The Doorway: a panfandom game

8– : Mr. Dedalus, CONSUL, delivered opening REMARKS, viz. the simultaneous HOPE and DESPAIR evoked by the ever-increasing membership of the Society;

8:04– : Miss MONTOYA in her generosity distributed headgear, to wit: paper crowns form the BURGER KING, which were deemed most fit and becoming by the CONSULATE, who did then decree that said paper crowns were to be, while not required at future MEETINGS, most actively ENCOURAGED, the better to emphasize the flimsy, cardboard nature of any monarchy and to stress the undeniable link between CAPITAL and OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT; which decree met with objection from certain CORNERS but which was extinguished in favor of the remarks following;

8:15– : Wherein Miss POLE introduced and encouraged contributions to the LOCATIVE PRESS, featuring the work of local refugees;

8:20– : Which exhortation was repeated and elaborated upon at some length by Mr. SMITH;

8:28– : Whereupon Citoyen CHAUVELIN stood to read prepared REMARKS regarding the meaninglessness of political boundaries and the assumption of sovereign POWER into the transnational commercial structures prevalent now across the GLOBE;

8:30– : Which remarks Mr. GRANTAIRE put an end to after the Citoyen's alloted two (2) minutes, and promised to place said REMARKS into the Society's RECORD (here the CONSULATE does NOTE that any VOLUNTEERS willing to keep the Society's RECORD should come forward at their earliest convenience as said RECORD does not presently exist);

8:35– : At which point an INTERRUPTION did occur in the form of one SHERLOCK HOLMES stating within earshot of the CONSULATE that any idiot concerned with legal restrictions and the edicts of KINGS should be buggered for a sheep and deserved every OPPRESSION he might SUFFER; and was thereupon REMOVED from the premises by Mr. LESTRADE, employed of SAM'S BAR & GRILL, and who is hereby awarded:

The Society of Displaced Rebels Against Kings and Rulers'
FIRST
BRUTUS Award & Honorary Membership Granted Pursuant to the Vanquishment of TYRANTS

and shall be welcome at all future Society MEETINGS;

8:43– : And this disturbance being eliminated, Mr. MAEDHROS asserted with admirable gall and considerable circumlocution what he did PROFESS to be the BENEFITS of a system of leadership structured centrally and invested in one (1) person;

8:48– : Whereupon Mr. GRANTAIRE did remark that his GLASS did not runneth over or anywhere in particular, and suggested that Mr. DEDALUS procure him ANOTHER; Mr. DEDALUS, unwilling to perform this menial task, did pass the buck most unconscionably down the line to Mr. COMBEFERRE, who, present only through telelink and quite unable to procure any sort of BEVERAGE whatsoever, could not be expected to comply with the orders of the CONSULATE and is hereby ABSOLVED of any abuse Mr. DEDALUS may have heaped upon him;

9– : Miss BARIMEN resolved this conflict posthaste and it hereby RECOGNIZED for her selfless devotion to the cause of keeping the Society in pints;

10:44– : Said pints having been obtained many times OVER, Mr. MCCRIMMON demanded FREEDOM and independence for Scotland from the DAMN SASSENACHS and engaged a not inconsiderable number of hapless passers by in a rousing CHANT to that effect;

12:30– Some time after which the CONSULATE declared the MEETING an unparalleled success and declared the MEETING ADJOURNED.