Yeudi Conclave

[GreekIdiot]

Catherine Benowitz

She blinked in surprise at the nonchalant words of the Canrillaise. Abruptly zooming out from the scorching anguish she felt inside looking at the Archduke a mere moment ago, as if nothing else had existed.

She turned and looked at the noble Canrillaise, remembering suddenly of the nature of long-games.

She looked at Tzafrir, Aristocrat and Keshef, who still gazed at her in tremendous disbelief at the treasonous words of the Jelbic Banmek-Sntazed. For they would hold this bargaining chip forever upon them all.

And then she met the eyes of Hannah Kadiyot; her sister, the murderer, the monster.

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Vote for the Goldblooms? For they could not stop the schemings of the Kadiyots and the Jelbic, who so casually just threatened to undo thousands and thousands of years of efforts, and who would continue to hold the leverage.

Vote for the Canrillaise? They might stop the Kadiyots but the Jelbic would continue to have the leverage.

Vote for the Luthorians? 

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With the deal in place and HLE's foreign policy influenced by the Benowitz House directly, they themselves could stop the Kadiyots. But would the Jelbic actually do it? Prop the Kadiyots up with the return of the Gems and give them the platform they have coveted for thousands of years?

For if they did, and she cast her vote to the OVAs, the drums of war would echo in the Western Hemisphere. For the only way to stop what the Kadiyots would start one day, would be to prep an opposing empire, one day, and wage war against Yishelem, one day.

Against Amudim. Against the 3rd Point Federation.

And against West Majatra.

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She smiled wearily, for this fight was lost, and opened her mouth.

The Benowitz House; of the Kadmonim; we, the second born of Elior...

[Kubrick]

As the Benowitz began to speak the Archduke was baffled. This woman must be mad, calling his bluff. Without a second thought he grabbed the whiskey glass from nephew Pawl's hands and threw it against the wall behind them. With a great bang and shatter the glass went everywhere. Bemused, startled, and surprised faces turned to him - before the Benowitz woman could speak again he snapped his fingers at his aide. 

Juhn, Archduke of Banstill

PHONE! Now! Get the Politburo of the WJZR on the line, I have a surprise to inform the Secretary-General about.

[Autokrator]

Robert Saint-Cyr de Thiers, Representative of the Orléans-Vasser Dynasty of The Empire of Canrille, The Beiteynuese Homeland, and the Kingdom of Egelion.

Stares around at everyone in the room, pauses, and says with a deep Canrillaise accent:

Where are the refreshments?

As the Benowitz began to speak the Archduke was baffled. This woman must be mad, calling his bluff. Without a second thought he grabbed the whiskey glass from nephew Pawl's hands and threw it against the wall behind them. With a great bang and shatter the glass went everywhere. Bemused, startled, and surprised faces turned to him - before the Benowitz woman could speak again he snapped his fingers at his aide. 

Juhn, Archduke of Banstill

PHONE! Now! Get the Politburo of the WJZR on the line, I have a surprise to inform the Secretary-General about.

The tention in the room is high, you could cut anything with the sharness of this tention in the room. With a speech given, a whiske y glass thrown against a wall and shouts for a phone the mood in the Conclave was everything but pleasant, for some that is. At that very moment the word ''phone'' left the word of the Archduke a woman entered the room. She was a woman near the age of retirement, a veteran of many conferences and clearly someone who doesnt give a damn anymore. She entered with a cart of drinks and snacks, afterall how could this Conclave reach a conclusion without refreshments? After she entered the room she clearly saw she misread the situation and that she entered at a very unoppertune time.

Judy:

Goodafternoon we'll be bringing in... ohhh. Pardon is this a bad time for refreshments?  

She looked around the room and saw the broken glass, she wispered into the ear of a young collegue who was easily impressed by the situation and said ''I aint cleaning that up''.

[Ligbruderkrieg]

Robert Saint-Cyr de Thiers, Representative of the Orléans-Vasser Dynasty of The Empire of Canrille, The Beiteynuese Homeland, and the Kingdom of Egelion.

Stares around at everyone in the room, pauses, and says with a deep Canrillaise accent:

Where are the refreshments?

As the Benowitz began to speak the Archduke was baffled. This woman must be mad, calling his bluff. Without a second thought he grabbed the whiskey glass from nephew Pawl's hands and threw it against the wall behind them. With a great bang and shatter the glass went everywhere. Bemused, startled, and surprised faces turned to him - before the Benowitz woman could speak again he snapped his fingers at his aide. 

Juhn, Archduke of Banstill

PHONE! Now! Get the Politburo of the WJZR on the line, I have a surprise to inform the Secretary-General about.

The tention in the room is high, you could cut anything with the sharness of this tention in the room. With a speech given, a whiske y glass thrown against a wall and shouts for a phone the mood in the Conclave was everything but pleasant, for some that is. At that very moment the word ''phone'' left the word of the Archduke a woman entered the room. She was a woman near the age of retirement, a veteran of many conferences and clearly someone who doesnt give a damn anymore. She entered with a cart of drinks and snacks, afterall how could this Conclave reach a conclusion without refreshments? After she entered the room she clearly saw she misread the situation and that she entered at a very unoppertune time.

