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Fire Emblem: Last of the Manakete

What would readers prefer?

  • Pure narrative quest: no dice will be used, the author will have free reign to decide what happens.

    Votes: 25 59.5%

  • New dice system: the author will design a new, better dice system to add some randomness and risk.

    Votes: 17 40.5%
  • Total voters
    42
  • Poll closed .
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Gather allies. Then inform them of what you know so they can investigate themselves. The only other thing we really want to do is advance our knowledge of Casting Methods For Humans Not Requiring Body Parts.

Less is more, and we want to get out before Things Happen.

[X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
-[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
-[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
-[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
 
[X] Levinheart
[X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
-[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
-[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
-[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
-[X] Take some time to practice your White magic. You already made some progress on White magic without focusing on it, if there's any place you can make a lot of progress it'll be here. (Write in what color to focus on.)
 
tricholysis said:
The time-block voting is a weird and annoying format since order matters...
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What's the alternative? People voting for all the things they want to do separately, and also the number of things, and the most popular number of things get done, starting from the thing that was voted the most? That would work, but it would be pretty awkward, and we'd probably end up with an itinerary no individual person asked for.

It's all a matter of trade-offs.
 
Since it seems like my name idea isn't getting any traction (unsurprising, I'm not too satisfied with it myself) I guess I should pick something else.

[X] Levinheart
 
[X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
-[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
-[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
-[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
-[X] Take some time to practice your White magic. You already made some progress on White magic without focusing on it, if there's any place you can make a lot of progress it'll be here. (Write in what color to focus on.)
 
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Complicated Plan Vote Head's Up
  • Voting
    • Adhoc vote count started by SoaringHawk218 on Jun 6, 2023 at 10:41 AM, finished with 67 posts and 38 votes.
    • [X] Levinheart
      [X] Thunderheart
      [X] Sunseeker
      [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
      -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
      -[X] Meet with Master Searedstone. Apollo seems to like him, and not all Imperials you've met have been bad.
      [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
      -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
      [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
      -[x] Try to figure out what's going on with the Regent's plan. He has to have done something, and you get the feeling that Blitzbolt is involved somehow. This'll be dangerous, but so've been a lot of other stuff you've done.
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[X] Go to the Smokestack; maybe you'll find something important there, something the humans missed…
      [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
      -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
      -[X] Take some time to practice your White magic. You already made some progress on White magic without focusing on it, if there's any place you can make a lot of progress it'll be here. (Write in what color to focus on.)
      [X] Stormhaven
      [X] Ryza Levinheart
      [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
      -[X] Go to the Smokestack; maybe you'll find something important there, something the humans missed…
      [x] Stormcaller
      [x] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon.
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[x] Try to find time to talk to Archmage Stormspeaker privately. He seems like a decent fellow, and maybe he can give you some advice.
      -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
      -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
      -[X] Go to the Smokestack; maybe you'll find something important there, something the humans missed…
      -[X] Meet with Master Searedstone. Apollo seems to like him, and not all Imperials you've met have been bad.
      [x] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon.
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[x] Try to figure out what's going on with the Regent's plan. He has to have done something, and you get the feeling that Blitzbolt is involved somehow. This'll be dangerous, but so've been a lot of other stuff you've done.
      -[x] Try to find time to talk to Archmage Stormspeaker privately. He seems like a decent fellow, and maybe he can give you some advice.
      -[x] Take some time to practice your white magic. You already made some progress on White magic without focusing on it, if there's any place you can make a lot of progress it'll be here.
      -[X] Go to the Smokestack; maybe you'll find something important there, something the humans missed…
      -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
      [X] Stormheart
      [x] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon.
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[x] Try to figure out what's going on with the Regent's plan. He has to have done something, and you get the feeling that Blitzbolt is involved somehow. This'll be dangerous, but so've been a lot of other stuff you've done.
      -[x] Try to find time to talk to Archmage Stormspeaker privately. He seems like a decent fellow, and maybe he can give you some advice.
      -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
      -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
      -[X] Meet with Master Searedstone. Apollo seems to like him, and not all Imperials you've met have been bad.
      [X] Weatherlight
      [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[x] Try to find time to talk to Archmage Stormspeaker privately. He seems like a decent fellow, and maybe he can give you some advice.
      -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
      -[X] Go to the Smokestack; maybe you'll find something important there, something the humans missed…
      [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
      -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
      -[x] Try to figure out what's going on with the Regent's plan. He has to have done something, and you get the feeling that Blitzbolt is involved somehow. This'll be dangerous, but so've been a lot of other stuff you've done.
      -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
      -[x] Try to find time to talk to Archmage Stormspeaker privately. He seems like a decent fellow, and maybe he can give you some advice.
      [X] Havenheart
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    Alright, so as promised, here's the current tally.

    Levinheart's actually got 14, as there's two votes further down that include Ryza's name, but Thunderheart and Sunseeker are still in contention.

    As for what to do, here are the current frontrunners

    [] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
    -[] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[] Meet with Master Searedstone. Apollo seems to like him, and not all Imperials you've met have been bad.

    [] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.

    [] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[] Try to figure out what's going on with the Regent's plan. He has to have done something, and you get the feeling that Blitzbolt is involved somehow. This'll be dangerous, but so've been a lot of other stuff you've done.
    -[] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[] Go to the Smokestack; maybe you'll find something important there, something the humans missed…

    and...

