[OOC] This thread is for players in the King of the Romans PBM to post in character public deliberations in the Imperial Diet. All out of character debate should be conducted in the OOC thread.
The Diet has two main functions: to elect a Chancellor, who manage the Empire, and to pass Edicts that will direct the Chancellor.
The Diet will be chaired by the Kaiser or the Diet Speaker. The Prinz may deputise if both are unavailable.
Edicts need to be formally proposed as follows:
Edict 11.1This House directs the Chancellor to occupy Hamburg.
where 11.1 refers to the first proposed edict of the eleventh session of the Diet.
Edicts need two seconders (who should explicitly use the word "second" when supporting a motion) before they can be put to the vote. Where edicts conflict, the one with more votes takes precedence.
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List of edicts and charter amendments proposed in the Eleventh Diet
Edict 11.1: The Chancellor is ordered to immediately request a Crusade with Jerusalem as the target. Regardless of whether the Crusade is approved or not, at least one full-sized army is to be sent to retake the Holy City of Jerusalem post-haste. After capture, the city is to be immediately given to the Pope.
Proposed: Conrad Salier
Seconders: Jan von Hamburg, Anselhelm
Edict 11.3:This Edict will be a complete copy of Edict 10.4
An expeditionary force will march on Moscow, via Russian - not Polish - provinces (Riga, Novogorod etc). It must engage any enemy field armies it meets along the way, but only besiege Moscow. It will consist of a single stack and will not be reinforced except from locally recruited mercenaries. Moscow will be sacked and abandoned, although no buildings will be destroyed.
Next to that this Edict will continue through Diet Sessions and even though Moscow might not have been taken by 1280 the crusade will go on till it has been taken.
Proposed: Anselhelm
Seconded: Duke Arnold, Conrad Salier
Edict 11.4: A suitable bride will be sought out for Duke Arnold to ensure the ancestral house of Austria and the structure of the Reich remain as designed by out forefathers.
Duke Arnold has the right of refusal on any proposals.
Proposed: Duke Arnold
Seconded: Anselhelm, Sigismund von Mahren
(Ducal Edict)Edict 11.5: The Hungarian Capital of Bran will be taken by Austrian forces and be lead by a general of House Austria.
Proposed: Duke Arnold
Seconded: Karl Zirn, Sigismund von Mahren
Charter Amendment 11.1 (Previously Edict 11.2): The four dukes and King Salier shall meet and discuss the events Siegfried's ascencion to the throne as well as any questions of any legitamacy. Afterwards a vote shall be cast on whether he will be allowed to retain his throne
Proposed: Friedrich Scherer
Seconded: Duke Arnold, Gerhard Steffen
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Diet Speaker: Now that the Second Emergency Diet Session has ended, we await the results of the impeachment vote against Chancellor Hummel with bated breadth.
If the Chancellor is impeached, Kaiser Jobst has indicated that he will exercise his royal perogative and become Chancellor in his place.
Regardless of who is Chancellor, the current state of the Reich is recorded in the following scrolls:
A Swabian page runs into the Diet with an ashen expression on his face.
Mein lords, Ulrich Hummel has perished fighting the Turks! It appears that he could not bear the humiliation of impeachment and decided to die fighting.
His son, Wolfgang Hummel, was with him as he charged the Turks. Due to his bravery, the Reich managed to defeat Ulrich's slayers.
The page rushes out of the Diet.
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"Oh, how I wish we could have just one Diet session where the Austrians didn't spend the entire time complaining about something." Fredericus von Hamburg
Sigismund von Mahren is stunned. He pauses for a moment, expecting someone to say something. Eventually he rises.
Regardless of how he conducted himself in life, Ulrich Hummel his died an honorable death. No more shall I speak ill of him, for the manner in which a man chooses to end in life speaks for than any single moment in which he lived it. I will join his son Wolfgang in honoring the loss of this servant of the Reich.
I also propose that the Diet observe a moratorium on critiscism of the Count, though I doubt that there are any men here who's words would not be tempered by such an event. Let the Lord be the only one to judge him from here on. Godspeed.
I have said many bad things about Ulrich Hummel in this Diet. I have demanded his head, called him a pig, a fool, and a toad's wart. However, his death troubles me deeply and forces me to reconsider his life - he was a powerful man, consumed by ambition. The story of Ulrich Hummel (OOC: iggy - you should write a life's story in the stories thread, it'd be sweet. hummel has the most interesting story of all) is a true tragedy, but I am sure that dying in battle was the death he desired, rather than bearing impeachment on his shoulders for the rest of his long life. It is a true tragedy when one so young must go.
Last edited by gibsonsg91921; 06-30-2007 at 17:23.
The late Emperor Peter von Kastilien the Tyrant, Lamm der Wahrheit.
I'd like to request that Lord Zirn, be given command of an army in the East. He is a full knight of the Reich and a loyal and patient servent of the empire. As the only representative of Austria in the east I'd like to point out that Lord Zirn has, up until this time, been given command of zero forces and been involved in zero battles.
He is near Wolfgang Hummel and the army being apparently made for him. I find this difficult to understand as the young Hummel is unknighted and therefore unable to lead the Reich's armies into battle at this time.
I would request this is changed as soon as possible Kaiser.
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