Dudebro Pyro
Posts: 755
6/27/2017
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What I have to offer: almost certainly 20 election career and 10 election influence. I'm back from a really long hiatus so unfortunately I probably won't be able to provide more than about 5 notability.
What I want: good arguments and bribes! There's nothing in particular I'm looking for right now, other than a good debate and perhaps a starveling cat.
More about me and random ramblings about the election:
Last year, I jumped to support the Bishop almost immediately, since even if he did not succeed at his task his election would at the very least slow the (already widespread) social acceptance of devils walking in the streets. (Yes, I am taking this way too seriously, but then again aren't we all?) The Contrarian was alluring, but he'd have been a protest vote if there were no other good candidates: I wasn't going to waste my vote when the Bishop was running.
However, this year... none of the three candidates really stand out to me.
- The DTC has good intentions, and seemingly more or less follows the Bishop's spirit of trying to combat all kinds of hedonism and degeneracy (which go hand in hand with the devils and their ubiquitousness), but she's going about it in a way I'm not sure I approve of. And while helping reformed hedonists and criminals is a noble goal, given the current situation in London I'm not convinced it should be the immediate concern - if the city continues under quasi-rule of all manner of hellish creatures, Masters, and other such unsavoury entities, won't things keep becoming progressively worse? Direct attempts to help those with a poorer lot will merely delay that.
- The Detective seems to have an equally noble goal: after all, if uncorrupted justice were restored, a lot of things would probably improve extremely quickly. The problem is that the system is flawed at such a deep level that properly cleaning it out would be completely impossible - even if the Detective were to somehow miraculously manage to make significant headway, the Masters themselves would likely eventually get involved and promptly put a stop to it. Not to mention Hell and the other various dubiously legal factions (from Criminals to Urchins), which would be standing against her every step of the way.
No, I don't think the Detective will improve anything in any significant manner - at best, she will engage in a futile battle, perhaps reducing petty crime and somewhat improving other such little-significant aspects without affecting the bigger picture; at worst, she's got her own agenda and means to use the position of mayoral power to further her own ends, whatever they may be, under the guise of "shaking up" the system. - Feducci seems like the protest vote this time around. Screw everything, burn it all (or gamble it all away, if you prefer), maybe liberate the night (or maybe don't) and maybe achieve some sort of equality (of opportunity? of power/wealth/status?).
Still, while he might make an interesting mayor, there isn't much in his campaign that I would really agree with - making him, like I mentioned, more of a protest vote for me, should neither of the other two turn out to be satisfactory.
At least, these are my impressions from what limited interaction I've had so far. Am I wrong? Are there counter-arguments? Convince me (with either a verbal rhetoric, or a monetary one)!
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Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar
Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them.
For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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Plynkes
Posts: 631
6/27/2017
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Right now they are buying up massive quantities of honey, so are actually filling the purses of the honey barons, not combating them.
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"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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Lazaroth
Posts: 67
6/27/2017
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Dudebro Pyro wrote:
maybe liberate the night (or maybe don't)
Quite frankly, I'm getting rather annoyed by people thinking that Feducci might be even distantly connected to the Liberation of Night. The Calendar Council speaks of destroying the Chain, and Feducci of climbing it.
As for myself, while I do not believe that any attempt to reshape any level of the chain, cosmic or societal, until we have the power to remake the chain as a whole. And for that, we must ascend. My support of Feducci, I think, is the first step of that.
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The Perspicacious Romantic — When all the world is washed away by misery, something beautiful will still remain.
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Plynkes
Posts: 631
6/27/2017
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If anyone, the DTC is the one most likely to be secretly advancing the liberation of night. She has some rather surprising connections in her murky past.
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"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me."
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
6/27/2017
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Oh, sorry! There should have been a message with the cat.
although perhaps it was a little obscure
I was trying to bribe you for the Campaigner, anyhow.
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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Sir Joseph Marlen
Posts: 575
6/28/2017
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Just as a general piece of advice for choosing any candidate, very few things are permanent in our lives. Even if a candidate has limited or temporary promises, that in itself doesn't outway the potential good they may carry in the present. That being said, I'm currently for the Implacable Detective. She's the character out of the three that I trust the most, and her approach to law so far seems to be an honest and meticulously monitored system out to punish corruption and greed from higher ups and those abusing power. If you need a more material persuasion than my opinion, here's what I have to offer:
- 30 first city coins (3)
- A Starveling Cat (3)
- Mr Eaten's Calling Card? (1)
- An unwrapped cat (7)
- A shared bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing (4)
- A shared bottle of Black Wings Absinthe (11)
- Promise of future assistance, invitations, or menace reduction
- Full or partial payment for campaigner donations
Send me a pm to discuss a price.
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Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist
Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist
Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary
Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft
Available for any and all social actions.
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Yarrunmace
Posts: 8
6/28/2017
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The DTC, while well-intentioned, seems woefully ill-equipped for the task now that she has a following. Just look at her preemptive campaign against honey. She's just throwing money at the honey traders and bodies at the problem, and tossing the honey down a hole. No real plan for how to handle the culture and economy that supports the honey trade. If she continues that approach as mayor, I suspect that she'll just toss out paint swatch policies that don't actually solve the problem, which will just force people into a more dangerous black market. If anything, she'd be more useful outside of office. Feducci, while a delightful friend and occasional combatant, also lack a solid plan, which you already seem aware of.
The Detective, while not the most charismatic candidate, is nothing but efficacious. One doesn't become a master detective without learning how to plan and plot as well as one's quarry. Sure, she may have ulterior motives for taking office, but by all accounts, she honestly does want to take on the corrupt and ponderous legal system of Fallen London and go at it with a chunk of steel wool. If she accomplishes that along with whatever else she has going on behind the curtain, then at least something lasting will come out of her term, which is more than I expect for our other two candidates.
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