous Intent (Yardistan) Arx-Piscator of the Piscatores Alexandrii (Brookshire) Knight of the Nishan-i-Liaqat (Babkha), Paranoid Narcissist (everywhere)
- Count of Lunaris in the Duchy of Goldshire
Head of the House of Yastreb, honoured throughout history as follows: Member of the Order of the Dragon, recipent of the Silver Swan Award (Imperial) recipent of the Order of the Silver Orchid (Elwynn) Knight Comrade of the Order of Mischievous Intent (Yardistan) Arx-Piscator of the Piscatores Alexandrii (Brookshire) Knight of the Nishan-i-Liaqat (Babkha), Paranoid Narcissist (everywhere)
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
*BUMP*
Come on, where's the Blightey Bloc and the Buffalo Party?
Come on, where's the Blightey Bloc and the Buffalo Party?
Remember you can also start racking up endorsements too.There's two possible activities in this stage:
- Only residents of Ransenar and members of the Imperial Government can participate in this activity - residents of Ransenar or members of the Imperial Government (Kaiser, Steward, Arbriter, member of the IAC or Landsraad) can endorse a particular political party or movement. Its effects will be determined via coin toss. The toss will decide if the endorsement helped boost the political party (heads for yes, tails for no). If the endorsement helped, then a number randomizer (between 1 and 5) will determine by how much. Each endorsement will be capped at 5% poll boost. No endorsement will have a negative effect on any political party. The Count of Ransenar cannot and will not make any endorsements.
- Anyone who created a political party for the first stage can participate in this activity: You may post your ideas to win votes for your political party. Be creative.
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
Oops, I didn't see this until now. I'll see what I can whip up.
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
Ryker00X
Ryker of the Sovereign Confederation
Head of House Redquill
Ryker of the Sovereign Confederation
Head of House Redquill
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
Two more days for everyone to come out. Or the APR gets all the seats.
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
The Ransenari Oligarchy awaits.
Ryker00X
Ryker of the Sovereign Confederation
Head of House Redquill
Ryker of the Sovereign Confederation
Head of House Redquill
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
The buffalo party promises all voters and endorsers a free round.
1.Titus Morvayne, Prefect of Shirekeep, Count of the Skyla Islands
2.Eki Aholibamah Verion, Queen in the North
3. Ludovic Verion, Lord of Blackstone and Governor-General of the Iron Company
4. Jeremy Harwinsson Archer, super sleuth
2.Eki Aholibamah Verion, Queen in the North
3. Ludovic Verion, Lord of Blackstone and Governor-General of the Iron Company
4. Jeremy Harwinsson Archer, super sleuth
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
Results! Was avoiding this because this whole thing was a disappointment for me. But whatever, no one cares, so I just pulled the results out of my ass. WOOHOO!
Congratulations to the Agrarian Party of Ransenar!
Re: Round 2: Campaigning
I missed the campaign of the majority of these parties. At least the Buffalo Party promised free beer...
1.Titus Morvayne, Prefect of Shirekeep, Count of the Skyla Islands
2.Eki Aholibamah Verion, Queen in the North
3. Ludovic Verion, Lord of Blackstone and Governor-General of the Iron Company
4. Jeremy Harwinsson Archer, super sleuth
2.Eki Aholibamah Verion, Queen in the North
3. Ludovic Verion, Lord of Blackstone and Governor-General of the Iron Company
4. Jeremy Harwinsson Archer, super sleuth