Election 1895 Begins!

[quote=Anne Auclair][quote=Reinol von Lorica]Right then. Hopefully the chaps at the College will be happy.

I think that all forms of art should be taken into consideration though practiced with caution so I suppose I’ll be fine. Also, how would the Constables fair?

[quote=Reinol von Lorica]
I think that all forms of art should be taken into consideration though practiced with caution so I suppose I’ll be fine. Also, how would the Constables fair?[/quote]
The Constables would probably have an easier job if the DTC’s platform was implemented - less poverty/substance abuse = less crime. Other than that, no change from how they are now.
edited by Anne Auclair on 6/27/2017

I am torn… I know I don’t want Feducci in power (‘Fair play, fair game’? Please, Feducci, you could have at least tried…) but I am really, really torn between the Campaigner and the Detective.

On one hand, I really think the Campaigner has the best intentions of the three and truly believes in what she does. It seems to me the things that I don’t like about her (ties with the Revolutionaries, freaking honey down a well, hashtag This Can Only End Well…) are a result of her trying to negotiate big issues and making honest mistakes.

On the other hand… I cannot pretend I’d dislike giving more power to the Constables, but it is that what the Detective intends? Doesn’t she say she wants to fight corruption? I would love to see her fight corruption inside the Constable lines, for example. She is nothing if not efficient, that I can’t deny. Also I really like honey. And I REALLY like Fingerkings.

…I miss last year, when I was already campaigning furiously for Jenny ten minutes into Election season.

If only we had someone who truly is capable of leading this city. casts a glance at the Honey Addled Detective

Well the curtain is coming down on my old friend Jenny and I need a new horse to back for the coming political year. Who do we have in the running?

Ah dear old DTC, your idealism is refreshing in this city. But the problem with someone in power who intends to act in what they believe is in your best interests is that you cannot hope to reason with them to the contrary. If they’re doing this for your own good, why would you be able to dissuade them? I do appreciate the push for more tea on the market though. Tea is lovely. I would miss my wine and honey though. It’s a handy asset and an occasionally enjoyment. No, I’d rather not have my freedoms curtailed there. Although I have to confess I’d be interested to see a honey-well constructed if only to experiment with it.

Then there’s my old friend Feducci who I trust to honour debts and participate in any promising bloodbath while profiting and not a inch further. He’s a fascinating associate and rival with a past so chequered you could play a truly interesting game of chess upon it with a dozen players. But his idea of fairness is to simply to dump everyone in the ring and let the strongest crush the others, for what truer fairness is there to the bandaged prince of death is there than death delivered to the weak by the strong? Certainly I know a few stuffed shirts who could stand to be dragged down a few pegs, but the frail, the elderly and the sick? Feducci’s programme of fairness is darwinism dressed in good PR and nothing more. On his backers I won’t comment. We all have debts to pay and I doubt even he is free of those commitments.

Which leaves me option 3.

The Implacable Detective is a clever colleague in the search for truth and secrets, an old friend on the force, a fellow scholar of the Dilmun Club and occasionally she’ll attempt to arrest me if I’ve been a little too brazen in my own endevours. It’s a delightful little diversion. She recognises the value of friends in low places, best noted by the chess games she plays with a certain publican it would not be in my best interests to identify. Heavens know we have a crime problem though granted, plenty of those crims are carrying badges but that’s neither here or there. What does interest me is that my old associate is as inscrutable as ever. All her accounts are in order, with the single glaring anomaly being all the budgeting she’s investing in her plans for a Grand Prosecution. This is a bigger move than simply beefing up the Constabulary. The target here is clearly much more powerful than the sort of people who would run afoul of the Velocipede Squad (That is, practically everyone who isn’t on the velocipede squad, but mostly the poor). Whose prosecution could she possibly need to invest such resources in? Criminal kingpins such as the Cheery Man, the Gracious Widow, the Topsy King or Feducci? Possible, but unlikely. The Masters? Also unlikely, she’d have observed Jenny’s hamstrung reign there. I’m more inclined to suspect her to make a move against someone like our own dear enduring Empress. Untouchable by most channels, yes, but not untouchable to the level of the Masters. That I would be interested to see. The Detective plays the long game well and I doubt we’ll see the target of her ire until all her pieces are in place. Until such time I expect she’ll remain inscrutable as ever.

