Persuade Feducci/Tables

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Difficulty[edit]

Question before the BoardBase Difficulty
1 - Recommending a Route through Occupied Buildings100
2 - Proposing the Demolition of Unused Houses240
3 - Recommending a Route over Marshland160
4 - Recommending a Route through Plainsland180
5 - Route through Hills160
7 - Recommending a Route across a Ravine220
9 - Recommending a Route through Wasteland100
10 - Proposing the Removal of His Amused Lordship160
11 - Proposing the Removal of the Efficient Commissioner200
12 - Proposing the Removal of the Jovial Contrarian100
13 - Proposing the Removal of Sinning Jenny100
15 - Proposing the Removal of Virginia300
16 - Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona300
17 - Proposing the Removal of the Dean of Xenotheology100
18 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's300
19 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Southwark100
20 - Proposing the Removal of the Tentacled Entrepreneur100
21 - Proposing the Removal of the Gracious Widow200
22 - Proposing the Removal of April300
23 - Proposing the Removal of the Wandering Gondolier200
24 - Proposing the Removal of September200
26 - Proposing the Removal of the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle400
27 - Proposing the Removal of the Rubbery Yes-Man100
28 - Proposing the Removal of the Hell-Scarred Gondolier300
29 - Proposing the Removal of Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist100
30 - Proposing the Removal of January240
31 - Proposing the Removal of the Wry Functionary100
32 - Proposing the Removal of the Delightful Reverend100
33 - Proposing the Removal of the Drummer300
35 - Proposing the Removal of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner100
37 - Proposing the Removal of the Implacable Detective100
100 - Proposing a Station Plan100
105 - Proposing a Station Plan more like a Fortress100
115 - Proposing a Station Plan styled in the Manner of Hell100
120 - Proposing a Station Plan that Honours the Bazaar300
130 - Proposing a Station Plan that Speaks to the Glory of London and the Empress380
140 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to Wasteland100
150 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to a Surface Summer380
160 - Proposing an ice-resistant route and a well-insulated station100
181 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Ealing Gardens100
182 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near the Magistracy of the Evenlode240
183 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Balmoral100
184 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Station VIII300
185 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Burrow-infra-Mump240
186 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City somewhere between Moulin and Hurlers, as no one sensible wants that land at all100
187 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Marigold Station, under the walls of Hell100
200 - Recommending Better Defences for Each Train400
205 - Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train260
210 - Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train200
220 - Recommending More Worker Compensation300
230 - Recommending Worker Co-ownership420
240 - Recommending the Strike be Broken300
250 - Requesting Funds to Excavate the Remains of a Prehistoric Creature100
260 - Suggesting the Union Pave Over a Prehistoric Creature100
270 - Requesting Funds to Route Around an Anomalous Section of London100
280 - Proposing to Drive the Track through the Zone340
300 - Proposing a Vote of Self-congratulation100
310 - Proposing a Charitable Gift160
320 - Proposing a Scientific Charter160
340 - Proposing a Charter engaging in the Work of the Church300
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders200
500 - Proposing a Bypass through Parabola700
510 - Proposing the Rental of Hellworms100
520 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell100
522 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following April's Guidance100
523 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Virginia's Guidance100
525 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Bishop of Southwark's Guidance240
526 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following His Amused Lordship's Guidance(Note: The difficulty has been affected by the Respectability Factor gained from this option.)50
527 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Wandering Gondolier's Guidance240
528 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Cornelius' Guidance100
529 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Viscountess' Guidance240
700 - Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral200
710 - Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral340
720 - Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral200
800 - Proposing a tracklayer aligned with Mr Fires200
850 - Proposing Cornelius to lead300
905 - Proposing the Dean of Xenotheology as Patron of the Burrow Church300
910 - Proposing the Bishop of St Fiacre's as Patron of the Burrow Church300
931 - Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge260
932 - Supporting Cornelius' Prehistoricist Building Approach100
933 - Supporting a Brightly-Lit Building Approach100
934 - Proposing a Package of Measures to Resume Normal Operations100
940 - Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups240
941 - Proposing a dividend be paid out to the poor of the Hinterlands240
1000 - Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower260
1010 - Proposing an inhuman tribute to the Hillchanger Tower340
1020 - Proposing a calendrical tribute to the Hillchanger Tower340
1100 - Proposing to send your train to war in Parabola
(Cats, FKs, Gent, Visc., Other)
300 (Cats, Visc.)
580 (FKs, Gent)
380 (Other)
1110 - Proposing to build a spur line into Parabola so that you can send in a war-train300

