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MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"



Voting is closed.

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MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"



Tariffs

Send aid: 25


Party

Don't go: 25

Go: 4


Tux

Obligatory Fabutux votes: 3


Classes

Production: 11

Flattery: 10

Accounting: 9

Battlefield Medicine: 7

Economics: 5

Intrigue: 4

Ciphering: 2

Swords: 2

Public Speaking: 2

Elegance: 2

Poison: 2

Divination: 1

Foreign Intelligence: 1


Winners

Send aid

Don't go

Tux 4 life

Production x 2

Accounting x 2

MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"





Then the royal treasury will pay to keep the people fed.

Very well.









You have nothing more to learn about Accounting.



You have nothing more to learn about Production.



My lady, there are letters for you.

(Another letter from Briony. Why does she keep writing me? We were never even friends.)

(She says she's bored and lonely and she's looking forward to seeing me at Gwenelle's birthday party.)

(That's right! Gwenelle is about to turn fifteen! She'll be Duchess of Sudbury for real now.)

(This other letter must be my invitation to her birthday celebration next week. Gwenelle and I were friends at school, and this will be a big event, but it's also a long way to travel. A lot of things can happen on the road.)



You remember dreaming about a road through a dark forest, surrounded by monsters like the keythong your father told you about. Of course, the Old Forest is nowhere near Sudbury.



(I'd better stay here.)







Production and accounting are already maxed out, so I'm going to go with the runners up.







*sigh*



(All of my friends are at Gwenelle's party and I don't get to go.)



(I sent Gwenelle a letter saying that I couldn't come, but it was her mother the Countess who replied. I think she's insulted that I didn't consider the event important enough to attend.)







You visit the royal treasury and check your available funds. You have seven thousand, two hundred and twenty-eight gold lassi and forty-three silver tilassi.





This is officially the furthest we've made it so far. Since we don't know what lies beyond this point, we are again going to be going just one week at a time. Vote for 2 classes. Don't forget to write poetry about the tux!

MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"



I'm going to go with Haiku myself.

Oh, great fabutux
You are not evanescent
You are forever

Penakoto
Aug 21, 2013

Flattery to open up conversation stats to 50+, Divination to max it out.

Tux, Tux, you're the bes'.

Your usefulness statistically is waning, but you look great, I guess.

Penakoto fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Mar 29, 2014

Super Jay Mann
Nov 6, 2008

Yieldiiiing :argh: :argh:

I guess work on Composure and Flattery

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Double Flattery.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like my tuxedo
That much is true.

Violets are blue
Roses are red
I'll wear my tuxedo
Even to bed.




I'm terribly sorry, but English is not my first language so I can't write poetry in English worth a drat.

Ferrosol
Nov 8, 2010

Notorious J.A.M

Composure x2

I'm going with limericks

There once was a princess called Elodie
Her voice had no melody
But she wore a tux
and gave no fucks
and avoided arrows through her extremities

Ferrosol fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 29, 2014

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Strategy x2 Death and taxes are the only things certain in this world and we need to work on the former.

Zikan fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Mar 29, 2014

zonohedron
Aug 14, 2006


Reflexes and additionally Reflexes, because we don't know what lies beyond this point and we want to react to it.

Mikl posted:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like my tuxedo
That much is true.

Violets are blue
Roses are red
I'll wear my tuxedo
Even to bed.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
We wear a tuxedo
What else would we do?

Violets are blue
Roses are red
We'll look good in a tuxedo
Even when we are dead!

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆
Max Divination. If there's a level 100 skill check, the game won't care whether Elodie's at 99 or 0.

Then, train Composure. It's already pretty high, and our current mood gives a bonus to its category, so it'll be the most efficient (and economical!) use of our time.

Happy Blue
Oct 18, 2012
Reflexes, to survive further assassination attempts, and Divination, to finish up the category and to pass any 100 value skill checks the game throws at us.



Tux is wonderful
Makes us more intelligent
We are stylish now

Happy Blue fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Mar 29, 2014

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011
At the wedding, I'm wearing a tux
The groom gets one too, which sucks
We'll look quite the same
And I'll be quite ashamed
'Til the end, when he's fed to the ducks!


:effort:

Keep bein' elegant.

D3m3
Feb 28, 2013

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?
Princess in a Tuxedo

Cherry blossoms on a branch
slick and darkened with rain
or Lumen blood. When the blossom heads
go tumbling into the puddles,
they will miss the black branch.
Because drat, that thing's fancy.


...Flattery and Court Manners

D3m3 fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Mar 29, 2014

Hedera Helix
Sep 2, 2011

The laws of the fiesta mean nothing!
I was going to write in iambic pentameter on the necessity of opening trade deals with neighboring countries, but it was much harder than it seemed at the outset. So just go with 2x flattery.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Roses are red
Money is green
This awesome tux
Needs a monocle's sheen


Flattery+Court manners for classes.

ViggyNash
Oct 9, 2012
Royal Demeanor x2

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
Flattery and Divination.

Though to a party we did not go,
Our economic reforms are just too slow,
Lumen secrets we can never know,
At least we look ace in our tuxedo.

HGH
Dec 20, 2011
So had we gone to the part, we'd have somehow ended up devoured by horrible monsters subsequently(well, unless magic or swords factored into it). Sounds like a blast!

O Tuxedo, Tuxedo! Wherefort art thou Tuxedo?
Deny thy weapon skills and refuse thy Priestess Robe
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my outfit
And I'll no longer be an accountant.


I'm sure I butchered that but we never did take classic literature over here anyway.

2x Conversation if that works.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Just do divinations and trade these almost completed skill are a real eyesore.
I know that this will make the tux useless, but whatever.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Presence and Foreign Intel. Gotta work on the Queen half of our EconoQueen.

