Freelance: Winds of change blow through Tir
Winds of change blow through Tir
April 24, 29480 - Miranda 'Whtrose' Ariel [Atlantean]
Tir City (IRRK Freelance) - Tir is the first city built by the clans, the home of the Council of Truth, the Clan Arena, and two of the finest bars Rubi-Ka has to offer. Despite all this, however, it has for some time now been only a ghost town with the only visitors being people wishing to get away from the hustle and bustle of the busier cities. The Urban Defense Patrol, a group controlled by Simon Silverstone of the Sentinels, ensures that hostilities remain outside of the city.
Downtown Tir, once a place of free trade and a good place to meet new people, has dwindled in its popularity so much that on any given day the shop keepers and guards outnumber the potential costumers. For a few among the clans, this is not seen as a bad thing, with the lack of commotion being a welcome change from the hustle and bustle of Old Athens. Bresia of Guardian Nemesis says that she kind of likes the peace and quiet that Tir offers.
Don’t think that Tir has completely turned into a retirement community for old clan members, though. Like any town that has become a ghost town it does attract its fair share of odd stories that are very hard to confirm or refute. The few people who were around for an interview hinted that Tir is often a city for small groups of people to get up to all sorts of “shenanigans,” as one ‘Kinsey’ put it. It was commented that because nobody is ever there, it means that there is nobody ever around to notice what kind of games go on late at night.
There will always be kids running through graveyards daring their friends to stand on the grave of that old witch, and couples using them for secret trysts, with Tir becoming that graveyard. However, most who come to the City of the Clans enjoy the quiet solitude from the war, and for the most part safety from Omni interference.
how long did it take for me to find this?
Change is a necessary evil in society, especially Rubi-Kan society.
Tir needed to be the capital of the clans and while the vocal majority of Clans didn't necessarily agree with Silverstone, there were a core group of supporters that kept him in, let alone his phenomenal determination to see the city of Tir free for Clans. Back then, it wasn't really popular to be a supporter of the Commander.
Regardless of the attacks on the street, which by the way happen daily in Tir, Athen, and West Athen, change was needed. (Right now, there are quite a few people who are asking the Sentinels to move into West Athen to control the violence there. Silverstone showed up one day and cleared the place, much to the joy of the gathered Clans. ) When the ICC took over Tir, the clans called for someone to step in. Silverstone did it. He wasn't loved for doing what he did but the political climate back then was very closed, secretive and hateful of people that got in the way of their peace.
The winds of change certainly blew through Tir and continue to do so. I do have to make a point though. Athen got the whoompa to Jobe and Tir only became so empty when the portal to the Shadowlands was opened. A day before that, Tir was the place to be to get anything done. I will never argue with history but change is inevitable. Good or bad is in the eye of the beholder.
If Tir had the whoompa, Tir would be the hub and Athen would be as empty...as it was before. Political climates change and Silverstone is widely accepted now and is changing peoples minds about him. In fact, if Zora ever accepts the invitation for the meeting with the Clans, Silverstone is making his case to be the representative.
So yes, the winds of change have blown through Tir but eventually those winds will shift and bring life back, while changing some other place for better or for worse.
