Apparently a theory has been suggested that I was responsible for the decision to disqualify King Julien XIII from the World Congress General Assembly President election, thus interrupting the voting procedure and causing Kyle Mizzi to be declared the winner.
This is not true. The decision was not taken by me. Nor was I consulted on it. And nor was there any particular reason why I should have been.
ICly, Noumonde, the 3rd world nation I RP, objected to King Julien XIII's candidature. This was a fairly predictable and logical move, given that King Julien XIII was claiming to be the real King of Noumonde, a position which is officially held by King Norbert. The disqualification was announced only 20 minutes after I wrote that post. However, at least so far as I am aware, there was no connection between my post and the announcement.
For the record, I generally enjoy Edward's humour and enjoyed his comical lemur RP, although I did feel it was an issue that the name of his character, King Julien XIII, was a prominent real-life fictional reference from the Madagascar movie. The combination of the name and the use of images of the King Julien XIII from the movie was arguably a breach of the rules, and I did raise this. I suggested to Edward that he change the name, but this did not happen. Nevertheless, given Moderation raised no objections, I was content to overlook that issue and go along with the lemur thing RP-wise.
Arguably there were grounds to consider excluding King Julien XIII from the election, both due to real-life references issue, and the argument that the character was not sufficiently plausible/serious to be eligible for a position with so much obvious RP significance. My personal objection is not so much to the decision to disqualify him, but the decision to first allow him into the contest and then to disqualify him whilst the voting process was actually underway. This is puzzling, and I hope GRC/Moderation will put out a statement of explanation about this.
I am told the World Congress has extradited King Julien XIII to Noumonde. To be clear, from my point of view, this is plausible as an outcome, although to be fair to Edward, it would not necessarily be the only plausible outcome. We could consider alternatives, such as that he evades arrest and escapes the Whale Island, or even that Noumonde's assumption he was at the Whale Island was wrong and that he is actually at an entirely different location altogether. Basically, within reason, I am more than happy to go along with whatever Edward's preferences are on this.
Lastly, could I request that we translate King Julien XIII disqualification into RP terms? In other words, I think it would make more sense if some named official/body/committee/whatever within the World Congress announces ICly that King Julien XIII has been disqualified, and offers some kind of in-game explanation for why this was done.