The past few days have consisted primarily of me tending my granular plane garden as well as partaking in quests with Meghan's avatar in the Arturian Realm, which I've noticed has been calmer since most students left for summer break.

Monika Rhodes, Dungeonmaster since January, has not left. She, like every Dungeonmaster preceding her, has remained here to fulfill her role as she feels best. To me, that seems to mean spending her time solely ranting about such people as my brother and Otto.

On June 8, during one of our resistance meetings, Maggie came forth and introduced a petition to have the Flagstaff media allow her to publish in its next issue an editorial detailing Stamp's alarming agenda; they had rejected it last week. This was the first resistance meeting that Layda attended, by the way. And she joined the other 37 people in signing it that night. And over the next three days, throngs of students, both in person and on the OCEA platforms, added their signatures. By the end, the petition had a hair over 1200 people. On June 14, the petition was sent to the Flagstaff. And on June 15, the Flagstaff responded with a cease-and-desist letter against Maggie.

So last September, Headmaster primary elections were held, resulting in the incumbent Lori Kotimer winning the Liberal Party nomination and David Keener, a "mainstreamer," winning the Conservative Party nomination. Therefore, Arnold Stamp, not willing to back down, has been forced to run as a write-in.

With a growing number of people supporting him against "the establishment," this makes him even more dangerous, in my opinion.

That sentiment has apparently not been shared by the Flagstaff, however. In their letter to Maggie, they considered her editorial on Stamp "a distraction from the actual election," referring to the one between Kotimer and Keener. They also stated that the editorial and petition "stirs unwanted paranoia, and even poses a real danger of bringing about the very unwanted popularity that the editorial claims exists behind Stamp."

The letter ended with "Further efforts on this may result in disciplinary action, up to and including expulsion from the University."

Meanwhile, on June 11, Bernard brought to our attention an independent platform called "The Newsletter," established by Stamp's campaign team either this week or last week. One of its first articles displays an agenda termed "Project New Cabotton," which is an organized agenda and schedule of the many radical and outrageous things that Stamp wishes to do to the University, should he be elected Headmaster.

Of all the issues that Stamp claims to be plaguing the University, I was unable to pinpoint any real, credible issues to back. Aledon and I are bewildered that Stamp, even as radical as he is, would launch this form of...propaganda. This article casts the collective opinion of Stamp and his followers as indisputable truth.

Monika Rhodes caught wind of this and responded by leaving a post on OCEA that read: "This is a shot in the foot for the Stamp campaign. It's already over."

"Not so fast," I remember saying under my breath when I first read Monika's post, however. Sure, the article is outrageous, aggressively biased, and untruthful. But I realize now that Stamp's supporters, as angry as they are against "the establishment," will not, nor will they ever, have the capacity to care about what is fact and what is not. They value their wants over logic at this point.

Also, I don't really understand why Monika is allowing herself to talk about Stamp while silencing the rest of us on the matter.

"She's controlling the narrative," Aledon said.

Meanwhile, I did some reading on Stamp. Accordingly, he is 56 years old. He spent only one semester, Fall 1319, at Cabotton University before dropping out due to failing grades. He would ultimately finish college with a business degree, though, at Lerutan University in 1324. Between 1324 and 1355, he pursued numerous international and domestic business ventures with, apparently, "varying degrees of success." Most ventures failed, while Stamp himself walked away with a large gain in wealth. In fact, in April 1355, right before he returned to Cabotton, he suffered a major business-venture failure in one of the Gyrosakian Territories. Pulling some ropes, he walked away with over 10 million credits toward his personal retirement.

I had a feeling that Stamp was an incompetent man who turned into a clever conman, but I did not realize the extent to which this was the case. Again, his supporters do not care.