Inscrutability or no though, DTC and Feducci would both offer beneficial changes, but the strings attached to those are a little too unpleasant to secure my support. This of course therefore brings me to…

The Only Logical Conclusion.

I’m afraid I don’t have time to read all the way back through the thread. Can someone give me a quick rundown on what (free) item I should aim for? I already have the watchful boots from last year, and I’d rather not repeat what I did then to get them (i.e. halving my maxed-out progress twice - first to get the boots, then to switch back to my desired profession).

Well, form what I understand, this years items are pretty much the same as last years, i.e if you are a campaigner you can get the wax hardened boots again, with the notable exception that each candidate has an item specific to them, a hat to be more precise. Feducci’s hat gives you +8 Dangerous and +1 Dread, the Implacable’s Detective gives +8 Shadowy and +1 Bizarre, and finally the DTC’s hat gives +8 Persuasive and +1 Respectable (I am a bit unsure of the last two since I didn’t look at them to long, so if someone could confirm this it’d be greatly appreciated). Note that the hats are available regardless of the campaign profession you choose but, and I say this just in case, that’s your free item if you choose them.

EDIT: Made a small mistake, the hats give +8 for the primary attribute, not +12. My apologies for any confusion
edited by Corvo on 6/27/2017

Go for Feducci. Either nothing really changes after he wins, or there will be definitely much more fun in the game )))
I’m open for giving/receiving donations and other activities.

Yours,
Ark G

I have a fondness for bearskins. Gets me all misty-eyed for that time a guardsman gave me a good seeing-to in his sentry-box outside the Shuttered Palace. So when I heard the tea-party were giving them away I popped into one of their shindigs, drank some of their tea (it was vile), heard them spout their nonsense for a bit and nodded like I was listening, and then made off with me free hat.

Then I promptly went and signed up with another mob. Thanks, tea-baggers! You’re not getting your hat back. I do love election season. So much opportunity for mischief and fun.
edited by Plynkes on 6/27/2017

I agree Feducci should be the more outlandishly rewarding choice, in meta gaming for lore terms.

Then again, the investigations, public inquiries and legal reforms that the Detective could enact might shake out some lore closer to home. She might also wind up being assassinated for it, which could lead to a snap election! Wouldn’t that be fun? Imagine it, the Vake eats her whole in a fly-by one night, right after she began looking too closely at Masterful meddling in the judiciary.

[quote=Ark Gavrilov]Go for Feducci. Either nothing really changes after he wins, or there will be definitely much more fun in the game )))
I’m open for giving/receiving donations and other activities.

Yours,
Ark G[/quote]

@Plynkes, I whole-heartedly agree with your hat-plundering shenanigans, without even knowing who you signed up with.

It would be fun if these turn-coat choices are being silently recorded, to bite us in the bum later, haha.

From the text in Hastings Square: “…several constables are attempting to find a good rhyme for the Implacable Detective.”

The Implacable Detective,
Her unflappable directive,
Is to drain the swamp of the unelected!

The Masters of Industry,
Disasters of indignity,
Pulling strings in judicial activity!

[I don’t actually support her but it thought I’d help those troubled constables out. The second verse is probably delivered via paid protesters or over-zealous campaigners, rather than her own thin blue line-up :D].

Can I get the Campaigner boots again because I think a made a mistake picking the bearskin hat

You can get all the toys if you don’t mind switching teams, switching jobs (thereby losing election progress), and paying Fate.

[quote=Shalinoth]From the text in Hastings Square: &quot…several constables are attempting to find a good rhyme for the Implacable Detective.&quot
[/quote]
Let’s have a try…

There once was an Implacable Detective,
Whose casing-solving mode was defective,
She made false accusations,
At folks of all stations,
And so garnered not votes but invective.

Rather feeble, but it’s a long time since I was a poet in Veilgarden, and I’m out of honey. :)

A limerick! I heartily approve, sir.

Supporters of other campaigns should most definitely make their own now. I do declare… a rhyme-off!

There was an old chap well-bandaged,
He fought fair in a game of advantage,
Beyond recognition,
He grants all addiction,
Feducci will win by chantage.

Do we get a career item and a candidate item free?
Or just one, then fate the rest.

I think you just get the one free item. Once I had picked a free candidate hat, everything else was only available for Fate.

There once was a Temperance Campaigner
Who hired a loyal retainer
With their aid honey fell
Deep into a well
But honestly who can blame er!