Anne Auclair
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If we're including Sunless Sea characters, there's also the First Curator and Obsequious Steward. It seems rather unlikely we'd get a character who doesn't actually appear in FL itself, though.
The First Curator hides out in a darkened room because light and moths will turn him to dust if he ventures outside :P The Steward is pretty much his chamberlain and spends all his time waiting on the Curator. They are so not candidates.
The Bandaged Poissonnier is technically a Fallen London character as well as a Sunless Sea character as he appears during Hollowmas. I don't think he's the candidate though because his interests are restricted to, well, food (principally Zee food).
Personally my money is on Feducci. He has the character, the notability and the resources.
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maleclypse
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5/24/2017
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Personally my money is on Feducci. He has the character, the notability and the resources.
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I would be both excited and disappointed were it Feducci or the Once Dashing Smuggler. They are both faux tomb colonists and take up the bandages as merest disguise. But both really interesting characters on the other hand.
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Kukapetal
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Are there any Tomb-Colonist characters who are (or once were) actual Londoners though? Feducci, the Smuggler, and the Mercies are not.
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Tyrconnell
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Feducci... [spoiler] is probably not even a Tomb-Colonist, although all we were promised is someone bandaged and he is that.[/spoiler]
There's a certain Colony-bound academic from the University.
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Kukapetal
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Right, but even if Feducci isn't a Tomb Colonist, he's still very definitely NOT from London
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Catherine Raymond
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It could always be Lettice, or her sister (whose name I forget); they are *definitely* Tomb Colonists. But I believe Feducci is described as wearing bandages, so he probably counts as a Tomb Colonist, even if he does have an insane amount of vitality for one. True, he is not a native of London, but has it been stated that he has to be to run for Mayor?
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Anne Auclair
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Kukapetal wrote:
Right, but even if Feducci isn't a Tomb Colonist, he's still very definitely NOT from London
I disagree! Feducci might not be a Londoner by birth, but, much like the player's character, he has voluntarily made London his home and has resided within its boundaries for quite some time. And since he does not claim to be a citizen of the Elder Continent he must logically therefore be a citizen of London.
And I think he's a perfectly proper Tomb Colonist - Tomb Colonists wear bandages and identify themselves as Tomb Colonists, Feducci wears bandages and identifies himself as a Tomb Colonist, ergo he is a Tomb Colonist. Who says you have to be a decrepit corpse to be one of the not-so-quiet dead? A lot of Tomb Colonists are in very good shape - Feducci is simply the best preserved on account of being immortal.
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dov
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5/24/2017
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My problem with Feducci as a candidate is that he is an agent of a foreign power. (Though from a story perspective this might make an interesting campaign).
I hope it's Lettice, because she's awesome.
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Anchovies
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I, for one, am proud to step forward as the first supporter of the Tomb-Lion's mayoral bid.
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Pumpkinhead
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Let's make it even more zesty: I throw my support in for the tomb quagga!
Even though FB has yet to humble us and make that officially part of the lore...
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Anne Auclair
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dov wrote:
My problem with Feducci as a candidate is that he is an agent of a foreign power.
He also has a habit of murdering people for kicks. Some might consider that less than ideal behavior for an elected official...oh dear, he's going to win, isn't he? :P
Concerning Feducci being a spy, it should be remembered that the current Mayor is an agent of the Sisterhood, which is a defacto independent power in the Underzee. So duel loyalties are nothing new.
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Tyrconnell
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I think the qualifications for being a Tomb-Colonist are even simpler: one must reside, or have resided for a significant period of time, in the Tomb-Colonies. One must have colonized. Feducci, to the best of my knowledge, has not.
He could maybe claim to be a Londoner and run for mayor, but he couldn't do it as a Tomb-Colonist candidate. (Which is just as well, since the Tomb-Colonists are also probably foreign powers.)
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dov
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Concerning Feducci being a spy, it should be remembered that the current Mayor is an agent of the Sisterhood, which is a defacto independent power in the Underzee. So duel loyalties are nothing new.
Dual loyalties are indeed nothing new.
But I feel there's a difference between a candidate belonging to an independent society (or religious order, for that matter), and being an agent of a rival foreign sovereign nation.
