Diptych
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You're suggesting there wouldn't be injustice or want if the Bishop or the Contrarian had been elected?
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Anne Auclair
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
You're suggesting there wouldn't be injustice or want if the Bishop or the Contrarian had been elected?
I'm suggesting that the Mayor hasn't done a very good job based on the fact that she ran on reducing need and want and those things are now exploding. Also, her school is training Anarchist terrorists to take advantage of the situation.
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Diptych
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Of all the people to blame - the Masters, the police, the aristocrats, the industrialists, the privileged few who conspire to crush the poor to stuff their own pockets - I don't know that it helps to blame the reformers for not having solved it all already.
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Kaijyuu
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Helping the needy can in fact increase dissent and dissatisfaction. These people have had a taste of what Could Be.
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Anne Auclair
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
Of all the people to blame - the Masters, the police, the aristocrats, the industrialists, the privileged few who conspire to crush the poor to stuff their own pockets - I don't know that it helps to blame the reformers for not having solved it all already.
What if said reformers, under the guise of helping, feather their nests and actually make the bad situation worse? Like, I dunno, create a taxpayer funded Ministry of Public Works staffed with unqualified, personal friends of the Mayor and a school that also largely caters to said friends while training Anarchists to be better terrorists? And all while remaining in the pay of certain powerful Masters, of course (Wines and Stones). Such reformers would be quite worthy of blame, would they not?
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Diptych
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Kaijyuu wrote:
Helping the needy can in fact increase dissent and dissatisfaction. These people have had a taste of what Could Be.
That, and, there's a certain amount of resources necessary for dissent. Someone with a little has that much more capacity to protest their lot than someone with nothing.
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Anne Auclair
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
Kaijyuu wrote:
Helping the needy can in fact increase dissent and dissatisfaction. These people have had a taste of what Could Be.
That, and, there's a certain amount of resources necessary for dissent. Someone with a little has that much more capacity to protest their lot than someone with nothing.
There seem to be quite a few people who have less resources though. Hence the homeless sleepers with the boot polish signs.
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Meradine Heidenreich
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2/27/2017
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Are we really going to do this again?
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Anne Auclair
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2/27/2017
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Meradine Heidenreich wrote:
Are we really going to do this again?
I always do this. Everyone's free to join in or not, as they like.
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Passionario
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Kaijyuu wrote:
Helping the needy can in fact increase dissent and dissatisfaction. These people have had a taste of what Could Be.
And we can't have that, can we?
I have a modest proposal. Instead of wasting time, money and effort on frivolous projects like finishing schools or invasions of Hell, the next mayor should carry out a program to permanently remove such unrealistic and pathological aspirations from the populace. No more dissent, no dissatisfaction, no more forbidden taste. London will be a happy, content and productive city and all shall be well.
Vote Cladery Heir 1895 and get a free souvenir.
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Frederick Metzengerstein
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"B___y mayor. Wants me to work in her Finishing School. Me – a teacher? Not half. Not by b____y half. I've stuck by her through thick and thin, but we've reached the end of this road. We'll be handing over the keys soon enough. She has the school. I have other obligations. But they're not full time."
Anyone else surprised at how viscous she was?
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Estelle Knoht
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2/27/2017
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The Doylist explaination for this season of social upheaval is that this uprising is clearly a non-consequential event as it is entirely optional and independent of election time unless you happened to be a paying exceptional friend at the time.
In other words, anyone could be the mayor that caused this social chaos to happen, just pay up the Fate and you could make it happen :P
(Yeah, yeah, I am sort of being a spoilsport but I just learned the word Doyalist/Doylist from Jenny's post and it is such a fun thing!)
That said, isn't Lydia aware of Jenny's betrayal? It is not surprising she'd hate Jenny's guts or at least want to get away if she was betrayed and is having clashing values now.
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PSGarak
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2/27/2017
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Perhaps fomenting revolution is actually how Jenny intends to help the destitute. Not exactly what we expected, but it would be keeping the promises she made.
Frederick Metzengerstein wrote:
Anyone else surprised at how viscous she was?
