Speech:Let Majority Rule!
From FiranMUX
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| Summary: Mes Nestra Apellon of the Eagle Clan calls for democracy. | |
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Nestra made a speech titled 'Let Majority Rule!' on Firan time: 07:21:28 AM on Fri May 25, in the year 45 A.U. in Anarinuell: Intersection of Civic Avenue and Elianos Boulevard:
Nestra stands outside the closed Eagle Gates. Though some people are gathered in a semi-circle around her, when she lifts her voice, it's directed towards the gates. Luckily, she does have loudness on her side.
"My Eagle brethren! You have heard Sir Omiak's words: he tells us not to fight each other. To lay down our arms, to drink, to stand together and demand a peaceful resolution. Thought provoking, to be sure, especially after he led thousands of troops into our district and left them to their own devices, where they engaged in brutalities and destruction in the name of keeping the so-called peace!"
She throws back her head and laughs, right at the gates.
"I might be just a commoner, just a initiate, just an adventurer - but I'm an Eagle. An Eagle who is sick and tired of sitting on her thumb, waiting for our esteemed leadership to decide what's best for a citizenry they've grown increasingly distant from over the past few years. We need to do more than talk. We can't just sit and drink in our taverns - are our taverns even still standing after Sir Omiak's troops had their way with the district?"
She shakes her head, as if perishing the thought, still talking straight to the gates as though they were a sentient entity.
"My friends, we must at last take our fate into our own hands; not by laying down arms and having calm discussion over tankards of ale and glasses of wine, but by making our opinions known and demanding that our leadership act in the way that the majority decrees. Perhaps the idea is radical, perhaps it sounds risky, but we can all agree that this can't go on. This inaction is a disease, and the wounds are festering. Let our voices be the balm, and majority rule the cure!"
She reaches out and grasps at two bars of the gates and rattles them insistently.
"Open these gates and let a new era of government in, Eagle Clan!"
There were 31 people present, including Nestra.