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Passionario
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Anne Auclair wrote:
During last year's Festival of the Zee, the Mayor mentioned that Wines and Stones were pressing her to make life more difficult for the Vake.
'Help the poor by killing the Vake and investing those 4 million Echoes into Neathtional Health Service.'
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Saklad
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I'm going to give my 3,500,000 Echoes to the Ringbreakers, and perhaps the Soft-Hearted Widow.
…What? I still want Hesperidian Cider and a collection of primoridial goats. (By the way, I've recently come up with an interesting theory: what if the Overgoat is a miniature stone pig? It would explain a LOT, no?)
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Lady Sapho Byron
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Concerning Feducci being a spy, it should be remembered that the current Mayor is an agent of the Sisterhood, which is a defacto independent power in the Underzee. So duel loyalties are nothing new.
Nicely done! Feducci certainly does have DUEL loyalties!
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Anchovies
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Pumpkinhead wrote:
Let's make it even more zesty: I throw my support in for the tomb quagga! animal mayors? how positively Z A N Y
I do think there should be more tigers around London, though. The Labyrinth has an uncomfortable air of a feline ghetto about it. It's also pretty weird that a tigress can be purchased from Nassos Zoologicals rather than Redemptions - I was expecting the tigress's descriptive text to be "Why yes, I am worth that much", or some other line from the tigress herself. Although it is a specifically Bengal tigress - can surface cats learn to talk after coming below, or would they have to be born in the Neath?
Either way, feline rights now! (feline rights meow?) The Tomb-Lion will need a name to appear on the ballot. How about Stubbs, in honor of his doubtless well-worn toes and of the real-world cat of the same name who will this coming July be celebrating his 20th year in office as "mayor" of Talkeetna, Alaska?
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Lorentz
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Light Fingers, splendid!
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Chronos
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I hope connected 371 will be enough to get renown: the great game 50...
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Anchovies
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killing the Vake Ohoho, I'm afraid that's no easy task, if it's even possible at all. I don't know how much of the Vake's abilities are revealed in the Ambition so far, but there's a certain moment in Sunless Sea:
(spoiler warning; I found this to be one of the more emotionally powerful moments in the game)
[spoiler]The fire is lit. The smoke of printed love-stories rises into the dark. The Sisters chant in a language older than London. They play a wistful, halting music on harps and lyres. The Adventuress has had her uniform ironed. Even her buttons are polished. Her knife is ready in her left hand, and her pistol in her right. Far above, in the deep night of the Neath, something briefly occludes the light of the false-stars.
The light of the fire turns ice-blue, roars to greater brightness. The Adventuress turns her back on you. She readies her knife and her pistol. "I once swore," she remarks, "to kill nothing that flies. I hope I break that oath." They will be her last words. A piece of star-specked night falls shrieking from the roof! The bonfire is quenched in an instant, but a gout of flame from the pistol punctures the dark: once, again. The night is screaming now, deep rending cries that are almost words. The scent of ice and ozone is overpowering. You reach out a hand, blindly. The darkness deepens, but a Sister takes hold of your shoulder. "Stay away!" she hisses. The Adventuress cries out. So does the night. This last shriek squeezes your skull and rakes your brain and tears the words from your throat. It cracks the cobblestones of the Abbey yard. In the flames of a final shot, you glimpse a crested wave of night rearing above the Adventuress. Its wings are the sky. Its horns and vanes blaze with scars. It strikes - it convulses - it whirls, and it's gone. Your eyes are hazed with frost, but as it rises - you are quite certain - it lurches to the side, as if one of its wings had suffered a blow... On the cracked cobbles at your feet lies the Adventuress, dead eyes staring. Beside her lies her pistol, silver-chased, drenched in black blood. As you watch, the blood wisps in choking vapour from the metal, leaving it stained dark as the zee.[/spoiler]The Masters often appear to rely on the Bazaar's control of the market, but their power is real. Without the Bazaar they would be formidable, and would doubtless still hold positions of great power in the Neath. With the Bazaar, they a power in the Neath rivaling the Fathomking, Hell, and the Dawn Machine. Any prize won by "bagging" a legend is a consolation from them, a gold star for trying.
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