Town Meeting

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John awoke at his usual early hour on the morning of the town meeting. He dressed with slightly more than usual care in his suit of clothes from home, broke his fast with a light meal, and headed to the Golden Horseshoe to ensure that things were the way he wanted.

The chairs and small tables were already perfectly arranged, but John dragged a podium he found backstage out to the front of the curtain. Then he bustled about in the kitchen area setting out drinks and whatever small snacks he could find back there.

Before long, interested citizens began filing in and he went up to the podium. There was no microphone because he'd never heard of such a thing, but John Adams never had difficulty making himself heard.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome. If you would please pick up any refreshments you'd care for and take your seats, we'll begin in just a few minutes."

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[caycep]

Who had only just arrived after the shouting started.

"Huh? Oh. Yeah. Well." Cayce rubbed her forehead. "That's what I sort of wanted the paper to be."

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

Now spotting Cayce before heading out, Setsuna stopped to shrug and say, "I think the paper serves that purpose just fine. Maybe not enough people have tried reading it?"

[caycep]

"We could always use more content, too," Cayce said mildly.

[caycep]

She shot Kira an amused smile. "See? The benefits of a free press."

[caycep]

"At least until we institute libel laws -- not that I'm suggesting we do," she added hurriedly. "Anyway, all jokes aside, it would be really great if, say, everyone who has any random piece of data about the park, anything at all, would send it to me. I can print it in the next copy of the paper and we can use that as a foundation for our knowledge base."

...did she just say "knowledge base"? Shit. Clearly she hadn't been out of the corporate world long enough.