Let me see if I can knock out some answers to your questions, Is.
First of all, Enig's asked someone ICly to write up the minutes, but if for whatever reason they can't be there I can handle it myself easily enough.
As for all of the official business about requirements and this and that and the other thing, I honestly can't say a thing. Actually, this isn't an officially sanctioned event at all, it's an entirely player-driven event, so neither I nor anyone else involved in it know these details yet.
About other sessions, well, yes! The idea I had with this is to have a bunch of mini-player-events throughout the election, Q&A stuff and debates between opposing candidates, and this is just the first. To account for the variance in time zones we'll try to stagger them throughout the week so that everyone will have a chance to attend at least some of them.
There has been some question about the appropriateness of having this event before official word has come about the requirements for candidacy so let me just address that here too.
I've thought for a while about whether or not to postpone the event for a week or two until we know more details but I've ultimately decided against it. The only real question about candidates at the moment seems to be whether or not non-citizens can apply for the job, but seeing as this is only the first in a series of events I don't see that it will cause much harm if one or two of the candidates finds out later that they can't take the job because they have the wrong recall spot. Besides which they'd be going into things (ICly and OOCly) with open eyes regarding the possibility that they may later be turned down and hopefully this will clarify the matter; I have no knowledge of what's being planned for official requirements. That said, however, I think it would be in the best interests of everyone involved if we had as many candidates showing up as can make it insofar as, at the least, the ratio of citizens/non-citizens vying for a position may assist the fellows in charge with their decision on the matter. Furthermore it's my hope that the questions asked of the candidates will bring up issues which concern the citizens of Waterdeep, ICly, and whether the hot issue of the day is the trade of spell components or the security of the city against drow/half-drow/half-pigeon-drow, I do think it's definitely important to get it into people's minds as quickly as possible. Once it becomes a matter of current events and governmental regulation we can see some fun political maneuvering in that regard and it takes us away from the mishmash of voting by popularity.
All that aside, however, I just think it'll be fun to have a lot of miniature events like this to try and help the election feel like it's alive and moving. I wholeheartedly encourage my fellow players who are candidates and supporters of candidates to help the process even further by throwing parties, spreading propoganda, or engaging in a good old fashioned smear campaign.
Anyways, I think that just about covers everything. Obviously if there are any other questions/comments, please feel free with them.
