Progressing Forward: Embassies on the Ground!

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Keep Moving Forward:

Embassies on the Ground!

As part of our "try a lot of new things" initiative, we want to try to create real enclaves of Talossa.  By the end of next term, we want three real Talossan embassies in three countries.  We're talking flags, signed commissions from His Majesty on display, and a placard with more information.  Give people something real to make Talossa feel more real, and we'll get people with more earnest interest.  If we record audio versions of La C'hronica, we can even have a soundtrack!

Think about what it means when someone walks into a coffee shop in Zürich or a pub in Melbourne and there's a Talossan flag on the wall with a royal commission next to it. That's not a website. That's not a forum post. That's a real thing in a real place, and it makes people stop and ask questions. Every single one of those conversations is worth more than a hundred Reddit ads, because the person asking is already curious!

The audio La C'hronica angle is also bigger than just ambiance for an embassy, too. Right now our newspaper is a text document that maybe forty people read. An audio version turns it into something you can listen to on a commute, something you can share with a friend who would never click a forum link but might listen to a five-minute podcast-style recording. It's another surface area for contact with people who don't know we exist yet. And if we're already recording audio, we can clip highlights for social media, for the embassy playlist, or for whatever else we come up with.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

L'Chronica

La C'hronică

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Thanks!  I got it stuck in my head the other way for some reason, and now I keep making that mistake.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

Thanks!  I got it stuck in my head the other way for some reason, and now I keep making that mistake.

You know who originally used to spell it that way? The guy who was its original editor, ESB

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Thanks!  I got it stuck in my head the other way for some reason, and now I keep making that mistake.

You know who originally used to spell it that way? The guy who was its original editor, ESB

Do you think that's where I got it from?  Maybe.  Sometimes when you see a word for the first time, it sticks that way.

I was hanging out with a friend the other night, and she told me that equaniminous isn't a word.  It's "equanimity" but "equanimous," without the extra syllable.  But I can't get my head around it.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I've already gotten a few messages about embassies, so let me say right now that this project is in its early stage, and it's not the first time we've done this.  There have been a couple of embassies in the past, and it's been pretty great.

Generally speaking, we'll be looking for places that are:

• open to the public, so people have a chance to see the embassy display
• owned or operated by someone who is either Talossan or has a personal connection with a Talossan
• in keeping with our public image

But wow, already loving the enthusiasm!

[Iason Taiwos]

I've already gotten a few messages about embassies, so let me say right now that this project is in its early stage, and it's not the first time we've done this.  There have been a couple of embassies in the past, and it's been pretty great.

Generally speaking, we'll be looking for places that are:

• open to the public, so people have a chance to see the embassy display
• owned or operated by someone who is either Talossan or has a personal connection with a Talossan
• in keeping with our public image

But wow, already loving the enthusiasm!

There's an embassy display? What would that consist of?
Our Salem, Ohio embassy has thus far been an embassy in name only, sadly. It is a legitimate local business (Nerdy Necessities), owned and operated by a Talossan citizen (Vitxalmour Conductour). There have been plans to install a Talossan flag and leave promotional literature by the cash register, but that has not yet come to fruition. (Give us a break, real life has been stressful for both of us in the last few months.) From what Vitx tells me, a lot of his regular customers would be perfect potential Talossans, but he hasn't had time to properly promote our Kingdom. By now we had hoped to build an entire local community of Ohio Talossans, but it hasn't happened. He runs the store and a website by himself, and I've been working 12 hour shifts in the bathtub factory for the past nine months.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

There's an embassy display? What would that consist of?
Our Salem, Ohio embassy has thus far been an embassy in name only, sadly. It is a legitimate local business (Nerdy Necessities), owned and operated by a Talossan citizen (Vitxalmour Conductour). There have been plans to install a Talossan flag and leave promotional literature by the cash register, but that has not yet come to fruition. (Give us a break, real life has been stressful for both of us in the last few months.) From what Vitx tells me, a lot of his regular customers would be perfect potential Talossans, but he hasn't had time to properly promote our Kingdom. By now we had hoped to build an entire local community of Ohio Talossans, but it hasn't happened. He runs the store and a website by himself, and I've been working 12 hour shifts in the bathtub factory for the past nine months.

We've had a few embassies in the past, but none right now.  @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN 's coffee shop was one for a while, and Hooligan's Super Bar and Napoleon's (a wargaming store) were both basically embassies (if not officially).  We'd be operating under the more recent rules instituted for Braneu with 58RZ20.

We'd love to get you guys as an embassy too!  We will send you leaflets to put out!

And while I have you, nudge Vitx to come here and just tell us (anywhere!  any thread!  even just a PM to me!) that he recruited you so that I can send you the PMPA medal!