    [] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
    -[] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[] Take some time to practice your White magic. You already made some progress on White magic without focusing on it, if there's any place you can make a lot of progress it'll be here. (Write in what color to focus on.)

    There are others, but those are the ones that seem to have some momentum at the moment.

    Thank you all for your patience with this slightly clunky vote: the ordering is important, as different things at different times can have an effect.
     
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    • Changing vote.

    [X] Levinheart

    [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
    -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[X] Meet with Master Searedstone. Apollo seems to like him, and not all Imperials you've met have been bad.
     
    Changing my vote. I still don't really have an opinion on the plan, so just the name for now.
    [x] Levinheart

    A funny thought - in the potential future (decade or two down the line), Ryza's going to be very exasperated with people seeing her as Mistress Levinheart the Legendary Dragon Mage rather than Ryza the Friendly Neighborhood Manakete.
     
    SoaringHawk218 said:
    Levinheart's actually got 14, as there's two votes further down that include Ryza's name, but Thunderheart and Sunseeker are still in contention.
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    Nah, actually just twelve. I'd Approval Voted for both "Levinheart" and "Ryza Levinheart" just in case, 'cause i didn't want to check which one had more votes, and thus we don't wanna accidentally count my vote twice or something. Looks like Brainbow, the other "Ryza Levinheart" vote on the tally did the same.
     
    [X] Sunseeker

    I think Sunseeker is the best name listed so far, not a big fan of Levinheart myself.

    [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
     
    [X] Sunseeker

    [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
    -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[X] Meet with Master Searedstone. Apollo seems to like him, and not all Imperials you've met have been bad.
     
    GreatWyrmGold said:
    What's the distinction between block and plan votes that you're trying to make?
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    What I'm attempting to say is that plan votes tend to be more organized, where things like the number of choices and the order of the votes have a purpose. This seems to be what the author was going for. While block votes are, in my experience, usually just a list of choices that people vote for. Maybe I'm mis-catagorizing it as something else, however, the case is that the voters did not appear to realize that the author was attempting to make a plan style vote for this interaction.

    At any rate, I feel that this conversation is beginning to proceed into derail territory. Though that is likely my fault. Therefore, we should probably both disengage before we get too deep into it.
     
    [X] Levinheart

    [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
     
    [X] Thunderheart

    [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[X] Meet with the other Heads of the Towers. Archmage Stormspeaker indicated that they have some questions, so you might as well get that over with.
    -[X] Spend some time in the libraries to see if you can find anything interesting about the human understanding of spirits, runewrighting, or other topics.
    -[X] Take some time to practice your White magic. You already made some progress on White magic without focusing on it, if there's any place you can make a lot of progress it'll be here. (Write in what color to focus on.)
     
    I am deeply concerned at the majority for not bothering to figure out what the Regent's plan is and just letting it trigger.

    [X] Sunseeker

    [X] You still have some things you'd like to do at the Hall, and you don't know if you'll be able to come back anytime soon. (Choose up to six, put them in order from most to least important. The more things you do, the more likely you'll be around when Things Happen)
    -[X] Try to figure out what's going on with the Regent's plan. He has to have done something, and you get the feeling that Blitzbolt is involved somehow. This'll be dangerous, but so've been a lot of other stuff you've done.
    -[X] Talk to Revisionists. You have a lot to tell them, and the sooner you can start fighting the bad stories about manakete, the better.
    -[X] Go to the Smokestack; maybe you'll find something important there, something the humans missed…
     
    TaliesinSkye said:
    I am deeply concerned at the majority for not bothering to figure out what the Regent's plan is and just letting it trigger.
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    For me at least, Ryza isn't trained in proper spycraft, and I'm firmly against any kid's movie escapades against a man who would gladly see her discredited and/or dead. We've informed the head honcho wizard man who is as far as we can tell is taking us seriously, we've warned as many of the students as we could that have a stake in maintaining operational security, and most plans are voting to talk to other important people (the tower heads). We're in as good a position we can get without further risk.
    SoaringHawk218 said:
    "As much as it is against my nature; I will give you this choice: you can go to try and protect my son by warning Archmage Stormspeaker of the threat. He will not tolerate any attempt to undo Thundercrier's Compact; simply telling him what is to come should be enough for him to gather enough allies that even the Regent will have to back down.
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    And honestly, we were only asked to warn Stormspeaker. Artemis' Dad considers that enough to offset the danger. Which I'll concede is a major assumption to make about a villain willing to start a continental war against all comers (even if our interference already has him scaling things back to just the North. I think it was just the North).
     
    TaliesinSkye said:
    I am deeply concerned at the majority for not bothering to figure out what the Regent's plan is and just letting it trigger.
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    Can't speak for the majority, but I voted against that not because I don't think it's something we should do, but because I don't think it's something we can do, at least not to a meaningful degree. I doubt Soaringhawk would suggest an action that did literally nothing, but by no means does that mean everything he suggests could fully accomplish its stated purpose.
     
    There's such a thing as Bad Choices too.

    Either he's a traitor and he's being Watched by the Archmage (Since I sincerely doubt he's going to be full out Blind Trust when the stakes are this high), or he's not and we don't want to draw further attention to him because he might be a double agent. Either way, Ryza meddling there is more likely to do harm than good.
     
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