Proposal for the Registration of all Disloyalists
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::This parchment is crumpled, but bears several stamps upon it in various colored inks. Each stamp redundantly proclaims the letter as being of incredible importance and entirely official. It is delivered to the Senate offices early in the morning by a common Town Crier in mismatched finery and several drunks paid to play herald’s horns.::
From the office of Senator Clodpin
Within this month on this day in our regal and long history, whereasmuch as the power invested in me by the infinitely wise and also just peoples of the area in and around the city we will heretofore call Peltarch within this document, the illustrious and regal, and also powerful as well as attractive, Senator Clodpin, the shining light of the peoples’ hopes and dreams and their desire for a return to a more royal and less populist future, does hereby ask the Senate, and all the powers that are vested in their office steeped with tradition, to begin proceedings whereby a law may be passed which is now but a proposal in its infancy, needing the caring hand of the Senate to lift it up from the mud and muck of near obscurity, to be placed upon that pedestal that is legal law enforceable by lawmen, which states in its entirety to be determined in such hearings, that all disloyalists, foreigners, and malcontents within our city walls be required to register, and all such who do not be escorted outside our city walls where they may commune with the Eastalnd rabble that got us into this mess in the first place, or shall be put to the sword, or other sharp object that meets the requirements of ending a life forthwith and hence for ever and unto eternity, and that such registrants be required to maintain a paper or parchment or papyrus document, or other writing surface which the court deems suitable, upon their persons, stating that they have lawfully registered and paid a royalty fee of no less than 50 gold to the State of Pelatarch and more specifically the Senate, who is the officiator in such matters and that from heretofore and into other tomorrows other than the next one and most likely the rest of tomorrows until the very end of days when the metatext may very well speak its last word and all shall bemoan their spent youth and dilly dallies where they did not do good and are found to be bad people mostly from denying the certainty that is Peltarchian custom and royalty, shall define Disloyalists as those people who doth drinketh our ale and sleepeth with our women, yet do not even have the common sense to own property within our city, and have not been born here but are from towns outside of our walls, most likely barbarian in nature and either ending in sounds like Or-wick or having much too many letter Y’s in their name, or perhaps not even being a city at all, but merely a camp where those who wish to ungird their loins go to find a friendly wench with a warm bed and poor discernment of the characteristics in good mate who will not disappear come the morrow, or any other people either not born within this great city or having paid their fees for naturalization and citizenship.
This I do declare. So I swear on the blood of King Tidus, glory be his name, as well as being my great ancestor.
Tidus Clodpin, Senator
(below is the seal of peltarch)
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The Magistrate sends a clerk to pick up a copy of the proposal, and asks a member of the bardic college who holds city position to personally attend the original copy of the document and report to him forthwith.
On his return the Magistrate remains in his locked office and remains there for some time overseen by his defender advisor Eowien and later sends a note to the Temple of Tyr hand-delivered by her.
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Genzir, hearing about the proposal, moseys on over to the Senate building, asking a clerk to let him make a copy of the proposal. He may be overheard saying something about Peltarch history or chancellary manuals. When one of the clerks asks him what he thinks about the proposal, he shakes his head, smiling sagely, his manner betraying a note of regret.