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Total Members Voted: 84

[Broken]

Wear it. Tanavast has armies. We will need them

[Singularity125]

Don't wear it. Hopefully when the duke comes by, if we keep going along this current path, we will be able to let him down... gently. As opposed to last time, which I'm pretty sure was a nightmare. Anyway, we don't want to marry that creep, do we?

[Taricus]

Wear it. Tanavast has armies. We will need them

*GASP* BLASPHEMER!

[GlyphGryph]

Okay, a note on long term strategy.

Things unlikely to change in the near future:

Week 8, we get an offer to do the printing press. This is a check versus production and trade (I believe, just going by my previous post here).

Week 9 is when we get approached about the foreign Ixionite incursion. We have a foreign affairs check there, and maybe more we don't know about.

We know there is a foreign affairs check on the Ixion occupation of Imbrium, in Maree, and we'll be approached by Duke Banion about the issue. This is what we knew last time after failing our foreign affairs check.

There was another check, a military one, that we passed, but we can't be sure what it did exactly. Either way, we were then presented with an option:

War or Negotiate

I presume this time we'll be attempting to negotiate, so we'll be wanting relevant skills for that.

Composure, Presence, Flattery, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Intelligence, and Internal Affairs all seem like they could possible come in useful during negotiations. (Internal Affairs mostly to minimize any internal impact our decisions might have)

Now, sometimes I feel I'm the only one who actually bothers to read what we learn in our weekly lessons, but I'm guessing we might want to try for foreign affairs until we learn something useful about this area of our country, and then switch to one or more of the other options.

We get a bonus to History so long as we stay yielding, and a bonus to our regal queen-like skills. So we'll obviously want to make use of those. We'd need to get willful for intrigue, so that... probably isn't happening right now, unless we specifically intend on switching to it soon and prepare appropriately.

But getting lonely for the boost to Flattery is doable.

So I'm thinking this week we do Foreign Affairs/Presence again. See if we seem to get any info relevant to our coming foreign affairs check. If we don't, we repeat the week after with Foreign Affairs and Composure, and then we switch moods to whatever other skill we agree on and double slam it before the event.

Sound good?

[darkpaladin109]

Sounds good to me.

[Toaster]

Logical and reasonable.  Do you know when the next Divination check was?

Also, we should weekend to balance out our mood as much as possible, ideally three zeros and one point in the direction we want.

[GlyphGryph]

Not neccessarily. A balance mood isn't nearly as good as people believe it is - a great many events alter a single mood up or down a point, and many of our mood altering options alter more than one mood - meaning that the close we are to neutral, the more likely we are to get a mood we don't want, and since most actions move multiple moods by a single point, we won't even have the benefit of easily getting to the one we do most of the time. Usually, we'll want to be switching between two moods or staying in one - that means keeping the things we WANT around two to three points off center, while keeping everything ELSE as close to neutral as possible.

[Toaster]

Hm.  Good point.

[RAM]

Wearing it implies some form of relationship involving gift-giving. If we wear it , then everyone will think that the gift-giving role is filled. As an astute and generous monarch we must be aware of the state of the nation's people. You can tell a lot about someone by the gifts that they send, so it is our royal duty to encourage as many gifts as possible. Therefore, do not wear the jewellery.

[Sheb]

Yeah, because if we keep getting gifts, we might get something awesome like chocolate...

[Urist Imiknorris]

I'm wondering exactly what happens with a completely neutral mood.

[GlyphGryph]

Yeah, because if we keep getting gifts, we might get something awesome like chocolate...

That would be great!
Le chocolat est bonne.
Bellodie aime du chocolat.
Chocolate is her favorite.

[Karlito]

I'm wondering exactly what happens with a completely neutral mood.

No mood-bonuses or penalties to any skills, which is exactly what one would expect.

[Blaze]

IIRC there will always be one mood active. If all moods tie then one has a priority over the others.

[IronyOwl]

Week 5 Continued: The Right Thing

Don't Wear 12
Sell It 3
Hurl It Into The Fires, Isildor! 2
No, It's Ourses Now 2
Wear It 2



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