Zamiel said
Is someone going to reply to me?
Done. We can either move to next turn, or discuss how to pay the bills.
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Done. We can either move to next turn, or discuss how to pay the bills.
Madame Katherine Evangeline Greywind
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
As Lanc silently tapped his own vote on the table's checkboxes, Katherine tallied the votes.
"2 opposed, 1 abstention (Lanc), 2 in support plus the proposer counted in matters of a tie. The motion carries, the worker's league will be implemented with all due process." She announced with slight smugness. She hadn't had to do anything yet, and already she was achieving several of her goals. The council was split, the socialists forced to deal with the reality that half of the council did not support their aims, and that if they intended to get more of their agenda passed, they needed her vote to get around the knight and magus.
"Onto more current issues before proposing further law: our government's expenses. Namely the matter of paying the wages of the militia and our power bills. Union Laborworks will foot some of the bill to Madame Vol, but I can't foot all the burden of government on my own." Nor do you want Madame Vol to think I'm the only one she can count on to be reliable.
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
As Lanc silently tapped his own vote on the table's checkboxes, Katherine tallied the votes.
"2 opposed, 1 abstention (Lanc), 2 in support plus the proposer counted in matters of a tie. The motion carries, the worker's league will be implemented with all due process." She announced with slight smugness. She hadn't had to do anything yet, and already she was achieving several of her goals. The council was split, the socialists forced to deal with the reality that half of the council did not support their aims, and that if they intended to get more of their agenda passed, they needed her vote to get around the knight and magus.
"Onto more current issues before proposing further law: our government's expenses. Namely the matter of paying the wages of the militia and our power bills. Union Laborworks will foot some of the bill to Madame Vol, but I can't foot all the burden of government on my own." Nor do you want Madame Vol to think I'm the only one she can count on to be reliable.
gowia said
Unfortunately I dont feel I can continue. With my own RP, a load of college work and some recent family issues I am having to leave. Thank you for your time, I would love to carry on and I hope this goes very far. Apologies again.
Sorry to hear that. Hope things work out well.
In the meantime, what to do about this vote? We are at a tie, 2 in favor (plus the proposer) and 2 against. Hmm.
Shall we pass this bill?
Zamiel said
Say if my proposal gets rejected and I join up with Greywind all the way. Shitstorm incoming.
Hehehehe. And you have a reputation at stake. I don't.
Ah, this game certainly will be fun.
rush99999 said
...I expect this RP to be awesome.
HEY! USE YOUR ASSETS! At the very least chip in on some of our government expenses if your not going to be buying minions, making economic investments, or bribing nobility, or whatever else magus do.
[Fifth Post]
Madame Katherine Evangeline Greywind
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
Credit where it was due, this guy knew human resources and marketing. Katherine mentally bumped Pentaphraxis' respect/threat rating (she made no differentiation between the two) up significantly. Of the two other nobles here, she was immediately coming to see the younger man to be the greater economic mind, and the way he worded his sales pitch on contingencies was well refined salesmanship to say the least. And left very few grounds for objection. Very well played.
"The benefits are obvious." She said after Jarvis finished his speech. "I vote in support of the Worker's League, and will work on my end to smooth out any wrinkles that may interfere in its establishment once protocols of its foundation are set." The unspoken reference to Katherine's connections amongst the aristocracy and industrial elites, while her mind worked away at how to profit herself from this setup given its clear overlap with some divisions of base-level genejack production.
The answer of course lied in what it didn't cover, namely certain fields of industry and social "services", and Katherine pulled out a stylus to begin tapping and drawing out notes on her dataslate to begin drafting plans of her own. None that would interfere with the worker's league, but still beneficial for her company regardless. And as much as the councilor's may disagree with her work, it was there, and it was too essential to allow to weaken. They would come to realize this in due time. For now, she would play along.
"Is there any who oppose?" She continued, her fingers dancing on the tablet while her eyes never left her fellow councilors. Gauging their next move. For the moment she had to play low and to the confidence of the others, lest she unite them all against her prematurely. That, and the policies she intended to bring up were more industry than labor, something to bring up later. Not to mention the unenviable question of who was the shoulder the government's electricity bill.
