A Realignment of Local Politics/Tables

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Liberationist[edit]

Leader of the TracklayersSecond Paragraph
FurnaceFurnace is not best pleased. It's not easy managing a city in the dark. And fine as it might be to imagine a city with no sort of leadership at all, she has seen what happens in that event.
Cornelius
Fires' LackeyMr Fires' Lackey suggests to you that this is only likely to hasten the destruction [...] Mr Fires didn't care for the place before, and he'll care for it even less now [...] But do as you like; he doesn't mind. It will be something to see the place go to smash.
Your Lackey
JanuaryJanuary is delighted. Her own propaganda efforts have been effective, but never so effective as this. You make (she suggests) a formidable team.

Prehistoricist[edit]

Leader of the TracklayersSecond Paragraph
FurnaceFurnace tolerates this development, though the exasperation is evident in her voice. The purely Prehistoricist plans were impractical when Cornelius was advocating for them, and she considers them even sillier now.
CorneliusCornelius regards this outcome with great satisfaction. The possibilities are limitless [...] Why, he has four or five speculative anatomies already drawn up. Regarding the problem of sewage, for instance, what do you think of this little beauty?
Fires' Lackey
Your LackeyYour Lackey doesn't bother to ask what you're doing. You've always had your plans, a level or two above his head, and it's no difference to him what they are as long as his job continues well-paid and effortless.
JanuaryJanuary offers pungent views on the folly of this approach. What good will these bone-configurations ever achieve? The oppressor wins when the oppressed turn their energies to anything other than revolution.

Emancipationist[edit]

Leader of the TracklayersSecond Paragraph
FurnaceFurnace, you know, is guiltily relieved to have a citizenry with such well-aligned attitudes. She would have served their interests anyhow, but it's easier steering a team of horses when the horses match, as she puts it.
CorneliusCornelius grumbles over the unimaginative bent of the populace. There's so much they could achieve, if they'd allow themselves a more ambitious dream.
Fires' LackeyMr Fires' Lackey regards all of this as a pointless exercise. He has no intent to listen to what the citizens want, so why bother to persuade them one way or the other?
Your Lackey
January

Non-Liberationist[edit]

Hinterland City - Founding BodyDescription
Furnace Ancona
Furnace Ancona, Starved
Cornelius
Your Own Double, The Double of the ManagerThe city settles easily into this identity. It is easiest to live in a well-lit place, after all.

Non-Prehistoricist[edit]

Hinterland City - Founding BodyDescription
Furnace AnconaIt is an ideology that fits the city […] The city was, after all, founded by a human for the benefit of humans; it is built around storehouses and granaries and hospitals. It was never designed to accommodate a population of large beasts.
Furnace Ancona, Starved
CorneliusOne has the sense of a city embarrassed by its founder. The tomb colonist garb of the city is allowed to persist, but some of the old Prehistoricist murals are covered or painted over, as though the city were putting away childish things.
Your Own Double, The Double of the ManagerThe city settles comfortably into this shape. It was never built to be Prehistoricist in the first place; no such identity was written into its walls. It can easily be something else.

Non-Emancipationist[edit]

Hinterland City - Founding BodyDescription
Furnace Ancona
Furnace Ancona, Starved
CorneliusIt's a vision that suits the space. [...] the city was founded on the ambitions of Cornelius; there are race tracks and birthing grounds and feeding terraces for prehistoric animals. The Emancipationists never had the vision to appreciate such facilities. [...]
Your Own Double, The Double of the ManagerThe city settles comfortably into this shape. It was never built to be Emancipationist in the first place; no such identity was written into its walls. It can easily be something else.

All[edit]

Leader of the TracklayersSecond Paragraph
FurnaceFurnace does not complain. Everyone needs a voice; she has always said so. If some of her constituents are more difficult than others, well, that's all part of the job.
CorneliusCornelius would have preferred a more determinedly Prehistoricist approach, but he can work with this. Let the citizens choose their own ends; for him, monster-breeding will always be the means of resolution.
Fires' Lackey
Your Lackey
JanuaryJanuary treats you to a cold little speech about how an ideology of compromise is no ideology at all. But she knows that matters could be worse.

None[edit]

Leader of the TracklayersSecond Paragraph
FurnaceFurnace tries to see this in a positive light. The revolutionary spirit has diminished because the need for it has been alleviated, perhaps? [...] But she would prefer to hope that one day the city will be able to do more for others elsewhere.
CorneliusCornelius is disappointed, though he accepts that the population never did understand all the more theoretical aspects of his politics. As long as they allow some experimentation to continue, [...] there is still a hope of turning things to good account.
Fires' LackeyMr Fires' Lackey cackles into his soup. He always knew (he says) that they didn't really have the stomach for a proper revolution.
Your LackeyYour Lackey doesn't bother to ask what you're doing. You've always had your plans, a level or two above his head, and it's no difference to him what they are as long as his job continues well-paid and effortless.
JanuaryJanuary is livid. She can barely bring herself to form sentences.