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A Vision in Bronze; A Sidereal quest

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Gazetteer said:
[ ] Sidereal

A deceptively sleepy looking tower, obscured by ornamental foliage and shrouded in vines, the noise of the city outside completely cut off. It appears larger and more luxurious from the inside.

[ ] Solar

An airy, open structure built around a central garden thick with exotic plants and water features, the different structures connected by bridges and covered walkways. It seems to be highly opinionated.
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Either of these work, one because it suits Grace and one because it precisely doesn't. For that reason,

[x] Solar

...Also I took "opinionated" to mean that, like, the architecture clearly has Something To Say that shows through no matter how you dress up the fittings. It seems that's not how most people read it!

Hexxart said:
This is both ironic for a Bronze Faction member and Grace's predecessor was Gold faction iirc so it even makes sense!
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Pretty much, yeah.

Orbmorb said:
Or if the housing market in heaven is terrible they've at least had time to redecorate
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I have a suspicion that a celestial-aspected manse in Heaven just has a fundamental vibe that can't really be concealed or substantially modified by any amount of normal interior decorating.

Gazetteer said:
"What?" Lew demands. "You think I couldn't take Silver?"

"Let's not find out," you say. At least he's too angry to turn this into an excuse for innuendo.
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"In a fight, right?"

YOLF said:
Lew is pretty funny, but not a great sport compared to Grace, I feel.
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He's both younger, more recently exalted, of a higher original social class (i.e. more used to speaking directly and getting his way as a local elite than she, as a mortal servant who had to carefully navigate the whims of those with power of live and death over her, did), and of a different caste (focused on the endings of things and people rather than their ongoing relationships).

Randino Treviani said:
OMG. Lew is Failboy. Even when wins, he does so in a way that causes problems.
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It's called gap moe, and it's probably a martial art.

Bae Bromance said:
How dare Lew speak to our grandpa with such disrespect after everything Kejak did for Creation!
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s/for/to/

HBInquirer said:
Yeah Peepaw can gettt it
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If I call him a silver fox, will I wake up to find an Anathema eating my heart for the political implications?
 
kamikasei said:
He's both younger, more recently exalted, of a higher original social class (i.e. more used to speaking directly and getting his way as a local elite than she, as a mortal servant who had to carefully navigate the whims of those with power of live and death over her, did)
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Yeah.

Article:
Under Medoan rule, many loyal families of land-owning gentry became aristocratic vojvadas. Over time, the Cosmir, Radju, and Stojca families established their power as greater vojvadas — intermediaries between Medo and the lesser vojvadas. They divide Clovina between them, mediating feuds between lesser vojvadas and assembling in the city Tears-of-Beauty to discuss collective concerns. The Realm left this system intact, playing the vojvadas against one another to defuse rebellions before they begin.

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Stojca: Living in pine forests and foothills along the western border, the Stojca oversee Clovina's lumber and charcoal production. Deeply stubborn and traditionalist, they cling fiercely to propriety and ritual. They rarely bother with lowland politics, focusing on threats from the hills and in the night, which they address with paranoid ruthlessness.
Source: Across the Eight Directions pg.37
 
kamikasei said:
Oh right, I neglected to comment: if the manse does literally talk to the inhabitants, what will be really funny is Lohna being steadily radicalized towards political opposition to her daughter.
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I wouldn't say it's a given the house is much concerned with modern bureaucracy politics. Based on it's description, it feels more like wise, doting yet brutally honest Aunty, who just wants her foolish Sidereal to let her hair down.
 
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    • Randino Treviani said:
    House: Graaace!!! Your always working! I'm a swanky Solar Manse with all the best exotic decor, but you never throw any parties to show me off! Damn it girl get your social on!

    Grace: but we're spread so thin, the bureaucracy of heaven needs me to-

    House: sit your ass down before you open your wounds again? Write a bunch letters so you can invite anyone who can give you the downlow on that Lunar your obsessed with here to gossip over those fancy liquors your always being gifted but never drink? Invite a few gods to bless your recovery, health, and peace of mind?

    Grace: That-

    House: Nope!

    Grace: But I could be-

    House: You know you shouldn't.

    Grace: you can't just-

    House: I can, I am. Grace I been looking after your hopeless reincarnations for a long, long time, and if you think that's about to change, you just plain crazy. Now I was real obliging at first, but you ain't the same fragile newbie, so now I'm breaking out the tough love, so grit those teeth, and get ready to spend some time being pampered~!!
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    The first conversation between them:

    Grace: Wait... Where has my pen gone?
    House: Hid it. You need to take a break and I know you won't voluntarily do so. So you can go buy a new one, and your predecessor complained often enough about traffic that I know it would take an hour to get it and return, or you can take a 30 minute break. Taking a break gets your report finished faster.
    Grace: ...
     
    I think I'm going to go back to 48 hour voting periods, if my updates start getting as long as the last one was again. I switched to 24 hour very late in TLD when having to wait two days before I could start on the next update felt sort of unbearable, but I want to give people a chance to read the whole update and still have time to vote.
     
    Gazetteer said:
    You don't know what you'd do, if one of the women Ambraea loves were killed during an operation you planned and coordinated.
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    Grace stop! NO! Don't give the author ideas!

    Gazetteer said:
    Peleps relies on Bittern's drydocks and shipyards to build and maintain their ships. If this attack were to succeed, if Bittern were destroyed and that capacity and expertise along with it, they would very likely do something very rash. With the Realm already steadily hurtling toward civil war, why would they wait another two years for the Throne to be officially declared vacant, letting their ships deteriorate and their strained financial straits worsen? Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to imagine the bloodthirsty old women of the Admiralty Board turning a hungry gaze on House V'neef's shipyards in Eagle's Launch, dragging their allies into a war that no one is entirely prepared to fight.
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    I was wondering what Peleps's Joker mode would be like. Glad to have not missed this one either.



    Ah, oh well. I was about to change my vote to Solar anyway.
     
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    Now I have a vision of a subordinate goddess of meet cutes. She's never in the office because she keeps bumping into people on her way there.
     
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