Madame Katherine Evangeline Greywind
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
Credit where it was due, this guy knew human resources and marketing. Katherine mentally bumped Pentaphraxis' respect/threat rating (she made no differentiation between the two) up significantly. Of the two other nobles here, she was immediately coming to see the younger man to be the greater economic mind, and the way he worded his sales pitch on contingencies was well refined salesmanship to say the least. And left very few grounds for objection. Very well played.
"The benefits are obvious." She said after Jarvis finished his speech. "I vote in support of the Worker's League, and will work on my end to smooth out any wrinkles that may interfere in its establishment once protocols of its foundation are set." The unspoken reference to Katherine's connections amongst the aristocracy and industrial elites, while her mind worked away at how to profit herself from this setup given its clear overlap with some divisions of base-level genejack production.
The answer of course lied in what it didn't cover, namely certain fields of industry and social "services", and Katherine pulled out a stylus to begin tapping and drawing out notes on her dataslate to begin drafting plans of her own. None that would interfere with the worker's league, but still beneficial for her company regardless. And as much as the councilor's may disagree with her work, it was there, and it was too essential to allow to weaken. They would come to realize this in due time. For now, she would play along.
"Is there any who oppose?" She continued, her fingers dancing on the tablet while her eyes never left her fellow councilors. Gauging their next move. For the moment she had to play low and to the confidence of the others, lest she unite them all against her prematurely. That, and the policies she intended to bring up were more industry than labor, something to bring up later. Not to mention the unenviable question of who was the shoulder the government's electricity bill.
Roger that, will put up a formal list of asset purchases in a bit then.
[Fourth Post]
Madame Katherine Evangeline Greywind
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
Katherine listened to the plans of agriculture and work unions with a vague curiosity. Matters of agriculture were an admitted failing on her part, but topics raised of decreased work hours, unionization and centralization were ringing alarm bells in her mind regarding the kind of men sitting on this council and their ultimate agendas. Yet she could already tell she would be standing alone if she raised serious objections at this early junction of the council against three of her fellow councilors with obvious socialist agendas. So she would have to take a different tack to bring sense to the vapid idealists appointed to council positions. That, and this Workers League idea did have some merit to tie up laborers in agriculture and grunt work, away from fields of industry that needed more "sensitive" types of labor that was her business to provide for.
"Fine words mister Pentaphraxis, and an apt summation of the core problems of the agricultural sector and our general workforce." Meaning the non-biosynth workforce in her views. "Although while I raise my voice in support of a plan to give the masses productive work for the good of Dahken, I must also question how to avoid opportunism and wastage in such a vast social system you intend to set up. Yes we need labor and crops alike, but we need order as well to keep workers who we will be entrusting the maintenance of vital infrastructure and resources to. As you state yourself, we will likely be recruiting from the most potentially violent demographics of our populace for such a workforce, and will practically be putting meals into their mouths our of our reserves and treasury until the new fields become productive and the workers trained. It would be prudent to take measures to ensure we obtain a....return on our investment.
Mandatory ID tagging and creation of a central database of workers tied into this Worker's League program would be a good start towards identifying problem workers and abusers of the system. A reward system of competition between work groups to strive for more meals of meat or script for the pleasure districts would also make for a good carrot for the commoners to encourage productivity. And should the working citizens refuse to recognize the full value of what is being offered to them....well we need to get around to rebuilding our military anyway, so why not start with the military police corps? Surely these are sensible policies to follow up upon in conjunction with such a grand social endeavor to guarantee the stability of Dahken as well as its growth?"
Madame Katherine Evangeline Greywind
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
Katherine listened to the plans of agriculture and work unions with a vague curiosity. Matters of agriculture were an admitted failing on her part, but topics raised of decreased work hours, unionization and centralization were ringing alarm bells in her mind regarding the kind of men sitting on this council and their ultimate agendas. Yet she could already tell she would be standing alone if she raised serious objections at this early junction of the council against three of her fellow councilors with obvious socialist agendas. So she would have to take a different tack to bring sense to the vapid idealists appointed to council positions. That, and this Workers League idea did have some merit to tie up laborers in agriculture and grunt work, away from fields of industry that needed more "sensitive" types of labor that was her business to provide for.