Judy:

Goodafternoon we'll be bringing in... ohhh. Pardon is this a bad time for refreshments?  

She looked around the room and saw the broken glass, she wispered into the ear of a young collegue who was easily impressed by the situation and said ''I aint cleaning that up''.

Theodore Harrington, Luthorian Plenipotentiary to the Holy Land

No, quite the opposite in fact, I join my Canrillaise colleague in the fact that we need some refreshments, that Conclave has been quite...tiring, I wonder if others delegates agree as well?

He glances at Catherine with a look saying: "Don't mess this up", before coming to take a can of Rocc-Cola.

"Rocc Cola, the finest and most refreshing drink to ever exist...", he glances to the Thallers with a mocking smile.

[GreekIdiot]

Catherine Benowitz

Catherine's thoughts trailed off - she was still looking at the Archduke. The Jelbic elder was wearing an expression of threatening smugness, holding out his hand still expecting the phone. His stare was so intense it made her blood boil.

An extremely out-of-place sensation captured the room with the commotion around the refreshments. Her mind trailed off even further, remembering how 1 of the 8 Gems was already in Yishelem thanks to the House of Orange-Villayn-Armstead.

Now the Banmek-Sntazeds were threatening to return 4 more.

1, in the hands of Thallers in N&D - way too close. And dangerously aligned with Wiel. With the very real possibility of 6 of the 8 Gems at the hands of the Kadiyots, they would take over the hearts of the Yeudi People so deeply and broadly, there would be no coming back from that.

1, locked away in Kalistan thanks to those backstabbing Kundratijan Hulaneveks. Cunnington Marit's brilliant move turned into a nightmare.

And 1 still in Luthori; her deepest belief that the Holy Gem would never return to the Holy Land now shaken.

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There was only one way. A painful way. An unthinkable way.

Destroy them. Destroy them all.

The Benowitz House casts its support to the Goldbloom House.

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September 5636

Votes cast (in desc. succession order):

1. Banmek-Sntazed (West Majatra) @Kubrick - Goldbloom
   
2. Orange-Villayn-Armstead (Luthori) @Lig - Orange-Villayn-Armstead
   
3. Orleans-Vasser (Lourenne) @Louis - Orleans-Vasser
   
4. Goldbloom (Sholemberg) @Nick - Goldbloom
   
5. Aristocrat (East Majatra) @GreekIdiot - Orleans-Vasser
   
6. Thaller (N&D) @Mbites - Goldbloom
   
7. Arev (Pontesi) @MrFacts
   
8. Kadiyot (of the Kadmonim, Yishelem) @GreekIdiot - Orange-Villayn-Armstead
   
9. Benowitz (of the Kadmonim, Central Artania) @GreekIdiot - Goldbloom
   
10. Debua (Rildanor) @Louis - Orleans-Vasser
    
11. Tzafrir (West Majatra) @GreekIdiot - Goldbloom
    
12. Keshef (North Seleya) @GreekIdiot - Orange-Villayn-Armstead
    

New succession order (by votes cast and in desc. order):

1. Goldbloom (Sholemberg) @Nick - 5
   
2. Orange-Villayn-Armstead (Luthori) @Lig - 3
   
3. Orleans-Vasser (Lourenne) @Louis - 3
   
4. Banmek-Sntazed (West Majatra) @Kubrick
   
5. Aristocrat (East Majatra) @GreekIdiot
   
6. Thaller (N&D) @Mbites
   
7. Arev (Pontesi) @MrFacts
   
8. Kadiyot (of the Kadmonim, Yishelem) @GreekIdiot
   
9. Benowitz (of the Kadmonim, Central Artania) @GreekIdiot
   
10. Debua (Rildanor) @Louis
    
11. Tzafrir (West Majatra) @GreekIdiot
    
12. Keshef (North Seleya) @GreekIdiot
    

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It is thus decreed that the new Yeudi Monarch of the Yeudi People and the Holder of the Throne of Yishelem and the Yeudi Crown of 8 Gems shall come from the honourable Goldbloom House of the Sholemberg Nisrad. Tov yoter lehoulam!

Yishelem, 
Yishelem Nisrad, 
Holy Pillars of Amudim, Union of Nisrads
September 5636

[GreekIdiot]

April 5666

Under the reign of the Yeudi Monarch of the Yeudi People, Holder of the Yeudi Crown of 8 Gems and the Throne of Yishelem, King and Protector of the Yeudi Homeland and the Faith of Yeudism; of the Aristocrat-Goldbloom House,

We, of the House of Elior, initiate this Yeudi Conclave,

To decide upon the fate of the Yeudi Monarchy, following the dismantling of the last traces of local and central governance over the Holy Land of Yishelem, as decreed upon by the Nisrads of Amudim.

