Why are people talking. He said he called for a vote. Does he need to come up with magic vote words. He didn't prepare Make People Vote Already this morning.

The magic vote word you're looking for is "cloture".

Wait, wait! Voshrelka knows this one. She has learned this secret of the civilized arts. She will do this witchcraft to make the vote happen instead of listening to everyone use lots of words to say nothing.

"We're all just standing here agreeing the portal to Hell is bad. Motion to cloture and move on."

"Thank you, yes."

Cloture passes.



Telling the Queen to fix the Hell portal?

This is not a hard question.

They're, like, probably already working on it, but on the off chance, yeah, portals to the lower planes are bad.

A nice easy yes vote that she doesn't need to stress about. 

Finally, an easy vote!  Yes.

In favor. Taís doesn't really get why they need to vote on this at all. Maybe they'll be rounding up anyone who votes to keep the Hell portal and executing them. 

Obviously the archmages should close the Hell portal!!! In favor.

It would be obscurely amusing to see who voted against this, if it was still public. For.

He's going to be one of, like, six people, but he's against it.

Maybe if they're closing hell portals they won't be ruining any more merchants by undercutting them. For.

The Archmage and Queen seem really unlikely to take offense to a petition, and that’s the only potential issue.  For.

Even if he could think of some benefit to keeping the Hell portal, he's not an idiot. In favor.

In favor. Obviously.

Ysabet stopped paying attention about half an hour ago. They're voting again? Abstain, she doesn't know what they're voting on.

Marit is not entirely sure how the decision to prioritize running a constitutional convention above a portal to Hell was made. In favor of petitioning the Queen and archmages.

In favor.

Against, the mortals won't know who voted but Nethys obviously will.

In favor, this was the whole point of everything.

Against. The archmages will close it when they get around to it. 

For. Didn’t the druids say this was one of their conditions to start blessing the fields? There isn’t that much of a hurry, but they should get it done before next harvest. 

(No, there is. These effects are cumulative, blessing fields just before harvest isn’t nearly as good as blessing in spring. They’re already pushing it, with starting in summer.)