Siankan-Jolanda 2019 have my vote.
A little storylet like the one defined by Siankan (showing some consequence of the Election, flavour text, nothing game-breaking) would be lovely.
It’s not opportunism, it’s an idea to improve the game. The main point of a suggestion is that it can be refused. It’s perfectly fine if they refuse. I would be happy if they accepted, fate-locked or not, large or small. Just a token so that who we vote for has more impact on the lore.
Please let me clarify: I am not interested in opportunism (and only vaguely in items). It is a question of visible mayoral impact. You will note that nothing in my suggestion is particularly strong, except perhaps in very narrow circumstances. (E.g. someone aiming for SotC 21 might be interested in paying lots of Echoes for Wound blanking, but only if other options have been neglected or exhausted.) The goal was to see mayoral impact as part of the game, and not merely as trinket text that is seen once and then ignored (though that too has its place). St. Melliflua’s Sanitarium for Poor Unfortunate Souls would not have a major impact on my personal game at all, but I do think that it would enrich Fallen London overall. At the very least it would demonstrate that mayors are not simply paper dolls.
I’ve only just started reading the subforum threads (and definitely haven’t delved into the in-depth candidate threads), but it’s interesting how Virginia is so polarizing in many responses. No matter that the Brass Embassy has disavowed her, she still can’t be trusted because she’s from Hell; no matter what she says and claims to do, she’s a deviless so of course she’s out to get our souls.
Interesting how our in-game experiences of devils in general are shaping our views of Virginia in particular, and we attach motives to her based on her identity and association. Isn’t this how prejudice works IRL too?
I’m trying to recall my encounters with Virginia in the Forgotten Quarter and Heart’s Desire, and I don’t remember any explicit statement that she was interested in souls or out to get mine; she was just an opponent trying to get something else from me. (But I don’t have reference text to check this.)
BTW, I’m also guilty of making such a polarized response to her. It certainly prompted some self-reflection! ;)
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I would also concur with Siankan that having even a little thing change as a result of the mayor beyond a single opportiunity card would deffo make me more invested in the result, as a newbie to FL hearing about all the nothing that resulted from previous elections is a bit of a hype killer.
I’m fairly new to the game. This is my first election, in fact, but I would be absolutely thrilled if I got to see a permanent change to London like that from the election. Hell, I’d even accept negative changes - the price of carnival tickets going up because of improved prestige, or the check for stealing them becoming actually difficult because of better security if Plenty wins, or some such thing.
That’s an excellently-formulated suggestion, Siankan. Might I suggest crossposting it to the suggestion thread? That way FBG is more likely to notice.
Same on that front actually if it would not break the game for new people - after all in politics, it can so often feel like you are voting for the option that causes the least damage to your own lifestyle. And all of these candidates have plenty (pun not intended) of potential for their plans to turn bad, intentionally or otherwise.
For those who are wondering about Madame Shosana. She seem to be prediciting about the lack of love stories in London which in turn lead to the event called the sixth city. cough France cough crushing cough fallen down cough.
She does make it extremely vauge though. She also promise to make an enviroment for love if she were mayor of London. (easier marriage?)
I got this by interviewing her using her card and 5 reputations
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Same here, having some sort of reminder that the candidate won and is doing things would honestly make this opportunity more exiting in the long term. Instead of it being the flash in the pan it seems to be.
I would add another idea to our Siankan-Jolanda campaign: give us something from the previous mayors, too. Jenny has her school. For Feducci, leaving nothing behind but the ruins of Blythendale, where we can take a look around for compromising documents, maybe Bazaar permits on a rare success, and a bit of rostygold, with wounds on a fail, would be fine. The Contrarian did his job all too well, so that would be trickier, but I dare say his storylet should be beneficial like his mayorship.
In any case, interest in the elections would pick up - as it is, we are getting as cynical and jaded as real-world voters, which isn’t good at all.
Maybe it’s a stupid question but are the opportunity cards for the candidates supposed to be this rare? Or is something wrong.
I’ve already advanced to level 20 as an agitator and have been farming reputation to have access to the options on their cards, but it has gotten to the point that i now have 21 reputation and have only managed to get Shoshana’s opinion on virginia.
Do i just have to wait and beat the odds to get them?
I’m voting for Plenty just because I like her. I don’t think the mayor’s office has enough sway (in universe and out) to make too much of a difference, so I go with the one I like most.
Roleplaying wise… it’s a tough choice, except Not Virginia.
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[quote=Kaijyuu]I’m voting for Plenty just because I like her. I don’t think the mayor’s office has enough sway (in universe and out) to make too much of a difference, so I go with the one I like most.
Roleplaying wise… it’s a tough choice, except Not Virginia.[/quote]
This about sums up my own decision. The more I hear about Shoshana, the more I might be inclined to vote for her - except that as has been amply demonstrated, her victory or loss will almost certainly have no bearing on what she’s prophesying about. If she really has a strategy to save us all, she’s just as likely to be able to implement it out of office, especially given how she’s already quite well-connected. So Plenty it is.
As Virginia is the only candidate this year who’s tried to murder me repeatedly, I’m afraid she definitely won’t receive my vote.
I’m still waiting for Silas to run for Mayor and become Mayor for Life. I would support that.
I don’t know why but i never received the first question and the second disappear today. I could not answer because i was waiting for the first one…
[quote=Severinus]Maybe it’s a stupid question but are the opportunity cards for the candidates supposed to be this rare? Or is something wrong. […] [/quote] Mrs Plenty’s card occurs with Standard Frequency with only one condition (A Participant in the 1897 Election), the combination making it (and presumably the other two Candidate Cards) passably uncommon. If you’ve only seen one card once you’re definitely unlucky, but not outside the realm of possibility. I’ve seen each card a few times, but am similarly swamped in Reputation and unable to ask a few more questions.
A pleasant addition to the Election would be an option where one could cash in a few Reputation to force-draw a Candidate Card. It feels thematically reasonable, and even as low as 2 Reputation makes it unprofitable (and I’d probably toss away 5 Reputation a few times to get the last bits of gossip).
Here are the polls from the 1896 election. I thought they’d be useful for comparison with current ones.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Anne%20Auclair/14277620
Interestingly, it seems that while the 1896 polls captured Slowcake’s low following, they overestimated the Princesses support (she won the bath one, for example and is implied to have won the second).
Here are the current polls.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Anne%20Auclair/16473729
John: Here is the answer to the First Poll from where I posted it in my Journal. I have not yet seen the Second Poll either.