Squid Island Town Hall

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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 realised 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 Josh 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.

## Features

### 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 colours (the other two colours 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 colours, 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 laws of Squid Island. Note that the amount of laws are subject to change as more mayors will be inaugurated in the future.

## 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.

 Slogo | 1st

\*unless the person trespassing has the “Warrent 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.