Persuade January/Tables

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Difficulty[edit]

Question before the BoardBase Difficulty
7 - Recommending a Route across a Ravine240
9 - Recommending a Route through Wasteland100
10 - Proposing the Removal of His Amused Lordship300
11 - Proposing the Removal of the Efficient Commissioner300
12 - Proposing the Removal of the Jovial Contrarian300
13 - Proposing the Removal of Sinning Jenny300
14 - Proposing the Removal of Feducci300
15 - Proposing the Removal of Virginia300
16 - Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona500
17 - Proposing the Removal of the Dean of Xenotheology580
18 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's300
19 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Southwark300
20 - Proposing the Removal of the Tentacled Entrepreneur300
21 - Proposing the Removal of the Gracious Widow300
22 - Proposing the Removal of April500
23 - Proposing the Removal of the Wandering Gondolier300
24 - Proposing the Removal of September600
26 - Proposing the Removal of the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle400
27 - Proposing the Removal of the Rubbery Yes-Man300
28 - Proposing the Removal of the Hell-Scarred Gondolier400
29 - Proposing the Removal of Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist300
31 - Proposing the Removal of the Wry Functionary300
32 - Proposing the Removal of the Delightful Reverend300
33 - Proposing the Removal of the Drummer300
35 - Proposing the Removal of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner300
37 - Proposing the Removal of the Implacable Detective300
100 - Proposing a Station Plan100
105 - Proposing a Station Plan more like a Fortress380
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 Empress240
140 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to Wasteland100
150 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to a Surface Summer100
160 - Proposing an ice-resistant route and a well-insulated station100
170 - Proposing the connection to the final station at Marigold100
181 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Ealing Gardens100
182 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near the Magistracy of the Evenlode100
183 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Balmoral100
184 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Station VIII300
185 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Burrow-infra-Mump100
187 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Marigold Station, under the walls of Hell100
200 - Recommending Better Defences for Each Train200 + (60 × )
205 - Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train100 + (60 × )
210 - Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train200 + (60 × )
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders200 + (20 × )
520 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell240
521 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Feducci's Guidance240
522 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following April's Guidance200
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 Guidance180
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' Guidance240
529 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Viscountess' Guidance100
700 - Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral300
710 - Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral200
720 - Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral200
800 - Proposing a tracklayer aligned with Mr Fires600
850 - Proposing Cornelius to lead200
905 - Proposing the Dean of Xenotheology as Patron of the Burrow Church100
910 - Proposing the Bishop of St Fiacre's as Patron of the Burrow Church300
931 - Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge420
932 - Supporting Cornelius' Prehistoricist Building Approach420
933 - Supporting a Brightly-Lit Building Approach460
934 - Proposing a Package of Measures to Resume Normal Operations180
940 - Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups260 or 300
941 - Proposing a dividend be paid out to the poor of the Hinterlands260 or 300
1000 - Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower420
1010 - Proposing an inhuman tribute to the Hillchanger Tower240
1030 - Proposing a legalistic tribute to the Hillchanger Tower260
1100 - Proposing to send your train to war in Parabola
(Cats, FKs, Gent, Visc., Other)
200 (Cats)
240 (FKs, Gent)
300 (Visc.)
340 (Other)
1110 - Proposing to build a spur line into Parabola so that you can send in a war-train300
1200 - Proposing a final extension of track660

Success Text[edit]

Question before the BoardSuccess Description
22"She'll always be useful," says January. "But she might be more useful in another capacity."
31"I don't believe we need him for anything," January remarks.
35"She has courage and purpose but she sees nothing accurately," says January. "If she won't join battle on our side, then there is no reason to keep her on."
37"Intellectual hubris," says January. "I don't like her."
105"At least it acknowledges the battle in which we are engaged," says January. From her tone of voice, she's enjoying herself.
115, 120, 130, 150She does not like the plans, but she's willing to let it be built, if only to come to the end of the argument. "It's a bad idea, but it's not a very important bad idea. Hardly anyone is going to see it out there."
140"Yes," she says. "Good." She spends some time looking the plans over. It's obvious you've surprised her a little by proposing something she doesn't hate.
160January is softly enthusiastic. "Yes, I would imagine building it will be quite the adventure."
181, 184, 187"I fear that this proposal has ulterior motives," says January; you can feel the eyebrow raising even behind the mask. "But so be it. The new city will thrive whatever the circumstances."
182"Not my preferred site," says January. "But a fine one."
200"It's a good idea to be armoured out there," January says. "As long as you trust the person driving the train. But, fortunately, the tracks will prevent anyone from taking them in an unintended direction."
210"I don't oppose it in principle," says January. "As long as we can pay for the other things we require. And as long as we don't price the tickets so high that only lords and ladies can enjoy the comforts." [...]
300"Agreed," says January, a little savagely. "We might as well label what we are. I'd also endorse putting a sign on a tiger cage so you know what to expect if you climb in."
310"It would be better to give everyone a share and be done with it [...] Charity always involves someone bending down from a height to be 'kind' to someone else. Still, it's preferable to hoarding all the profits in one place, I'll give you that."
320"Even institutions of learning can put their boot on a person," January remarks. "But knowledge is a less damaging mission than most."
520, 521, 523, 525 - 529"Among the strange laws, stranger forms of injustice," says January cryptically. "By all means, let us go."
933"I am unfond of this proposal," January states. "But if it is the only way to make progress, I suppose it is a price we can afford."
1000, 1010, 1030"Yes," says January, leaning forward. "If it leads to calamity, it will be the right sort of calamity."
1100, 1110"Yes," says January. "If we are to test ulterior capabilities for our stock, we ought to do it in place where the externalities are necessarily contained."
1200"The city requires provisions," says January. "It will be more viable if it can trade easily with the rest of the Neath."
Board MemberSecond paragraph of Success Description
Board Member: The Dean of XenotheologyApparently feeling that the meeting would otherwise be too short, the Dean of Xenotheology offers several citations supporting January's point of view in this matter. The Secretary sighs [...] the minutes will doubtless be printed up with neat footnotes.