"Fine words mister Pentaphraxis, and an apt summation of the core problems of the agricultural sector and our general workforce." Meaning the non-biosynth workforce in her views. "Although while I raise my voice in support of a plan to give the masses productive work for the good of Dahken, I must also question how to avoid opportunism and wastage in such a vast social system you intend to set up. Yes we need labor and crops alike, but we need order as well to keep workers who we will be entrusting the maintenance of vital infrastructure and resources to. As you state yourself, we will likely be recruiting from the most potentially violent demographics of our populace for such a workforce, and will practically be putting meals into their mouths our of our reserves and treasury until the new fields become productive and the workers trained. It would be prudent to take measures to ensure we obtain a....return on our investment.
Mandatory ID tagging and creation of a central database of workers tied into this Worker's League program would be a good start towards identifying problem workers and abusers of the system. A reward system of competition between work groups to strive for more meals of meat or script for the pleasure districts would also make for a good carrot for the commoners to encourage productivity. And should the working citizens refuse to recognize the full value of what is being offered to them....well we need to get around to rebuilding our military anyway, so why not start with the military police corps? Surely these are sensible policies to follow up upon in conjunction with such a grand social endeavor to guarantee the stability of Dahken as well as its growth?"
Zamiel said
I hope she does not become wishy-washy and cooperative... she by far has the most game-changing industryJust waiting to be last member to arrive
Yeah no. Greywind is out to profit. Capitalist to the core and not ashamed to admit it. If you can't offer her a profit, it won't be in her self-interest to be cooperative.
But I do admit, having her kicked off the council and become a independent player could become interesting in its own right. Or a reason why you'd want to keep her on despite trouble.
[Third Post]
Madame Katherine Evangeline Greywind
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
Activity: Meeting with the Council
Katherine Evangeline Greywind stepped through the doors of the council chambers in her usual black and red high noble garb, a fur cape over her shoulders, and her hair kept in a braid hanging down to her waist. Escorting her were a pair of maidservants, both of them biosynths with the tell-tale bar codes on shoulderpatches of their clothing and the unnatural smoothness of their beauty marking biosculpted genetics. Curtly nodding to her fellow councilors as she assumed her seat at the council table, Katherine pulled a dataslate of her own out from a hip pouch while her maids stood back against the wall awaiting orders.
A knight. A mage. A engineer. A crystpaper maker. A commercial mogul. An interesting high council to say the least. Katherine thought, as she tapped her pad to connect to the council table's projectors should she have need of it and observed the motions of her fellow councilors as they took their places. For the moment, Katherine declined to speak, instead taking the time to simply watch and listen to gauge the other powers at this table. And already she was finding them to be.....business partners with limited profitability. But the liability and risk-management factors they held could not be ignored, and she honestly looked forward to seeing how they would plan to grapple with the crises at hand.
Madame Katherine Evangeline Greywind
Stats:Assets(5), Power(0), Production(5), Influence (4), Charm(2)
Activity: Meeting with the Council
Katherine Evangeline Greywind stepped through the doors of the council chambers in her usual black and red high noble garb, a fur cape over her shoulders, and her hair kept in a braid hanging down to her waist. Escorting her were a pair of maidservants, both of them biosynths with the tell-tale bar codes on shoulderpatches of their clothing and the unnatural smoothness of their beauty marking biosculpted genetics. Curtly nodding to her fellow councilors as she assumed her seat at the council table, Katherine pulled a dataslate of her own out from a hip pouch while her maids stood back against the wall awaiting orders.
A knight. A mage. A engineer. A crystpaper maker. A commercial mogul. An interesting high council to say the least. Katherine thought, as she tapped her pad to connect to the council table's projectors should she have need of it and observed the motions of her fellow councilors as they took their places. For the moment, Katherine declined to speak, instead taking the time to simply watch and listen to gauge the other powers at this table. And already she was finding them to be.....business partners with limited profitability. But the liability and risk-management factors they held could not be ignored, and she honestly looked forward to seeing how they would plan to grapple with the crises at hand.
At this rate I wonder if Greywind is going to be kicked off the council before it even starts.
I support the time extension. This game is going to be interesting.
I support the time extension. This game is going to be interesting.
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