20 years ago
During the festival atmosphere of the elections Eowiel's stands seem to be laden with the most delicious food imaginable, the likes of a banquet the Lords of Waterdeep themselves might attend if anyone knew who they were…perhaps, some jest, they are already in the crowds, eating their fill, such is the mouthwatering fare that is provided...
In the sky at dusk, incredible displays of fireworks blaze accross the skyline, far superior to the ones Eowiel had previously used…incredible colours and almost musical bursts of noise fill the air above the city. Many fireworks errupt into very recognisable glittering images of sparkles, some blazing brightly in the starry sky for quite a few moments before fading away. One is of an enourmous blazing red anchor, white words bursting out underneath "Let the WAVES of Change BREAK" and under that "Vote Eowiel Senella" in cheerful yellow lettering.
On the streets during the day as people are milling around various troubladours are prancing around in Wavebreaker livery, chanting some of Eowiel's more popular slogans in a catchy manner whilst handing out boiled sweets to any children they see, if the children are not already cunningly following them for the lucrative sugared profits.
Many of them are comically and very melodramatically dressed as ancient looking men, with short beards gone yellow with grease, grey hair also yellowing with grease, they wear a gold looking crown on their heards with the Seafarer Emblem emblazoned on it, coin-symbols on either side and rather gaudy looking robes, likewise with Seafarer livery on them.
They stalk through the crowds, shouting things like "Bah humbug!" and occassionally accost the other troubladours to steal the boiled sweets they are giving away, to the great ire of the children and the amusement of anyone else watching. The troubladours response is always the same, they turn to the crowd with a huge grin and a loud proclamation; "Its time we all did this at the booths, folks…" and promptly proceed to give the old King of Coins a great boot in the rear, causing him to promptly drop the pilfered sweets, to the delight of the children, and stalk off muttering before accosting another troubladour to begin a new act…
Another feature of the election atmosphere brought by Eowiel is the sudden appearance of a vast number of quickly but very professionally made street side puppet houses, decked out in colourful paint, unsurprisingly in the Wavebreaker livery again. The puppets seem in many cases rather uncanny likenesses of their real life counterparts, though in some cases there are a few humourous inaccuracies. All the stands have "Vote Eowiel!" emblazoned accross them in bright lettering.
The main show is of puppet versions of the King of Coins and Rath being buddies with Koreth, the King of Coins often slapping Rath upside the head in true puppet fashion for various idiotic comments he makes. At one point he looks out the window and comments he sees some men heading to a bar. "Whats this?", a scratchy comic voice declares, "they can afford to spend their gold on drinks? Bah humbug! Raise all prices, raise them I say! This is an affront, this is an outrage! I'm being swindled! Hard working men, drinking in the taverns!? I won't have it! That gold belongs to ME!" A few other shows also depict the Seafarer fleet abandoning Peltarch during the Civil war, but most generally stick to the very comically satirical King of Coins show.
Eowiel herself is seen out on the city streets all hours of the day, urging people to vote for Change and answering any questions people might want answers about before making their final voting choice. Much of Eowiel's efforts go into urging anyone who hasn't voted to make their voice heard, reminding the populace that King Tidus fought hard to give them their freedom and their Senate, so voting is very important!
"Everyone should vote! A vote uncast is a voice unheard!"
