CEO Week · The Example Run
Romula is the mother city of E2, the ancient city our whole world rose from. She fell once. This week, she gets a CEO, a plan, and seven days of honest work. I am Dave Craige, and the city is mine to move forward.
The Plan
A CEO week starts with a short plan anyone can repeat back. Mine has three missions, in this order.
The Old Streets go dark at night, and the thieves know it. This week we map every dark corner, hang lanterns on the worst ones, and stand up a citizen Night Watch with a simple rota. Reports go in the box at the Fountain, read aloud every morning.
Romula is beautiful and crumbling in the same breath. We repair the Fountain rim where the citizens sit, repoint the Pantheon steps, and give the Baths a proper sign again. Small stones, set straight, in public.
A safe, shining city still needs citizens. We open the gates: a welcome quest for every newcomer, a Saturday walking tour of the Old Streets, and a letter home from every new citizen, filed in the Romula letters archive.
The Week
Morning plan posted for everyone. Then I walk every street with the lantern list and meet the citizens who live on the dark corners.
The map of dark corners goes public. First lanterns are bought and hung on the Old Streets before sundown.
The rota starts. Two citizens a night, a lantern each, and the Fountain report box opens for business.
Masons on the Fountain rim at first light. Citizens can watch the repair happen, stone by stone, all week.
The steps get repointed and the Baths get their sign back. The city starts to look cared for again.
The Saturday tour, welcome quests for newcomers, and letters home. New citizens meet the Night Watch and the masons.
Full report to the community: what moved, what the money did, what is left. The next CEO of Romula gets a clean city and a clean page.
One short report before bed: what shipped, what slipped, what tomorrow holds. No report, no pay. That is the CEO rule.
The Budget
Every CEO week runs on the same ₱1,000, and the budget sits on the page where anyone can check it.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lanterns and oil for the Night Watch | ₱300 |
| Fountain rim and Pantheon steps repair | ₱400 |
| Welcome quests and the Saturday tour | ₱200 |
| Reserve, for whatever the city surprises us with | ₱100 |
| Total week budget | ₱1,000 |
The Team
These are my people: six faces from the E2 cast in the city's seats, plus Marty keeping the city's story. On your page, these seats carry your people.
Sets the plan, walks the city, writes the nightly report, answers for the week.
In the chair
Drives every street in Romula after dark, so he already knows which corners go black. He runs the Watch rota and keeps the lantern list honest.
On the team
The builder. He leads the Fountain rim and Pantheon steps repairs and signs off every stone before it is set.
On the team
The first friendly face at the gate. She runs the welcome quest for every newcomer and hosts the Saturday walking tour.
On the team
Posts what changed in the city each day, short and straight, and keeps the scoreboard current.
On the team
Checks everything twice, with screenshots. He watches the ₱1,000 line by line and publishes every spend the day it happens.
On the team
Writes to the world outside the gates and brings new citizens home to Romula.
On the team
She writes the Daily Dispatch below: one blog post every morning of the week, so the whole city can follow the work.
On the teamEvery CEO page keeps one seat open for a member of the community. Raise your hand in the Discord and Dave puts you on the team.
Open seatThe Daily Dispatch
Romula keeps a daily blog. Marty, our City Chronicler, posts one dispatch every morning of the week: what shipped, what slipped, what the city does next. Newest first, nothing hidden.
The keys to Romula changed hands this morning. Dave Craige is CEO for seven days, with three missions: stop the night thieves, raise the architecture, and fill the city with people. His team is named on this page, the budget is ₱1,000 in the open, and the first lantern walk happens tonight. This dispatch lands every morning. Follow along. (Marty, City Chronicler)
Three missions, seven days, ₱1,000. Night thieves, tired marble, empty streets. We start with the lantern list. Romula, let's go.
Walked the Old Streets end to end. Fourteen dark corners counted, three of them truly bad. The lantern map is drawn and goes public tomorrow morning.
Lantern map shipped to the city. Six lanterns go up tonight on the worst corners. Night Watch rota opens for names at the Fountain.
Six lanterns lit. The Old Streets look like a different city after dark. Two citizens signed for the Watch. Tomorrow the rota starts, and the masons measure the Fountain rim.
The Scoreboard
Join the Night Watch, carry a stone for the Fountain, or welcome one new citizen at the gate. Small jobs, real city. Raise your hand in the Discord and I will put you on the team page.