Thread 6327808

Somewhere in the southeastern United States is a small town named Whispering Oaks. The town has a population of roughly 10,000 people and it’s situated about an hour’s (assuming good traffic) drive away from the nearest big city. There’s nothing particularly special about this small town that sets it apart from the rest, but it’s your small town. It’s where you were born and raised, and it’s where your family’s planted their roots.

It’s an off year. The president was elected last year and the midterms are the year after this, so there’s not much in the news right now, election wise…except in Whispering Oaks. Not only is every seat in the city council scheduled for re-election, but so too is the mayor.

You’ve thought about it for a while, but now you’ve decided: this year, you will run for mayor, challenging the sitting one.

But first, we must figure out some key things about you. It should be noted that some of these factors will influence your chances of getting elected.

>Name.

>Age. (Must be 18+)

>Sex.

>Occupation. (Can have multiple)

>Education.

>Political party. (Democrat, Republican or Independent?)

>Do you live near the center of town or on the outskirts?

>Physical description and additional character information. (Optional)

Now that we’ve settled you, let’s take a look outwards…more specifically, who is the incumbent that you will be challenging? What’s the state of the town in?

>Easy: The mayor has done a bad job running Whispering Oaks. Development has stagnated, infrastructure is neglected, business and people alike are leaving. They’re expected to lose re-election, assuming that they think it worth bothering to run in the first place. They’re expected mayor’s broad unpopularity is directly sinking the rest of the city government’s approval as well.

>Medium: The mayor has not done a bad job running Whispering Oaks, but they haven’t done a great job either. They’ve stopped the town from falling backwards but haven’t done anything to make it grow. The sitting mayor is painfully average and electorally a blank slate. Their chances of being re-elected are about 50/50, depending on how good of a candidate they’re up against.

>Hard: The mayor has done a good job running Whispering Oaks. Businesses and people alike have flooded into the town, the roads lack any potholes, the streets are safe and—most importantly—people are happy. It would take some serious scandal, awfully-handled crisis or a once in a lifetime candidate to take this mayor down.

Choose wisely. There’s no changing your decisions afterwards.

As promised in QTG, if Jack Ciattarelli is elected New Jersey governor tonight, y’all get one free max roll.

>>6327808 (OP)

Craig Theodore Cramblin
53
Male
Proprietor of an exotic fish and aquarium store, secretly he sells exotic insects in the back. They aren't illegal or anything, but he only lets people he trusts know that they're an option, because he cares so much about the bugs. He also is part owner and primary investor in a gun range on the edge of town, which hosts NRA meetings monthly - but he focuses on the fish store.
Four year degree, business management
Libertarian party
Lives in town
White man, average looking, very charismatic and friendly which has allowed him to hard sell a lot of fish and aquatic stuff, it's why he believes so much in the free market. Craig does believe that an elite cabal of pedophiles controls the government, including the presidency, and is convinced that his opponent is a pedophile cultist. He is unsure of running this position publicly, but it is what has compelled him to run for election, so he can purge local government of sinister influence.

Let's play Hard Mode.

>>6327808 (OP)
>Corey Dare
>Age: 18
>Occupation: GrubGo Runner (Delivers food)
>Education: High School Diploma
>Political Party: Independent
>Home Location: Crashes on his Uncle's couch in the city.
>Physical description: Young and bright-eyed recent graduate who was inspired by a dream where an extremely hot dream girl told him if he ran he'd not only win, but also probably get with her in the future. With zero experience and minimal hope, Corey Dare is an underdog story given physical form... but where experience is lacking, drive is overflowing!
>HARD MODE

>>6327824
I'll back the crackpot aquarist.

>>6327922
Yes anon thank you!!!

"Ya see folks, Whispering Oaks... It's like a fish tank. A fragile ecosystem. You gotta be able to multitask, you gotta mind all the moving parts or your fish... Well they stop swimmin, and they start floatin. Ya understand me? So is business. If I can make this much money sellin guppies, I think that speaks for itself as to how well I multitask. You need someone just like me, somebody that can keep their eye on the ball and keep spinnin every plate."

>>6327808 (OP)
is this quest just about becoming mayor?
or does it become like a civ quest after?
and can we climb the political ladder later?

>>6327939
I haven’t thought much further than Election Day. There’s no promise that you’ll get elected, either.

>>6327824
+1

>>6327808 (OP)
>Name: Roxanne Stacey
>Age: 20
>Occupation: Social Media Influencer
>Education: Associates Degree in Psychology
>Political Party: Green Party
>Home Location: Lives in an affluent suburb outside of the city
>Physical description and additional character information: Generally seen as the archetypical blonde rich alpha bitch during her high school life, yet despite that, she was consistently voted student body president due to popularity, charisma, and family connections. Has joined the Green Party to cover for her families mining company and to force out competitors.
>Hard Mode

>>6327824
I’ll support this too. Maybe we can even create a false flag incident in town to drum up support for our campaign. Trick the local pizza place to host a kid sleepover and then raid it with our supporters

>>6327824
This is fun, supporting but I'm also going to make my own candidate for fun.

>>6327808 (OP)
>Jebediah Buford Meade Jr
>59
>Male
>Banker, Car Dealership Owner, Landlord, Rockefeller Foundation member
>Harvard Business School, MBA
>Republican
>Lives on the outskirts, on a private walled estate surrounded by woods. Don't want no nosy types poking their heads around.
>Jebediah Meade is a big man. Not as big as his father, the rich old man of business and dubious political connections, but his presence casts a large shadow over every room, even without the fact of him being one of the richest men in town. His has been a life of privilege, and he wishes for nothing but the maintenance of that life, at the expense of everyone else. He is widely reviled through town, but money talks, and he's hoping that it'll get him the Mayoral nomination. Why does he even want to be Mayor? He doesn't, not in the way most people want it, but it's a title and he'll be damned if he won't get it anyway. He's gotten everything else he's ever wanted, and there'll be hell to pay if Jebediah doesn't get what he wants.
>Hard

>>6328000

I like Jeb and if it's an option he should be an ancillary antagonist third candidate that we also have to destroy or try to recruit as our vice mayor LOL

>>6328004
This. Jeb sounds like a better foil than a protag for this.

>>6327808 (OP)
>Name.
Detlef "Deadlift" Warmuth
>Age. (Must be 18+)
19
>Sex.
Male
>Occupation. (Can have multiple)
Small Business Owner; General Contractor and small scale construction jobs
>Education.
High School Dropout
>Political party. (Democrat, Republican or Independent?)
Independent (Far-Right)
>Do you live near the center of town or on the outskirts?
Outskirts
>Physical description and additional character information. (Optional)
Young, fit, with a strong back and square jaw, with long black hair on the top of his head but shaved down to skin on the sides. He offers vitriolic mockery of the other candidates and speaks from the cuff, winning support from the lower class hard working Whites.
He campaigns on an ambitious platform of rebuilding rundown segments of town which threatens many of the settled vested interests in town.
>Difficulty
Hard, except only the powerful are happy. But they're very, very powerful and can sway the population with control of the narrative.

+1 Craig Theodore Cramblin
Truly our political school of thought will be swimming.

>>6327813
Jack Ciattarelli did not win last night, so there will be no free max roll.

Craig Theodore Cramblin wins with 60% of the vote. A prelude of what’s to come, perhaps? Locking in the answers.

>>6328252

Ramblin' Cramblin don't need no max roll, he's got disarming rizz and a porcupine lapel pin.

Obviously, the porcupine is the most American animal as it practices judicious self-defense just as the founding fathers intended