- Location
- Sol III
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I want whichever one of these we didn't do last time; which was that?
Evermark Underground: RPG Brothel Management
- Thread starter Evenstar
- Start date
- Original Mature Fantasy
- Location
- USA
The revolutionaries, I believe
[X]Plan Acceleration Preparation
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
-[X][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
-[X][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find a Caducite priest to dance with you.
-[X][Personal] Take more time alone to cultivate your Aura and Orbite.
Reasoning:
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
-[X][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
-[X][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find a Caducite priest to dance with you.
-[X][Personal] Take more time alone to cultivate your Aura and Orbite.
Reasoning:
- Ball: If we can get an in at the upper levels of the Guild, that gives us some huge opportunities. And if they all oppose our ideals, then that's valuable information as well—it speaks to a divide between the established merchants and the young, hungry ones, and that's something we can use as well.
- Control: We still have some pamphlets and we still have some revolutionary organizations that we haven't really put in contact with the others yet.
- Charm: Not many options are here given that I want to build the magic shop. We've looked for Ceverra contacts the last couple times, so let's go to the city now.
- Intrigue: We have over 2000 dirty to spend this turn, and if we buy the favors now we can possibly ask to be introduced next turn if our existing silk dress is considered good enough. And if it isn't, we'll know to be on the lookout for silk.
- Lore: More income, stronger power base, firmer control of our territory.
- Faith: We've tried the others and we're still short on Steamborne advancement.
- Personal: I could be persuaded to change this, but we haven't cultivated since we changed to Kalinsha. It's possible we'll get new insights from it.
- Pronouns
- He
Shouldn't this be threadmarked? Also, I've got to say, I'm really impressed with your writing speed, Evenstar.
- Location
- Somewhere.
...what happened with the Vansaga practitioner?
- Location
- Somewhere in the area
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
This number is wrong iirc, we've definitely made more then one batch of healing potions. Shouldn't it be 12 or 18 at this point?
I'm glad the date worked out well, we're definitely going to have to take the month into account when planning dates in the future though, I can't imagine outdoor stuff in the dead of winter will work out as well.
It seems that the Vansaga practitioner took the dance as a competition rather than collaboration, which meant it didn't become Steamborne. A shame, but definitely something to think about in the future.
And the Redcaps seem to be in a place where we don't need to micromanage them, we'll still guide them with big picture stuff, like who to ally with and who to attack, but the stuff below that can be handled by them without issue. Which is good, it's where we wanted them to be at this point, we can move our focus onto making sure the different causes of the revolution can unify after this.
[X] Plan: Winter Storm
-[X][Ball] Focus on the younger and more radical merchants to try and find recruits.
-[X][Control] The Suffragists' Union is dedicated to political and mercantile equality. Go see what they're doing.
-[X][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
-[X][Intrigue] Have the Redcaps stage an assault on Mob territory along with your allies the Sharks.
-[X][Lore] Have Varielle brew some healing potions, just in case. 100 Dirty Æther should suffice for a batch for six.
-[X][Faith] Dance with Leah and practice its use as a channel for Steamborne power.
-[X][Personal] Go down to the docks and purchase "lost" or confiscated cargoes from the Port Authority on the sly.
We tried for the revolutionaries last time iirc, so this time we should look into the younger merchants for recruits. Hopefully it goes better than last time.
If it weren't for the fact that we're going on the offensive with the Mob, I'd be buying the Magic shop at a discount this turn, but since we are, I'm making a last batch of healing potions. Next turn is the magic shop for sure though.
The Redcaps are finally going after the Mob, which should not only make the Sharks happy, but should also make our lives easier on the Harbor. If successful, the only forces in the harbor underworld will be answering to, or allied with us. Next turn we should be able to buy the last half of House Galero's debt, and hopefully, if we take over the Mob's silk merchants, we should be able to buy silk for much cheaper, allowing for us to have more than just the one dress for appearing in court.
We got some favors with the Suffragists, and I'd like to see what they could offer to us. I also want to start looking for contacts in the city proper as we continue to expand. The Port Authority should also have some unique opportunities for us, we just have to remember that it's not a consistent source of whatever we buy.
Finally, dancing with Leah should help us understand what went wrong with the higher ranking Vansaga practitioner, which should hopefully further our understanding of the Steamborne faith.
ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
[X] Plan: Winter Storm
- Location
- Sol III
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Steamborne is basically about shipping Vansaga/Unfanged. Introducing a third god into the mix is not at all obviously a good idea. These are people, not alchemical reagents.
No, they're Gods, and we have no idea what that means in this world. Also, Estelle is Caducite, so how do we know that faith isn't part of it?
