con·gress
/ˈkäNGɡrəs/
noun
noun: Congress; noun: congress; plural noun: congresses
  1. a national legislative body, especially that of the US. The US Congress, which meets at the Capitol in Washington DC, was established by the Constitution of 1787 and is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
    “changes in taxation required the approval of Congress”
    synonyms: legislaturelegislative assembly, senatehousehouse of representatives, parliamentconvocationdietcouncilchamber

    “elections for the new Congress”
    • a particular session of the US Congress.
      “the 104th Congress”
  2. a formal meeting or series of meetings for discussion between delegates, especially those from a political party or labor union or from within a particular discipline.
    “an international congress of mathematicians”
    synonyms: conferenceconventionseminarcolloquiumsymposiumforummeetingassemblygatheringrallysummit

    “a congress of mathematicians”
  3. a society or organization, especially a political one.
    “the National Congress of American Indians”
  4. the action of coming together.
    “sexual congress”

In Inisfree, we take that last definition to a whole new and perfect level.

 

CONGRESSES & CONGRESSWOMEN

What’s the point of joining the Congresses of Inisfree?  (Again, it is optional; you can, as a free-person, keep leveling up well without participating in these volunteer-organization events/quests.)

Since this game is set in Inisfree, and you can’t venture much into the Outlands except for small-map raids of towns and villages for worthy potential kajirae, the Congresses are to volunteer your supplies and/or other help to other players.  You DO this by participating in the NPC-ed Congress session events, but mingling during their downtime in the sanctuary of the Auzdome (or of Cloud City II for that 4th/1st Congress), chatting in the chat-box with other players, swapping items.  (There is no money in Inisfree, so you don’t give them gold or whatever.)

The higher your character’s level, the more she is entrusted by the Inisfreeans with representing a growing number of her people/race from her/their homeland/homeworld.  Examples:

  1. level 60s: meet Congresswomen NPCs, such as Hawkgirl representing the Thanagarians
  2. level 70s: work as an assistant to one of those Congresswomen NPCs, driving with them between their Ceiling Mansion and Auzdome sanctuary parking space (instead of pew/chair)
  3. level 80s: become one of the Congresswomen; you start by representing just a handful of others of your character’s race
  4. 80: you speak for a few of your race; literally 3 others of your kind, but can not yet volunteer anyone to help others
  5. 81: you speak for 5 of your kind, and can volunteer 1 of them (provided THEY are volunteering to BE volunteered by you, as you are a female; you cannot order them to volunteer) to help out another player in some way
  6. 82: you speak for 10 of your kind, and can now volunteer the services of 2 of them, as needed, to others
  7. 83: you speak for 100, and can volunteer 20 of them (a small platoon of helpers)
  8. 84: you speak for 1,000, and can volunteer 200 of them (a company of helpers)
  9. 85: you speak for 10,000, and can volunteer 2,000 of them (a regiment/brigade (battalions) of helpers)
  10. 86: you speak for 100,000, and can volunteer 20,000 of them (a division/corps of helpers)
  11. 87: you speak for 1,000,000 of your kind, and can volunteer 200,000 (a field-army/army-group of helpers)
  12. 88: you speak for 4 million, and can volunteer 800,000 of them (several towns/fleets of helpers)
  13. 89: you speak for 7 million, and can volunteer 1,400,000 of them (a small city of helpers)
  14. level 90s: become a more admired Congresswoman; you now represent millions of your kind
  15. 90: you speak for 10 million, and can volunteer 2 million of them (an average city of helpers)
  16. 91: 20 million, volunteer up to 4 million (a large city of helpers)
  17. 92: 40 million, volunteer up to 8 million (a very large city of helpers)
  18. 93: 80 million, volunteer up to 16 million (a few large cities of helpers)
  19. 94: 160 million, volunteer up to 32 million (several large cities of helpers)
  20. 95: 320 million, volunteer up to 64 million (a state of helpers)
  21. 96: 640 million, volunteer up to 128 million (a small nation of helpers)
  22. 97: you speak for 1,280,000,000 of your kind, and can volunteer 256 million (an average nation of helpers)
  23. 98: 2,560,000,000, volunteer up to 512,000,000 (a large nation of helpers)
  24. 99: 5,120,000,000, volunteer up to 1,024,000,000 (a very large nation of helpers)
  25. level 100-110: become one of the most successful Congresswomen of Inisfree; you now represent billions or even trillions of your kind (*Inisfree is a tiny moon in the sky over Ideal World at endgame, so you can keep participating in its Congress sessions even at this later period in Inisfree’s timeline; long after it has left the Earth –and the portals of its CIV Aerospaceport still connect to several of the compatible Earth realms, such as the Earth’s Underdark)
  26. 100: you speak for 6.5 billion, volunteer up to 1.3 billion (a few nations of helpers)
  27. 101: you speak for 8 billion, volunteer up to 1.6 billion (several nations of helpers)
  28. 102: you speak for 10 billion, volunteer up to 2 billion (a dozen nations of helpers)
  29. 103: you speak for 20 billion, volunteer up to 4 billion (a colonized moon of helpers)
  30. 104: you speak for 40 billion, volunteer up to 8 billion (a world of helpers)
  31. 105: you speak for 80 billion, volunteer up to 16 billion (~2 worlds of helpers)
  32. 106: you speak for 160 billion, volunteer up to 32 billion (~5 worlds of helpers)
  33. 107: you speak for 320 billion, volunteer up to 64 billion (~10 worlds of helpers
  34. 108: you speak for 640 billion, volunteer up to 128 billion (~20 worlds of helpers)
  35. 109: you speak for 1,280,000,000,000 of your kind, volunteer up to 256 billion of them (a few dozen worlds of helpers)
  36. 110: MORE THAN TWO TRILLION PEOPLE, volunteer >510 billion of them (a fully colonized solar system of helpers)

