Employment, Charity and Feeding the Poor. (famine related event)

(posters are raised about the city)

(ooc)

So the plan is to meet at eastvale (Buckholme for one day only) and RP! Anyone can come, if your char is not broke he may come as a charity if he feels so inclined. I am looking for a couple of helpers to run the event, All of you to trudge about the forest and most importantly to have fun and RP!

We will start in Eastvale (Buckholme) At 20-30 and take it from there with the fishing and slaughtering of bunnies/squirrals/wolves. We will finish with a small debrief in the village after which you are asked nicely to get off my land!

Will be making a calander invite, poke me for an add and poke your guildies to come along.

Not sure if I'll be avaliable on the actual night. But I would love to attend on Emberstone or Evalinn! .

Isn't Eastvale Dieudonne land?

Valestrion wrote:Isn't Eastvale Dieudonne land?

Dieudonne is gone.

Besides, as Lex said, he's only treating it as Buckholme for one day for the purpose of the event, not in general.

Saphra is comming I hope!

Lexgrad wrote:Saphra is comming I hope!

She might!

May a thief rob your food, unseen from your looking eyes? After all, you would be attending to the mass of workers, which leads your food supply open for the skilled thieves.

We are using Eastvale from time to time to but it doesnt matter, there's very limited space in Elwynn

Nice initiative.

May I make hats out of the squirrels fur? I've always loved those tails...

Not only are we gone.

In the same way Lex is using it for a day. We used it to 'represent' what we needed when we needed it. Otherwise Elwynn would very quickly fill up with 'claimed' land that is rarely used in practise.

Psst, Lex! You wrote October in your post.

Aleric wrote:Psst, Lex! You wrote October in your post.

Oops :!

Make sure you poke the guilds and your friends about this!

While I applaud the initiative to create an event that's a little different, there is one thing about this event that troubles me. This is entirely an OOC comment and does not, in any way, represent an official Disciples view that the poor and needy shouldn't be helped. However, this is about a famine. It isn't about the peasants suddenly being afflicted with a dose of laziness. The point about a famine is that food is in short supply. If the food were there, the peasants would still be able to feed themselves. So how does getting all willing people out hunting, fishing and gathering help? If the food isn't there, it won't achieve anything, and if the food is there, then people who need it probably don't need help to collect it.

Having said that, I am sure any Disciple who is available on Sunday evening will be willing to help with any initiative to help the poor and needy.

Valestrion wrote:While I applaud the initiative to create an event that's a little different, there is one thing about this event that troubles me. This is entirely an OOC comment and does not, in any way, represent an official Disciples view that the poor and needy shouldn't be helped. However, this is about a famine. It isn't about the peasants suddenly being afflicted with a dose of laziness. The point about a famine is that food is in short supply. If the food were there, the peasants would still be able to feed themselves. So how does getting all willing people out hunting, fishing and gathering help? If the food isn't there, it won't achieve anything, and if the food is there, then people who need it probably don't need help to collect it.

Having said that, I am sure any Disciple who is available on Sunday evening will be willing to help with any initiative to help the poor and needy.

The land and all the food in it isn't owned by the poor and needy but by the rich and wealthy. Hunting, fishing and gathering without a permission is a punishable crime. Sure, people will start taking that risk if/when the famine gets worse but for now most people will still probably just abide the law.

Lini wrote:

Valestrion wrote:While I applaud the initiative to create an event that's a little different, there is one thing about this event that troubles me. This is entirely an OOC comment and does not, in any way, represent an official Disciples view that the poor and needy shouldn't be helped. However, this is about a famine. It isn't about the peasants suddenly being afflicted with a dose of laziness. The point about a famine is that food is in short supply. If the food were there, the peasants would still be able to feed themselves. So how does getting all willing people out hunting, fishing and gathering help? If the food isn't there, it won't achieve anything, and if the food is there, then people who need it probably don't need help to collect it.

Having said that, I am sure any Disciple who is available on Sunday evening will be willing to help with any initiative to help the poor and needy.

The land and all the food in it isn't owned by the poor and needy but by the rich and wealthy. Hunting, fishing and gathering without a permission is a punishable crime. Sure, people will start taking that risk if/when the famine gets worse but for now most people will still probably just abide the law.

It is not there to suggest that there is a dose of lazyness about, It is not meant as a complete solution either; in essance it is a policy taken from any conservitives play book, ie the state helping you to help yourself. It has benifits other than feeding the poor squirral soup, with the prices of food rising it will allow those who support the state to earn a little bit more, it keeps people occupied (likely many will be doing it as a second job) meaning less time to cause trouble, and of cause makes crappy food for the starving. It will be the very poorest who starve first, likely cripples or old soldiers, the unemployed ect and it is they who the soup kitchens will be feeding, but the starvation level will soon rise to higher classes of SW society.

It is a famine, a failure of the farmed crops that causes this, It will affect the ecosystem of elwynn ofc but it doesnt mean the death of all creatures has occured! The work gangs will be looking for birds, stoats, mice, and ofc squirrels; anything that can be eaten really.

This is tonight! /w me for invites.

So.....anything left from the lords garden?

one deer was shot! But he decided arresting the DoL was bad for his image :p