It was a night like any other at the WA Headquarters, filled with the soft drones of overworked desk fans and equally overworked interns; but the great plan was already in motion, as it had been decided long ago. There arose from the depths, the sound of great machines; printers and typewriters, pens scratching themselves dry onto paper stacked impossibly high, the entrancing hum of ancient, UNmentionable things best forgotten. None above were any the wiser as the Gnomes began their advance.
At the break of dawn, the halls were flooded with an endless army of Gnomes, and none were outside their reach. The Office of Building Management provided the keys, and the Compliance Commission dragged out those uncooperative many, kicking and screaming. The Stranger's Bar was overrun in hours, the valiant efforts of the inebriated falling under the indomitable horde. Today was a day of reckoning; a day of consequences, for Resolutions oft-ignored. The assembled delegates of the World Assembly, conscious and unconscious, were brought to a nondescript conference room, simultaneously far too small for its purpose, and far larger than was remotely reasonable.
Emblazoned in polished gold above the doorframe was a single phrase that would drive the sanest of men to inescapable madness:
Inaugural Multilateral Trade Talks
Per GAR #221: "Multilateral Trade Talks"
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One of the many assorted Gnomes that had prepared the event clambered up on a stepladder, unrolled a copy of Resolution 221, and began to read it aloud.
At the break of dawn, the halls were flooded with an endless army of Gnomes, and none were outside their reach. The Office of Building Management provided the keys, and the Compliance Commission dragged out those uncooperative many, kicking and screaming. The Stranger's Bar was overrun in hours, the valiant efforts of the inebriated falling under the indomitable horde. Today was a day of reckoning; a day of consequences, for Resolutions oft-ignored. The assembled delegates of the World Assembly, conscious and unconscious, were brought to a nondescript conference room, simultaneously far too small for its purpose, and far larger than was remotely reasonable.
Emblazoned in polished gold above the doorframe was a single phrase that would drive the sanest of men to inescapable madness:
Inaugural Multilateral Trade Talks
Per GAR #221: "Multilateral Trade Talks"
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One of the many assorted Gnomes that had prepared the event clambered up on a stepladder, unrolled a copy of Resolution 221, and began to read it aloud.
On Multilateral Trade Talks
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Auralia
Description: Recognizing the value of international trade to national economies and populations,
Seeking to promote multilateral trade negotiations between all World Assembly member nations,
The General Assembly,
1. Declares that multilateral trade negotiations must be hosted at the World Assembly at least once every ten years, with the mandate of reducing protectionist measures between all member nations;
2. Mandates that the World Assembly Trade Commission provide any financial or logistical assistance that is reasonably required to host these negotiations;
3. Requires that all member nations send at least one qualified delegate to these negotiations;
4. Further requires that, during these negotiations, delegates make a good faith attempt to cooperate with other delegates in order to come to mutually beneficial agreements which are in the best interests of all national populations involved;
5. Notes that any agreement arising from these negotiations is binding on all member nations which consent to that agreement.
With that solemn duty concluded, the Gnome stepped down, and filed out with the rest. And so, the madness began.