Not entirely. This has been brewing for a while. The bitterness becoming explicit was a bit sudden, but this situation is the one I expected Lydia to end up in.
The real question is, what role will she play next election cycle. Perhaps... as a candidate?
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Aberrant Eremite
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I hadn't noticed. Perhaps her smoking might thicken her saliva slightly?
Now, the Rubbery Consort, on the other hand ... there's a Companion of surprising viscosity.
Frederick Metzengerstein wrote:
"B___y mayor. Wants me to work in her Finishing School. Me – a teacher? Not half. Not by b____y half. I've stuck by her through thick and thin, but we've reached the end of this road. We'll be handing over the keys soon enough. She has the school. I have other obligations. But they're not full time."
Anyone else surprised at how viscous she was?
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Anne Auclair
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Well, Jenny's term only has two more months left in it.
Anyone want to start on the requiems?
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Jolanda Swan
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5/4/2017
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I would love a storylet about Jane's last month in office. Perhaps something small, just to let us know if she is to have any lasting legacy. Maybe a card or an item commiserating her run? I liked having her as mayor -honestly, she just fits Fallen London- and I would love to have a bit of history displayed in the canon.
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suinicide
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5/4/2017
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Item: "A gilded petal" A souvenir of Jenny's time in office, given to all who attended her final ball. It glitters dazzlingly in the light, but the shadow seems strangely long for such a small object.
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Anchovies
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
That, and, there's a certain amount of resources necessary for dissent. Someone with a little has that much more capacity to protest their lot than someone with nothing. 
Passionario wrote:
I have a modest proposal. An alternative to a government which is completely unaccountable to the peckish commoners? I'm all ears.
And teeth.
Passionario wrote:
Vote Cladery Heir 1895 and get a free souvenir. Are they really free, though? I'd say the cost of the souvenir is, well, the souvenir itself. And on second thought, I might not, in fact, be all ears...
That was a fun story. In my play of it, I let her first experiment with a Long-Box and a prisoner, and her first operation was at Nuncio so I thought the patch was a weird postal-stamp-related thing. I started getting suspicious after an operation at the Isle of Cats, but it was only after a procedure on a worker at the Cumaean Canal that I realized the nature of her surgeries. All in all a decent lady, if a bit stubborn, and a damn good doctor. I'd vote for her if she hadn't left in a huff when I confronted her about her father (with enough souvenirs for a 70% or 80% success chance). I wonder how she got home without a ship, given that she abandoned me in Frostfound...
Jolanda Swan wrote:
I would love a storylet about Jane's last month in office. Perhaps something small, just to let us know if she is to have any lasting legacy. Maybe a card or an item commiserating her run? I liked having her as mayor -honestly, she just fits Fallen London- and I would love to have a bit of history displayed in the canon. I agree with you on all points here. As a player who started some time after the election, Sinning Jenny fits very nicely in the post of mayor. The Bishop is perfect in his position of vaguely menacing authority over the church, and it doesn't seem like he'd be much or at all different if he were also mayor. The Contrarian would be bloody insufferable in an executive position, lacking the decisive nature required of a top bureaucrat. Jenny is made up of zany contradictions (nun, madam, and mayor?) in a way that falls neatly in line with the tone of the game and the setting, while also having clear enough goals and principles to believably make for a competent governor.
For a memento of Jenny, perhaps the "Mayor of London" opportunity card could be modified in some way, as Jenny tries to push through a few last changes before her term ends.
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Optimatum
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Anchovies wrote:
Passionario wrote:
I have a modest proposal. An alternative to a government which is completely unaccountable to the peckish commoners? I'm all ears.
And teeth.
Next election, perhaps one of the candidates will promise a 10% increase in all luck challenges on Winking Isle. Guaranteed to attract a certain portion of the veteran playerbase!
Anchovies wrote:
For a memento of Jenny, perhaps the "Mayor of London" opportunity card could be modified in some way, as Jenny tries to push through a few last changes before her term ends.
That is one thing that strikes me as a little strange. I expected SOME change to the Mayoral card as Jenny's term went on, but almost a year later, we still have the same text as though she's only just begun.
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