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I'm for having everything visible. The long-term scoring is neat but shouldn't really effect the individual dilemma considerations too much, at least not until many more rulers down the line.
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scavy131 posted:I'm for having everything visible. The long-term scoring is neat but shouldn't really effect the individual dilemma considerations too much, at least not until many more rulers down the line. Show it all, we don't even know what it means yet so no reason to hide it? Agenda requests sent in.
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Tbh I'd love to see what rewards a house got from their achievement to help explain why they went so hard on a certain course of action for a while, so long as we keep the important spoilery stuff under wraps it should be fine.
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Feb 17, 2021 23:52
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Alright, I'll made the current scores public tomorrow 
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Interregnum Queen Ilysia, first of her name, is dead. The first monarch in recent memory to leave this mortal coil while still wearing a crown, her reign has lasted almost 25 years. Panem et Circenses has been a staple during her tenure and she has always remained popular with the masses, especially after the ROYAL RUMBLE. She was loved by the common folk to the very end - even after unscropulous nobles took advantage of her advanced age to pass increasingly unpopular laws. While we didn't get any submission for her portrait, we do have Maestro Floriando eternal masterpiece to commemorate her:  As I discovered yesterday, Google Translate is Really Bad at Latin, but the joke should be clear  Finally, here are the current Prestige/Crave Rankings: House Pinchay(7), Dukes of Gamam: 6x  , 1x House Daucus(5), Dukes of Olwyn: 6x , 3xHouse Gambol(2), Dukes of Solad: 6x , 3xHouse Lethe(12), Dukes of Natar: 5x , 2xHouse Cyfoeth(4), Dukes of Coden: 5x , 1x You have 24h to vote for the name of the new ruler and to submit your tiered Hidden Agenda preferences! Right now the choice is between:
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Feb 18, 2021 12:03
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That Italian Guy posted:Finally, here are the current Prestige/Crave Rankings:    Up top, Crownium leaders!
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Feb 18, 2021 17:34
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If I had to pick, I'd lean toward Queen Hypatia.
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Feb 18, 2021 19:33
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C... posted:Up top, Crownium leaders!
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Feb 18, 2021 20:03
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C... posted:
I feel better about our last place finish last reign now.
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Feb 18, 2021 20:06
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That Italian Guy posted:Technically, House Pinchay is the Leader right now because their House is more prestigious than yours - the number is brackets is the "nobility" score; it is used to break down prestige ties. The higher it is, the more noble/ancient/prestigious the House is. For pure Prestige, sure, but don't discount Dark Chocolate Prestige!
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C... posted:For pure Prestige, sure, but don't discount Dark Chocolate Prestige! I'm very much looking forward to seeing what the Dark Chocolate Prestige does in the endgame if it apparently isn't used for rankings
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Feb 18, 2021 20:55
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That Italian Guy, any chance you could put our hall of monarchs in the OP? Also wasn't Harald "the Generous"?
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TravelLog posted:That Italian Guy, any chance you could put our hall of monarchs in the OP? Will do! And yeah, it looks like that's been a popular title in modern Ankist history
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I'm down for Queen Hypatia. But also... That Italian Guy posted:
Clearly that is her portrait. Abstract art is just lost on you. Now if you excuse me, there's a dead horse outside that my bat is just yearning to hit.
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That Italian Guy posted:Will do! And yeah, it looks like that's been a popular title in modern Ankist history Aw, just like her grandfather.
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Reign of Queen Hypatia I, Dilemma 1History of the Kingdom of Ankist posted:Hall of Rulers   - Foreman/Sitting Councilmember: grandalt (also Treasurer)  - Sitting Councilmember: C... - Treasurer/Navigator: LPFinale   - Sitting Councilmember: scavy131 (also Treasurer)  - High Scholar/Sitting Councilmember: Quackles (also Treasurer)    - Sitting Councilmember: Bellmaker - Treasurer/Negotiator: SporkChan Dilemma1 posted:
A 48h voting window is now open! - Sitting Councilmembers can send me a PM/Email with their final decision. Please consult the OP if you need a refresher on the rules! - Treasurers can now start bribing. Please consult the OP if you need a refresher on the rules! - Senators are free to discuss the Dilemma and provide their feedback. Don't forget that every choice could have consequences that are not spelled out outright on the front of the card! Also, please remember that the thread is the main discussion platform for your vote intention - the Sheet is only to be used when discussing high level strategy, bargaining strategies and items on the sheet itself.
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Senator Yes, yes, peasants stealing bread during a famine, is this a day ending in y? More importantly, what's the expense comparison on posting guards versus importing more really cheap bread from our neighbors? Because I'm sure it'd be cheaper t import more grain and refund the losses for the merchants. Omobono fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 12:57
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I'll put this in the update from now on (and I'll figure out a way not to forget to update it), but there currently are 10 cards in the Dilemma deck.
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Feb 19, 2021 14:10
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These aren't peasants, but something more organized (see the sun symbol, peasant slider going up if we interfere) So the question is whether it's worth stopping a more organized element from gaining power that should be ours. I say yes.
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Feb 19, 2021 15:41
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Sitting Councilmember Hungry mouths are never a good sign, let alone when this theft appears to have been perpetrated by an organized group. If we can't deal with this issue and the peasants go hungry too long we'll need to send guards out anyway to quell bread riots. Instead let's nip this issue in the bud and make sure that people are being fed, send a guard to watch a granary now or we'll need to send a hundred guards to break up a riot next week.
