Six years ago yesterday, the world changed.

Before September 7, 1309, Middle Remikra stood as the Early Republic, a society intent on functioning as a free democracy. Of course, it had its flaws, like having a hierarchical electoral system, a steadfast darkfire prohibition, and a forced apartheid of the Darkfire Community with the Mount Carris Perimeter.

All that changed with the death of Prime Minister Waltman, the 36 hours of conflict in the Basin District, and the placement of Finzi as the de facto, but later elected, Prime Minister. That change heralded the complete legalization of darkfire, the liberation of the Darkfire Community, and the arrival of the Fourth Amendment. And since then, broad darkfire acceptance has not only become better established, but has in fact become a norm.

This, of course, does not mean that all of our problems are resolved.

I should have known better. The worst I thought would happen would be grief from those ultra-nationalist holdouts, those like Kara Martins out there who believe the Commonwealth is a regime of evil, all because of the liberation of the Darkfire Community. In the wake of Kara Martins' departure from Lake Paron, I tried talking Peter Quora into adopting a pen name in order to protect himself. But Peter refused, stating that he had a large social network and that adopting a pen name would be too much unnecessary and unwanted work for him. He also insisted that any retaliation from Kara would just lead to more bad publicity for herself.

I doubted that then, and even more-so now, especially in the wake of everything that is happening with the current Third Level Society Dungeonmaster Skylar Meredyth. She may lose her job as the Dungeonmaster because Cassandra Lauth's brother, Robert Lauth, is saying that Skylar attacked him with spellfire discharges on the evening of June 28.

So Cassandra Lauth is challenging Skylar Meredyth for the Dungeonmaster position. She and Robert are against Skylar's camp, the Progressivists, but they are not Traditionalists. They are kind of independent of that dynamic, in fact. Nevertheless, in the course of all that is going on, Robert came forward and accused Skylar of collaborating with Peter Quora, Ceri Mains, Cray Fenton, and myself to keep that darkfire scroll secret, allegedly lying about it being spent, in order to sell the scripts ourselves and use the proceeds from that sale to help fund Peter Quora's Project.

This, of course, compliments the stance that Lauth's camp has against Skylar and the Progressivists. The Lauths agree with the Progressivists over darkfire, favoring its allowance to exist in the Third Level Society so long as no harm comes of it; yet, they also agree with the Traditionalists on the concept of self-sufficiency, vehemently opposing any connection of any kind to other dymensional planes of other organizations, like those with Cray Fenton and Peter Quora. This kind of long-term tension had been building over time over these big issues. It was only with the hidden darkfire scroll incident, however, that Robert Lauth saw an opportunity for an accusation. And so he pounced upon it.

It was Skylar who called for the motion with the Bookkeeper, Ronette Bolding. However, Lauth insisted on having an arbitrary meeting just between himself and the Dungeonmaster in hopes of settling the issue, surprising as that may seem. Bolding agreed and arranged for that arbitration meeting to happen without presence of the Bookkeeper in the Conference Room of the Hotel at Gentry County Airport. And this was scheduled to occur on June 28 at 11:00 pm.

According to Skylar, and according to the reports, she and Robert arrived at the front of the Hotel at around 10:55 pm. They saw each other, and were within walking distance but not talking distance. Suddenly and unexpectedly, spellfire discharges rang out. And from what I gather, both Robert and Skylar ran for cover, during which Skylar ran into the Lobby of the Hotel and called the police.

Skylar is a licensed spellcaster but did not have her talisman with her. Also, she received injuries. So needless to say, she is a victim in this case. And the same holds true for Robert. Unfortunately, they have not identified or caught the culprit yet.

However, the very next day, Robert began blaming the incident on Skylar, herself, stating that she set him up. When Gentry County Police determined that she was not a possible culprit, Robert wrote a letter to both the Gentry County and Ereautea Provincial Courts to demand an investigation. They each handed Robert's request to an Arbitrator who stated that there just was not enough evidence to suspect Skylar as a perpetrator. Apparently, Robert wrote a letter to a federal Arbitrator and is awaiting a response. Nonetheless, Robert has been fuming over this, saying over the Ticketer that Skylar played favorites with all the authority figures before launching her agenda.

This actually surprised me a bit because I thought the Lauths, being stout supporters of the Darkfire Community, would actually support Finzi. But then I keep forgetting that there is a politician out there named Peter Umbol, who is a stout supporter of the Darkfire Community as well, but is holding Finzi accountable, accusing him of passing policies that retain too much of the political and economic structure of the Early Republic. How well-founded these claims are is a matter of speculation. But nonetheless, the Lauths have been gravitating toward Peter Umbol.

Citing such apparent corruption with the proper authorities, Robert Lauth vowed to take matters into his own hands, a vow supported very much by those Third Level Society Members who support him. And thus, Robert wrote back to Bookkeeper Bolding with a request to have discord after all in the Caucus Chamber for Dungeonmaster Skylar Meredyth's removal.

I believe that the claim is outrageous, but what does the rest of the Caucus think? Up to this point, Meredyth did a lot of favors for the Society, especially with her project which successfully built a Great Bridgegate in Antemaersa linking the Arturian Realm to Cray Fenton and Peter Quora's existing dymensional planes. And the Lauths are citing that not only was this Project expensive, but also impractical and rendering the Society too dependent on other organizations. Some of them are calling for this and the other portals to be closed and decommissioned.

That, of course, would lead to a mass exodus of Third Level Society Members, not only from those directly being resentful of the portal closures but also of those citing other things that would be long term consequences. And I do not know if the Society would ever recover.

Jeo agrees with me on this, and so does Peter.

The Bookkeeper and Caucus discord begins Monday.