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B - this seems like a step too far, too soon; more reaction will be provoked than action done with this.
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So there I was, thinking we're gonna start out path to terrorism slow, when Sophia just goes from 0 to gently caress UP THE POLICE. Anyway - save the mages
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I see why Sophia needs help, she’s honestly acting far too rashly. I’m ambivalent because I think B is the better stats move, but C feels more in character.
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V. Illych L. posted:motherfucker i just bought it *yesterday* Refund it and rebuy it
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Sep 13, 2022 21:15
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I C the way, and it is to free the mages.
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1.16 - The Feds The poo poo has gone down, but we're sticking to the plan.  Luckily, with the Legion distracted, the only thing standing between us and the mages are a few priests.  We're rougher than necessary, but we can't exactly be careful right now.  Time to get the last one of them out.  poo poo, an inquisitor.  Wait, is that Jeanne? The girl from the temple years ago?  Anyway, no time, gotta bounce.  We grab Sophia and book it.      drat right we did.  Anyway, the old safehouse is dangerous, so we're gonna find a new place to crash for a while.  No rumours or anything? Not great.  Helping the mages always gets you points with Sophia.  And we get a crime point for doing crime.  The march did not go well.  But at least we saved the mages.  As we lay low, weeks pass, and we're now 19. Meanwhile, court intrigue continues in the capital.  The bare minimum of reform was too much for the Empire, so all of that's getting rolled back.    And there's a cabinet reshuffle. Gaius' little speech at the Feast of the Heir did not get unnoticed, so he gets assigned to our burnt-out part of the world. Which already has an Overseer (we met his daughter, Octavia). I'm sure this won't cause any divided loyalties.  On the bright side, Gauis Tempest is more lenient with the filthy commoners than the Archduke is. Small victories, I suppose.  This is what Magra looks like at the moment.  Anyway, we pass the time doing small bits of work here and there, laying low.   Finally we see the signal and go the meeting. There are a lot fewer of us this time around.  We've all got questions for our fearless leader.  What?  Sophia?   What's going on?  It's the feds!  We watch the whole thing like a dream.  Execution on the spot, legally-sanctioned and permanent.  You piece of poo poo!    You sold us out! To the loving secret police!  Nah, we're not going down like that.  We're done for, but we can at least cover for a few of our comrades.  It's gonna take some Willpower, though.  We're getting good at keeping imperial agents at bay with fire.   We are immediately 'do-not-resist'-ed.  gently caress off.   Traitor.  Saving the Lotless gives us a point with Sophia.  It also gives us a crime point for doing crime.  drat, I wonder how the Secret Chancellery knew where to find us.  This is the first time we've been in jail. It's not great.    We spend the time ruminating on Sophia's betrayal. And worrying about our family.  But this day is a little different from all the others.  Thread, meet Baron Felipe El Ferro, one of the Empire's top spies. He's a terrible human being with awful methods, and he's got us by the balls.    He also loves the sound of his voice.    Yeah, that tracks. "Junius is our shield" and all that.    Yes-yes, you can't handle the truth, etc.     It seems they have quite a file on us. Pretty much any entry in it is enough to charge us with treason by itself.  She speaks!  As mentioned, he's not a good person.     Oh now she's on our side? After using us (and dozens of others!) to get dirt on an Arknian noble?  Oh, we're grateful, alright. -- What do we tell El Ferro?  A. Look, this is crime. We are very good at crime. All we gotta do is show El Ferro that we'll be useful to him in Magra, and we get to live a little longer.  B. Sure, they got us, but did they get everyone else? We know where most of them are, and we can snitch to El Ferro on the Lotless to prove we're worth keeping alive.  C. gently caress you, we take the gallows for us and probably the rest of the Brante family.  If our Manipulation was higher, we could've redirected him away from the rest of the Lotless. Alas, Manipulation isn't crime.
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C We die with pride. And, uh, everyone else dies too, whoops?
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A lets see if we can wriggle free
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Sep 14, 2022 13:37
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Looks like having only one good stat isnt a game winning strategy. Option A sucks less.
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Going for A. We can still try to get out of this somehow, giving up the rest of the Lotless might well have him decide that we're no longer useful and the family can go with us.
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Sep 14, 2022 14:29
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A. Let's live long enough to make him regret it.
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A. Felipe messed me up in my game, im eager to return the favor. Also, I can finally say Sophia sucks.
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We can't just give up yet, in a way, this is a good turn of events for us. Now we won't just be a noble on the inside, we're a secret spy on the inside. Prove our skills to Gregor 2.0, it's that or dying.
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A, of course
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A seems least bad.
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A, hopefully we can backstab him later.
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Junpei posted:A, hopefully we can backstab him later. I also hope this.
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Hopefully. We're probably going to have to do some heinous things in the meantime though.
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Sep 14, 2022 19:35
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gently caress all of this, C.
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A, live another day to flip the script and get revenge. I'd be down for C on principle if it didn't mean also getting our whole family cacked.
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A. We'll pay this son of a bitch back in time. I wonder if we talked Sophia down...would we have wound up like this? Perhaps.
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The Lotless may be a failsafe path, but you get thrown into a danger position really drat quickly. It feels like Sophia's way in over her head with what she's doing, which makes sense.
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Sep 14, 2022 23:57
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A. Stay alive and then find a way to burn the whole place down.
