The poll for Forest Keeper is now open to those residents who were members of the World Assembly at the close of nominations. The candidates were placed on the ballot randomly.
I can't vote, but Montmorencia (and everyone else who's brought it up), I appreciate your focus on roleplay as part of the platform! :) Tomorrow I hope to have an OOC planning thread go up for a project I'll be working on later in the month, and looking for others who want to participate too.
We should also talk about this year's photo contest once the new Forest Keeper is elected. I really want it to be an annual tradition, and I think it would be great if we could organize it again.
In the meantime we can discuss and come to some preliminary decisions about this year's contest. For example, last year we had three categories: Trees, Water, and Animals. What should this year's categories be? Personally I would suggest that Trees must be a fixed category for this contest, because --- you know, we are in Forest! I thought one additional category could perhaps be about insects&spiders (they are everywhere, easy to photograph, and they can have fascinating looks) and another category could be urban scenes of Nature (pieces of surprising nature that crept into urban jungle).
What are your suggestions?
By the way, we don't really have to hurry up for the contest. Last year the contest was officially launched on November 17. But I want to determine the categories as early as possible so everyone can go out and hunt for photos :)
Maybe there can be a miscellaneous category for unique subject matter, so we don't have to make another category for every cool idea suggested. We can group them all up under an umbrella category and include them that way.
On a typical day, Reg will wake up and start his day with his morning cup of baby tears. His first task of the day is to chase miserable commuters as they try to walk to work, making their day start out horribly. Any who are too slow, or do not notice Reg's approach, will be impaled by his arse-spear, with which he injects his victims with arse poison. Those who are sensible enough to drive to work will find him infiltrating their vehicles and causing them to suffer a fatal accident at high speed, before he flies away unharmed to kill again.
At lunchtime he will feast on the mashed brains of ducklings, and then proceed to the nearest pub where all those terrified commuters from earlier have gone for a refreshing drink to calm their nerves from Reg's earlier attacks. There, he will steal other people's drinks, threatening him with his terrifying butt-lance should they dare to try and stop him, and generally ruin their lunch break. Once Reg is properly sauced from his stolen alcohol, he will then use said butt-lance on people's hands as they try to reach their glasses, and inject them with arse poison once more.
Those who survive Reg's relentless git antics, will be chased home from work and forced to spend a hot day locked up in their house, unable to escape his buzzing backside of doom. Many will take their own lives, seeing no other way out.
When the streets have run red with enough blood for Reg's liking, he will kill off the evening by killing off as many adorable animals as he can find and bathe in their entrails. Then he will go back to sleep for the night, recharging himself to have yet another violent rampage the next day.
Beware of Reg. Him and his ilk have caused more death and suffering than any other animal in the history of this (and most other) planet(s).
Reginald and his friends, Vespula germanica, are known in North America as "yellowjackets." Reg does indeed endeavour to make life outdoors miserable, especially if you're trying to eat your barbecue sandwich outdoors at a cookout.
But does ONE yellowjacket have the same ecological impact of ONE human being? No way! How about a locust swarm of 25,000 bugs--sure, they might ruin a farmer or two, but 25,000 humans is a decently-sized large town or small city.
Since the human presence currently on planet Earth is inimical to 99.99% of all animals, plants, fungi, and microbes, I think most of the wildlife would be applauding Reginald and egging him on to do more!
