Post by Popular Republic of Emerosia on Apr 14, 2022 8:50:47 GMT
The Emerosian Postal Service and its corresponding guild has slowly become more irrelevant to the society it serves. With the advent of electricity, telegraph letters are becoming more and more obsolete. Grand halls that once flurried with activity now sit mostly empty. As the telegraph expansion program spread further and further the local postal guilds began to cry out, in need of a saviour. And it came! It came in the form of Jacques von Ludwig.
A local eccentric, Ludwig is a smart man, always pulling a new scheme or enterprise, and the wise Burghermeister of Genholm decided it was time to put his brains to proper use. After being pulled up for his latest attempt to establish an underground market in the city, the Burghermeister presented him a deal. Either he was to be banned from the city, or he was to be put to use, in charge of postal service. Though initially seeing this as a fool's errand, he was quickly ‘convinced’ by the Burghermeister’s personal guard.
So von Ludwig came up with a way to get the post back in the game, a race! Whoever could deliver a book from Genholm to Glasdam faster would be demonstrated as the rightful deliverers of mail in the Republic. The leader of the clackers guild agreed, and the race was on. The sprawling old constitution of the Republic from the oligarchic days was chosen as the text, and on the 3rd of July at midnight, the starting gun was fired. The constitution was quickly loaded onto the fastest steamship that Ludwig could muster, The Arrow and it chugged along the bay of Emerosia to its destination. By the time it was approaching the Bay of Tranquillity the Clack signals had almost reached the city outskirts. Ludwig needed a miracle.
And it was then that a storm hit Southern Emerosia. Such a storm as to shake the very ground on which the people stood. Such a storm had not been seen in decades. And such it was that the great gale winds of this storm blew over one of the telegraph poles in the city. And such it was that the steamship, sheltered by the beautiful bay of tranquillity, sailed into the city, and delivered the constitution.
The postal service had won. This goes to show the power of luck, the power of the old guilds, and most of all, the skill of this new up and comer von Ludwig. Who knows where he ends up…
A local eccentric, Ludwig is a smart man, always pulling a new scheme or enterprise, and the wise Burghermeister of Genholm decided it was time to put his brains to proper use. After being pulled up for his latest attempt to establish an underground market in the city, the Burghermeister presented him a deal. Either he was to be banned from the city, or he was to be put to use, in charge of postal service. Though initially seeing this as a fool's errand, he was quickly ‘convinced’ by the Burghermeister’s personal guard.
So von Ludwig came up with a way to get the post back in the game, a race! Whoever could deliver a book from Genholm to Glasdam faster would be demonstrated as the rightful deliverers of mail in the Republic. The leader of the clackers guild agreed, and the race was on. The sprawling old constitution of the Republic from the oligarchic days was chosen as the text, and on the 3rd of July at midnight, the starting gun was fired. The constitution was quickly loaded onto the fastest steamship that Ludwig could muster, The Arrow and it chugged along the bay of Emerosia to its destination. By the time it was approaching the Bay of Tranquillity the Clack signals had almost reached the city outskirts. Ludwig needed a miracle.
And it was then that a storm hit Southern Emerosia. Such a storm as to shake the very ground on which the people stood. Such a storm had not been seen in decades. And such it was that the great gale winds of this storm blew over one of the telegraph poles in the city. And such it was that the steamship, sheltered by the beautiful bay of tranquillity, sailed into the city, and delivered the constitution.
The postal service had won. This goes to show the power of luck, the power of the old guilds, and most of all, the skill of this new up and comer von Ludwig. Who knows where he ends up…