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1.17 - Coming Back Home Alright, be cool, we got this. How and why did El Ferro crime his way with the Lotless?      Hell of a job interview.   And our first assignment.  Looks like we're going back home.  Oh, word?    Sure.  He may have us by the balls, but we're still alive.  But at least we got on El Ferro's good side. For now, at least.  Does this count as finding a job?  Wow, who could've seen this coming.  You don't say.    Oh, he can just... do that?   That's. Hm.    Wait, holy poo poo, did our comrades die for nothing?  Still schismatic though.  4 years we spent here.   It didn't go well.   So what the hell do we do now?  One thing at a time.  Gloria has always been cool. Let's get her a gift.  Ooh, this looks fun.  Just the thing for Gloria.  I'm sure she'll like it.  Time to go home.  Life-changing, huh.  As with every other chapter end, we get the timeline of our life over the past four years.   Our stats are... not great.  Age up!  Anizotte has changed a little in our absence.  Life's about to get a whole lot sketchier.  We've spent a lot of time in carriages, huh. At least this one has windows.     Just how loyal to El Ferro are we?      While thinking through all of that, we still will need to become a "printer".  We now have access to the Occupation screen. For the Conspirator (that's us), our two stats are Unrest and Spy Network. Unrest determines the general state of disorder in Anizotte. It covers how much influence our little covert group has over the discontent in the province. Get it too low, and there will be no one to revolt, so El Ferro kills us and our family. Get it too high, and the revolt spirals out of control, and El Ferro kills us and our family. The other stat is Spy Network, which tracks how throughly embedded our informants are in the city. But they're not just our informants, they're also the Secret Chancellery's. Get it too low, and we have no idea what's happening, and El Ferro kills us and our family. Get it too high, and Felipe has eyes everywhere, no longer needs us, and kills us and our family. There's a pattern there. Most events that deal with Occupation stats raise one at the expense of the other: the more the Secret Chancellery controls informants, the less we control the revolt, and vice versa. There are events that boost only one of them, but they're pretty rare. Overall, it's a balancing act. -- I'm gonna spoil an event coming up, because we need it to discuss our chapter outcomes. The reason we're in Anizotte with Sophia is El Ferro's grand plan: basically do the exact same thing as with the Lotless, just on a larger scale. Our orders are to organize a revolt that will be immediately crushed, making El Ferro look good to his superiors. However! What if we didn't? El Ferro is not the only power player in Anizotte, nor does the revolt have to be fake. What if the revolt spiraled completely out of the Secret Chancellery's control? And maybe even spread beyond Magra? Just keep in mind that for that to work out, we'd need to somehow get El Ferro out of the picture, or else he kills us and our family. So let's take a look at our chapter outcomes. Only one of these will trigger, and they depend on what our Occupation stats look like by the end of the chapter, along with a few other flags.   We can side with El Ferro and carry his plan out, or do so really well.   We can launch the revolt for real, either by ourselves, or by siding with the capitalists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbD1XDhKr8U   We can get a Noble of the Sword to back us against El Ferro.  Or we can gently caress up and get executed as a traitor to the crown. Next, let's take a look at what can happen to the Brante family.   We can max out Wealth or Reputation.   Or, alternatively, completely ruin them.   The Brantes can become Nobles of the Sword, and even join the Overseer's court.  And something might even happen to Stephan.  Father can officially adopt Gloria into the Brante family.  We can help Mother recover from her illness.   And the family can either come together, or fall apart. Finally, our Occupation events:  Our "print shop" can become an actually profitable print shop, on top of all the sketchy poo poo.    And there can be fun times with gunpowder for our little group. With the new elements covered, on with the show!  I like that the game highlights coming back to places important to you as a child, but in a new context.    Some things never change.  Adult Gloria is in full-on "gently caress the Man" mode. Good for her.    She digs the present we brought her.  Age and her illness have not been kind to Mother.  But she's always glad to see us.  Oh, Nathan.  We're glad to see you too, buddy.  Christ.  gently caress you too, Stephan. What was that about us becoming heir?  And finally, Father.    That's pretty harsh, Father.   Much better.   Just like old times. -- Who do we talk to at dinner?  A. The illness is a concern. Let's talk to Mother.  B. Time to check in on Gloria, we're closest with her.  C. The poor kid looks like he's completely lost. Let's talk to Nathan.  D. Just because he's a noble doesn't mean we can't be civil. We can try to talk to Stephan.
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Keep in mind that the margins for the chapter outcomes are generally pretty narrow, so vote for later events accordingly.
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Talk to Nathan. Gloria already loves us, Stephan can gently caress off, Mother's not going to say anything honest when the others are listening.
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Black Robe posted:Talk to Nathan. Gloria already loves us, Stephan can gently caress off, Mother's not going to say anything honest when the others are listening. This is pretty much exactly what I was going to say.
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A cmon lets get down with the sickness
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Talk to Nathan, lord knows he needs it
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We can’t get Gloria any higher, and mother’s already pretty high. Let’s talk to Stephan. I want to aim for the unified family ending, which presumably means not just pumping up our unity, but being on good terms with all of them. I also want to aim for a capitalist revolt and to befriend the overseer.
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Gonna spoil another thing for the outcomes: doing anything nice for Gloria, including making her a Brante or making peace in the family, absolutely tanks our family’s reputation. The noble society will not in any way tolerate a child with Gloria’s background. So we cannot have peace in the family and get ennobled by the sword at the same time.
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