Failure Text[edit]

Question before the BoardFailure Description
10 - 21, 23, 26 - 29, 32, 33, 37January looks at you pointedly and says that there are other people she would much sooner get rid of.
22January notes that she considers this board member a valuable ally.
24She says, with a faintly self-mocking expression, that as unlikely as it might seem, she believes September is much too valuable to the board to let go.
31"He is less of an impediment than some people who might be on the board," she says. This is not a compliment to the Wry Functionary, but she is still inclined to spare him.
35January considers for a moment. "She is not sympathetic, but she is predictable," she says. "Which means that she can be used. I vote against excising her. Any replacements might be less easily controlled."
100January tilts her head and considers the plans dispassionately. "There's not much aesthetic ambition here, is there?"
105January shakes her head. She favours the fortress idea in principle; she just doesn't have much confidence that this example is well enough constructed.
115January offers a rich variety of critiques on this idea, including that it is showy and bizarre; [...] and that the GHR's limited understanding of the Infernal aesthetic is likely to result in something more embarrassing than accurate.
120"Is it meant to gain the Bazaar's favour?" asks January, squinting sideways at the plans. "If so, we'd probably get further by writing a poem of grovelling praise, the way lickspittles used to do."
130If you had designed this plan specifically to aggravate January, you could not have done a better job. She despises the appearance; she despises the message. She recommends [...] a new station be proposed that is as unlike this as aesthetically possible.
140"It could be a great deal worse," says January, in a tone of surprise. "But I'd still rather we didn't build it at all."
150"It's embarrassing," January remarks, "when people think they miss the Sun." She won't be drawn to say very much more than that in the present environment.
160January has a great deal to say on the subjects of insulation and thermodynamics, which she is delighted to explain at length.
181, 184, 187"This proposal insults my intelligence," January scoffs. "Do you think I don't see through this scheme?"
182, 185"It's not the worst location," January says. "But it's not ideal, and I see no reason to settle for this proposal."
300"The proposal has the merit of frankness," January remarks. "But that doesn't make it a desirable goal."
310"Ah, yes. Philanthropy." January's voice is wry behind her mask. "It's always certain people who get to be the philanthropists and decide where the charity should go, and certain other people that are meant to be grateful."
520, 521, 523, 525 - 529"It is a fool's strategy," […] "Why is it that no group of more than three persons can ever lay down a sensible plan?" This remark seems to land more strongly with some […] than others, and you have the sense she is only partly talking about the GHR.
800, 910January listens intently. Then she looks as though she is going to deliver a learned speech critiquing the injustice of appointing this candidate. But she simply votes No, instead.
933[…] "No, I don't think I'll go along with a plan so transparently driven by the Masters' desires." You can't get a good look at her expression behind that mask […] "Perhaps we should be asking the Union to consider a change of leadership, instead."
1000, 1010, 1030"I would take a different approach," says January. "One that offered us more leverage against our other opponents."
1100, 1110January closes her eyes and pinches the bridge of one of her noses. "The War is a distraction. Anything we might learn there is of necessity a lie. There are more important concerns closer to home."
1200January gives a short, irritable speech about how the city was founded for the express purpose of keeping it away from London. It doesn't (in her view) need an increase of tourists or the questionable oversight of London authorities.
Other VotesSecond paragraph of Failure Description
Jovial Contrarian's VoteThe Jovial Contrarian nods without looking in January's direction – as though a clock were striking at the expected moment, or a heavily-favoured horse coming across the finish line.