Yup, Soshana! The most uninspiring candidate. But she is the one genuinely worrying about a threat we know to be real, instead of wanting to fatten us up, or take our echoes so… Soshana it is.
We might have a wacky mayorship, but at least we won’t be followed by salivating Devils yielding forks everywhere we go for a year.
Voting for a devil isn’t just turkeys voting for Christmas, it’s turkeys voting for that nice Mr Bernard Matthews because look! he has such a wonderful wealth of past experience feeding up hungry turkeys.
Vote for Virginia! A good stuffing for all!
Incidentally, that’s how I would characterize Virginia’s promises.
[quote=Azothi][quote=Jolanda Swan]Just a clarification: Ms Plenty offers ‘a moment’s peace.’ She acknowledges that you cannot ask for more; she doesn’t promise security, or stability or something like that, just a brief respite from shenanigans.
I mean, this is quite the unique campaign promise, isn’t it?[/quote]It is quite unique, and I really do love Miriam as a character, but the problem is that I don’t think it’s reasonable to kick problems down the road like that. Furthermore, there will be black swans, and the Mayor’s office doesn’t really have the authority needed to enforce that respite. Overall, it seems more panem et circenses - bread and circuses - to me: keep London alive and keep it distracted.
(This will also be my last post here today since I have to prepare for sleep)[/quote]
I interpret it as Plenty just lying through her teeth.
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That, or she wants to give London a break that is analogous to her own break from Seeking…which doesn’t portend good things for either of them.
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Just vote to Virginia. For lulz.
True genius, and a sensible motivation.
I stand with you.
So, regarding profiteering amidst the electioneering…
Am I wrong in concluding that purely in terms of earning echoes, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of sense in grinding Reputation after you’ve maxed out your election career (which I now have)?
You can of course go for the more advanced options on the candidate cards, but there you’re spending purely for the flavor text, financially the returns seem pretty terrible. Electoral Opportunism is better of course, but it seems to me you’re essentially just getting back what you put in. Have I got this more or less right?
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[quote=Tsar Koschei]So, regarding profiteering amidst the electioneering…
Am I wrong in concluding that purely in terms of earning echoes, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of sense in grinding Reputation after you’ve maxed out your election career?
You can of course go for the more advanced options on the candidate cards, but there you’re spending purely for the flavor text, financially the returns seem pretty terrible. Electoral Opportunism is better of course, but it seems to me you’re essentially just getting back what you put in. Have I got this more or less right?[/quote]
Opportunism can give MW.
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This man has the right idea. The only thing that disappointed me about Feducci’s mayorship is how dull it ended up being, so Plenty’s definitely alienating me from the get-go with how unambitious her pitch is.
Not to sound oblivious but… which card is it?
You’ve been in London a while, yes? How, precisely, is giving us–us who are wedged between Devils and Khans and Tigers (oh, my!), kill each other repeatedly for fun, play Games within Games within Games, are ruled by an arguable madwoman with a household of monstrosities, and have proven perfectly capable of appointing (in succession) a prostitute, an undying foreign anarchist, and a self-contradicting revolutionary to lead us–how is giving this city a quiet year an "unambitious" goal? If anything, Mrs. Plenty’s campaign promise seems to me to be the most idealistic and unobtainable that we have yet been given.
It’s inThe Mayoral Election 1897 storylet.[/quote]
yup, that means it didn’t clear my profession from last year. Bug report time. Thank you!
[quote=MrCandles][quote=Tsar Koschei]So, regarding profiteering amidst the electioneering…
Am I wrong in concluding that purely in terms of earning echoes, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of sense in grinding Reputation after you’ve maxed out your election career?
You can of course go for the more advanced options on the candidate cards, but there you’re spending purely for the flavor text, financially the returns seem pretty terrible. Electoral Opportunism is better of course, but it seems to me you’re essentially just getting back what you put in. Have I got this more or less right?[/quote]
Opportunism can give MW.