Spiritus Nox fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 29, 2014

gregory
Jun 8, 2013

METAL GEAR!
Reflexes and divination seems pretty good at the moment.

Since we've all different poem types, I guess I'll go with a sonnet (English/Shakespearean, not Italian/Petrarchan)


"Ode to the Fabutux"

The finest fabrics thou art woven from,
Each stitch precise, to ensure quality.
A splendid thing indeed, the perfect sum
Of wealth and class, deliberate beauty.
Befitting of the finest Dame or Lord,
Thy price is not that of the common purse.
True knowledge must one have, thee to afford,
Lest they be met with debt, the cruel, cold curse.
But overcoming that, I slip thee on;
Sheer silk, fine satin, tailored to my fit.
With confidence I leave my room at dawn,
Upon my throne with elegance to sit.
And, honestly, I must admit, I scoff
At any who would bid me take thee off.

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

Spiritus Nox posted:

Presence and Internal Affairs. Gotta work on the Queen half of our EconoQueen.

Internal Affairs is almost at 50, so it'd be wasted unless we do some Foreign Intel and Ciphering first. So I'm voting for one of each of those and will again next week, and then we get on with internal affairs.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Akratic Method posted:

Internal Affairs is almost at 50, so it'd be wasted unless we do some Foreign Intel and Ciphering first. So I'm voting for one of each of those and will again next week, and then we get on with internal affairs.

Ah, poo poo, you're right. I changed that to Foreign affairs.

Hedera Helix
Sep 2, 2011

The laws of the fiesta mean nothing!

gregory posted:

Since we've all different poem types, I guess I'll go with a sonnet (English/Shakespearean, not Italian/Petrarchan)


"Ode to the Fabutux"

The finest fabrics thou art woven from,
Each stitch precise, to ensure quality.
A splendid thing indeed, the perfect sum
Of wealth and class, deliberate beauty.
Befitting of the finest Dame or Lord,
Thy price is not that of the common purse.
True knowledge must one have, thee to afford,
Lest they be met with debt, the cruel, cold curse.
But overcoming that, I slip thee on;
Sheer silk, fine satin, tailored to my fit.
With confidence I leave my room at dawn,
Upon my throne with elegance to sit.
And, honestly, I must admit, I scoff
At any who would bid me take thee off.

:golfclap: This person knows what's up.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Tuxedo the princess
wear
because she's the heir
no
one can deny how fabulous
it looks on her every day of the tux

Divination and trade. My inner sperg can't let those numbers be less than 100.

ArchangeI
Jul 15, 2010
Composure x2

Meander
Apr 1, 2010


Double reflexes so that we can prevent getting icky stuff like blood on our tuxedo.

dereku
Oct 23, 2010

Open up your senses
OK this should be right up my alley

Gather round gather round. You might have heard of the emperor and his robe. But probably not about the princess and her tux.

Elodie was a beautiful lass
She loved to feel the grass
She loved to sing and dance
And to practice she never missed a chance

The beautiful princess used to laugh
Sometimes even for an hour and a half
She loved her family, friends and kingdom
Her skill with the numbers was quite fearsome

Of fashion she knew many a thing
Priestly robes, cute dresses and rings
But she knew she wouldn't be in a crux
Just as long as she kept using her tux

Dance and alguh and sing my queen
Do it on the fields of green
Lead your kingdom to an era of peace
And please stay away from the geese

Catalina
May 20, 2008



If enough people don't vote this thread to a 5 after these poems, I won't know what to think.

Poil posted:

Divination and trade. My inner sperg can't let those numbers be less than 100.

Agreed!

Desuwa
Jun 2, 2011

I'm telling my mommy. That pubbie doesn't do video games right!
Divination to cap it off and flattery so we hit 25 in it.

FFKonoko
Jan 1, 2013

Olfacere violarum.
Flattery and Court Manners.

We do appear to have a weakness when it comes to things outside of economics and chatting, if anyone stronger and richer than us shows up, we'd have to capitulate to them.

C...
Jan 22, 2008

Tootin the Doom Flute has led the Kingdom of Ankist into a new age of illumination. Every morning, people wake up and open palm slam a woodwind instrument into their mouth. It is the Doom Flute and right then and there they start playing the notes. They play every note, and they play every note hard
Demeanour skills please.

Token protest against the tux: we should probably take it off to wash it one of these days... it's been months now.

MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"



Voting is closed.

MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"



Classes

Flattery: 11

Divination: 9

Composure: 6

Reflexes: 4

Royal Demeanor: 4

Trade: 3

Court Manners: 3

Foreign Intelligence: 3

Strategy: 2

Conversation: 2

Presence: 1

Ciphering: 1

Voice: 1

Dance: 1


Winners

Flattery

Divination

MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"







You have unlocked a new outfit!



You have nothing more to learn about Divination.



The Duchess of Lillah has sent you a gift.

What's this?

It's a cushion, finely embroidered with the design of a running horse. It's well done, and clearly required hours and hours of needlework, but it's also fairly useless.

That's nice... I guess.



It's from the Duchess Arisse of Lillah. Hmm.

Vote for 2 classes.

MegaZeroX fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Mar 30, 2014

jonjonaug
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
Give it to Alice and Public Speaking x2.

ViggyNash
Oct 9, 2012
Remind me, who's Alice? And who's Arisse?

Continue pumping Royal Demeanor (x2).

jonjonaug
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

ViggyNash posted:

Remind me, who's Alice? And who's Arisse?

Continue pumping Royal Demeanor (x2).

Alice is the maid. Arisse is a Duchess with a bunch of power consolidated under her and a large family. A bunch of other characters are related to her, either directly or through marriage.

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Shwqa
Feb 13, 2012

Oh look a trojan horse give it to Alice

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