Light up City Hall [Open]

[hinoto_ri]

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Who: Anyone who read the message and wants to visit Town Hall
Where: Leo Ward Town Hall, Council Chambers 2nd Floor(see the map )
Summary: The town officials talk about the Visitors and the Visitors aren't even invited! What gives?!
Warnings: Depends who shows up.
Music: Unfinished Symphony

September 13th was nothing out of the ordinary. It hadn't been long before the news of the Virgo monster, defeated by the town's weapons (and with the aid of four Visitors, but that was downplayed by the media), got out. The question now asked by the other councilmen was "why do we need the Visitors at all?"

A question that might not have been asked in the first place if it hadn't been for that strange sickness that none of them knew about: TRIHARDO.

It wasn't that they hated the Visitors - far from it. Apart from perhaps a select few councilmen and townspeople, most enjoyed having the Visitors around. However those that argued that they had too many rights, and that they were given permissions even they couldn't enjoy, grew louder and louder until the Mayor had no choice but to hold an emergency meeting. At 8 AM that morning, the rooms of town hall burst with life, the Mayor entering last in what was no doubt going to be a political headache. And with the voting just a few months away...

... The Visitors weren't invited. In fact, this meeting was not publicized at all, just rumored once or twice.

What they didn't know couldn't hurt them, right? So what if they ended up voting a few new rules to keep them in check... they'd understand that, right?

Too bad someone seemed to think they should go, or at least pay a visit and find out what was happening.

If they did climb to the 2nd floor, they would notice a force-field around the chambers - extremely powerful magic as a few demons stood guard, ironically. In front, Junko and Isabelle were discussing among themselves.

"But Junko...!" the small anthropomorphic dog with the clipboard exclaimed. "The Visitors are all doing their best for the city too! They should be able to have some input on laws that affect them!"

Once she saw the group approaching up the stairs, though, she quickly covered her mouth with a paw, staring at the ground and shuffling her feet back and forth.

Junko, on the other hand, didn't seem too surprised to see Visitors appearing and quietly adjusted her glasses.

"I'm not sure what brought you all here, but I'm afraid this meeting is off limits."

[OOC: You can specify who you want to speak in your threads or thread together without the NPCS. Isabelle or Junko might show up in their threads for a comment or two.
Just a note: no one will be able to get in, no matter how hard you try.]

Comments

[phantom_envoy]

This is a political discussion. Exactly.

As a matter of fact, we are not visitors or tourists or even expatriates who chose to settle in your city under the mutual understanding that we needed to abide by the laws of a different government. Visitor is a euphemism. We're Abductees. We have no representation, no diplomatic mission, and no embassy. Whether or not the citizens of the city were involved in the process, a representative of your world decided to bring us here at his whims without making any actual arrangements for the necessary bureaucracy. And yes, sometimes bureaucracy is necessary.

If you can't see why we feel threatened by secret meetings about our future, then you haven't considered it from our point of view. You could decide to vote to keep us locked in an underground bunker in 9x9 cells and it would be perfectly legal under your current laws. Do you even have a basic charter concerning human rights? What about alien rights or nonhuman person rights?

The fact that we've managed to be here for a year without any sort of institution concerning Visitor representation in political and legal affairs is just sloppy. I haven't said anything, because let's face it, an eighteen year old junior ambassador should hardly be the one informing you about proper policy, but if you're going to have awkward clandestine discussions about our rights, then something needs to change.

Frankly, this whole situation would be completely illegal in any government under the United Planets.

[Isabelle's well meaning interjections, unfortunately, go largely ignored.]