"Live and drink, Enmur speaking, potential purple league candidate. We've heard a lot of screeching from the harpy queen Aubrey, which is nothing new, baseless accusations without any proof. But lets have ourselves a little history lesson today and observe some facts.
Until recently I served the Pyramid as its Palatial Officer, most of you will probably ask yourself, what is a palatial officer, and as I am no loner employed in such a position I have no issue saying, I aided the Legates with problems the Fourth Couldn't solve, I kept an eye on people of concern.
One of these people was Buster Grimes.
So I will share with you now some or what you might know and some that you might not, it would only be right to know the facts before the citizens cast their votes right?
Lets start with the simple stuff, Buster Grimes as we all know started in the creep, that's where he formed his smuggling crew some of those who you will know today.
But that's not to say he was new to the desert life, arriving after the war he already had contacts such as the Mahaaja of Qadira, Skink seen making deliveries to him at Kadesler and having a friendly chat, we can only speculate what she might be delivering..
Then we've got his crew members, Vaskr Farsong, been charged for capital drug crimes, having large quantities of every drug you can imagine, including Shimmerdust provided to him by a brooker.
Peyton Monroe another drug addict, known to have consumed shimmerdust having dealt with this brooker smiley. Up and left, probably in some dark pit addled our her mind now.
Then the more sinister members of his crew- Drago the Gnome, who evades the law even to this day. So much so Buster betrayed his own crew member and handed him over to the Rose, searching his room and finding necromantic and brooking tools.
But before this they were good pals, working together with his drug smuggling during the scorch crisis, not many people know but Buster kept dozens of drawings stashed in multiple properties entitled SCORCH during this time, a bad joke or was he involved?
Buster was even charged by the Fourth Legion for smuggling after a raid on Vaskr's property where in a hidden lock-box of Buster's was found a stash of Accord members cloaks that he had purchased from the Raiders at the time and stored them.
The same people who now sing his praises, and yet what was he doing with those cloaks? The Orentid seem quite interested in collecting them. Is he one of them or just a good friend?
Is it a coincidence that every major crime reported during his time in Ephia's Well has his name come up? I'll let you decide that. But be sure that you really know this 'Man of the people' before you cast your vote. See what he has to say about any of this.
Suffice to say this is not a man who has Ephia's Wells interest at heard, just his own and his crews. Not a man that can be trusted. All the while I've been working to protect Ephia's Wells interests for the Pyramid, providing a valued serviced through the commerce of the trade hall.
I am invested in our future, who can say what he wishes to do with it. Something to challenge in the days ahead. Something to think about."
*more bellows later that day*
"Live and drink, Enmur potential candidate for the purple league here. As it seems I am not necessarily going to be able to find everyone in the league to speak on my campaign I will summarise my plans over the bellows but I'll still endeavour to meet with those I can.
Economically, the well is doing quite well but there are some changes I would look to make. There is much waste from the treasury on unnecessary titles that exist only in name to pay peoples friends, I am interested in rewarding those who contribute to the well, so I willl abolish many of these.
Voice cost will increase to ten thousand dinars, property tax will be reduced to 5% and board tax will come down to between 10-15%. Allotment will be increased to reflect to additional income of the state.
I will allow government sanctioned delving to resume working with the fourth legion to organise necessary protections, we must be ready for what is coming and ignoring it is not the answer.
I'll make it a priority to commit more resources to the new district, we need these new walls up as soon as possible. We need to be ready if Qa'im becomes more bold and the sand gate is a major weakness right now, I would see it turned to a strength.
I'll work with the Synod and priesthood to promote the faith and our ideals in Arslan so that they might acclimate to our ways, as well as promoting trade with our existing allies to strengthen our ties.
I'll commit more resources to initiatives such as the stockades and other such initiatives that protect the influx of refugees that make up the bulk of our population and help us grow. They must be protected until we can house them.
And I will change the bounty on Valeria to dead or alive. Let her presence no longer be tolerated, she'll be routed from her hole and justice will be served for her victims when her head parts from her body.
Despite what some of you may think, I've no issues with the Cinquefoil Rose, and I will work with them, they are an important part of our home, the are just unfortunately infested with some loud misinformed voices of late. Anything else you wish to ask of me, I'll be about the league offices."