An Intro:
Howdy Rejects. I'm Salem, our resident black cat.
For an introduction about myself and my time on NS, I joined the game back in 2017 and got involved in a Star Wars region despite knowing zero about Star Wars. I eventually settled into The Black Hawks and Osiris. In TBH I joined the Council of Hawks and my primary focus was building up a community such as coming up with community events and helping create an active region that would appeal to the newbies. I probably trained most of the recruits TBH saw over the course of 2 or 3 years. In Osiris, I started off as the Vizier of Gameside Affairs, then Chief Vizier, then Pharaoh (WA Delegate). Since putting my primary focus into TRR, I mainly focused on the cultural side of things - Popmaster, movie nights, Jackbox game nights in the beginning. I eventually felt comfortable enough with my time on the defender side of NS to run for Foreign Affairs Officer last year and during my time as Officer of Foreign Affairs TRR we saw the scandal with Europeia and the Aegis Accords.
So basically - I've put too much time into this game and here I am trying to put more time into it.
General Delegayte Shit
If elected, three general tasks to do:
- Audit the department channels. There's not any harm being done by it, but I also don't see the need to keep people in channels when there hasn't been participation in over a year. Anyone who doesn't respond to a roll call will be demasked (but can obviously re-apply whenever)
- Work on updating resources for the region. I intend to keep an active eye out on our citizen applications, and that includes making sure new citizens have accurate and updated resources. One of our Gameside dispatches still lists that we use IRC!
- Move to Cudreobar at the end of the term.
Foreign Affairs:
Right now I feel like TRR needs to have some conversations about our FA goals and directions as a region. Do we want to reach out to more frontiers? Finally archive some of the old embassies that haven't been touched in years? Reach out to some older and more distant allies we haven't done much with to see what we can do to reignite friendship? Close some of our older embassies that we haven't had communication with in a while? I'd like to have the assembly be more in tune and in the know with our FA decisions.
While we’re having those broad discussions, I do have some specific regions that I would like to work with -
This weekend I’m running a Barbie day with The Grey Wardens and the South Pacific. I’ve been in communication with Declansburg and we have the intention to do a gameday together. I joined the Discords of Community, Carcassonne, and the Wellspring that we do have embassies with, but I’ve also popped into frontiers we don’t currently share embassies with in order to look out for future frontiers we can partner with. Actively partnering with our friends has been important to me and will continue to be.
World Assembly wise - Obviously the delegate votes in accordance with the citizens, but I'll make sure to be active in approving proposals and helping vote stomp proposals that are promoting our defender ideals.
To the citizens reading this, you have my promise any major FA policy changes that may present themselves will be done with a conversation with our citizens.
And to the foreigners peeking into our election, feel free to reach out. Whatever conflicts may have been had in the past - through TRR or otherwise, I'm happy to talk. I'm here for the Rejected Realms, so whether it's needing a proposal approved or stomped, to schedule an event, or to talk through any concerns, I'm here to listen.
Culture:
Following a 3am admin ping, the events feature on TRR is now enabled and I’d like us to start regularly using it. The #announcements channel will still be utilized, but hopefully the events feature will bring about more participation.
I am a college student, I work horrible hours, and I often sleep 10/12 hours a day. So I'm not going to promise any crazy culture events - but I can at least keep the basics going or help facilitate getting the basics started back up again. I've run movie nights, game nights, and popmasters before in the past. Theme Tuesday is something easy we can re-start up (biweekly though, preferably). At some point I'd love to do a Battle of Discord Pins. Submit your favorite Discord pin and we'll do a bracket of which pin is the best (kinda like the quote of the year, but a bit more interactive!). Werewolf is thankfully and appreciatively being run by Miravana consistently right now.
Outreach/Gameside:
For starters, I despise our RMB. But my hope is we can reach out to our natives more in telegrams. Recently I sent out a telegram to TRR asking them to help out with our defender efforts and we had multiple Rejects join Libcord to participate. Telegramming them works.
~ When endotarting, I'll be sending telegrams to WA nations asking back for their endorsement and letting them know about our Discord and what we offer off-site.
~ Regional telegrams will be utilized more. My current plan is to found a specific nation to use for endorsement campaigns, that way if natives decide to block the generic endorsement campaign nations they can still receive more relevant telegrams about regional happenings.
~ -non-WA nations will be telegrammed beginning of every month asking them to join the World Assembly & join off-site. I look forward to the angry telegrams back, and I will personally telegram every "fuck off", "suck my dick!!1!!", and generic slurs a "yo mama". Very professional shit here.
~ WA nations will be telegrammed every six weeks asking them to endorse the delegate if they haven't done so already and to join off-site.
For all encompassing regional telegrams sent with the delegate nation, I plan on telegramming the region about upcoming elections such as the Officer and the Speaker election April 1st. Hopefully we can get some deputy officers in and hopefully find someone to be a deputy speaker.
The RRA can get some love too for a recruitment campaign.
Overall, I'm gonna annoy some nerds. Telegrams can be blocked if they're truly an annoyance, but if we can get some more activity off-site that'd be beneficial for us long term - we need it.
Conflicts of Interest
I'm in Osiris as a Guardian, Priest, and admin. My role as Guardian I’ll be stepping down from Feb 1st. Priests in Osiris just make sure actions taken by the Pharaoh are legal and then help with court cases should the need arise.
In Conclusion
TRR is a special region. We're older than some of the players in the region, we have no working ban button, and we have our own special quotespeak. I personally switched here in 2021. I had just "retired"* as the Pharaoh of Osiris and on the Council of Hawks when I had messaged our CitCo and RRA Commanders about the opportunity of doing an alt here to explore my transgender identity. On an OOC level, I was given the chance to explore my identity in a safe environment. On an IC level, I was given the trust of joining the RRA despite my extensive raider past. Eventually I was trusted to be your Foreign Affairs Officer. And I hope to have your vote and trust to be your next delegate.
Happy to take any questions and happy to snark at any French people.
- Salem
* got retired lmao