<div class="floatleft">(https://pro2-bar-s3-cdn-cf6.myportfolio.com/acfc487f628999a8d795fd4e0bac95b4/7144f155-86a7-460e-be3c-29249aa92920_rw_1920.jpg?h=751cf9fdab3ea959a3579c38026e854e)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Valerian Izyumov  (http://url=https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=324631.msg15584949#msg15584949)<br/><strong>Timeline:</strong>Week three<br/><strong>Where:</strong>Guild District, various locations<br/><strong>Status:</strong>((Placeholder post))<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Nil<br/><hr/><br/>Like freshly-bloomed mushrooms springing up in the dewy dawn, posters and pamphlets crop up overnight, stacked on tavern tables or glued to walls in the district’s busier streets. The theme of these publications is straightforward: they call for the replacement of Vorla Copperstrike.<br/><br/>The overall tone is more sympathetic than spiteful. After all, Vorla was only ever intended to be an interim administrator until the next leader was appointed, and the woman herself makes no secrets that she’d rather be back at the forge instead of wrangling with bureaucracy. The publications state that Vorla’s patience and goodwill should not be taken for granted, and that the time has come to appoint a more permanent leader… or at least consider candidates in earnest. For once, the message is more about finding a solution rather than drumming up fear:<em>get the Guild District squared away, and then work can begin on the rest of the city</em>, that’s the message.<br/><br/>There is, of course, no saying what Vorla will think of the pamphlets and posters. For all the politeness and restraint, the writing carries a sharp inference that Vorla’s situation isn’t so different to Princess Red’s – both were appointed by accident, and neither have any interest in governance. It’s also clear that whoever authorised the publications has an agenda of their own; a change in leadership might be to everyone’s advantage (including Vorla’s), but there’s still an ulterior motive.<br/>