Welcome to Earth!
Adapted from a tumblr post by headspace-hotel
do you know what has been taken?
do you know what has been lost?
let me say, I have been shaken
by what our concrete life has cost
some fireflies light up in blue
and insects come in thousand cloths
of every pattern, every hue
do you know about the moths?
with names like "black-etched prominent"
"small mossy glyph" and "purple fairy"
(I say this as a compliment)
the nomenclature: legendary
the moth that feeds on lichen: do you know it?
or do you know the shimmering blue-green bees?
and if you know a child, can you show it
a rainbow-colored dogbane beetle, please?
your trees and stones should host all sorts of moss
your streams be full of newts and frogs and fishes
that they are not: an unimaginable loss
there's so much life! and much of it delicious!
there's species native to some tiny spot of land
that only here, in this one space they thrive
I want do show you, take you by the hand
say: this exists! it's real! and it's alive!
if you have not been out in nature, then you missed it
much of it you will not find on websites listed
I only know from observation, being interested
each day I see a new plant that I didn't know existed!
I'd name them all - yes, every single one - if just I could
there's trees - obscure, but not that rare - you might have never seen
sourwood, kentucky coffeetree, striped maple, yellowwood
ninebark, rusty blackhaw, or the hophornbeam
you know the purple coneflower, the prairie blazing star
yet there are countless others just as nice, but of less fame
it's hard to overstate just oh, how many plants there are
for which what's now suburbian waste is from where they came
you'll never know what's native to the place you call your home
because our homes (comparatively) are so barren, razed and dead
and there we have no reason to suspect that when we roam
ten thousand wondrous living things are everywhere instead
it's like a fish that all its life has lived inside a bucket
imagine the expanse of ocean: it can not, not ever
the insects in your field guide: they are just a fraction! tuck it
away and go, experience them all, out in the weather!
more things are real than any single person can imagine
the world's with critters, mushrooms, beetles, grasses rife
tread carefully! treat it with kindness and compassion
welcome to earth! it's beautiful! it's full of life!
do you know what has been taken?
do you know what has been lost?
let me say, I have been shaken
by what our concrete life has cost
some fireflies light up in blue
and insects come in thousand cloths
of every pattern, every hue
do you know about the moths?
with names like "black-etched prominent"
"small mossy glyph" and "purple fairy"
(I say this as a compliment)
the nomenclature: legendary
the moth that feeds on lichen: do you know it?
or do you know the shimmering blue-green bees?
and if you know a child, can you show it
a rainbow-colored dogbane beetle, please?
your trees and stones should host all sorts of moss
your streams be full of newts and frogs and fishes
that they are not: an unimaginable loss
there's so much life! and much of it delicious!
there's species native to some tiny spot of land
that only here, in this one space they thrive
I want do show you, take you by the hand
say: this exists! it's real! and it's alive!
if you have not been out in nature, then you missed it
much of it you will not find on websites listed
I only know from observation, being interested
each day I see a new plant that I didn't know existed!
I'd name them all - yes, every single one - if just I could
there's trees - obscure, but not that rare - you might have never seen
sourwood, kentucky coffeetree, striped maple, yellowwood
ninebark, rusty blackhaw, or the hophornbeam
you know the purple coneflower, the prairie blazing star
yet there are countless others just as nice, but of less fame
it's hard to overstate just oh, how many plants there are
for which what's now suburbian waste is from where they came
you'll never know what's native to the place you call your home
because our homes (comparatively) are so barren, razed and dead
and there we have no reason to suspect that when we roam
ten thousand wondrous living things are everywhere instead
it's like a fish that all its life has lived inside a bucket
imagine the expanse of ocean: it can not, not ever
the insects in your field guide: they are just a fraction! tuck it
away and go, experience them all, out in the weather!
more things are real than any single person can imagine
the world's with critters, mushrooms, beetles, grasses rife
tread carefully! treat it with kindness and compassion
welcome to earth! it's beautiful! it's full of life!
Basismitglieder haben keine besonderen Fähigkeiten oder Rechte und verbringen die Auszählpausen mit Essen, Gesprächen oder Partyspielen.
Auch eine Kandidatur bringt in dieser Phase keine speziellen Privilegien mit sich.
Zunächst können amtierende Vorstände ein Mitglied in der Mitgliederdatenbank nachschlagen und damit Einsicht in dessen Rollenkarte erhalten.
Mandatsträger können einzelne Mitglieder vor Austritt, Parteiausschluss und Hausverboten bewahren. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Rollen kann dabei jeder Mandatsträger einen anderen Spieler beschützen.
Dann haben die Trolle Gelegenheit, ein Mitglied zum Austritt zu bewegen. Die Rollenkarte des betroffenen Spielers wird vom Spielleiter eingesammelt. Handelt es sich um einen Kandidaten, können die Trolle bestimmen, wer an dessen Stelle nun kandidiert. Die Kandidaturkarte wird mit der leeren Rückseite zuoberst an ihren neuen Platz gelegt. Ist das betreffende Mitglied geschützt, schlägt die Trollerei fehl.
Nun tagt das Schiedsgericht und kann ein Parteiausschlussverfahren verhandeln. Auch dabei wird, sofern das Mitglied nicht durch Mandatsträger geschützt ist, die Rollenkarte des betroffenen Spielers eingesammelt und gegebenenfalls seine Kandidaturkarte umgedreht neu platziert.
Versammlungsleiter können Hausverbote aussprechen, mit den gleichen Folgen wie Parteiausschluss und Austritt.
Zuletzt bekommen die Wahlleiter die Möglichkeit, die Kandidatenliste zu verändern. Dabei wird eine Kandidaturkarte – ob umgedreht oder nicht – von einem Spieler zu einem anderen transferiert.