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Senator I agree. This isn't some petty robbery. Something more sinister is at work here, and we ought to take care of it while they're just stealing grain. Be an awful shame if these sun folks start setting buildings on fire.
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Sighence posted:
Sitting Councilmember While I agree that this isn't a random act of hungry rabble, I disagree that it's a problem. Many of our fellows expressed very strong concerns regarding bringing this grain into the country and even stronger concerns feeding it to our army. We should absolutely investigate who this sun-carving group are, but the fact that they're stealing (and presumably eating) the wheat we're scared to feed to anyone feels like one problem solving another. Curious to hear how this debate has played out in Olwyn.
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Feb 19, 2021 19:10
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Navigator This, my fellow councilmembers. If the sun-carvers intend to do more than incite confusion and fear with a calling card at the mills, they'll show their hand sooner or later. As it stands, the grain is easily replaced and I'm of a mind to doubt that they would specifically target the grain again. I'd wager they're trying to strain what relations we've forged with this trade deal to feed ourselves in this famine, no? And last I checked, the sun was a significant symbol in religion, whether in Ankist or in the place the Golden Map laid resting. If this organization truly is some underground network of zealots, they've been around for far longer than we can imagine ourselves. If they're beginning to become so brazen as to carve their symbol into the mills, odds are we've drawn their attention, and they wish to draw ours. No organization of this level of secrecy allows itself to be known unless that is what they deem best for their long-term goals. We will find them again, dear Council, but more likely with knives at our houses' throats. Relocating guards from Tiryll will open the way for them to climb the ladder, escalating their targets until they finally reach their true goal. What that goal is, we won't know until it's far too late. I can't advocate for splitting our security like this.
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LPFinale posted:
Captain-Poet An interesting point, cousin! If this cult is sufficiently sophisticated, this could be a deliberate effort to have us move our armies out of position - the presence of a black sticker on Aye supports this. Although the last time we didn't send in the army, we spawned a different zealous crime-committing cult, so that might just be in vogue these days.
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Sitting Councilmember While shadowy organizations should give us all pause, it seems a tad hasty to believe there may be grand diabolical designs at work when we have no indication of such, and much more immediate problems of hungry, and therefore dangerous, peasants. For all we know this is simply a consequence of the last time we weren't willing to send professional guards to solve a problem and the locals came up with their own zealous, lynch happy, response. If stores of the nation's valuable foodstuffs don't warrant guards then what does?
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scavy131 posted:
Captain-Poet Industrial facilities, centers of trade and commercial activity, storehouses of wealth, libraries, temples, residences, and the seat of regional power. In short - Vandis, the capital. But Gambol is not adamant; if you have your heart set on signing those dispatch orders, I suspect you'll be able to.
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High Scholar Scalpers? In a famine? Ewwwww. We should probably go Aye on this one, because... well, ew. But that sticker is intimidating...
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C... posted:
Sitting Councilmember It is certainly refreshing to hear that House Gambol isn't overly strident in their opposition to protecting the meekest of society, particularly against those who would thieve from the kingdom's own granaries.
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BTW, forgot to mention - here are the Power/Coins details for each House. 8 Power, 10 Coins 8 Power, 10 Coins 9 Power, 10 Coins 7 Power, 10 Coins 9 Power, 10 Coins
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Senator Let us not have too short of memories, council. If we go back in the books to the reign of Harald V, there was the incident where three windmills were burned down, with evidence of sabotage we unfortunately could not follow up on. Perhaps this organization and this sentiment against the commoners has been burning much longer than we realize. To keep our guards away would be to keep ourselves vulnerable.
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Sitting Councilmember The symbol concerns us, it feels like the work of an organized group working against The Mother's interests. We agree with the other Houses that House Gambol's position is questionable at best. For all their blather about how Mhuir cannot be trusted, they want to go ahead and just buy more grain? By their own testimony, it's not unlikely Mhuir stole the grain back and is selling it to us again! Our people deserve food in their bellies, we do not need a soldier on every corner of Vandis. Blessed be The Mother. Bellmaker fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 21:51
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Bellmaker posted:
Captain-Poet That would be a wild twist! What a turn of events that would be.
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Feb 19, 2021 22:59
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I say we just not listen to people who call themselves captain-poets when they've yet to navigate either trireme or trochee.
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Sighence posted:
From Coden, hear, and heed this "wisdom" gain, Our reign so new yet such decorum lost A self-styled Duke requests Gambol refrain A dullard's pale, weak try at banter tossed Attempt to advocate, with tragic brain He sees neither the threat, here, nor the cost To rally army, chasing simple grain And ride to the defense of empty trough "The horse has run!" cries apple high in tree, "We must secure the barn" - his empty head We'll crown with sticker shame from which I balk Real wit is costly; Sighence speaks for free. Bear well in mind - this same young duke has said: Sighence posted:
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Peasants starve, breadless. Solad allows thievery; do not praise the sun.
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Roses are red Violets are blue Rhyming is heretical Blessed be the Mother
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Roses are Red Lethe is obnoxious Put the workers first Or the Mother will give us poxes
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Let's Play The King's Dilemma: Came for the politics, stayed for the poetry.
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Slaan posted:Roses are Red 
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Slaan posted:
Roses are red We're House Daucus While other houses fight We watch cats in boxes
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