[li][/quote]It can, if you’re in the market for that sort of thing, but even there you’re essentially just converting favours/wealth and actions into MW.
Having now maxed out my election career before I even got around to doing any Flash Lays, I’m half wondering whether I should just discard the Reputation card from now on.
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[quote=Tsar Koschei][quote=MrCandles][quote=Tsar Koschei]So, regarding profiteering amidst the electioneering…
Am I wrong in concluding that purely in terms of earning echoes, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of sense in grinding Reputation after you’ve maxed out your election career?
You can of course go for the more advanced options on the candidate cards, but there you’re spending purely for the flavor text, financially the returns seem pretty terrible. Electoral Opportunism is better of course, but it seems to me you’re essentially just getting back what you put in. Have I got this more or less right?[/quote]
Opportunism can give MW.
[li][/quote]It can, if you’re in the market for that sort of thing, but even there you’re essentially just converting favours/wealth and actions into MW.
Having now maxed out my election career before I even got around to doing any Flash Lays, I’m half wondering whether I should just discard the Reputation card from now on.
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Isn’t any way to get Making Waves just converting favours, wealth, and actions into Making Waves?
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This man has the right idea. The only thing that disappointed me about Feducci’s mayorship is how dull it ended up being, so Plenty’s definitely alienating me from the get-go with how unambitious her pitch is.[/quote]
Agreed on Feducci, the man was far less interesting as Mayor than anticipated. Hence my shying away from the flashy, more flamboyant candidate this year.[/li]
However, Miriam Plenty is pretty obviously only in the game for personal gain - a sentiment I can sympathise with, but which does not draw my support. I’m tending to Shosana who, if nothing else, would definitely be weird.
[quote=MrBreaksIt]Isn’t any way to get Making Waves just converting favours, wealth, and actions into Making Waves?[/quote]Pretty much. My point was that this also does not constitute turning a profit, at least in echoes.
[quote=Jolanda Swan]Yup, Soshana! The most uninspiring candidate. But she is the one genuinely worrying about a threat we know to be real, instead of wanting to fatten us up, or take our echoes so… Soshana it is.
We might have a wacky mayorship, but at least we won’t be followed by salivating Devils yielding forks everywhere we go for a year.[/quote]
I didn’t see anything about a specific threat she knew of. Did I miss something?[li][/li][li]
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As far as I’m aware, she’s as of yet only talked about generic “doom” befalling London if she isn’t elected.
I have to play the devil’s advocate here (no pun intended). But let’s be honest, we all stole tickets from Plenty. Tons of it. And those of you who have played Sunless Skies know the current situation of the circus. Yes, it’s dirty money. But the performers need it.
From a scenaristic standpoint, her as a mayor fits perfectly the lovecraftian theme. Yes, it’s bread and circus. But we are in 1897. Only 8 years before Sunless Skies. Isn’t that what the cultists and the madmen were supposed to do, just before the awakening of Cthulu? Celebrating the apocalypse? Shoshana has a vision, but she’s powerless to stop what’s going to happen. Virginia? The nourishments and bettering of the souls will happen anyway. If nothing matters, then why not enjoy ourselves, as the clock ticks all the way to our demise? Why not feast on the remains of this wretched place? Why don’t we succomb to desire before it consumes us all?
Why not? Just this once.
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That EXECRABLE VILLAIN Virginia is working with the TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, of all things. I KNEW those TEETOTALLING BUFFOONS could NOT be TRUSTED! Abstinence is BAD FOR THE SOUL and this is PROOF PERFECT of that! Besides which, Mrs. Plenty is a fine, upstanding citizen! Yes, there is of course that whole unfortunate business with St. Beau’s Candle, but what’s one minor piece of contraband compared to the HEATHEN TREACHERY of the Deviless, or the APPALLING CHARLATANRY of Mme. Shoshona?