Imperial Diet V

**Privateerkev** · 09-23-2007, 14:56

Jan tiredly pads into the Diet with his sleeping cap still on.

I hereby rescind CA 13.1. Please update the rolls. Thank you.

Jan stumbles back out, stubbing his toe on a pen left on the floor. His grumbling can be heard down the hall.

**econ21** · 09-23-2007, 16:16

Elberhard: This Diet session is closed. A poll will be posted shortly.

**TinCow** · 09-24-2007, 21:37

*Lothar Steffen storms in, knocking scribes and servants down with a loud clatter.*

What abomination is this?! Naples and Palermo given over to the Byzantines?! Bavaria fought long and hard for those lands! By all that is holy I will not see that Eastern Ponce's armies on Italian soil! This is a blatant betrayal of all of Bavaria! I will not stand for this! Byzantine armies can now freely camp within a few days march of Rome itself!

**GeneralHankerchief** · 09-24-2007, 21:41

Dietrich von Dassel:

Electors, I hope you're happy. Kaiser Siegfried has broken the record for quickly violating edicts set by Ulrich Hummel several years ago. Explicitly, I might add.

He has immediately gifted Palermo and Naples to the Byzantines as a "gesture of goodwill," completely ignoring the fact that that these are the same Palermo and Naples that CA 13.2 explicitly said were to be incorporated into the Reich! This jeopardizes the security of Bavaria to no end.

But I will not call for an Emergency Session. This was, after all, the Diet's decision to let this man run wild and endanger us all. So I'll continue to cheer on the Kaiser's tearing up of the Charter, cheer it on with the rest of you and hoot and holler as our Empire goes to Hell.

**OverKnight** · 09-24-2007, 22:03

Matthias pales at the mention of the gift of Palermo and Naples.

Kaiser Siegfried, with a stroke of a pen, has reversed 300 years or more of history and brought the Byzantines back into Italy. The sacrifices of my father and other Bavarians is wiped away. I don't know which is more absurd, this or the fact the Sicilians then attacked them. I suppose we'll have to dispatch an army in a few years to bail our "brothers" out.

Gifting far off provinces to the Greeks is one thing, but donating the southern half of Italy to them, right next to our capital, is another. No one in the Diet. . .

Matthias looks around marking a few faces.

. . .or at least most of the them did not know of this, or would have voted for the Kaiser's agenda if this insanity had been made clear.

This is Madness! I did not lead the Reich for forty years so it could be lopped up and given piecemeal to those who do not deserve it!

Oh, but we've had another letter from the Kaiser saying all is well. An honor that he has deigned to grace us with a letter!

Nothing good will come of this. I was a fool to belive it would, and to vote how I did.

Madness!

**Ferret** · 09-24-2007, 22:08

This is indeed absurd surely the Kaiser cannot hope to stay in power for long if he does such things without even mentioning them to the Duke of the House whose territories he is throwing away.
A knife in the dark may become reality if he carries on like this, I know a few who are capable of ordering such an act. (this last comment is said under his breath)

**GeneralHankerchief** · 09-24-2007, 22:12

Dietrich von Dassel:

And another thing. If our two Empires are to eventually re-unify - the definition implying that they are to become one - then what's the point of giving away provinces that we're going to get back? Answer me that, unless Emperor Isaac wants the negotations to proceed as difficult as possible for us!