FINALLY.

Surely even the Evil nobles won't be willing to support a literal portal to Hell, right?

Oh good, something straightforward that won’t give her a headache trying to keep all the pieces straight.  

Sounds great. Why can't everyone write proposals like this one?

Unfortunately for reasons no one in this room except her, Elie, and possibly Mephistopheles know, the party doing this without consulting an army of lawyers first would be the worst action it is possible to take as a mortal short of letting Rovagug out. This is really kind of emblematic of what's wrong with Republicanism.

That's what the druids want????? Give it to them!!

"I second this motion! If it moves the archmages or the Queens to hear our perspective they should know that this is a great priority of the convention."

Won't anyone think of the fascinating experiments that this will make completely impossible?

(He's not dumb enough to say that.)

Preach it. Or, well, continue the sensible strategy of not preaching it.

A nice easy unobjectionable proposal written in plain language with no tricks or even drawbacks.  Does it score political points to make speeches in favor of obvious easy proposals?  Even if it does, Thea doesn’t want to waste time, so she’ll sit back and not do anything for once and vote in favor once it’s time.

Wait, there's a portal to Hell? Why are they planning to close it, Cheliax is the one with all the archmages now. They should be invading to make Hell a colony, see how they like it when the shoe is on the other foot. 

"If there was any doubt, I speak for the Knights of the Chain in confirming that this portal exists and causes a great deal of harm to both forest and farm. Please close it as soon as it can be practically done."

YES, THIS IS WHAT THE DRUIDS WANT!! FUCKING FINALLY! These proposals were ready over a week ago and you assholes put it off and started killing each other instead of getting to the VERY REASONABLE DEMANDS that the DRUIDS HAVE!!! Do you idiots want to starve, why is this a difficult fucking question. Close the portal to Hell, don't commit atrocities towards dryads, don't starve, ask any of the paladins you imported, any one of them would agree with all of this.

She supposes she doesn't have to go around the Sower in favor of bothering the queen directly after all. That's nice. It would have been annoying, and she suspects the queen has to deal with quite a lot of idiots, by how quickly she got her piece of paper of 'don't bother the druid that is casting Plant Growths.' That sort of thing speaks of just how many stupid, stupid people have been bothering her.

Portals to hell are bad. Hopefully even the evil nobles can figure that one out.

"I wholeheartedly support this proposal, and I hope the archmages will carry it out with all possible haste!"

This question does not really require his input, but he is, really, a bit confused by how comfortable this body, which was convened by an archmage against the wills of many of its participants, is about issuing that same archmage orders. Although maybe the archmage likes it. He doesn't know.

“Hey. If you want to petition the queen about your forest problems, write a letter. Don’t waste all our time. One more thing. How about we let the archmages  decide what to do themselves? This convention already tried to vote to take coin from their pockets, are we just going to have one obnoxious and ungrateful slight to the archmages every day, now? Maybe they haven’t gotten to this little problem because they had a bigger portal to close? Something up north, had this big treaty about it? Everyone’s sons and brothers sent to die holding it? Anyone remember what I’m talking about?”

The President presumably likes conventions and conventions petitioning for stuff, so this should actually be fine?  Hopefully he will give them some actually warning if he thinks they are being presumptuous?  The only thing that actually bothers him are attempts to target other delegates which the slander law was much closer on.

Still, thinking more logically, the petition is only likely to  nudge the list of priorities for the archmages, it should, in theory, be mostly already set in a particular order, with petitions at most moving the hell portal up or down a few places, not sending it straight to the top.

Aren't there other channels to report Hell portals along? But sure, if it comes to a vote, this one's pretty obvious.

Liushna decides that this is an excellent opportunity to explain druids to Rojix, first in Chelish and then in Itarii.

"The Whisperwood is not as great a problem as the Worldwound. But the Wound is closed. Delegate Tiumfane has come from the druids of the Whisperwood to draw our attention to the portal, and it would surely be easier for all those who farm near his forest if the burden of fighting the portal's monsters was lighter; once in that they and my order would be able to keep more of the devilish beasts away, and a second time in that some of their druids might be spared to negotiate plant growth for their neighbors. We will be cleansing the wood for many years hence even if it is closed today, but now is still the best time, and as soon as the archmages can be spared the second-best."