tushanshu_logs | [EVENT] It's high time to decide these high crimes...

Characters: ALL
Date: May 10
Location: Courtyard of Public Opinion
Situation: It's time for the Guilds to come together and decide the list of High Crimes - and see if the Foreigners have their Guild organized.
Warnings/Rating: To be added as needed.

Part 1 - On the Matter of the Foreigners Guild

As elaborated to all Foreigners in Keeliai, the rest of the Council has set them the task of assigning leadership within their guild, including spokesperson(s) to participate in the Courtyard meetings and represent the Foreigners Guild's interests. Having been given more than a month of lead time, the assemblage is now waiting to hear the results of those deliberations.

"Who will be speaking for the Foreigners Guild? Please step forward and introduce yourselves."

Part 2 - On the Matter of High Crimes

As part of the new governing structure, the Guilds must now come together to decide a list of High Crimes which require sentencing by agreement of all nine groups. The Guilds will also lay out sentencing guidelines for each of these crimes. That doesn't mean there will be automatic sentencing, necessarily. The guidelines will help dictate minimum and maximum boundaries of punishment, such as length of incarceration, fines, and ramifications post-conviction.

While the Guild representatives will be laying out the initial proposition, all are welcomed and encouraged to partake and add their own input to help smooth out the rough edges. Although there are not designated areas for each of the Guilds, members of each do tend to congregate around their respective leaders.

The list of proposed High Crimes include, but are not limited to:

• Murder
• Kidnapping
• Arson
• Assault (aggravated and/or sexual*)
• Treason
• Terrorism
• Drug Trafficking/Selling

Guilds can propose additions or subtractions to this list, and guidelines for each. It's not a joyful task, but it is a necessary one. Despite the somewhat grim nature of the meeting, there is a sense of determination. The citizens of Keeliai are governing themselves now, and that is indeed a powerful thing.

*Mod note: This is coming up for general IC info, as it exists within the game setting but not as a game function intended to arise outside of this list.

Part 3 - On the Matter of Guild Management

The last order of business for today's Courtyard meeting is to determine if, and under what circumstances, guilds have the right to either refuse membership or revoke membership to anyone. While this thankfully doesn't seem to have been a problem while everyone sorted themselves into their initial choices, it'd be naive to think that it's not an issue that could come up in the future. Since not being affiliated with any guild carries legal repercussions -- fines that can escalate into even jail time -- it seems prudent to have a system in place before it becomes an issue.

Everyone's encouraged to volunteer their thoughts on this matter -- the official decision won't be made until the next gathering, so input doesn't have to be limited to just the spokespeople from each guild, but anyone in attendance.

Right now, the only generally agreed-upon point seems to be that this type of refusal or ejection needs to have some kind of oversight from outside the guild in question, to prevent abuse of the system. Whether that's a case where it would require the whole Council is another matter, and some seem to think that simply getting the motion seconded or thirded would be enough.

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Though technically Raine is still a head of the Healers Guild, and is present, it's Suhiet who's doing the bulk of the talking and networking, providing her opinions and contributing to the discussion. She'll be fairly staunchly against any capital punishment, favoring long-term imprisonment and then attempts to help people who've fallen into their crimes because of desperate times. She emphasizes the importance of judging intent and keeping what they decide here to be simply guidelines.

Midii was quiet upon her arrival at the Courtyard. She had attended several public functions of this world in the past, but somehow, this time seemed...different.

One of her first stops was to pay her respects to Suhiet, in gratitude for the herbalism lessons, before taking a spot near the back of the Courtyard. Out of the way of most ongoing conversations, with a good vantage point so she could see just what exactly what was going on. And watch.

Adrien makes his way over to her, a smile crossing his face. There's a tiredness to it. It's been a pretty rough month, and he's honestly tired of watching the people he cares about getting hurt. He just wants the dust to settle and for life to get back to something like normal again.

"Hey, Midii. How're you?"

This month had been a challenge, no doubt. Midii was in no immediate danger herself, so far as she knew, but there were certain individuals in her life who'd been deliberately making themselves a target.

From where she stood, she was able to see Adrien approach and offered a similar smile in return. "Hello, Adrien. I'm doing well. You?"

