My fellow citizens...
Many of you know me as someone who loves role play and world building. It is the combination of my love for rp and the people who I've grown to know over the years that keeps bringing me back to this region. And it makes me proud to see a region I've been part of for so long develop such a robust and healthy role play and world building tradition.
It is in that spirit that I address you all tonight. I would like to address the Taijitu-aligned IRC channel #Taijitu_Taverns on the EsperNet server. I would like to quote the room description...
"Taijitu's worldbuilding, art, writing, and tabletop game discussions only channel | Check the userlist. Is Delfos here? RP TALK ONLY"
Now the friendly jab at Citizen Delfos aside, it seems clear that the channel is meant for role play discussion. I have been made aware of some unpleasantness associated with the room in my absence. I was not here, I cannot speak to it nor condemn anyone who was involved.
I only mention it because I feel that incident makes the rehabilitation of the channel and its reputation all the more urgent. The region has a robust rp tradition. The Wiki has a world building guide. We have an entire subforum dedicated to world building and rp planning. It only makes sense to return #Taijitu_Tavern to what it is supposed to be. A Taijitu-aligned IRC channel dedicated to RP planning and discussion.
I move that we, as a body, enact legislation to codify the IRC channel #Taijitu_Tavern to as the region's official RP discussion room on IRC. No offence meant to any other Taijitu citizen, but we role players should have a space to call our own on IRC. To have that Taijitu-aligned room that we can say "this is where we go to engage in Taijitu the way we like." #Taijitu_Tavern already fulfills that need in theory. Just not practice. I propose we rectify that.
My suggestion would be to place the channel under the authority of the Citizen-Liaison, as I feel that Taijitu RP and world building qualify as "cultural" institutions of the region.