Regional Update

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After the 4th RA term, serving from September 8th to November 9th, concluded, new elections came running back around. 10 Citizens ran, for only 7 seats. Everyone, for the most part, ran a great campaign. In the end, 6 members were elected immediately; a runoff was needed to determine the seventh member. 2 Citizens, Leutheria and Legonimis, tied with 11 votes each, with Denth Rowan only one vote short of causing a three-way runoff. The 2 faced off rather boringly, and, unfortunately, no blood was spilled. At the end of the special election, Leutheria won, with a 4-3 vote majority. The following members won, and my congrats go out to all winning members; and hope to see you all next term: Toms, Sovreignry, Charax, Horse, Butterspring, The Saturnian Republic, and Leutheria. Congratulations to all those elected, and may this term be amazing. *throws potatoes everywhere*

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After 9 months and 7 days with the region, President Wintermoot resigned from his position and officially left Spiritus. The members that he had issues with will not be named for their protection in other regions. Quoted from his resignation thread: “I've had fun being part of this place, making friends with the people I have, and having a hand in building this place up. But it's just not fun anymore. I've found myself the target of unjust attacks, character assassination, and statements full of exaggerations, lies, and events restated out of context, even from people that previously claimed to be my close friends.” Wintermoot will be missed, and his contributions will not be forgotten. The same almost happened to WA delegate Salaxalans; luckily, he reconsidered, and rejoined the community. Much cake was had, and we all rejoiced. While tensions are still high, things have simmered down, and we are getting back to normal.

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After the departure of Wintermoot in October, he was unsure about his future. For a time being, he moved to his then puppet storage region of Wintreath with a few members of Spiritus, attempting to console him and possibly coax him back. After a few weeks of deliberating and talking with members such as Nox, Charax, and Denth Rowan, it was decided Wintreath would attempt to become a region. Since it’s conversion, over 200 members have joined with many prominent Spiritusianites beginning to hold dual citizenship in Wintreath and Spiritus. One thing led to another, and it ended up with Wuufu making the application for an embassy on Wintreath's forum. Much cake will be had, and, as the story develops, we will update the situation for you.

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During the last few months a few new games have begun in Spiritus. First, there is Nomic. Nomic is a game where there are a set list of rules which can be added to, amended and repealed through a process of proposal and voting, just like in normal legislation. In fact, that is what your entire turn consists of! This means that the game rules change as the game progresses, allowing for some rather unusual rules. A recent rule that was repealed included the ability to give a set of salads to different players on certain turns! This is a very fun game to play and is a great asset to the region.

The Resistance is another game that has been recently added. Based off the board game with the same name and similar in style to one of our other forum games, Mafia, The Resistance has people working to complete missions to bring down an Orwellian government. These missions take place by a mission leader specifying who they want on their team. Each player votes on whether to approve the mission or no If approved, each member of the team then votes whether or not to let the mission succeed. Why would they do that? Because within the group of players there are government spies working to undermine the success of these missions! Over five missions, those loyal to the resistance must work to ensure three of them succeed, while the spies work to prevent that.

Minister of Culture Wuufu has also introduced the region to Yucata. Yucata is an online board game site that allows asynchronous board game play, allowing the region to join together to play board games at their own pace. So far, the region has played Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers, Maori, and Mount Drago, with a game of Alchemist just having been started.

Finally, Spiritus now hosts three roleplaying adventures: the World of Golarion, which is based off the Dungeons and Dragons spinoff Pathfinder, Vaposterram, which is a steampunk/NationStates crossover, and Malsagxuloj, which follows a group of leaders who lead sleeper ships to an alien world and must work together to survive. Along with our existing forum game of Mafia, our other board game Diplomacy, and the two IRC related games we have with our IRC bot Tammy, Cards Against Humanity and Uno, Spiritus is quickly becoming a gaming capital.

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This Halloween and the days leading up to it, all of NS was infected by the Zombie invaders. As many regions fell, Spiritus rose to the challenge and attempted to defeat the zombie menace. Spiritus finished 15th for most survivors (617.37 billion people) and 11th for most survivors with no infected (617.37 billion people). This was all thanks to the brilliant planning of Spiritus members, many, MANY cure missiles, and the occasional kill squad sent by Horse. Hopefully, all of you survived the onslaught and eliminated the Zombie menace. FORWARD UNTO DAWN o/ *throws potatoes at Zombies*.

Update provided to you by Horse and Wuufu. Edited by Salaxalans and Charax.