Jeremy for mayor 1896! Put a rubbery is office!
So I come home from work after reading the newly released info to suggest a coalition, and see that talks are already underway (and are already quite venomous, like any proper political negotiation).
I’d just like to put out that despite being maxed-out in everything except the new qualities you can get from debates (the last 5 Influencing), I will follow any coalition and happily switch if required. (Though the DTC is my first choice and I would of course prefer to vote for her - I won’t oppose any move that is conclusively decided for, but I’m going to stay away from adding more heat to the argument one way or the other),
Unless the unlikely happens and FB falls in love with my stupid idea, there will be no coalition, so don’t worry.
I honestly don’t understand why the stronger party should dissolve into the weaker party, reducing their chances, based solely on the promise of a totally awesome letter campaign that’s surely given a 10 point spike in the polls that’s made the poll post obsolete and incorrect and made her "slim" chance into a certainty overnight. Calling it "bickering" implies there’s actually a rational argument for the other proposal.[/quote]
The Detective’s campaign is the weaker one. It lacks momentum. The Campaigner has had late deciders, the Mayor’s endorsement, and Rubbery/Clay Man support.
The Detective’s has…what?
edited by Anne Auclair on 7/3/2017
I honestly don’t understand why the stronger party should dissolve into the weaker party, reducing their chances, based solely on the promise of a totally awesome letter campaign that’s surely given a 10 point spike in the polls that’s made the poll post obsolete and incorrect and made her "slim" chance into a certainty overnight. Calling it "bickering" implies there’s actually a rational argument for the other proposal.[/quote]
The Detective’s campaign is the weaker one. It lacks momentum. The Campaigner has had late deciders, the Mayor’s endorsement, and Rubbery/Clay Man support.
The Detective’s has…what?
edited by Anne Auclair on 7/3/2017[/quote]
The detective has more people and actions to show she will follow through on her promises.
After a Flash Lay against the DTC, I regret to announce hellaGummy’s had a frankly criminal change of heart. RIP Detective, it was nice supporting you for a week. Constables are still cool. Anyone need a Fixer?
The Detective’s campaign is a complete shambles and her vote totals are deceptive. We’re about to gain lots of votes. She’s probably plateaued.
Trust me, if our plans work out, there should be less reason for good citizens to turn to crime, allowing our boys in blue to go after the real crooks and villains.
We’ll be needing some Fixers right quickly once the mobs set in. Check the Google doc on the first post of the headquarters thread, the Honey-Well, for a list of Campaigner supporters.
As I predicted, we are already gaining support. If the Detective’s supporters really want to stop Feducci, as opposed to use him as a chisel and hammer to try and chip away at our voters, then they should switch to us.
I have five Free Evenings to use up, which may be sufficient to score another point of Notability.
(The sender gets more weaves then the recipient, so if anyone could tell me here that they’re open, I’ll send the request in game).
edited by Teaspoon on 7/3/2017
"The Implacable Detective’s questioning has become even more rigorous. Once you pass her gauntlet of interrogations, you are put to work compiling and cataloguing case notes for ‘The Grand Prosecution’. Amongst mythological and historical records related to the Elder Continent are detailed notes on her own allies: the Stereoscopists. Information on their personal histories, interest, vulnerabilities, and crucially, their dreams, has all been ruthlessly indexed. A list of improbable connections have been drawn. A single page is scrawled with notes on old cases involving mediums and mirrors. A heading reads: ‘Re-open. Look again.’ "
She is having a Sherlock Holmes moment (like he had before he became honey-mazed, I mean) and she needs to be mayor to investigate this existential threat to our civilisation properly. All the DTC wants to do is make a damn Well to throw honey into, which could have horrible consequences.
…also, I really, really want to get to learn more about this.
The Detective’s campaign is imploding, that’s all there is to say. She’s purging the people she herself hired.
The Dauntless Temperance Campaigner in contrast is always in control of the situation, the embodiment of grace under pressure.
Except for a well-full of Prisoner’s Honey, which she has no idea what to do with.
And it’s been proven that putting your problems in a well does not work. A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.
I suggest that the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner charge Londoners to swim in the well. Those of us who can quit at any time, honest, would be able to continue imbibing honey while Madame Dauntless could use the income to pay for elocution lessons for Rubbery Men.
Through this new wave of revelations, my support remains with the Campaigner. Aside from her mistake with the Revolutionary (the Calendar Council that was is not the Council that is, and March was likely not murdered unanimously), she retains the most coherent campaign and strategy. The Implacable Detective is the midst of both purging her own supporters and having them excuse themselves, and Feducci has a defeatist philosophy and is having trouble actually turning ideas into hard policy.
Look, all the things we predicted are happening! Honey and mushroom-tea for everyone!
This is why first-past-the-post is a terrible system. If we were allowed to rank our candidates, it would be easy to say your first pick lost, your vote goes to your second pick. But instead, even if the majority of people dislike a candidate, that candidate wins because the majority’s vote is split between other candidates. Single-transferrable-vote or Alternative vote FTW. Unfortunately, that probably wouldn’t work in this game.
edited by LillianAranach on 7/3/2017
Actually it might… You’d just need two qualities instead of one, your first choice candidate and then your second choice candidate.
But you fight the election with the voting system you have, not the voting system you’d rather have at another time.
edited by Anne Auclair on 7/3/2017
Obviously what we need to do is reform the system.
But that’s a little too much like ordinary politics, and Fallen London is enthusiastically unfair and deranged anyway.
[quote=Teaspoon]Obviously what we need to do is reform the system.
But that’s a little too much like ordinary politics, and Fallen London is enthusiastically unfair and deranged anyway.[/quote]
Blame Pages, he’s the one who designed it.