IC -- Vote for Mayor!

[sythyry]

Kismirth needs a mayor. That's less than a duke. (We won't have a duke at all. I'm going to have a couple of ducal powers ((1) I own the whole city (because I made it), and (2) I can veto various things), but I did such a bad job of ruling Castle Wrong and Strayway that I do not want to try to be the mayor of Kismirth.)

So, who should be our first mayor? [This person's term will have started a few years before the Feralan story. But I will use the results of this vote. -bb]

So here's what our candidates say about themselves:

• Arfaen: I'm gentle and I can run a kitchen, even a pretty big and complicated restaurant-style kitchen. I'm a low-status Cani, so I won't be a mean and overbearing kind of mayor, but I do know how to get stuff done. Also Sythyry's my concubine, so that would concentrate the power in the city in one bedroom, which might be a good thing while we're getting started, though it might get a bit tyrannical (or maybe just ducal) if we keep it going too long.
• Grinwipey: Wait, what? I'll be shoggled in my own butterfunk if I gotta be mayor! How c'n I get rich breaking the laws of Kismirth if I gotta do the laws of Kismirth? I ain't gonna may for you and that's a fact that you can cram in your windpipe and smoke it!
• Inconnu: I'm fearless and dashing and glamorous -- just what Kismirth needs as a public face when we're trying to get established as a very wonderful place one must visit! And I exemplify the fun side of transaffection better than anyone!
• Jyondre: I am perhaps the most sensible person in the core Strayway crew. I do not fear to take action, but I do not stupidly charge into action either. Yerenthax and I exemplify the devoted side of transaffection better than anyone.
• Phaniet: I'm very organized and very good at organizing people, which is crucial for a young city. I have considerable personal power, and can get people to do what needs to be done in a number of ways. And, if we're going on the basis of transaffection, I have been Este's partner for decades; we are what any traff couple should aspire to.
• Prince Rastomil: Well, my main qualification for being mayor is being royal. I suppose I can handle the symbolic aspects of the role adequately. But I have many other qualifications as well! I am inadequate as a degenerate and a lush, and will come to work sober more often than not. I have considerable experience at being enchanted in horrible ways and lounging around for weeks in the body of an older woman, which gives me a unique perspective which I very much hope will not be relevant for anyone in Kismirth ever again. I have failed to get married, and done so in an exceedingly dramatic way. I am not quite sure which of these is a good thing for a mayor. Still, if I am elected mayor, I daresay I will keep Kismirth in the broadsheets quite well. Occasionally, by accident, it might even turn out to be in a good way.
• Someone New: I am not any of these people! I surely have other virtues and flaws as well!

[Poll #1778966]

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Rassimel have a tendency to get obsessed with some ideal, and stick with it even when it's obvious that it isn't working, which is where the truly horrific societies come from, though.

Really you want an orren.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

A Rassmiel by themselves is just a loon, which is rarely dangerous on a societal scale. I guess the worst societies are when you get Cani being led by a Rassmiel.

[stormydragon.livejournal.com]

And Orren tend to rush into major decisions without thinking things through. Orren are the leaders who get your country stuck in 10 year long wars in central asia.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Or as long as the land wars in central Asia hold the Orren's interest...

(A 10-minute war?)

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! Shiny idea #1! We must put all of our resources into it!

Oooooh! Shiny idea #2! We must put all of our resources into it!

Oooooh! Shiny idea #3! We must put all of our resources into it!

...

Oooooh! Shiny idea #746! We must put all of our resources into it!

Okay. That was a good day. More tomorrow!

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

And thus nothing gets done, which is infinitely preferable to the alternative.