The Ambitious Barrister is ambitious…
Now we know that whoever wins the next Mayoral election will have a good chance of getting a seasonal Exceptional story written about them.
It would seem virtually every character has been name-checked at this point, but my 2 cents would go towards the Last Constable, Feducci or a Clay Man, particularly Lyme, although any Clay candidate would be interesting. Not to say there aren’t plenty of other excellent choices, that’s just what stood out to me.
So far as Clay Men go, I’d rather see Soap run for Mayor; he has more knowledge of the seamy underbelly of the City.
Why would Londoners vote for a Clay Man? I still don’t get that…they’re foreign and inhuman and the ones with standout personalities tend to have something fundamentally wrong with them.
I don’t know I would necessarily vote for one, I can just see a lot of interesting ways it could go. Certainly the draw of voting for the outsider is stronger for some people, for better or worse. And a Clay Man would definitely be that.
Throwing my hat in the ring for Your Aunt or, the ever popular choices, The Last Constable.
It doesn’t seem like the unfinished clay men are wrong in the mind, it just seems like they didn’t really get to learn much other than "Our leader is a slaver" when they were created, Soap, for example seems pretty smart(though we don’t see much of him).
I don’t know I would necessarily vote for one, I can just see a lot of interesting ways it could go. Certainly the draw of voting for the outsider is stronger for some people, for better or worse. And a Clay Man would definitely be that.[/quote]
Londoners, not players. Players are all over the place, but Londoners as a rule generally seem fairly prejudiced against Clay Men. The upper class regulates them to low socioeconomic positions and the working class despises them for taking their jobs.
Lyme or Soap in particular for a clay man seem lovely. Unfortunately it’s true that Londoners regard them as little more than slave labor. Rubberies are often thought abominations, despite my love for them. AND YAY, someone else who wants a rattus faber mayor! I know I suggested someone with a backing from some of these parties, and possibly supported by the previous mayor. Someone suggested the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner for that. And someone else was pleased because it mirrors social justice discussions at the time (I mentioned that the Civil War was a few decades ago and slavery is mostly frowned upon. Poor Clay Men.)
AHAHA can you imagine the storylets if Your Aunt is elected? cackling
Storywise, the Last Constable does make sense. And that opens the door for the Cheery Man because he can’t let her be Mayor. I still don’t think Feducci would be interested in governing. He seems more a man of action. And killing people. ^.^;
Sister Lydia better not be a candidate next year.
I have been advocating for Rattus Faber Representation for years now. I put forth the Disgraced Rattus Faber Bandit Chief. He has spent years amongst humanity learning our ways. He has many allies and years of diplomacy from working with the Midnight Matriarch.
No, not the Disgraced one. The one that has /regained/ his honor through a fierce battle! that would be great. <3
Is he really the least popular Dilmun Club member among players?[/quote]
I preferentially picked him, because I got the impression that he’d have an ambiguous attitude to immortality, and that was a very good fit for me.
Still, I get the impression that His Amused Lordship probably crushes the other two in popularity terms, but that the Implacable Detective will be second – just because a lot of people will chuck accumulated Business Cards at her until they succeed.[/quote]
This is very true. I was going to choose His Amused Lordship as my patron, but ended up asking the Detective to sponsor me since it was faster than waiting for Approaching the Gates of the Garden to reach 15 again.
That the Bishop is a Cousin has no impact on his ability to be mayor, you know, or on much else at all. He is a wise, devoted, and compassionate gentleman. I won’t have such slander and bigotry thrown around about him![li]
Could be a scandal though, you know how some people are.
The Bishop might be the least popular Dilmun Club patron at first due to how old the Club is, but the staggering amount of new and Exceptional Stories that sing his praises probably made him the most popular and positive person among the clergy.
Wait, a staggering amount of new and Exceptional Stories?
Okay, maybe not that many.;)
The Seasonal of Heart’s Blood certainly went "PRAISE FIARCE", though. There’s Flint where he is mellow and all nice, then you get two months of psycho-cousins contrasting his niceness!
And there’s Discernment, I guess. At least that shows he doesn’t hold grudge much.
Oh yeah, Flint. I never played that…
You know, I’m surprised Mr. Huffman hasn’t gotten more attention as a potential candidate. Men of the press seeking and entering high office was a regular feature of the 19th and early 20th centuries. There was Horace Greeley, William Randolph Hearst, James M. Cox, and Lord Northcliffe, among others.
Mr. Huffman is familiar and well liked, he has a lot of connections and knows a lot of secrets, and he’s been up to now a supporting character.
edited by Anne Auclair on 12/31/2016