Absintheuse
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The year is 1894, and London is to have a Mayor! Election is the first new festival since 2014 when we began the Fruits of the Zee Festival.
The Election is free and is open to all players. It will begin Monday 4th July. Players will have two delicious weeks to bolster support for their chosen candidate through a variety of actions. At the end of the first week of Election, we will announce which candidate is ahead. The final day of Election will be Monday 18th July.
Join the revelry through the "An Election! London Must Decide!" card once the festival begins. The three candidates up for the 1894 Election are:
- Sinning Jenny
- The Bishop of Southwark
- and The Jovial Contrarian
The elected Mayor will reign for one year, after which another election will be held. The winning candidate will have a Mayoral influence in your Opportunity Deck until next year's election, so consider who you support carefully. After the festival, there will be an opportunity to suggest candidates you'd like to see take up a Mayoral campaign next year.
No Election is complete without fliers, political cartoons, and other such materials. We invite you all to create and share your own! We cannot wait to see who you will choose, delicious friends.
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NiteBrite
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Grace the Mercy for Mayor 1895, let's build a highway to hell and give it no speed limit. Nyoooom!
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
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Danko, I actually like expanding minor characters and giving them a chance to shine, especially such intriguing ones!
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ArtificerProdigy
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I have to disagree with the sentiment that the contrarian is uninteresting. Maybe it's just because I can be a jovial contrarian irl, and therefore empathize with him, but I found him quite memorable. I may support him despite his revolutionary tendencies simply because he seems like a reasonable and logical character. It'll depend on how radical the platform he puts forward is. The bishop, while entertaining, is crazy, and I have no idea what sinning jennys agenda is.
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NiteBrite
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I'm just really excited for the idea of "collaborative play". Large scale social interaction is one of the things that have been missing from Fallen London lately, and this election sounds like it could be a big step in the right direction (for the future of social play). Maybe one day we'll see a 20 person 2000 supply expedition in the forgotten quarter or something haha (no that's a terrible idea).
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John Moose
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I'm terrified by what NiteBrite's hand must look like.
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Estelle Knoht
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It is probably because the three choices we have are very colorful, un-politician characters? Plus, Sinning Jenny and the Contrarian are memorable but I don't think you ever have a particularly in-depth story with either of them, while the Bishop is so singularly minded on that one topic that you can't see him running for Mayor in the first place.
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Marianne Anders
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6/18/2016
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An Individual wrote:
Marianne Anders wrote:
Also, is it as much of a coincidence as it seems that the election starts on the Fourth of July? rather American, dontchaknow.
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I think they were just trying to start on the first Monday of July and run for two weeks. That said, I would whole heatedly support it being moved to the 7th. Also for an increase to 7 candidates. And everyone gets 7 votes. And we will cast our votes by throwing them into 7 wells. An election will not be postponed indefinitely.
have you also considered the power of ILLEGALLY PROCURED FIREWORKS? perhaps that would be worth not postponing a reckoned election.
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An Individual
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Marianne Anders wrote:
Also, is it as much of a coincidence as it seems that the election starts on the Fourth of July? rather American, dontchaknow.
edited by Marianne Anders on 6/17/2016
I think they were just trying to start on the first Monday of July and run for two weeks. That said, I would whole heatedly support it being moved to the 7th. Also for an increase to 7 candidates. And everyone gets 7 votes. And we will cast our votes by throwing them into 7 wells. An election will not be postponed indefinitely.
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NiteBrite
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6/17/2016
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Will people without access to card hands be able to participate in the elections? Some of us have been very unwise, or have eyeless skulls, or faction conflicts etc. I have sooooo many can't discards that its such a tangled web it would take literal months to unweave them all and so I can't even the cards.
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Chris Gardiner
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6/17/2016
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An Individual wrote:
Will there be content to introduce players to characters they haven't met yet/have forgotten? Newer players in particular may not even have heard of these people.
There will!
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lady ciel
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6/17/2016
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Looking forward to this - I still haven't decided but it is between two of the candidates.
[spoiler] As a Vake Hunter I have a soft spot for Sinning Jenny but I also enjoy speaking to the Jovial Contrarian when I meet him. Definitely not the Bishop ... I already refused his plan to invade Hell so it would not be right to back him now. [/spoiler]
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Gonen
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6/17/2016
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FBG, It's super to see you having new ideas to implement instead changing a little of existing content. Can't wait for the new tradition!
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Marianne Anders
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Will the actions to elect a Mayor require any resources, or just commitment?
Also, is it as much of a coincidence as it seems that the election starts on the Fourth of July? rather American, dontchaknow.
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An Individual
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Chris Gardiner wrote:
An Individual wrote:
Will there be content to introduce players to characters they haven't met yet/have forgotten? Newer players in particular may not even have heard of these people.
There will!
Hurray! I'm excited to see how this plays out. And I already know who should be on next years ballot.
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absimiliard
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Danko wrote:
I have to say I'm somewhat dissapointed at the list of candidates as all three of them (maybe except the Bishop) are really minor and not too interesting characters. Surely there are many delicious persons more deserving of the title.
The more notable personages have more important things to worry about than who get the title "Mayor of London". That'd be my guess as to why they don't get involved.
