Submitted by Winfield, Mayor of PaxLair:

SEP 20, PAXLAIR, FELUCCA, CHESAPEAKE--PaxLair held its weekly meeting at 8PM Eastern Sky time on Wednesday with great results. Many things were discussed and presentation of runes from three cities were made: Camelot, Oasis, and Nidaros.

Led by Mayor Winfield, the following was discussed:

-- The PaxLair Court System - Neo of Lothlore and Mayor Winfield explained more about the court system and what it can be used for. It is NOT a retribution system against criminals or people who are uncooperative regarding the justice system. It IS for trials where the criminal may perform an act, leave some evidence for people to find or follow, and then the people may bring the criminal to trial with the evidence.

The challenge is to have people as magistrates (jurors) decide the verdict based solely on the evidence presented. The criminals, the detectives (some of who may be behind the scenes), and others may be very creative in this. In essence, these can be mini-quests.

It also allows people to become barristers (lawyers) in defense or prosecution to try their hand at court-room logic and drama. Logical and objective thought is the key in this. Even a guild can host a crime and trial using PaxLair facilities and having Neo of Lothlore run the trial.

The trick is to have cooperation and independence of thought, not scripting, with the trial system; see if the actual verdict is rendered accurately based on evidence and testimony. This makes this extremely interactive between people of many walks of life. People do not need to be of PaxLair to be heavily involved in a court case, jury, detectives, or barristers. The only person who is from PaxLair is essentially Neo of Lothlore, the Chief Magistrate who conducts the trial. The jury must be impartial and does not know the "real" result of the crime in question... the evidence must lead them to conclusions... as well as through the skill of the barristers.

There will be a Trial of the God of Fish soon in PaxLair, but the city needs barristers and magistrates (jury). All evidence will be presented at the trial, although some detectives may still uncover some more facts about the case.

-- Duncan MacLeod stated Oasis and Camelot are now not at war with each other as announced last week. They have become friends between their towns.

-- We had three towns present runes or intentions of presenting runes to their cities. The PaxLair Mage Tower roof has 26 tables arranged with chairs... 13 Felucca towns and 13 Trammel towns. There are already around 10 Felucca towns with runes on tables and a few Trammel towns (crossover rune points).

Camelot (Trammel) is actually located just opposite PaxLair on Trammel and Charles Pendragon provided a commemorative Trammel rune. Mayor Winfield placed this on a table, but asked Charles to still offer a crossover rune for all to use. Charles will provide this next week.

Oasis (Trammel) offered to bring a rune next week to crossover to their city. Duncan MacLeod earmarked a table for Oasis' rune by having their chair on the Mage Tower roof dyed a golden color.

Nidaros (Trammel) came prepared with a crossover rune. Valgard the Grey and Marlene of Nidaros presented a rune to Mayor Winfield and selected a Trammel table. Their chair was dyed light green to match their cloaks. After the meeting, people went on a tour of Nidaros on Trammel. The people were EXTREMELY impressed with this town on Trammel. The Town Hall, the Taverns and Inns, Shops and Museums were very impressive. Their decorations inside their houses made PaxLair look old by comparison, Mayor Winfield said. Truely, this is a town to see! Valgard led the tour and at the end presented Mayor Winfield with a special Viking Sword to place on the table back at the PaxLair Mage Tower to symbolize Nidaros.

-- At the end of the PaxLair meeting, and before the Nidaros tour, Knight Emmeril announce the PaxLair Knights would have a Knighting Cermony soon. Mayor Winfield was pleased to hear that several Squires were ready for Knighthood.

PaxLair expects to offer more information about Nidaros in a separate news article. The tour was one of the best tours given in the realm. In the meantime, the reader may turn to the UO Chesapeake News Service for links to all the 26 towns on Chesapeake, including Nidaros.

Next week, PaxLair will continue its Wednesday City meetings focused on inter-city and town cooperation. There are many tables to be filled with runes and cross-over runes. Eventually, the people who attend these meetings and those who visit PaxLair hope the tables will be filled with runes to allow frequent travel to all 26 towns. Towns and cities may bring their runes AND a symbol to place on the table with their rune.

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