The descending order of succession is, as follows:

1. Aristocrat-Goldbloom (Sholemberg) @Nick
   
2. Orange-Villayn-Armstead (Luthori) @Lig
   
3. Orleans-Vasser (Lourenne) @Louis
   
4. Banmek-Sntazed (West Majatra) @Kubrick
   
5. Aristocrat (East Majatra) @GreekIdiot
   
6. Thaller (N&D) @Mbites
   
7. Arev (Pontesi) @MrFacts
   
8. Kadiyot (of the Kadmonim, Yishelem) @GreekIdiot
   
9. Benowitz (of the Kadmonim, Central Artania) @GreekIdiot
   
10. Debua (Rildanor) @Louis
    
11. Tzafrir (West Majatra) @GreekIdiot
    
12. Keshef (North Seleya) @GreekIdiot
    

The floor is given to the Houses of Thaller and Banmek-Sntazed.

Tov yoter lehoulam.

[Mbites]

It is certainly possible to argue if there was such a thing as normalcy in regards to the sessions of the Conclave, but if there was such a thing, this episode wouldnt be normal. If memory serves correctly it traditionally has been held in dignified old buildings under strict secrecy and places of neutrality. None of this held true this time. While yeudi symbolism was clearly visible, it was modern and the decadent venerable parts of the halls which housed this here conclave where decorated with motives of global Thaller or Triad capital. Flags of the Dual Republic, the Dual Monarchy and finally banners of the Triad Republics of Narikaton, Darnussia and Himmelshtern occupy the walls of the room. The journey here while secretive made it clear that they were sitting nowhere neutral, it was clearly a place of power of a select group of people. The armed guards were communicating in a difficult to understand mixture of Narik and Dundorfian and neither their gestures nor their looks offered any security to those unfamiliar with the place. 

Ullermann Thaller, Head of the Thaller Main branch, CEO of Thaller Industries, Triad Republic Director of Foreign Affairs in Majatra, Head of the SASa

Most honorable families of the Conclave, my fellow representatives of the House of Elior, Stakeholders of the Yeudi Diasphora, in these times we have witnessed a good deed upon this Terra. A univesal justice has been executed, and with it a prime evil has been defeated. Recent developments concerning the borders of the city states has just finalized the process of ushering in an era of peace. We've gathered you here for a conclave, a conclave to continue on this path toward harmony and eternal peace for the yeudi people. The people, that have been freed of the yoke that the prophecy of the 8th homeland has perpetuated for centuries. Words uttered, Oaths interpretated, a people failed. It is time to end a charade, we've come here to conclude and offer. Conclude that it is an universal or rather evident truth that the people of Narikaton, Darnussia and Himmelshtern are the sword and shield of the yeudi people, and that the president, the highest office in those lands, is the wielder of these tools for the prosperity and security of the yeudi faith.

Our proposal, a proposal of great value to those that need it, is to definitly and finally tie the destiny of all these peoples together, a tie that shall be represented by a person. The President of the Triad, shall be the Yeudi monarch, and it shall always be one of yeudi heritage, be it faith of blood. We now lay this important debate at your feet my honorable representatives. May Elior, the yeudi people, the ancestors and all that have given their lives for the cause, look upon us graciously. 

[GreekIdiot]

Lily Benowitz, CEO of Hadayim

The Benowitz House casts its support. Yishelem is now a heritage sight, there to remind us of history and faith; and nothing more. We must look to the future of the 4 Pillars and dedicate ourselves to the Neset.

[Kubrick]

The WJZR had sent a delegation too, stiff men and women in sombre suits with pins that showed a globe on fire had entered the modern hall. Party men, any Jelbic could tell them apart. They looked like missionaries going door to door. There were two other men with them that did not wear the pins, and their suits were clearly designer too. One of them was a lax looking younger guy, some might recognise him from a recent gossip magazine article. The other was older, stern, a weathered face that had seen it all.

The Jelbic delegation spoke intensely amongst themselves, with the leader mostly deferring to the men in expensive suits. Finally, after being given a rough nudge from the elder Jelbic he spoke. The younger one had a big smirk on his face as this happened.

Jarg Hukrskez'lkjo, chief delegate of the WJZR

Esteemed delegates, comrades,

The Worldburnerist People's Republic of Wrnuke is a staunch defender of international democracy... the.. (clears throat) The proposal to reform the monarch of the Yeudi people into a more ceremonial role, and to combi- combine it with the existing role of President of the Triad is satisfactory. As the protectors of the Yeudi gems in Wiel, we have coordinated with the Banmek-Sntazed family who have given their full support for this proposal.

..But.. They are requesting that the next elected President of the Triad to serve as representative of the Yeudi people officially acknowledge the Yeudi people as descendants of the Jelbic peoples... and that any unused regalia and historical artefacts are to be transferred to charities and societies in the Jelbosphere for public display--they are calling this a.. return of property.

Thank you.

[GreekIdiot]

There were several gasps. Even Lily Benowitz could not master hiding a momentary grimace, like she was slapped in the face. Save but the Tzafrir, who was a proud Jelbic-Yeudi himself from Rishon Le Hofesh.