Ironically, we’re the ones getting the most smashed.
It’s not that bad. I am sure none of you can say you regret it :P
In the mean time, just look forward for whatever updates come next, and play with the Black Ribbons if you desire?
True. The coming days might find a rise in Feducci duels.
Who knows, enough duels might bog Feducci down from doing much at all.
I aim to have songs made, and the best way to do that is to go down swinging in a fight no one ever thought you’d be crazy enough to take on.
Ah, this is all dreadfully sad, but to be honest - to be expected.
Fedduci captured images of many as a dashing rogue and a person to shake up the system - some did not realized he was neither of those, and some who realized stuck with him either because it was still a good idea in their heads to instate slave-driver and spy as a mayor, and others did that out of habit.
My fellow fighters. campaigners. I implore you not to despair, there is no need to drown it all in wine. We must take defeat as did our candidate, and keep standing for what is right. Yes, we’ve indeed lost here, but path of the righteous is never straight or an easy one. We’ll keep fighting, on other battlefields, and one day we will prevail. Good day to you.
edited by Squarry on 7/10/2017
Oh, I never said I’d stop fighting. If anything, I’ve now devoted myself to it, abandoning any pretense of being a man of civility and learning.
That means now I can do it effectively while drunk!
I can now take on protegés in the art of hitting things. Hitting them with fists, hitting them with canes, hitting them with swords, hitting them with bullets, hitting them with a shoe…
I learned that last one from the Campaigner!
edited by Isaac Zienfried on 7/10/2017
I suppose it shouldn’t come as a surprise that, in a game that lavishly rewards evil behavior, a candidate who is blatantly evil would be elected. Heck, if there were a storylet that allowed the player to go work aboard Hell’s slave ships as the “Whipmaster,” most players would play it. So I guess it’s not surprising that that nasty reveal about Fedducci didn’t really sway that many people :P
Okay, okay. I agree that Feducci is terrible and a lot of people play terrible people as characters, but I caution against us getting too bitter. We need to appear graceful and valorous to the very end.
I realize this may be of small comfort and a bit of a departure from the usual words of encouragement, optimism and hope I tend to try and instil in the spirit of others, but do consider this: it’s only a year. The Mayor of London, whoever it ended up being, really has next to no real power and very little time to use it in. Poor Jenny barely managed to get just her Finishing School through, and the more mercenary Londoners are already finding ways to exploit it.
Thusly, whatever Feducci may or may not do in his term of office, remember we can also play that game. Exploiting and using his own policies and structures as a means for bringing about a kinder London, in honour of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner, for all those she wished to help and still does.
And don’t forget, the Implacable Detective might have quite the bit of leverage to inhibit him as well, depending on her findings. Dire though these elections always seem to be, there is always hope for what is good and what is right to prosper and prevail.
That said, if he starts curtailing my tea, a reckoning will not be postponed at all~
I say! No one may touch tea! Not even mayor!
Yeah, you’re right. Just bugs me that, out of the six candidates we’ve had in elections so far, 5 of them were very different but still okay people who I wouldn’t have minded having as a mayor, even if I didn’t vote for them. But the one candidate who’s blatantly evil is the one who gets the overwhelming support.
I know this would never happen, because it’s not fair to punish the people who supported the winning candidate, but I feel like the election of a foreign spy, slavedriver, and person who FORCES other to participate in bloodsports (remember that once you join the Black Ribbon Society, he won’t let you leave it), who ran on the platform “what can I say that will get these idiots to vote for me” ought to have worse consequences for London than just a different flavor of opportunity card. But of course that won’t happen.
I’m just gonna leave these two snippets right next to each other, and say absolutely nothing more about them. At all.
So, I was not the only one seeing it. Good.
Thanks to all of you for giving me things to read while I feel sad about the result!
[quote=Kukapetal]Yeah, you’re right. Just bugs me that, out of the six candidates we’ve had in elections so far, 5 of them were very different but still okay people who I wouldn’t have minded having as a mayor, even if I didn’t vote for them. But the one candidate who’s blatantly evil is the one who gets the overwhelming support.
I know this would never happen, because it’s not fair to punish the people who supported the winning candidate, but I feel like the election of a foreign spy, slavedriver, and person who FORCES other to participate in bloodsports (remember that once you join the Black Ribbon Society, he won’t let you leave it), who ran on the platform "what can I say that will get these idiots to vote for me" ought to have worse consequences for London than just a different flavor of opportunity card. But of course that won’t happen.[/quote]
Very much this. I would pay to see Failbetter give this election a consequence. More than a "good" London, I would like to see narrative coherence, and I can not see how a Spy/Slavetrader in that position could not lead to something.
That’d set an awful precedent for future elections, though. “Watch out guys, we gotta figure out who the correct choice is!” and all those fun stories that probably wouldn’t end well just won’t get a chance to shine. Not to mention the debating would become unbearably intense, resembling real life politics to the point that the election just wouldn’t be fun.
I don’t know, I rather think it would be fun, if the consequences were well-balanced. Maybe if failbetter were inclined to make one story, similar to short exceptional stories, but playable for everyone, dealing with the consequences of the election choice, both positive and negative. If all choices had possible positive and negative outcomes, it would be less finding a "correct" candidate and more like players weighting whether say, Hell-related Feducci or Fingerkings-related Detective would be worse. That would demand some serious work out of failbetter, though, so I’m no sure they’d want to go this direction, seeing as election is only a small seasonal content.
edit: I mean, you know, not too severe consequences. Partially to avoid sharpening the discourse stick, partially for the benefit new players who might not even know that Feducci is not a real tomb-colonist, not to mention the more obscure lore. not all of us are old donkey-hats who know exactly what they voted for ;)
edited by gronostaj on 7/10/2017
As a funereal rite for this thread, and closing ceremony for the election I’d like to do a personal little giveaway.
So the first person to hit me with a calling card or Coffee at Caligula’s,
will get my Parabolan Kitten as well as an invitation to share in a bottle of First Sporing,
The next five people will each get a pile of First City Coins,
and the next eleven people get to share a bottle of Black Wings Absinthe with me.
To a fine year,
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/The%20Mirthless%20Colonist
EDIT: The kitten was won by Arcanuse, apologies but it’s gone now :/
edited by Infinity Simulacrum on 7/10/2017
Oh, lots of us saw it. Just that whenever someone started referencing it too openly, we had to hush them.
[quote=Infinity Simulacrum]As a funereal rite for this thread, and closing ceremony for the election I’d like to do a personal little giveaway.
So the first person to hit me with a calling card or Coffee at Caligula’s,
will get my Parabolan Kitten as well as an invitation to share in a bottle of First Sporing,
The next five people will each get a pile of First City Coins,
and the next eleven people get to share a bottle of Black Wings Absinthe with me.
To a fine year,
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/The%20Mirthless%20Colonist[/quote]
A very kind offer.
Before the election I didn’t really take part in the social actions or role play aspects of the game and it’s clear that my experience of Fallen London was poorer for it. Even when conversing with opponents I’ve been impressed by the imagination, wit and dedications people have put towards the game.
The text for the DTC’s farewell was perfectly pitched with the right amount of defiance and melancholy.