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It was much quieter than Leo’s speech last year, which was in the rowdy capital. All in Lapizlazulli knew your name, your face, your voice. The attendants, at least those in front, were all members of the League. This was a respectful function, not one taking place in a place full of enemies. One day, though.
Red and gold pennents, banners, and flags of Vitelia, were raised all throughout the crowd, but your own standard was what was raised behind you, albeit an enlarged version. Many stood at attention, many knelt so people behind could see. Situated in a meeting of valleys as you were, where the downslope roads of Lapizlazulli connected, people had crawled up and down the buildings and whatever handholds they could to attend, even if near all were people in red or green uniform.
The microphone was already well tested and rehearsed. No need to do anything but step up and speak.
“Brothers and sisters of the Revolutionary Leagues,” You opened, the obligatory announcements and thanks already ready by the opening presenter before, Mayor Di Rouge of Halmaluce rolling out the welcome wagon so you could head straight into the meat of your words. “I remember a time when to be Vitelian was to be of a downtrodden people, a people overwhelmed by the tragedies of the world and mistakes of the past, lorded over by the untouchable, whose greed and gluttony for your livelihood was insatiable. Yet look now again. Since the Revolutionary Leagues have begun their great movements to change our country, what place is not better for it? Can any of our rivals point to their people, and say they are healthier, happier, more hopeful? I should like to see them make that claim in anything but jest. Look to Halmaluce, where foreign gangsters tried to impose their rule with violence, and how they were overcome by the will of the people. See Laroccia, where another misguided band of rogues tried to force their way with bloodshed and chaos. Yet we were there to bring about a peaceful solution, and now, representatives of the Leagues can be found all over Vitelia, and where they hold sway, they are there to hear the people, and act to their needs. Our welfare has rebounded, that our children might know what we who lived through the turn of the century knew. Give yourselves applaud and cheer, Vitelians. We have earned it.”
You paused to allow your requested celebratory cries and claps to echo, and then fall.
“For all the good that we have wrought, however, we have not been able to do all of it peacefully. Necessarily, we have had to defend ourselves, meet force with force, and our ranks are filled with heroes as a consequence. For the peace and prosperity of Vitelia and its future, to spread the good things we have done, I hereby announce the creation of the Civil and Militant branches of the Revolutionary League."
