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I Eat Rights for Breakcast

Abydos, thankfully, does not have a Bill of Rights. we did for a short time, one that was jarringly unconstitutional. After the Mass Exodus, decent records of this were destroyed by the outgoing party and thus the document was lost to time and only an incomplete rough draft of it exists.

So what of today? While Abydos exists in a sort of free for all status, it actually is quite closely monitored and citizens today need to be encouraged to exercise their little used rights the Eye provides. Citizens dont coup, dont use parties to gain power, dont push the boundaries to expand and grow. This state we are in today is far from what I had expected when the Eye was written. I had expected a continual power struggle, coups every month and forces re-aligning themselves regularly. The Eye is designed to promote this. The Eye is simply not being used. What this means is that if you are not vying for yourself or your party to have my position, or the High Priests, If you are not secretly or boastfully moving the chess pieces around to give your party the advantage on the conclave, if you are not planning 5 moves ahead to eventually claim the prize here, then you are not using the civil rights afforded to you. If then, you are not going to use those rights, why have them at all?

Your goal is my head on a pike and your butt in my seat either Deceptively or through brazen attack or through good old fashioned azzkissing for an appointment. When I am eventually dethroned, and I will be when someone has the guts to make a perfectly executed power play here my goal is then to oust you in spectacular fashion and reclaim some former glory in an near-constant game of Capture the throne. If you are not my party member, you will be campaigned against harshly, not offered a truce unless beneficial to me. If you have a law, I'll appose it unless it serves my goal selfishly and helps me gain power. Your devastation will be my salvation. And when I have that power, which I now do, My job is to defend against you, the roudy crowd, the wielders of pitchforks and machiavellian mobs. Those are your rights. I'd recommend start using them, or my rule will never end, this region will never change, and you the people will be exactly where you are at today... Not Grand Luxarch. Abydos is 15 years old and unless you act, you'll never be remembered. The list of leaders goes back to the dawn of NS time. Your goal is to make it to that list. If you cannot make that list, doing something so noteworthy it is remembered long after you quit NS is a decent runner up. Something. Abydos is designed to be ruthless in its gameplay, fair in its approach and deadly to stability. You have civil rights, can do some very unique things in this region. Most regions dont allow coups or power plays. we have more civil rights than most regions dream of allowing. Use them.

Not sure how to make this anymore clear, but I've played my game, shown my hand. Purposefully appointed people low on the 4 month rule count to extend my time up here. Insured my appointments are loyal to the bone, moved people around to protect my throne. All this to bode me a little more time, a little more. Eventually, you will come for my head, I know that. That is how it is here, that is the joy of Abydos, the ruthlessness of our gameplay, the delight In our instinctual struggle for power. You'll come for me, and when you are highest on the food chain for a while, the rest of us will first praise your name as Grand Luxarch, a d then adapt again plot again, scheme again, and repeat the cycle now with your head destined for the stake. A good Grand Luxarch knows when to step down voluntarily before the mobs swallow him wholr and ride high on a good record. Other Grand Luxarchs fight to the bitter end, trading their good works for one awesomly sour ending that leaves the region exhausted and emotionally drained. Sadly, I am not a good Grand Luxarch who will leave on nice terms, but will watch from ahigh as you all move yourselves, set your traps, and Ill inevitably fall into one of those traps If it is executed legally and in good stealth. Or not, it could be you who missteps the minefield of defense I have planted, who knows. Either way, As much as the top is fun, it is lonely and I for one love the thrill of the hunt!

~The Wrath of Qon the Magnificent

PS, Checkmate.