You’ve just made all that up. We know nothing of the sort. She’s kicking them in the shins by using campaign funds to buy up all their honey? I’d like to be kicked in the shins in such a manner.
[quote=Dudebro Pyro]Question about the campaign: as a former Bishop voter, would the DTC satisfy me? "Combat hedonism and degeneracy" seems like an excellent agenda, but from the text I’ve been able to find she seems to be focusing mostly on honey right now (which, by itself, isn’t a good enough electoral platform), and I’ve also seen her say something to the effect of her wanting to focus on helping the poor, reformed, and in need, as opposed to fighting against societal plagues.
Do we know what her actual focus will be? Or will we have to wait for the halfway point for more information?[/quote]
The DTC’s full platform, as revealed through interviews and her campaign card, is as follows:
The Dauntless Temperance Campaigner has the most progressive platform of the three and I think this is our biggest strength. I recommend that we promote her platform in detail whenever possible. Here it is in full:
- Increased tea drinking.[/li][/ul][ul][li]A reduction in the supply of prisoners honey and intoxicating liquors through more stringent licensing and higher prices.[/li][/ul][ul][li]Improved conditions and greater rights for London’s workers, debtors, and tenets.[/li][/ul][ul][li]"Houses of respite and healing" to aid addicts and the poverty stricken.[/li][/ul][ul][li]Help for London’s assorted animals - presumably everyone from L.B.'s to Blemmigans.[/li][/ul][ul][li]A crackdowns on spirifiers.
Also, at Jenny’s last ball, the Bishop of Southwark gave the DTC his tacit endorsement.
She’s also not the candidates who has fought on Hell’s side in a war.
Which is definitely something to know if you approved of the Bishop.
I really haven’t, and ms. Auclair brilliantly explained why.
Oh, that goes a long way to help me make up my mind. I seem to have missed it though, do you think you could link me to an echo? I’d like to read that for myself.
Oh, that goes a long way to help me make up my mind. I seem to have missed it though, do you think you could link me to an echo? I’d like to read that for myself.[/quote]
The Bishop doesn’t endorse her explicitly by name, but he spoke of coming battles and victories. Since the Campaigner is the only candidate who has the support of the Church, it seemed to me a pretty clear endorsement of her. Notice the Bishop continuously says "we" - he’s referring to his party and his program.
[quote=Bishop of Southwark]He turns around and roars amiably as you approach. "Marvellous evening eh? I’m very much looking forward to the new roster. Very much indeed." He waggles his eyebrows. "I don’t suppose you’ll give away how you’re voting yet?" He laughs, upsetting a nearby sideboard, to the alarm of several footmen.
He claps you about the shoulders. It feels like being hit by a felled oak. "We fought the good fight, and have had our year in the wilderness. We should not be ashamed, but humble! Grateful, even. For we are stronger for it, for all the battles to come."[/quote]
That is slightly tenuous, though I certainly see the possibility of the connection - and she does have the support of the church, that much is certainly true. Thanks for that, I hadn’t even considered this when I read that in-game.
His Grace was, as they say, dog whistling.
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Do the supporters of the Dauntless Campaigner require a fixer or subordinate campaigner?
Another campaigner is always welcome. I think we have enough fixers at the moment.
edited by Anne Auclair on 6/28/2017
We have a list of people you can call on for donations, back at the Honey-Well.
Welcome to the Temperance Campaign, friend!
I’d suggest campaigner since we’ve quite the extensive list of donators, you’ll get up to 9 ItE in no time.
Not too familiar with agitating, but it seems pretty fell from the looks of all the complaints about people quite literally mobbed with menaces.
edited by Infinity Simulacrum on 6/28/2017
li ↩︎
[quote=Gul al-Ahlaam]Hey all. Just switched from Feducci to the Campaigner. (Those poor snuffers… sweeties…) So anyway, since that reset my Fixer level basically to zero, I’d be happy to switch to campaigner or agitator (though campaigner would probably make more sense for RP reasons), whichever you guys need most. Let me know! ^_^[li][/li]
edited by Gul al-Ahlaam on 6/28/2017[/quote]
Being a campaigner for the Campaigner has a nice ring to it, it’s safe, and as IS said we have a pretty good donor list.
Gul, one thing you could do is send letters to all your former Feducci supporting friends explaining why you switched sides and inviting them to do the same. I think that would have a good effect.
I also just switched to the Campaigner after discovering the skeletons in the closet of the Detective. The Campaigner’s skeletons promise to be more useful.
Consider the Surprise Package I’ve had one of our members dispatch a welcoming gift.
Also, you might consider changing the "~" in your profile link to a "%20", otherwise it’ll redirect people to the home page, instead of to your actual profile.
edited by Infinity Simulacrum on 6/28/2017
I have to say I am REALLY impressed how Infinity Simulacrum and Auclair have put all competitors on defensive and made them argue on matters of beliefs and perspectives!
Solid work and undoubtful devotion!
I would greatly express my deepest respect, were my respect worty of such great personas.
[quote=SirKwint]I have to say I am REALLY impressed how Infinity Simulacrum and Auclair have put all competitors on defensive and made them argue on matters of beliefs and perspectives!
Solid work and undoubtful devotion!