[X]Plan Accel Prep
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
-[X][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
-[X][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find a Caducite priest to dance with you.
-[X][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
I like this plan, but I do want to keep up the relationship - we didn't go on a date w/ her last month, remember.
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
-[X][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
-[X][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find a Caducite priest to dance with you.
-[X][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
I like this plan, but I do want to keep up the relationship - we didn't go on a date w/ her last month, remember.
- Location
- Israel
[X] Plan: Winter Storm
Eh, what the hell? Let's storm the mob. I don't know how likely it is to succeed, so it's a huge gamble right now.
Eh, what the hell? Let's storm the mob. I don't know how likely it is to succeed, so it's a huge gamble right now.
Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
The vote is closed, but I just caught up so I feel the need to say Good Work, Evenstar! I barely understand what's going on even with the Information posts, but I'm invested in our burgeoning relationship with Leah and the faith that we've concocted together.
Dross 1904
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
"So Estelle, how did the ball go?", asks Holly.
You blink. "Shouldn't I be the one asking you questions?"
"This is supposed to be a status update meeting, right? So dish. What happened at the ball?"
"I was able to direct a few more enterprising young merchants to the Suffragists' Union. That's about all."
"Alright," says Holly. "I suppose it's my turn to confirm they got there. Which they did."
"Was that so hard?"
"No, not really. On to Edie?"
"On to Edie. Edie, how did your search for contacts in the city go?"
"I encountered an organization giving aid to the poor, Cadis' Servants. They seemed like they might be a useful contact point if we wanted to recruit from the downtrodden in the city."
"Good work. Varielle?"
"I finished my batch and also made sure my previous one got all the way to the treasury; sorry for forgetting to move them last time!"
"Don't let it happen again, alright?"
"Yes Mistress."
"I hope we have enough potions."
"Me too."
The cramped side office of the Port Authority is as dingy as always. The official you talk to is the same one as before; it's only now that you notice the tattoo of a shark just above his wrist.
"Good hunting," he says. "Can't say as there's much in this lot would help you, but be my guest to buy whatever you please."
[ ][Crates] Crate of 10 Silk Bolts for 250 Dirty Æther
[ ][Crates] Crate of 5 Fur Bolts for 50 Dirty Æther
[ ][Crates] Crate of Soundstage Equipment for 500 Dirty Æther
[ ][Crates] Crate of Fresh Grapes for 50 Dirty Æther
"So," says Leah. "Your people should be hitting the Mob any minute now. This could be our last chance to dance for a very long time."
"Let's make the most of it, then."
Despite the dark clouds on the horizon, your dance is still as passionate and perfect as ever. Nothing like the one you had with Leah's Vansaga mentor.
This is a dance between equals.
When you step away from the dance, something goes click in your brain.
"I have an idea."
The Steamborne Revolution 8/10
You can hear the gunshots across the harbour.
There just isn't enough of anything to dampen the racket. Too much sea, not enough buildings.
It sounds like a war zone.
You take a sip of your tea, and try not to worry about your people dying out there. They're strong, and well-prepared. You'll be fine.
Some hours after the gunshots stop, Valerie comes in to the teahouse. She looks exhausted.
She pays for a room, but goes to the warded meeting room. You follow.
She closes the door behind you.
"It was bad," she says. "Lots of casualties, both ours and civilians. We had enough potions for everyone, thank all the gods, but it was an awful bloody mess."
"We got them all, though. We won. Us and the Sharks, and I swear the Sharks need to learn to shoot straight, they caused half as many problems for us as the Mob…"
She sighs. "It was a victory in the end. We didn't lose anybody. But it's going to be in the papers tomorrow that we went in and wiped out the mob here. There were at least a half-dozen witnesses, probably more."
"On the bright side, we were able to capture the Mob's account books for this area and even after a 50/50 split with the Sharks it'll be a major gain for us."
"That's it. That's my report. Permission to go sleep, Kalinsha?"
"Granted."
28 Scandal Gained
17 Potions Expended
0 Casualties
+250 Dirty Æther per month
+100 Laundered Aether per month
+1 Bolt Silk per month
After basic interviews with all your staff, you've compiled This Spreadsheet regarding them.
