Well we lost. Time to go fishing,
This is a…rather stark change from Sinning Jenny’s administration. Remember when resistance to the mayor meant simply leaking snotty bits of gossip to the Gazette? Now we’re facing off against armed mobs…
Hahaha, yes! If Feducci’s supporters were after a fight, then a fight we’ll all have!
I wonder if the next mayor of london will live in the big casino feducci turned the blythenhale into, or spend money and time to refurbish, or pick a new mayoral residence. That is, if blythenhale is still standing by the end of feducci’s term. that is, if London is still standing by the end of feducci’s term. (innit this awesome? my player character might be slightly salty, but as a player i’m delighted)
There is zero chance of any mayor destroying London.
Shame. When’s my Fallen Paris/Moscow/New York coming? never (I know, I know, I’m really just kidding ;) I voted for him, after all. If he razed London to the ground, living on the city ruins amongst other survivors could get really socially awkward with that sort of political preference.)
edited by gronostaj on 7/22/2017
Oh, I figured you were kidding. Just adding a bit of a disclaimer so nobody reading takes it far more seriously than intended. :)
I just killed London’s new mayor and chopped him into little bits … It’s good to see he’s not all work and no play.
Funny, I’d swear I just saw him crouched on the cathedral cross over the Painted Ring with all the air of a raven perched on a brim of a child’s cradle. And he’s at Blythenhale almost all the time as well, and nearly catching my sleeve over at his mansion every time I try to pluck an Antique Mystery or five, and apparently still finding time for his hobbies, since you just murdered him…- you gotta admit the man has some remarkable time management skills. Ever considered the possibility there might be more than one Feducci strutting around?
Apparently in Italian (I assume Feducci is an Italian name) “nouns ending with a stressed vowel, with -i or -u or with a consonant are invariant, the plural is the same as the singular.” We have no way to know if Feducci is singular or plural.
Subtly creepy linguistic trivia aside, it wouldn’t be all that hard for someone else to pretend to be Feducci. Just need to wrap bandages around their head and project a sense of vague threatening-ness. Maybe Feducci isn’t really immortal, maybe every time you kill him, someone else picks up the identity. #illuminati confirmed.
Maybe the real Feducci is the friends we made along the way.
Kinda like the Dread Pirate Roberts. Or, more disturbingly, like Hugh Jackman’s character in The Prestige.
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I’m 100% confident that there is only one Feducci :P But as he wears bandages, he could easily have a lot of body doubles running around London or imitating him in Blythenhale.
The Mayor’s schedule shouldn’t be that great a time sink though - he barely seems to do any actual work. He just schemes and presides over games.
Whoever Feducci is. The game must go on. Hail to that!
scheming and presiding over games is an intellectual work equivalent of digging drainage ditches. ask any game-master.
whenever Feducci is not being hacked to pieces after losing a duel in the black ribbon, he seems to be busy losing the duels against London’s legal system. (clicks tongue) poor guy. If there’s something that can kill an immortal, it’s legislations. I can’t watch him wilting, it’s too cruel. someone go rub his poor tired shoulders or something
I’m still kind of amazed by how utterly bananas this transition has been.
Like, Jenny was a fairly normal mayor, all things considered. She started government departments, she enacted a number of her promised policies, she helped her friends out on the sly, she made secret deals with the Masters, and she invited a broad section of London’s people to her balls and parties. The political opposition made itself felt through damaging leaks to Huffam’s Gazette. It was all so low key.
Feducci is holed up in a (probably illegal) casino, visibly furious that he can’t impose the Hunger Games or whatever on London. He is stymied by the Palace bureaucracy and under siege from a large crowd of outraged protesters, who the mayor’s thuggish supporters vainly try to scare away by brandishing cutlasses and rifles. The mayor, when he isn’t trying to instigate violence between said supporters and the protesters, spends his time presiding over vicious games and recruiting the winners into some sort of ominous conspiracy.
It’s just…wow. My expectations were certainly exceeded.
Hopefully his Fate-locked story (assuming he gets one, which seems a safe enough bet) will go into just what it is he’s planning that requires all these duelists. I find that the most interesting unstated part of his character and actions, so it’ll be nice to have a story go fully into that.
Revenge, most likely. Perhaps even "some evil against the Royal family."
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edited by Anne Auclair on 7/24/2017