Joy in the moment of achieving his evil objectives.
edited by Frederick Metzengerstein on 7/11/2017[/quote]
hey, no one’s perfect ;)
Joy in the moment of achieving his evil objectives.[/quote]
So how is that psychotic (which was your point to which I’ve replied)?
He set out to achieve a goal (no matter the motivation), and has achieved it. His fans cheer. He enjoys himself and laughs.
That’s not psychotic. That’s a normal reaction.
… man i feel like it’s gonna be a while before the dust from this year’s election settles ;)
Aside from not letting discussion of the election results get too heated, I’ll also remind you all to A: look up the difference between “psychotic” and “psychopathic”, and B: not use either as a derogatory term because illness is not the same as immorality.
Do any of you know what kind of card will Feducci have to replace the sinning Jenny one?
Probably one that’s about equivalent, if I had to guess. 2 Favour options, and one investigate option. We’ll have to wait and see.
How could we know, if FBG haven’t released it yet?
How could we know, if FBG haven’t released it yet?[/quote]
Do we remember how long it took for the card to begin appearing after last year’s Election? Can’t wait to see what we’re heading into…
I am guessing Great Game favors, and maybe Criminal?
Though I would honestly prefer luck based challenges, for narrative reasons.
edited by Jolanda Swan on 7/11/2017
Last year, the election ended on July 18th, and the new card’s information was added to the wiki on July 26th. So roughly one week.
[quote=Thjazi][quote=G N]Some fellow anarchists abstain from the vote, and I curtsy deep to their own brand of commitment…but I’m of a different stripe. My anarchist heinie will get to threatening he who I helped elevate to the throne post-haste. Feducci knew he’d be precariously placed upon winning when he entered the race, so all said and done? Fair Play, Fair Game, Fair Bomb Throwing!
All daggers drawn against authority point ever at the throne, whatever head be mounted there. Electing those who hate the constabulary interfering in their business as much as I do is almost as delicious as thwarting Mayoral power and the constabulary alike! I’d rather have a revolutionary on my side than anyone else…but criminals are a distant second in an "enemy of my enemy" kind of way. Should Feducci make criminals the enforcers of governmental power in the constabulary’s stead, that’ll change right quick though let me tell you![/quote]
Oh, bravo! Well met, comrade! I was beginning to think my character was the only one who’d voted for the candidate they most want to see against the wall in the coming revolution.
Really, that was the key for me-- my character is an idealistic (but not pacifistic) revolutionary who has plans toward violent revolt and overthrow as necessary. Much better for Feducci to be the target of those plans than a couple of truly honest and honorable (if misguidedly orthodox) Londoners. Feducci is even directly asking for it. Fair Game, indeed.[/quote]
Ah, but consider criminality as propaganda of the deed and anarchist critiques of criminology qua criminology, comrade, and you’d see the one most directly asking for being thrown against the wall is in fact our Implacable Detective! I voted for the one most likely to weaken the right parts of the system, it’s only a cherry on top that he’s practically immortal while he does so. Doesn’t mean Feducci won’t dole out his own punitive or oppressive measures worth resisting but at least he’ll be weakening the constabulary while he does it!
Has your character heard of expropriative or insurrectionary anarchism? Illegalism? Albert Libertad, Ravachol, Auguste Vaillant, Émile Henry, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Johann Most, Luigi Galleani? My character certainly has, and thinks of Feducci as a choice to help just such tendencies of anarchism to do their thing.
G.N. is nothing if not multi-tendency in their anarchism! ^_~
[quote=Jolanda Swan]I am guessing Great Game favors, and maybe Criminal?
Though I would honestly prefer luck based challenges, for narrative reasons.
edited by Jolanda Swan on 7/11/2017[/quote]
My money is on an Infernal favor, as Feducci had a Devil as his campaign manager and two bits of scandal directly involving Hell.
The second favor’s particularly tricky though. With Jenny’s card you had one favor from supporting the Mayor’s efforts (Dockers) and one favor for opposing her (Criminals). So, which factions would most appreciate the player character opposing Feducci?
edited by Anne Auclair on 7/12/2017
[quote=Anne Auclair][quote=Jolanda Swan]I am guessing Great Game favors, and maybe Criminal?
Though I would honestly prefer luck based challenges, for narrative reasons.
edited by Jolanda Swan on 7/11/2017[/quote]
My money is on an Infernal favor, as Feducci had a Devil as his campaign manager and two bits of scandal directly involving Hell.
The second favor’s particularly tricky though. With Jenny’s card you had one favor from supporting the Mayor’s efforts (Dockers) and one favor for opposing her (Criminals). So, which factions would most appreciate the player character opposing Feducci?
edited by Anne Auclair on 7/12/2017[/quote]
Polite Society I think, perhaps the Constables?
Feducci seems very much to be an agent of chaos so anyone trying to maintain and the status quo would not likely be fond of him.
[quote=Blaine Davidson]Polite Society I think, perhaps the Constables?
Feducci seems very much to be an agent of chaos so anyone trying to maintain and the status quo would not likely be fond of him.[/quote]
There’s also the Foreign Office, especially the Teeth.
You think an doodling lady advocating for temperance, clueless to drug disposal, is an experienced politician? She had my vote, but she is not even close to experienced.[/quote]
That’s still more experience dealing with the local government than the other guy has.
I’d say that none of the candidates were an experienced politician and the detective was never an officer of the law (she’s a private investigator - the police commonly rely on her expertise to solve cases, like they sometimes approach the player character themselves for help).[/quote]
Sorry, ‘highly prolific officially-sanctioned representative of the law’. ‘Officer’ was just shorter. And as I mentioned to the other fellow/lady, The DTC still has more experience in government dealings than Feducci, unless you count the espionage for foreign powers against London. ‘Politician’ WAS too strong a word for her, though, I will admit.
Sorry, ‘highly prolific officially-sanctioned representative of the law’. ‘Officer’ was just shorter.[/quote]
Do you have any references to her ever being a representative of the law?
A true criminal mastermind would have voted for Temperance - Think of all the criminal possibilities that come with Prohibition!
Sorry, ‘highly prolific officially-sanctioned representative of the law’. ‘Officer’ was just shorter.[/quote]
Do you have any references to her ever being a representative of the law?[/quote]
Not a representative of the law, but interested in reforming the justice system and helping disabled detectives. And she is interested in strengthening the Constabulary, as the following quote from the campaign indicates:
"The Implacable Detective is a fixture of London’s underworld. She keeps an eye out for promising newcomers and prizes agility of mind, daring, and a willingness to pursue a case to the bitter end. Her candidacy has been seen as something of a surprise – and a cause for alarm among some of London’s society.
She campaigns on a platform for legal reform, greater powers for the Constabulary and a need to provide for the ailing and forgotten detectives. Her blue banners cover Spite and Ladybones Road (though they are just as quickly torn down). Her campaign runs with an efficiency London’s courts lack."
Another quote shows that many Constables support her:
"The Detective’s supporters march in trained formation. Many are Constables – or former Constables – and their steps recall old patrols along the cobblestones. Her frost blue banners are held aloft by Summerset professors.Other supporters, plain-clothed all, speak to undecided Londoners. The Detective herself is at the head, sipping from a flask of coffee. She is observing proceedings with a calculating expression."
I see her as kind of like a Sherlock Holmes or Poirot–a private investigator who is respected by, and is called in by, the local police on difficult cases because of their discretion and effectiveness.
edited by cathyr19355 on 7/16/2017
"Representative of the law" does not appear to be a legally-protected term - I think we can fairly take it to refer to a private investigator who works closely with the police as well as to those officially employed by the government for the same purposes.