Utherwood
WIP DO NOT MAKE OFFICIAL UNTIL THIS MESSAGE IS ERASED
James DeFonz had called a Jury-Council meeting. The offender in question was Jack-Jhon, the fattest of the town residents.
Jack-Jhon:
He was accused of robbing the town food stores. After a 20-minute fit of crying, he pleaded guilty and was sent to 300 hours of community service and decreased rations for 3 weeks. He bawled about the rations, and had to be removed by the Internal Police Force Chief Gregory Fredricks, who doubled as Court-Martial.
Police Chief Gregory Fredricks:
This is how I wake up...bawling civilians and a 3-week food crisis. The fat bastard. I think I'll ask Jane to put him on sewage plumbing...
No time for malicious thoughts, I have a meeting.
After the brief disruption, The Council was called the decide the goals of the settlement. Such meetings happened every month, and James rather enjoyed them.
Transcript uses initials:
JD: James DeFonz
GF: Internal Police Chief Gregory Fredricks
JW: Councilwoman Jane Waterman, Secretary of Government Services
EW: Councilman Edgar Waterman, Secretary of Resource Allocation
DB: Councilman Donald Barbon, Secretary of Defense
VH: Councilwoman Veronica Hickory, Secretary of the Citizenry
JS: Councilwoman Jamie Scoutsman, Secretary of Internal Maintenance
Steelwolfe Hall, April 18, 10 in the Years After the Initial Apocalypse
JD: I call this 'ere meeting't to order!
JD: What are yall's initial statements?
[General Commotion]
JD: Listen 'ere! We going' clockwise! Chief Fredricks?
GF: Crime is on the rise. As our town grows, people seem to be takin' 'vantage o'er the situation. Why, thats 5 days in a row we've had us a morning' sentencin'.
JD: And yer proposed solution?
GF: We need a larger internal police. We are only 5 strong at the moment.
EW: You realize that is 10% of our total population? And 46% of our population is permanently employed by the government? We can't afford to have that number i'crease, as I fear our losing' of our markets.
GF: [Yells] We can't afford to keep losin' our food stores! Fuck the markets!
JS: Gregory is right. Our stores have reported a 150% incline in criminal activity concerning' then since we absorbed Woodville.
JD: Enough! My Executive Decision is as follows: Our long-term goal will be increasin' civil authority by means of keeping a po'potional police force and better equipping them. Stricter punishments and the establishment of a penal mine to replace community service will be necessary.
JD: Other proposals?
EW: Scavengin' will need to continue, as usual. I propose settin' Team Gamma as a permanent Scavengin' Corps.
[General agreement]
JD: Agreed.
DB: We have been sufferin' increased attacks from the south lately. Mine and Veronica's polls say our citizens want a wall. We have some barbed wire sitting' round at the stores. It would just take 'round 5 days to enclose us, offering' better 'section is probably' worth it, I reckon.
JD: Opposition?
[Silence]
JD: Agreed.
JD: Then that settles it, we'll get up a Penal Mine
DeFonz went to his desk, sifted through the files and found the complaint registry.
Projects:
•Team Alpha (3 available personnel)
•Mountain Scouting-3 assigned
•Priority I: Scouting for defensible positions to erect a new military headquarters
•Priority II: Scouting for additional mining locations and perhaps a suitable placing for a penal camp.
•Priority III: Scavenging for food stores
•Provisions: Large Tent, 9 day rations, 3 winter uniforms, 3 pistols (300 rounds of ammo), 3 large sacks, Campfire
•ETA: 3 days
•Team Beta (3 available personnel)
•Team Gamma (3 available personnel)
•Team Delta (3 available personnel)