Adrien knows he's probably going to paint one of those targets on himself, eventually. Or at least on himself as Chat. He's too impulsive and bloody-minded not to dive into the fray. It's going to get him into trouble one day.

"I'm good. Hoping something good will come out of all of this," he waves at the courtyard in general.

She followed his hand for a moment, taking it all in as if she hadn't been doing just that before he came over.

"I think it will." Midii would never consider herself an optimist, but he never said only good. Just something. "I think, in some ways, it already has. Suhiet contacted me a while ago asking if I wanted to start studying herbalism from her. I think she knew this was coming before we did."

And the fact that she took it upon herself to contact Midii and make the suggestion...it was a show of good faith. Of inclusion. Of course there were no strings attached with regards to Guild alignment, but it certainly added motivation to her decision.

"Oh wow, really? That's...really nice. I just had people come try to get me over to the Foreigners Guild."

As both him and Chat. And, of course, it made him realise eventually he's going to have to come clean about it, when people notice Chat hasn't got a Guild. Questions will have to be answered and he will have to wipe that slate clean. He has a little time before that, though.

"But I wanted to stay here. I've learned a lot about helping people, but I still want to learn more. I really think this is the place I belong."

"Really? Who?"

She asked more for curiosity's sake than anything. The Foreigners' Guild hadn't warranted more than a passing thought for her, to the point where she didn't even know all of its members. Yet. Chances are, everybody would find out each other's choices soon enough, but in the meantime...

"I'm glad you were able to find something like that." A place to belong. "Being able to help...it makes a big difference. Have you been studying under anybody in particular?"

"Odyni and Usayi. Though Odyni wanted me to join the Merchants guild."

Those are at least the people who genuinely approached him. Unfortunately, most of the people who wanted him to join the Foreigners were...people who approached Chat. Which made things awkward. He hopes Midii doesn't realise he's dug himself into a hole here.

"Raine! I'm pretty lucky, really. And I like the idea that I'm making a difference."

There was something about his statement that seemed a little...off. Two names. One of whom had been for the Merchants Guild. But...they way he'd spoken earlier, it had sounded like there had been multiple people asking him about the Foreigners' Guild.

Strange.

...maybe he'd just been exaggerating?

"I know Raine. She's really nice. We've spoken a few times in the past, and I can see why so many people like an respect her. She's done a lot of good, both for the Healers' Guild and for Keelai."

He'll breathe a little easier that his terrible attempts at evading the truth has been left undisturbed once again. One day, he will be considerably less lucky and someone will call him out on it. Not today though.

"Yeah," he laughs, relieved. "She's pretty great. I'm happy with what she's been teaching me."

"What has she been teaching you?"

If Midii had any lingering suspicious about his word choice, they were momentarily forgotten as she found something better to hold her interest. Satisfied as she was with her current lessons (more or less), she never overlooked an opportunity to hear about what other people were learning.

"First aid, at the start, but now I'm learning more complicated stuff. You know, like emergency triage, things like that. Nothing super fancy, but I could probably patch someone up if they really needed it."

He's eternally modest, but he's genuinely pleased and proud he can help people in OTHER ways.

Her eyes flickered with understanding when he mentioned emergency triage; it was important to learn, obviously, especially if they were going into that field...but it was never an easy thing. Determining degree of injury. Assessing whether someone had a greater or worse chance of survival. Theory wasn't so bad, but even now, Midii had the occasional flashback to watching someone have to make those judgement calls in the heat of battle.

"At least I know who I can run to if I ever get hurt," she made sure the comment came with an air of lightness to it, even smiling faintly. "I could also make you a list of the plants I've been learning about. I'm not sure how easy it would be for you to identify them while they're still in the ground--even I sometimes get them mixed up--but it might be useful to at least know which ones are best for treating which symptoms."

Especially given the current climate of the shell. Where attacks are happening all the more regularly. It's a skill he is aware he needs to hone, awful as it is- they need to be more prepared, more ready. There's less of them, these days, they're spread much more thinly.

"I'd do my best to help," he smiles. "And that would be really useful, thanks! You can never know too little, right? Everything helps in the long run, you never know when it could come in handy."

[EVENT] It's high time to decide these high crimes...

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