Squid Island Town Hall

The Town Hall of Squid Island is the central inaugural place of the Squid Island Mayor. It has a variety of features, such as a voting system that even has King Glowey I included. It was originally conceived by Jelly, after his temple was completely demolished by Crainer and Slogo and replaced it with Crainer’s Sand Castle, in order to prevent severe trolls in future and bring authority to Squid Island.
==Background==
After Crainer had won his boxing match with Jelly to settle their dispute, from when Jelly dumped lava into his mine and made him lose everything he had equipped, Crainer took all of Jelly’s possessions from the chest before the two made an agreement to not troll eachother. Despite this however, Crainer was jealous that Jelly’s smaller, less useful farm was acting as the community farm, despite his larger, more diverse farm behind his house called the Community Farm. He figured that it was due to the house directly behind it, and thus decided to move out and demolish his old house and construct an underwater house near the eastern coast of the island. He then quickly realized that it was a terrible decision and made it harder for himself, and that he also technically moved out of Squid Island. With this knowledge, he decided to contact Slogo to help demolish Jelly’s Temple in order to build his new house in the same location . This severely depleted the morale of Jelly to keep recording, and considered quitting, but decided to stay from the immense support he received, after Slogo helped improve his house, after Crainer generously gifted him valuables, and after he had a Eureka moment to know how to prevent trolls like these ahead of time. This was to have someone in charge of Squid Island outside of King Glowey that actually did something and that could establish authority; a democracy. He discussed this idea with Jelly and Slogo, and they quickly obliged, settling a plot to construct the Town Hall to conduct these new laws and mayoral elections.
==Construction==
===Construction process===
Slogo didn’t come up with the concept in general, though brought up the concept of a town hall for a mayor. This came into fruition, and they quickly settled on building the town hall in the northern forest highlands not very far from the main town. They quickly used this location, going through a cave and connected to a path made from birch planks laid out and built by Jelly and mostly Crainer to build a stone pathway leading to the hall, originally set to be made of stairs before being changed to slabs due to the stairs being too narrow. At this point, numerous trees were cut down in order to prevent construction interference. Jelly and Crainer later used the leftover birch planks to begin laying out the structure and shale of the building, with Slogo occasionally giving feedback and helping out here and there, mainly for the systems and mechanisms the building employs. Jelly's main job was to build out the exterior, with help from Crainer, helping out with interior work, some exterior work and part of the architecture and design.
===Design===
The bottom two layers are made of birch planks, with the top layers consisting of variations of stone brick, namely stone brick and stone brick stairs, leading to a flattened roof with a glass panel on top. The flooring consists of regular stone. They later added minor modifications, such as including a bell right outside attached by a three-block tall stone post, and the Mayor Helmet; a turtle helmet named via. Anvil the aforementioned name, to be worn by the mayor, which otherwise is to be hung on an item frame on the left hand side of the building. Its design is meant to be symmetrical, whether it is or isn’t is still debatable.
===Incidents===
====Creeper explosion====
While Slogo was explaining how it worked, Crainer obliviously asked that the other non-voting people should step outside in order for them to not see the vote. Slogo then aggressively reiterated that that’s the reason you put it directly into the hopper. As Slogo was saying this and calling Crainer stupid, Jelly noticed a creeper creeping towards Crainer. Before he could react or do anything, the creeper blew up the south-west corner of the building, attacking Crainer, destroying most of the bell post and affecting up to the item frame holding the mayor helmet by knocking it off the wall. It was later repaired off-camera.
==Assassination of Mayor Jelly==
Main article: Assassination of Jelly
On January 19th, 2024, Slogo would plot an assassination attempt by smuggling TNT underneath the pedestal that lied the law book. In their next solo videos, the assassination plot would go unnoticed. On January 26, 2024, two days after the planned 10th group video, at the end of the video, Jelly would revise Law 4, making him mayor for another 5 weeks, but when he read it out, it triggered the TNT and launched him into the air and damaged parts of the town hall. He would fall to his death, and Crainer would flee the scene. Slogo would proceed to collect the mayor's helmet and the law book from his obituary.
