Bowofacreeper

Hi, I'm bowofacreeper. I'm the founder and mayor of the town Tara.

When I searched for a place to call my own, the first thing I looked for was natural scenery. Eventually when exploring, I found myself between a mountain, two forests and the rolling plains, and thought "This shall be where our story unfolds".

The start of our town's history was the most difficult part. Since Tara no infrastructure and little manpower, there was a lot to do and nobody to do it. But as the leader, most of the burden fell on me. With an almost heavy hand, I declared that everybody had to mine for at least 5 gold ingots per day. I tried my best to be accommodating in this, but it was the least we could do and still function. There was even a time where I personally had to turn people away from joining Tara because the taxes that would come next would put our existence at risk.

Not wanting to make my town feel like a slave labor camp, I put in long hours in the mines, trying to scrape up any gold I could find to take some of this burden off of my people. I even sourced and sold obscure goods for tiny amounts of gold because there wasn't anything else I could do.

In a last ditch effort to raise money to pay for our taxes, I started an animal farm with lots of sheep. The prices weren't great but they would suffice, or so I thought. In one day, there was a boom in demand for green wool, and a hefty price tag to match. I repealed the mining requirement and asked my people to tend the farms as much as they could, as this could be a very short term boom in green wool prices.

In days, we went from barely hanging on by a financial thread to by far the richest town.

The citizens of Tara must have been satisfied with how I was running things because shortly after this I was elected as mayor.

After this however, my duties as mayor took a backseat. My town had enough wealth that taxes were the last thing on citizens' minds, and people had the rights to be able to do what they wanted in and out of the city, making my work done for now.

Hmm, it's been a bit since I've had to complete any mayoral duties, but I'm sure things are running just how I left it, right?