Ladies and gentlemen, superheroines and villains! It is that time of year (hah) again where Empire City holds its annual(Hah), mayoral elections! Although Mayor Belle has lead Empire City through world ending events, and has seen us safely into the new dimension we call home, a good democracy dictates that we must hold our elections! Who do you think will be able to lead Empire into a golden age within our new home in the DarkMyst dimension? Who will sort out the tough issues, such as the raising crime levels, the underground scourge Yeti's, Moontablet pouring bleach on Longshot, how to handle the Brexit, why are the Seg Trams so damn good, and the mysterious menace who keeps webbing people in the face
Well we are looking for the right candidates for the job to step forward and take on that role! In the 2016 Empire Elections!
We are now opening up the doors for people to step forward, and throw their hat in the ring to announce their campaign to run as Mayor! This period will last a couple of weeks so everyone can get involved. Announce your campaigns in channel! Create posters for your candidate! Run smear campaigns against your political opponents! Everything goes in an Empire Election.
As with last Election the final votes will take into account the public vote, and effort put into campaigns as judged by the ops. However as of right now we do not want your votes handed in, just candidates to step forward!
To do so please reply to this thread announcing your participation! Otherwise you will not be included in the vote.
Please remember that this is a PLOT being run by certain members of the channel. Players are free to participate to the degree they can within the structure of the plot, and at the end of the day the result on who won the election will be ultimately reviewed by the ops to see if this candidate is acceptable representation of our channel to be mayor.
Any questions? PM Purps / Crystal / Aurora / Alraune / Monica Mason (In other words me!)
Candidates So Far:
Adele E. Schultz
Amelia
Blue Belle
Christopher Wainwright
Max Voltage
Moontablet
Mr Bricky
Power Princess
Samantha Thorn
Xander Invictus
I would like to enter my proverbial hat into the ring to be the next mayor. I have been here many years and have assisted in quelling uprisings from assailants terrestrial and elsewhere. In fact our current mayor has done next to nothing unless it is good PR for her and looks good on the news. In fact, her administrations draconian laws forced me to close prior businesses. I plan to work with those with and without superpowers do make this the best city for us all.
I, Sir Christopher Majestros Wainwright, hereby announce my candidacy for Mayor. As the CEO and majority owner of the Imperial Corporation, I have several years of experience running a Fortune 100 company and dealing with the ins and outs of government and diplomacy at multiple levels.
I pledge that if I am elected, I will create jobs, increase pay for our first responders and teachers, and I am committed to making Empire City a green city, with environmentally-friendly solutions for all of our city's needs.
Men and Women of Empire City, I speak to you today as someone who has come to our great city in the search of a new life, and who has come from nothing to own a very successful, if local, business. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and I know how hard you, the people of Empire, have to work to be successful in today's world. I also know how sick you are of empty promises from those who do not understand just how tough it is for those who aren't born lucky, for those who slip through the cracks. For those who the city has failed. And as I, Samantha Thorn, stand here I pledge that if I am elected Mayor I will see to it that we do not squander the gifts that our great city has wasted due to misfortune and bad circumstances. I propose that our cities rehabilitation programs need significant overhaul, that those forced to break the law to feed their family can find gainful employment in the betterment of our great city.
I also propose that Empire City accepts that is has a larger than average number of costumed vigilantes, and I say that they should be supported with every resource that the city has. For too long have those brave men and women volunteered themselves to protect us, and it is time that official assistance is offered to anyone who is willing to put on a costume, and stand up to be counted as a protector of Empire City.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to seeing you all again.
<To put it in plain: Samantha Thorn puts herself forward as a Mayoral Candidate>
Early last evening, Adele E. Schultz officially announced her candidacy for Mayor of Empire City at a derelict Seacourt factory. Demonstrating operational equipment within what she qualified as being 'city property,' the daughter of the late former State Senator Arnold Schultz and granddaughter of the late former Governor Ezekiel O. Schultz claimed to have a plan to use these and other neglected assets to modernize Empire City's law enforcement, describing it as being overdue, citing the emergence of what she calls "rogue AIs threatening the safety of the public." Accompanied by a projection of what appeared to be schematics of (among other things) humanoid robots, she stated that the first phase of that plan would be to launch a "a pilot project to make automated, compliant, uncorruptible support available to the brave men and women of our police force."
Prominent in the Schultz campaign is long established and yet virtually unknown political consulting firm Chroniver Strategy.
It is rare that a press conference takes place at a night club, but when the night club shares a name with the lady giving the press conference, it worked just fine. The conference took place inside, the press set up on the dance floor and an open bar ensuring their crews of cameramen, techies, and handlers were all quite buzzed. Most of the reporters, too. When Amelia came out, it was with the great fanfare of a superhuman, lightning dancing along her limbs, fluttering moths of galvanic energy circling her head as she took the podium.
“Ladies and gentlemen and otherwise of Empire City! I, Amelia, am officially announcing my mayoral campaign. After so long benefiting from the city's tireless civil servants, it is time I paid back the city with my own service, my experience. And my experience is vast. You could say I've tried everything at least once. To my fellow heroes and heroines, you all know me well, we've been together though times both rough and hard. To the city's villains that are still allowed to vote, while I know we've never been eye to eye in the past, you can be sure I want to find new ways to avoid our conflicts. I want to learn your needs and see to them, so to reduce the battles that rage through Empire. But the city is more than just heroes and villains! It's the common men and women and otherwise that make this city great. And you, too, I understand. I have been rich and I have been poor. I have owned and I have been ow... ed. I've been owed. That's what I was saying there. I want to see to the needs of the city!
My credentials for politics? How quickly people forget! Our beloved former Mayor Harley Quinn had me serving as her assistant Mayor. That's right! I served in the finest of political establishments, and I served well. There were never any complaints about my service. So now, I want to continue that service to Empire City and all of her lovely inhabitants.”
Blue Belle smiles for the cameras, Channel 4 and Circee as well as DDSTV, confident that she is the only candidate who can announce they are running from the backdrop of the mayor's office itself.
"Hello denizens. While my time as your knight mayor has been good, so good, I feel another term would allow me to complete the important work of making Empire City the beacon to the world it was always meant to be. I love Empire City. It is great, so great. As your knight mayor I have overseen an era of ever diminishing threats, from sea fauna invasions to haunted pools, from boneheads trying to set space on fire to cabbies trying to monopolize public transit. In fact only I could have created Mayoral Elite Meta Enforcement (MEME) to deal with those threats and any others that might arise like the moonshines of Samsonii in a thong or Longshot with a pair of tongs. And modesty aside I manage to look damn good while being extraordinarily upfront about it all! Yes, I love being your mayor and I want to be the Big Blue that rules forever and ever in the wake of the imminent singularity sure to be part of the next mayor's legacy. Fear not the dark mysts of the unknown. Sorcery and superstition are behind us. So give me that Belle lap and together we will take Empire City to unheard of new heights. It's going to be good, so good, as all know.
Belle, a fiery-haired brown-eyed schemer who came from a long line of drinkers and dreamers, smiles and flicks over a model lamppost on her desktop with one finger.
Ladies and Gentlemen! The time for Mayoral Candidates to step forth is now CLOSED! No more candidates will be allowed (unless I am suitably persuaded!).
So there we have it folks your next Mayor will be one of the following:
Adele E. Schultz
Amelia
Blue Belle
Christopher Wainwright
Max Voltage
Moontablet
Power Princess
Samantha Thorn
Xander Invictus