You MUST be female to participate in these Congresses; MALES command families and households, and hunt worthy females.  FEMALES gather to volunteer the help they are allowed to offer, based on the desires of the males in charge of their groups.

FEMALES in these Congresses practice GIVING to others, NOT commanding them.

MALES make commands, and ALLOW females to HAVE things which they then can trade as GIFTS with NO STRINGS ATTACHED.

So MALES HAVE thousands or even millions of FEMALES as kajirae, while FEMALES do NOT have/own/command other people; they only have LOANED items FROM males.

Thus, FEMALES speak for their people, and help people get along together, but are ALWAYS subject to correcting by males, such as by the ICVs which represent and speak for the King of Inisfree when he cannot be present for these Congressional sessions.

And there is NO impeachment/firing process; if a male notices a female NOT accurately representing and serving her race/people, she will be booted and replaced by an HONEST Congresswoman.

Since Inisfreean culture/law does NOT allow females to be in CHARGE of anyone or anyTHING, all of their property in their residences in Inisfree remain the personal property of the King of Inisfree (Inisfree is, after all, his private residence; NOT a ‘normal’ city OR a democracy), and their decisions in Inisfree’s Congresses canNOT force new laws or fines or anything on other people.  All they can do is volunteer HELP to others, NOT write or approve or vote on or pass LAWS.  LAWS are made by the King, with the help of his ICVs, SOMETIMES with SOME advice/input from non-ICVs.  That’s it; nothing less, nothing more.

FEMALE characters who participate in Inisfree’s Congresses get a boost/bonus for their Status Bar, and become better friends (as dutiful helpers) to many other players, which gives them more intel/tips, etc.  This also encourages players to team up and be charitable and generous; this is NOT an MMORPG based obsessively around fighting/infighting.

The more people you speak for, the more projects you can request help with.  And the more people you can volunteer, the more projects you can OFFER help with.  So as you level up from the 90s to the 100s, you can upgrade from asking for volunteers to help improve the quality of life in the cities you represent… to the worlds you later represent.  You can, then, also upgrade from offering enough help for others to have all the support personnel they need for community clean-ups… to colonizing new star systems.  Naturally, this means greater friendship, mutual protection, intel sharing, and kajirae swapping between you and those you work with / volunteer helpers for, so all of THEY end up helping you get rare-drop items, too –which means you don’t have to ‘farm’/’grind’ as much in the MMORPG!

And THAT means you, as a female character, can much sooner get items that MALE characters otherwise won’t have an easy time getting in this MMORPG; they would otherwise have to do that farming/grinding.

 

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