Success Text[edit]

Question before the BoardSuccess Description
1 - 3, 9, 181 - 187"I am not as familiar with this terrain as with certain other countries," he says. An allusion to the Elder Continent? At any rate, he waves through the plan.
4"The land is voracious," he says, with a keen and unkind smile. "Let's feed it, then."
5"I have an ambition to go out there myself," he says. It's hard to be sure, but the grin under the bandages looks wolfish.
7"They say Station VIII's a good place to be poisoned," he says. This is approval.
11"Please, yes," says Feducci. "Let us be rid of the Commissioner and her endless pedantry. She will weigh down the debate with history even the Tomb Colonists have forgotten."
13Feducci gives a raspy laugh. "Yes, we can do without Jenny on the board. Her weapons are fierce but her targets are poorly chosen."
15"I believe," says Feducci in a rusty voice, "that we can do without my distinguished successor-but-one." It is popular in London to say that Virginia accomplished more than any mayor since Sinning Jenny herself, and Feducci holds a grudge.
16"By all means, let us rid ourselves of Furnace," says Feducci. "I never understood why we needed to listen to her in the first place."
20Feducci says yes, in a way that suggests he hopes someone will fight him over it.
100Feducci rasps out his agreement to this idea.
205 - 220Feducci refrains from threatening to run you through, which you must interpret as support.
230"A vile idea," says Feducci. "One that encourages the most slovenly behaviour among everyone we might hire in the future... but I can see that I will not win this argument. Very well."
240Feducci agrees to the plan, and offers to help lead the strike-breaking effort himself. He appears to consider members of the Tracklayers Union a limited threat to a person like himself.
300, 320, 340"The Charter could be more definitely worded," says Feducci. "But in substance, I accept." He has a blade handy even during the meeting, which raises the question of how much the Charter is likely to bind him. No matter.
310, 932Feducci says yes, in a way that suggests he hopes someone will fight him over it.
340Feducci's comments on the Church are such as could not be printed in the newspaper. It does not seem that he considers the Church's mission worthy of promotion.
400Feducci's calculations apparently satisfy him about the financial wisdom of such a step. "This should suit," he says, in the hoarse whisper you know is an affectation. Usually he does not bother with such foolishness here.
500"Parabola suits me better than the alternative," says Feducci. "And the train need not spend very long in the realm of the Is-Not. Put the mirrors a short distance apart, on that side..."
510"Have they been deployed in combat, I wonder?" Feducci 's mind is racing ahead to acquiring one for personal use.
520, 522, 523, 525 - 529"If we are not doing it in the way I would recommend, this way will work," admits Feducci. "But my way would have been better."
620"It cannot be a worse idea than some other mayors we have had," says Feducci. Everyone stares in his direction.
700, 720, 800Feducci's expression is hard to read under the bandages, but he doesn't have anything against the idea.
710"He has a fighting spirit," says Feducci. So that's a yes, then.
850If you were expecting enthusiastic solidarity amongst Tomb-Colonists, you are destined for disappointment. But Feducci does not evidently disapprove.
905Feducci shrugs. "Her presence or absence make relatively little difference to me."
910Feducci shrugs. "He manages to keep up his work here with his duties at the Club. I cannot imagine a little church will overtax him."
940 - 941"Very well," says Feducci. He seems relatively uninterested in the whole affair.
1000 - 1020"I have dealt with powers of the Elder Continent," Feducci remarks. Which is apparently to indicate that the Tower does not alarm him.
1100, 1110Feducci lets out a long, throaty chuckle. "Of course I am in favour," he says. "Provided I may sit in the gun-battery when we make our little jaunt."
1200Feducci's expression is hard to read under the bandages, but he doesn't have anything against the idea.

