Announcing: The Kortos Tavern
OPEN TO ALL! PRIVILEGES FOR DELEGATES!
Conveniently Located at Carrer de la Ruttla & Carrer de Santa de Kantaria, within five blocks of the Convention Hall and Royal Delegate Residences
Many of the delegates of the Constitutional Convention have nowhere to gather and speak with each other outside the hall, and nowhere private to speak! Look no further, gentlemen and ladies! Sit at a table and discuss the day's events and what you hope to see in the future. Bring your friends, from home or the city, or come alone and meet other of similar mind!
Affordable meals and drink, at lunch or supper or in-between! Private rooms for private discussions, charges negotiable!
Followers of Cayden keeping the impolite drunks from disrupting your meal or conversation! And by Moonday, a certified priest of Cailean tending bar himself!
The Kortos Tavern! Opening today, 11 Sarenith, at noon!
Certified under the Third Publication Statute and if not applicable the Fifth Statute, by House Bainilus Publishing.
The advertisement isn't very widely distributed, but it shows up in the morning posted all around the residences for delegates and the convention hall itself.
Is this her faction? It has the Archduchess’s backing so probably. Well, to whatever extent commoners, common sense nobles, and the progressive nobles are one faction. ‘Privileges for delegates’ seems like bait for the avaricious commoners, but Dia herself had already made efforts to connect with them, so she can’t blame the Archduchess for doing what it takes to get votes. She’ll make sure she and Thea attend.
At lunch she dictates and signs a half-dozen notes to be handed out to delegates (mostly) as they return for the afternoon, at the doors or as they go in for committees or the floor.
Barrister Lluïsa Oriol i Cornellà,
We spoke previously on the subject of discussing shared interests with Delegate Porras and others. I expect the first meeting for such a discussion will be tonight on the upper floor of the Kortos Tavern with Delegate Tallandria presiding and myself as advisor and landlord. You are cordially invited to attend; I expect the remainder of the delegates who approached me about it will be there, as will some others I am reaching out to and probably some I do not expect. If you do not wish to attend, we shall see each other on the Convention floor or in committee.
Yours sincerely,
Archduchess Jilia Bainilus de Ravounel i Kintargo, Lord Mayor of Kintargo
Delegate Roig,
I have concluded my interests are not best served by the noble delegates meeting in their own dinner parties and those from outside their numbers remaining unorganized. You may have seen the flyers for the Kortos Tavern; it is intended to permit such meetings among those not equipped to host large dinner parties on a regular basis, in the rooms in its upper story. A group will be meeting there tonight, those of the commons less like the short-sighted delegates who attempted to create Forms of the Convention, and while it has some men from the professional class, they are in the minority, and none are merchants. I am deliberately not, myself, the leader, but I will be advising them and would appreciate your presence; you seem an eminently sensible man and some of the more rural members may need such a voice to balance them out. There is, of course, no obligation.
Yours sincerely,
Archduchess Jilia Bainilus de Kintargo
To the Elevated Gentleman Lisandro,
In establishing the Kortos Tavern I aim to create a place where the delegates from outside the nobility may meet and discuss their common interests as the nobility have done by hosting dinner parties. The upstairs rooms are largely by invitation and I am not the one in charge of the main group who I expect to assemble there, but I will be giving her advice and would welcome your presence. Delegate Mont is, of course, as welcome as any.
Yours,
Lord Mayor Jilia Bainilus de Ravounel i Kintargo
Delegate Rubèn Oriol,
I have been impressed by your contributions to the convention. I expect that a group of delegates from outside the nobility will begin meeting in the back rooms of the Kortos Tavern beginning this evening, and while Delegate Korva Tallandria, not myself, has final authority of who will be invited to those discussions, I would like to invite you to attend. At worst, I promise the food and drink of the tavern's main room are of good quality at very reasonable prices. I am imposing no obligation and will not be offended if you do not attend; I merely think you will appreciate contributing and be appreciated for your own contributions in turn.
Yours,
Archduchess Jilia Bainilus de Kintargo
Enric has tried to do his part making sure the right sort shows up to this commons faction tavern. He visits the temple of Erastil often; most clerics there are probably religious delegates, and any sortitions who regularly attend are the sort he’d like to hear about this faction. So he asks a few friends and acquaintances at the temple to help spread the word.
(Victòria, meanwhile, is telling everyone that she both likes and thinks of as basically a regular person, with about as much discretion as that implies.)
Lacking human staff, Lluïsa fakes it by having a convention staffer run a reply over.
To Archduchess Jilia Bainilus de Ravounel i Kintargo, Lord Mayor of Kintargo,
I thank you for your Gracious Invitation. You may expect my presence.
If you have not yet secured the Supply of Potable Water to your Establishment be advised that the merchant Pereira is a Fair Dealer. Though as I am oft reminded of late, the employment of a Priest is of course sufficient.
Righteous Gods keeping, I remain,
Barrister Lluïsa Oriol i Cornellà