POV Raizen

“Glad to see everyone too.”

“Man am I glad to see you too. We all freaked out a little bit when you didn’t show up with the rest of us. Thankfully the Outpost Leader was here to tell us you were busy handling something else. We were still worried of course, especially-...OWW!! Dammit why’d you hit me Irene?”

“No reason.”

“You asked for it Lance.”

“Leave me alone Micah.”

“Alright guys enough we need to handle the situation outside.”

“Yes, we do Richard. But before any of that, where is the Outpost Leader? I thought he’d be here.”

“Ah he was just here but he stepped away a little before you got here.”

‘I’m not far, I will meet with you properly after you handle this situation.’

Hm, odd but okay.

“Alright then first thing on the Agenda. There are quite a few of you in here. Who wants to work for me as government officials of this City?”

“Raizen is this the right time to discuss this? We have thousands of people standing in line.”

“Yes, Vanessa this is important. I won’t force any of you to work for me, and join this government and I won’t feel bad if you say no. But if you say yes, please understand that this would be a commitment at least until the City is up and running. I need to know. Who wants to work for me be a part of the City? If you do, please raise your hand.”

A few moments passed, as I watched them think deeply about their answers. This might’ve been rushed and thrown at them, but I need to know. I can’t have people that aren’t committed to this be aware of the inner workings of the City, and figuring out a way to handle all the people waiting is one of those things. Though I wonder where everyone else who teleported with us went? Like Nate and his brothers for example. Anyway, everyone was thinking with the exception of one person, Richard. He was busy looking around at the group with me. I guess he already made up his mind. Figured he’d want to be a part of this.

After another minute or so a few hands went up in the air. I gave them another minute after that, but no other hands were raised. In total there were 3 hands. Vanessa, Brockers, and Hubert. Lower than I expected but that’s okay.

“Yeah, I’m sorry Raizen, I want to help out but doing government work isn’t my thing, I’ll leave that to you and Richard. Just let me know what you want me to do, and I’ll do it!”

A bunch of the others agreed with him, except for Grant. Grant had a different reason.

“I think I wanna start a fishing business man. That’s what my family did before all this, and I loved it. So, since we’re next to the ocean I don’t see why I can’t start it back up.”

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Well, I think that’s actually better than him working in the government. It will be nice to have a thriving fishing industry in the City. But glad we got that out the way.

“Alright I appreciate those of you who want to stay, and I understand those of you don’t want to be in the government. For those that don’t, please exit the room and wait downstairs, I’m sure we’re going to need all the help we can get.”

I waited a few minutes for them to leave. They looked very apologetic about it, but it was fine, not everyone was cut out for government work. Not even me.

“Alright, now that that’s out of the way, the rest of you are choosing to be Government Officials of this little City. Proper contracts with salaries and benefits will be drafted up in the future but for now just your promises are enough. Last chance, anyone want to leave?”

No one spoke up. Okay good.

“Now, how are we going to handle the housing situation? On the way here I saw that we basically have 3 different types of houses. ‘Normal’ ones, ‘Nice’ ones, and what looked to be a street of mansions. We won’t be giving a single one away for free. Nor will we be selling any of them. At least not yet. I’m thinking of renting them out…I just don’t the cost.”

“That was my thought process as well, with the exception that I think a tax should be paid to enter the City.”

“A tax Hubert? They just got here what if they don’t have any money?”

“A City this size needs money to run Vanessa. Raizen just mentioned salaries for us. Do you think that money will come from thin air?”

“Both of you make good points so let’s meet in the middle. How about no rent for two days, and only 1 Copper per person to enter? Everyone should have been able to earn at least a copper if they survived the Tutorial. If they don’t have any coins perhaps, we can accept materials as well.”

“Good point Richard, but we don’t know the costs of anything yet.”

“Then we’ll just write everything down…”

“That’s a lot of writing…”

“Well, everyone that just left said they’d help right? Then let’s put them to work.”

And that’s what we did. We quickly drafted a plan on how to get everyone organized and into the city. It would take hours likely but there was no easy way to do this. The plan was as follows.

1. 1 Copper Coin per person for entry into the city.

2. If you don’t have a Copper Coin, then materials will be accepted, and written down. Once a market value has been determined, money will be returned to the person.

3. No buying of houses and all mansions are off limits.

4. A Small portion of the regular and nice houses have been made off limits for members of the Original Outpost G and their immediate families.

5. Rent on houses will be free for 2 days, but on the third day rent will be charged. The two days are to give us time to figure what everything should cost, and to allow people to settle, and take a moment to consider their next steps, which also means securing rent money.

That’s the gist of everything. Of course, there’s plenty of other things we need to figure out, but this works for now. And I found out that everyone else was busy putting things, some of the things that were considered “mine” down in the basement. That was also how I found out this building had a basement.

Anyway, after getting our initial plan together it was time to put it into action. Only when we exited the building there was a bit of surprise waiting for us.

A group of green individuals were standing neatly in a squad, and after a moment one of them stepped forward and slightly bowed. Ah I see where this is going.

“Lord Raizen, my name is Jral. We are here to assist, please order us as you see fit.”

The surroundings were silent. I could almost feel Richard staring into the side of my head. I will ignore it. This isn’t the time to worry over this.

“Good, then listen to Richard here. He’ll tell you what to do.”

And just like that, the responsibility is on Richard.

I could definitely still feel him staring at me, but I will continue to ignore it.

He eventually looked away and took a step towards Jral.

“Well then Jral, come with me. We have a lot of work to do. That goes for the rest of you too! We need to get these people into homes.”

Yep, ignoring things work.