Failure Text[edit]

Question before the BoardFailure Description
1 - 3Feducci does not like any suggested route for the train. He agrees that it must go westward, but he does not care for any of the […] directions or terrains. "A flat terrain, with firm soil and no existing inhabitants, would be a better bargain."
4"Those plains kill," he says. "As indeed do many of us. But the Tracklayers may not like it."
5"Those hills are not our territory," he says. "We might be wiser to respect other ownership."
7"Won't it be a great deal of cost and bother?" he demands. "I have serious questions about the cartographical competence of our esteemed fellow director." And he gives you a glance that dares you to strike him.
9Feducci does not like any suggested route for the train. He agrees that it must go westward, but he does not care for any of the available directions or terrains.
10"His Amused Lordship stays." Feducci does not bother to advance an argument.
12Feducci expresses his displeasure with knife-slash to the upper arm. It's more persuasive than most of the arguments advanced by other board members.
100, 105, 115 - 160Feducci reaches for his lance, then pauses. "I disapprove," he says. "Though a poor choice of architecture may not deserve my full duelling power."
181, 182, 184 - 187"No, no, this is all wrong," says Feducci. "The terrain is just not defensible. Where would you put the ramparts?"
200Feducci lays out a counter-proposal: instead of spending the company's money to protect the passengers, why not arm anyone who expects to ride, and let them protect themselves?
205Feducci lays out a counter-proposal: why not strap the passengers' possessions to the roof of the train?
210"A duelling room would be a greater improvement," says Feducci. A few of the others exchange glances. Is he sincere?
220"Break the strike by force," says Feducci. "We cannot be hostage to such demands."
230Feducci's hand goes to his lance and the other to an off-hand dagger. He dislikes this proposal as intensely as any he has ever heard, and he is ready to fight you, and any other comers, here or […] at another location of your choosing […]
300"Nonsense," says Feducci tersely.
310, 932Feducci says no, in a way that suggests he hopes someone will fight him over it.
320Feducci lets it be known that his favourite science is the science of duelling, and that bones are not interesting to him unless they are [...] encased in the body of one of his enemies. [...] none of the other board members particularly wishes to argue with him.
400Feducci has been working out his own accounts for the Company the whole time others have been speaking. Something in the numbers displeases him.
500"I never turn away from danger, but I would not put our trust in the Snakes," says Feducci.
510"A daring exploit," Feducci remarks. "But I don't consider it wise."
520, 523, 525, 527 - 529"I can suggest a superior alternative," says Feducci. "This approach is nonsensical."
700 - 720Matters of inheritance and royal prerogative are just the sort of thing to gall Feducci into action, and he barely hears out the proposal before reaching for his lance.
800, 850Feducci groans. "Why can't we have more adventurous candidates?" […] You get the sense he'd prefer a Union that spent most of its time fighting duels and hunting the stranger beasts of the outer Neath, and ignored the tedious nonsense of the rails.
905, 910Feducci waves a hand. If he has to attend every one of these meetings as a Board member then so should they.
1000 - 1020"One might cooperate, if one cannot fight," says Feducci. "But have we considered demolishing this tower? Explosives and a good set of cannons should do it."
1100, 1110Feducci looks disheartened. "It's not that I disapprove of loading the train with bombard and send it hurtling into the unknown. I just find myself ideologically against the idea of doing it in a place that technically does not exist."
1200Feducci sighs. "Its distance from London is what provides its savour. It would be a pity to ruin that."
Other VotesSecond paragraph of Failure Description
The Wandering Gondolier's VoteThe Wandering Gondolier has, by now, had an opportunity to see how Feducci settles disputes. […] he moves to […] the other side of the table. Feducci smirks in return. "It's not you who's going to have to fight me on this, stripling," he says.