Spires of Aeldrum/Session 3

# Serene Doge Leopold Orvihm makes a strong, unifying speech in the wake of his wife's death.
# Homer of Lidenia gets tapped to become Secretary of the new Department of War
# Violette de Bains makes a series of inflammatory accusations at rallies, claiming Homer of Lidenia is using Lidenia to funnel covert arms shipments and grey market goods, as well as presiding over the sale of POWs as slaves. She demands a full public audit of Lidenian shipping and an investigation of Homer for war crimes.
# Serene Doge Leopold and the conservatives issue proposed legislation to censor public speech "which disparages the Aeldman military or the integrity of the office of the Serene Doge, degrades public discourse in a way which enables threats to national security, or rejects the war effort on politicized grounds". The Common Party is oddly silent, and Doge Augustine "Brick" of Estonne actively blocks de Bains's Aeldman party rhetoric from Common Party airwaves.
# Brick begins positioning himself as the moderate progressive, strongly remonstrating the Aeldman party for its dangerous claims and its borderline treasonous veiled appeals to Aeldmen people to arm themselves.
# Several warehouses on Lidenia go up in flame.
# Violette stages another protest speech, declaring that she has an academic with evidence that he was detained by Count Homer while trying to uncover the truth. The academic in question approaches the podium and instead shoots Violette with an automatic pistol, killing her instantly. The assassin dies in a struggle with one of Violette's bodyguards, who only hears these words: "Lidenia sends his regards".
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