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Professor Strix
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Guys, they are opening the suggestion box for the next election. Let's have fun with the things we already have, shall we?
Absintheuse wrote:
The elected Mayor will reign for one year, after which another election will be held. The winning candidate will have a Mayoral influence in your Opportunity Deck until next year's election, so consider who you support carefully.
...Oh dear.
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Luminen Walker
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6/18/2016
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Vote Bishop of Southwark for player fueled Invasion of Hell!*
We only failed last time for lack of obscenely wealthy ubermensch leading the charge!
*Note: The Bishop of Southwark being elected may not lead to an actual invasion of hell
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John Moose
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I really appreciate a new festival, it wasn't long ago that I was lamenting the long festival-starved period between Rose and Fruits.
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Israfel
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Ah great, now I'll have to take a break from my echo grinding to support my chosen candidate. Alas, democracy must be served by bending our resources to impose our will upon the electorate. It's just like real life!
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malthaussen
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Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg!
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Grenem
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malthaussen wrote:
Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg!
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Well, We have truth- the contrarian will always speak the part of it you're missing. And we have freedom- sinning jenny is nothing if not free. And we've got a hard-boiled egg- there is no way the bishop is justice. But where's justice?
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Anne Auclair
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The Bishop winning is not going to destroy London :P It's only the mayor's office after all. Parliament, the Palace, and Exchange, and the Bazaar is where most of the power is.
The real issue of this election is the Soul Trade. The Bishop as Mayor could potentially make it very difficult for sprifers and devils by rigorously/obstructively enforcing laws on soul trading while giving the Committee of Vital Restitution's activities a total pass. The Bishop can be trusted to make speeches against the trade and try to do something for all those poor unfortunates that Hell has abducted on the open zee to row their boats. He can inconvenience the devils and their works.
Would Sinning Jenny, a tool of Mr Wines, do any of that? Doubtful. The Masters are strong appeasers of Hell and they profit heavily from the soul trade. In addition to license fees and taxes, Mr Wines benefits from soulless people seeking solace in hedonism, in wine and the Parlor of Virtue. And so does Jenny, the Parlor's leading lady.
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
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This is DELIGHTFUL. I'm so excited!
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An Individual
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Will there be content to introduce players to characters they haven't met yet/have forgotten? Newer players in particular may not even have heard of these people.
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Grenem
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An Individual wrote:
Will there be content to introduce players to characters they haven't met yet/have forgotten? Newer players in particular may not even have heard of these people.
And on the same note, older players might be unable to remember the last time they interacted with someone- Jenny, for instance, i last talked with really early game about the secular missionary's husband.
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Grenem
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Parelle wrote:
Right: I can't remember where I encountered Sinning Jenny as I know I've missed her two big appearances
[spoiler]The Vake and one of the EF stories[/spoiler]
The Bishop is found in Coil 4, the Contrarian appears at the POSI only dinner party.
Also, though less recently, during the storyline about the photographer. You know, the one everyone does twice and then avoids like the plague.
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phryne
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Parelle wrote:
Right: I can't remember where I encountered Sinning Jenny as I know I've missed her two big appearances I'm not on Bag A Legend myself, but I've found an echo of her big appearance there.
The other one was in The Waltz That Moved The World, but she didn't really talk much about herself there.
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Màiread
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I am so excited! At last, an opportunity to dust off my campaigning outfit and nail my colours to the mast, as it were.
I know who I'm voting for (Jenny, obviously), but I'm looking forward to seeing a bit more flesh stuck on the bones of some of the smaller characters. I've met a lot of people down here I'd like to know more about, so I think this particular festival will be one of my favourites in the years to come.
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Grenem
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Optimatum wrote:
Grenem wrote:
malthaussen wrote:
Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg!
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Well, We have truth- the contrarian will always speak the part of it you're missing. And we have freedom- sinning jenny is nothing if not free. And we've got a hard-boiled egg- there is no way the bishop is justice. But where's justice?
Vote for the Dragons that enforce the law of stars!
Assuming I'm correctly getting the reference, wasn't reasonably-priced love one of the demands? In which case Jenny clearly has the lead.
Well, we already have that. If it were something new, i'd agreed... but it's not. unless we vote the bishop and he takes an anti-prostitution stance, in which case it'd just be another black mark on the worst candidate's record.
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sosisqua
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6/18/2016
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I'm glad to hear about a new big Event in Fallen London. Living in the Neath has its own pros and cons, and every new BIG happening is quite a pleasure and a sweet distraction.
Now, speaking on a political side of these elections, one thing bothers me. What real influence or, if you want, a political power, will the Mayor obtain via elections? Is he just a puppet to please and contain the revolution\opposition moods? What are Mayor's relations with The Masters. Personally, i don't believe he could present a real power and represent Londoners before The Masters.
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Catherine Raymond
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NiteBrite wrote:
I'm just really excited for the idea of "collaborative play". Large scale social interaction is one of the things that have been missing from Fallen London lately, and this election sounds like it could be a big step in the right direction (for the future of social play). Maybe one day we'll see a 20 person 2000 supply expedition in the forgotten quarter or something haha (no that's a terrible idea).
I think it would be a cool idea, but given the amount of coordination we players have achieved through these Forums, I doubt FBG could allow such actions or we'd tear FL apart. Prematurely.
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