Imperial Diet & Rules

**GeneralHankerchief** · 01-30-2011, 06:43

OOC: I second Imperial Charter 1.8.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 01-30-2011, 10:35

Kaiser Heinrich:

Electors walking out on me? Oh no! I've never had to deal with that before. Nevertheless, we carry on.

Elector der Bartige, I will deem you qualified to answer that question once you assume the Imperial Throne at age six, get kidnapped by an archbishop and get treated quite poorly, have the same archbishop's political machinations bite you in the ass when his backing of Pope plus his successor tries to break - and succeeds! - with nearly a thousand years of ecclesiastical tradition and tries to entirely shut you out of the Papal selection process, makes you look like a fool in front of the entirety of Europe by waiting for three days in the snow wearing nothing but a hairshirt for an audience just to save your empire from completely collapsing, see it nearly collapse anyway by scurrying across the Reich putting down local rebellions as they pop up, and finally triumphantly and decisively end a full-blown civil war and then get skewered in the Diet for the measures you take to save your country from plunging into anarchy.

*taking a deep breath* Phew! After looking back on that, I think I need another ten-year vacation. All of you should be happy that I'm coming back to save us at all.

**Cecil XIX** · 01-31-2011, 05:54

OOC: Helmet (

) raises a good point, so I have added the following (bolded for clarity):

OOC Rules Change 3.1: The following addition to the Imperial Charter is proposed:

*1.8 - If, during the course of a normal Diet session, a player with an avatar neither speaks in the Diet nor votes in the poll he will have his avatar removed from him and offered to a player without an avatar on a first-come-first-served basis. The player will be exempt from this rule for one Diet session if he gives advance warning of his absence.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 01-31-2011, 05:57

OOC: Not sure if it's required, but I second the amended Rule Change.

**phonicsmonkey** · 01-31-2011, 06:33

OOC: I second it too

**Zim** · 01-31-2011, 19:13

As the debate dies down and it becomes apparent he survived his first Diet unscathed, Helmut allows himself a brief sigh of relief and has his servant refill his wineglass.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 01-31-2011, 23:06

Kaiser Heinrich:

You there. Becker. What makes you think you're qualified to serve as Imperial Spymaster?

**GeneralHankerchief** · 04-01-2011, 05:41

Kaiser Heinrich:

Before this Diet session draws to a close, there is one other issue to discuss, and it is more of an administrative thing than anything else. As you all know, Lothar Zirn, while not being in a state of war with the Reich, is being uncooperative and therefore does not have a presence in this Diet. Now, I believe he is currently styling himself Count of Genoa, however, this is unfortunately not the case. I hereby invoke Charter Provision 6.11, specifically Clause 3:

The city of Frankfurt and its outlying province will become part of the newly-created Imperial Dominion. All newly-conquered cities become part of the Imperial Dominion until/unless the Kaiser grants them to a Duchy, as per Charter provision 6.6.

At this time I would like to announce that Genoa shall remain in the Imperial Dominion for the time being. God save the Reich.