== Demolition==
After the assassination of Jelly, practically making government on Squid Island meaningless, after the events that followed the Treaty of Squid Island, the Town Hall was fully Demolished and the site of what was the building is no more than a giant crater on the island. Because of this, all laws would be dismissed and all authority was to be decided by the three states and Squid City, which would essentially control the island.
==Features==
===Mayor's Helmet===
Main article: Mayor's Helmet
The Mayor's Helmet is the "crown" of the Mayor of Squid Island, which is a turtle shell. During the times the mayor does not wear the hat, it should be displayed on an item frame to the left of the interior of the town hall.
===Voting System===
The Voting System is the main feature of the town hall. It is there for the inauguration of a new mayor. The first step is for the residents to submit their vote. They cannot vote themselves. The residents put either of two pieces of coloured wool dyed different colors (the other two colors for the other two residents) directly into the hopper to keep their vote a secret, make King Glowey’s vote system as intended and make it lead directly into a chest, where the final vote result is announced. The second step is for King Glowey to vote. He will vote for any of the three residents, with all three dyed wool colors, and it is designed to be completely randomized. Whoever has the most votes will be elected as mayor of Squid Island.
===Rule lectern and bell===
The Rule Lectern and Rule Bell (both unofficial names) are the two law-based features. These laws apply to Squid Island. The rule lectern contains laws that only the mayor can write. The mayor can write only one law or remove one law per term. Once the law has been created, he can ring the rule bell, which is only used as the final confirmation for laws that the mayor writes. The law will apply to all residents once passed.
==Laws==
*Here are all the Old laws of Squid Island. Note that these laws are no longer in effect.
Passer 	Name 	Description 	Pre-revision 	Punishment 	Law Reason 	Revision Reason 	Passed
Slogo 	Law 1	Tresspassing on a town members property is legal 	Tresspassing on a town members property is illegal* 	Fine of 10 diamonds to King Glowey 	Unknown 	To allow Slogo to enter Jelly's Deepslate pyramid	December 13 2023 (amended January 30 2024)
Jelly 	Law 2	Citizens are not allowed to live in buildings that resemble a tower structure.	N/A 	After one disobeyed warning; the citizen’s building(s) will be destroyed.	To get revenge on Crainer for destroying Jelly's Temple 	N/A 	December 20 2023
Crainer	Law 3	No one is allowed to live outside of Squid Island 	N/A 	Move back onto the island or face death by sword 	Likely to get revenge on Jelly for creating Law 2 	N/A 	January 3 2024
Jelly 	Law 4	All mayors are to serve for a minimum of 8 weeks after an election. 	All mayors are to serve for a minimum of 4 weeks after an election.	If an election occurs before the deadline, be exiled from the island 	To extend Jelly's time as Mayor, effectively making him a dictator.	Likely the same reason as the law's creation 	January 10 2024 (revised January 26 2024 by Jelly)
Jelly 	Law 5	When holding the book of Laws, the truth must be spoken. You can not lie. 	N/A 	You are forced to wear a pumpkin of shame for a whole episode. 	Likely to figure out who trolled Jelly's Deepslate Pyramid 	N/A 	January 17 2024
*unless the person trespassing has the “Warrant of the Law”, permitting access to a private building under certain conditions. However, Jelly, the inventor of said item, has stated that it was made up to make an excuse for kidnapping Anton and Bobby at ransom.
==Mayors==
Here are all the mayors of Squid Island. Note that the amount of mayors are subject to change as more mayors will be inaugurated in the future.
Mayor	Term	Term length 	Term Status
Slogo	1st 	December 13, 2023 - December 20, 2023 	Expired
Jelly	1st 	December 20, 2023 - January 3, 2024 	Expired
Crainer	1st 	January 3, 2024 - January 10, 2024 	Expired
Jelly	2nd 	January 10, 2024 - January 26, 2024 	Expired
Slogo	2nd 	February 3, 2024 - February 7, 2024 (mayor regent by King Glowey)	Expired
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