I would greatly express my deepest respect, were my respect worty of such great personas.[/quote]
Awwww, thank you ^_^
Let me know if any of my efforts move you in the future to reconsider your candidate. If they do, we’ll have a tea cosy with your name on it waiting by the fire ;)
[quote=Anne Auclair]
Awwww, thank you ^_^
Let me know if any of my efforts move you in the future to reconsider your candidate. If they do, we’ll have a tea cosy with your name on it waiting by the fire ;)[/quote]
With my sincere regrets I will decline this most persuading offer.
Whilst debates may change the tide in the minds of those doubtful, it rarely affects decisive minds. Greatest achievemnts are reached by bold moves and terrible risks, and for that my heart and hand with Feducci’s, even knowing his war and Game past, source of funds and attitude toward happenings around.
Plus, paralysing flow of powerfull and much demanded addictive substance and concentrating it all in the hands of signle person that is to come to huge power (let’s skip aspect of substance’s nature and fact of welling it in an environment like Neath) - what can possibly go wrong?
That of course in no way diminishes your achievements and successes. DTC has a solid chance to win, many thanks to you electings HQ. Only, that plainly supports Feducci’s vision - success comes to bold and daring!
Wishing you good luck and respectful competition,
Sir Kwint.
A doff of the hat to you. I see you’re confident in where your loyalties lie, so I won’t do you the dishonor of arguing against your cause.
I’ll see you on the (intellectual) battlefield, and May the best candidate win.
DISCLAIMER: the campaign is in NEED of MORE CAMPAIGNERS, if your Influencing the Election and Career Level are low, CONSIDER SWITCHING; our donators will get you UP TO 9 IN NO TIME AT ALL
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Fellow citizens, when deciding who to vote for, please consider which candidate has the potential to bring about not just change, but lasting change.
The new mayor will only be here for a year. After that a new mayor will rule London, free to reverse or build upon the previous mayor’s legacy as he/she sees fit. Based on the policies of the other candidates, how can anyone other than Rightful Mayor Feducci bring about lasting change for the better?
The Implacable Detective speaks of more power to police, and plots in secret for the prosecution of corrupt officials. How will she succeed in this, in a city where it’s a rather poor kept secret that Parliament is in the pocket of Our Benefactors, the Masters of the Bazaar? Even if the case isn’t immediately dismissed, it will certainly be drawn out beyond her term, where it will be almost assuredly quietly dropped. A sad fact of the world is there will always be crime, always be corrupt politicians. After the Campaigner is gone, the Bazaar will still be here, and so will the gangs. The smart crooks need only wait a year to return to their wicked ways.
The Dauntless Temperance Campaigner intends to open more poorhouses and abolish cheap pleasures like honey and alcohol. Sinning Jenny spent the majority of her term building poorhouses and setting up programs for the disenfranchised. To vote for a candidate promising essentially the exact same thing rephrased is to admit either that Sinning Jenny either accomplished nothing or couldn’t manage to do enough to tackle the issue, even with all the powers of the mayoral office. That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in her ability to tack this issue, nor the urgency of tackling this issue.
Banning cheap vices won’t make the demand disappear, it will only drive it underground. Is it in the best interests of London to vote for a year where the only suppliers of alcohol are parts of the criminal underground? A criminal underground that will then be able to charge whatever it wants for what is currently popular and widely available? How will the Esteemed Masters Wines and Spices take this development? How likely are they to tolerate it.
Conscientious Londoners would better serve the community by practicing abstinence, something they can do freely now without detriment to those who enjoy these harmless pleasures. This policy will assuredly be quickly repealed in a year’s time, and there shall be much rejoicing.
And again, let us not forget our experiences of the past election cycle. The Dauntless Temperance Campaigner owes favors to the Revolutionaries. Anyone even vaguely familiar with organized crime can tell you that owing a disrepuatable bunch like that favors is tantamount to them owning you. By the end of the campaign the Jovial Contrarian’s campaign was all but taken over by the Calendar Council, with February herself openly walking the halls as his “assistant”. Is these really the people we want to hold the reigns of power for a whole year?
There is but one man who has a real plan. One that is at once both so audacious and cunning that it will instantly have a lasting affect on the balance of power in Our Fair City forever: Feducci.
A chain anyone can climb. A London where ranks and titles may change hands by the hour. It will make a mockery of all that the upper echelons hold dear, and that’s the brilliance of it. True change has always begun with the limiting of the elite’s power. The only thing that sets our so called “betters” and rulers apart from us are their claims of blood purity and titles they’ve carried and inherited for generations. Take that away, and there’s nothing that makes them more inherently special than any other man. Devaluing their prestige and social standing is the first step towards abolishing it utterly.
Might it seem absurd? Might it be an unprecedented course of action? Yes! But can the same be not said for nailing a theses to the doors of the church? Dear friends, let them try to challenge us, let them repeal our new order when our year is up. But the damage to their veneer of invulnerability will be everlasting. We will draw first blood. We will make the first crack in the dam holding back an age of freedom and equality!
Dear friends! Let us use this election to build a lasting legacy! Don’t vote for a candidate that will foster complacency among the poor, vote for the one that gives every man an honest chance to advance, should he have the spine to work for it! For a Fair London, I beseech you!
VOTE FEDUCCI!