Morning Everyone,
Whole lot of you been wondering what happened
the last two days, and I have to tell you, first day was April fools, and I
have to say, there’s enough fools out there for all of us, didn’t want anyone
thinking this was one more. The second day, well, that’s why I’m here today.
I had to attend a city council meeting
yesterday, and it took most of the day.
A lot of you are wondering why it takes so long to do these meetings,
and here’s where I’m going to share a few things with you. The city council is made up of people who may
once have been just like you and me, but somewhere along the way, they got some
power and they wanted to keep it. There’s a whole lot of interests going on in
any council meeting, not all of which are lined up with what’s best for the
people.
The people, that’d be you and me, not them…
After about eight hours of listening to
people argue about why we couldn’t do anything because it got in the way of something
that was important to them personally, my natural diplomacy failed, and I
cleared my throat to try and get their attention.
You’ve never seen a room clear so fast…
A minute previous, they’d been arguing
that they’d been on the front line looking out for all their people, one second
after, the chamber was clear of everyone but me, Watch Commander Tarven, and
Captain Ortren of the Queens guard. Bright
side up thought, it turns out that without politicians watching out for their
own interests, you can get a lot done.
All overtime is hereby sanctioned, the mages guild have been paid off to
provide all those magical anti virus helmets that were ordered by the council.
Don’t get your hopes up, they only
ordered ten of them…
What good are ten masks I hear you
say? Well, the council numbers ten, so
maybe they were valiantly testing them on our behalf… I’m not looking
for comments, and I’m not giving any, we take what we can and we do what we can
with it, masks will be here tomorrow.
In other news, word from Invicarn is that
they may have found a test to show if you have the virus or not. I’m going to hold fire on announcing that, as
the last time I saw their test, it was sitting you in a room for a day and
seeing if you coughed in that time. One
more thing, got a few questions on the council reports about what is or isn’t essential
supplies, the questions came from the National Adventurers Association, so let
me be clear in this.
Longswords are not essential items in these
times, Magical trinkets are not essential in these times, and that shipment of
dark fruit chocolate from the western continents is not, regrettably, an essential
item. Keep it simple everyone and just
remember…
Let’s be careful out there…