Upgrades:
Tier 3 Wards
Tier 3 Silken Wonderland
Tier 2 Warded Strongboxes
Tier 2 Signage
Tier 2 Escort Beauty
Tier 2 Steamy Atmosphere
Tier 1 Landscaping
Tier 1 Renovated
Tier 1 Exclusive
Treasury:
40 Discretion
29 Scandal
340 Clean Æther
2115 Dirty Æther
1 Silvermist Consecration
1 Stainless Steel Rat
1 Sapphire Ring
1 Steamborne Talisman
1 Healing Potion
5 Libertine Favours
3 Suffragist Favours
6 Months Till Recruiting Drive
6 Months More Merchant Membership
10 Libertine Pamphlets
10 All Faiths Pamphlets
10 Suffragist Pamphlets
Current Monthly Income:
135 Clean Æther from Tea
350 Dirty Æther from Sex
5 Clean Æther from Cooked Books
5 Clean Æther from Fine Cuisine
10 Clean Æther from Ostmarkian Tea
25 Clean Æther from Hotelry
40 Clean Æther from The Band
35 Clean Æther from Apothecary Deal
200 Dirty Æther from VIP
100 Clean Æther from VIP
100 Dirty Æther Enchantress
250 Dirty Aether Harbour Tribute
120 Clean Æther from Harbour Laundry
1 Bolt Silk Silk Shop Tribute
Current Monthly Expenses:
-25 Clean Æther Room Service
-5 Clean Æther Weekly Checkups
-5 Dirty Æther Cooked Books
-10 Clean Æther Bouncers
-20 Dirty Æther Harbour Laundry
-80 Dirty Æther Gang Sponsorship
-10 Clean Æther Chef
-15 Clean Æther Gardeners
-10 Clean Æther Exclusivity
-10 Dirty Æther Exclusivity
-5 Clean Aether Cosmetics
-25 Clean Aether Etiquette Teacher
-50 Dirty Aether Apothecary Deal
-1 All Monthly Timers
Current Monthly Net:
260 Clean Aether
635 Dirty Aether
-1 All Monthly Timers
Control under Holly:
[ ][Control] Build another back of house room, at a cost of 75 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Call in a favour with the Libertines and have a room built on the cheap. Cost: 30 Clean Æ, 1 Libertine Favour
[ ][Control] Search for more contacts who sell goods & services under the table. (IE, that you can pay in dirty money.)
[-][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
[-][Control] Upgrade the entire second floor to a silken wonderland. 20 Bolts Silk, 200 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
[ ][Control] The Suffragists' Union is dedicated to political and mercantile equality. Go see what they're doing.
[ ][Control] Invest in a Bay Run. 500 Clean Æther; returns 600 Clean Aether in 2 months, with a small chance of disaster.
[ ][Control] Attend the Merchants' Winterend Ball.
Charm under Edie:
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts among the Ceverra.
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
[ ][Charm] Start targeting and looking for noble clients.
[ ][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
[-][Charm] Buy out the fishmarket next door so that the smell of fish won't disturb the customers. 1000 Clean Æther.
[ ][Charm] Make a public donation to charity to improve the business' good name. 100 Clean Æther.
Intrigue under Filia:
[ ][Intrigue] Continue Filia's education in Markish and Tradecraft.
[ ][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
[ ][Intrigue] You've grown accustomed to the underworld here, but more contacts are always a good thing. Cultivate more criminal contacts.
[ ][Intrigue] Continue cultivating contacts along the local waterfront. Surely there's something more interesting than the fish market next door?
[ ][Intrigue] The Succubus Liberation Front claims that the succubi are badly mischaracterized. Attend a monthly meeting and keep your ear to the ground.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an anonymous donation to charity. 100 Dirty Æther.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an under-the-table donation to the cause. 100 Dirty Æ becomes 1 Libertine Favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a major under-the-table donation to the cause. 500 Dirty Æ becomes 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a further "donation" to the struggling House Galero. 250 Dirty Æ becomes one House Galero favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
[-][Intrigue] Ask that you be introduced to Court. Costs 10 House Galero favours and requires that you both have appropriate attire for Court and know the proper etiquette.
Lore under Varielle:
[ ][Lore] Expand the front of house to add storefront for a magic shop. 250 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a new magic store on the vacant lot you purchased. 500 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Lore] Having witches and wizards on your side can only ever help. Try to make more contacts in the magical community.
[ ][Lore] Innumerable Aspect seeks to promote freedom of Orbite, encouraging the unbanning of proscribed Aspects. Go to their monthly meeting and keep an ear to the ground.
[ ][Lore] The Progressivists' Guild advocates for the free development of new magic and technology, and the reversal of laws that ban specific technologies. Contact them and stay in touch.
[ ][Lore] Purchase a smuggled load of succubus artifacts in order to research them. 100 Dirty Æther, success has a chance at unique items.
[ ][Lore] Talk to the magical girl contract magicians and see what they have to say.
[ ][Lore] Have Varielle brew some healing potions, just in case. 100 Dirty Æther should suffice for a batch for six.
Faith under Leah:
[ ][Faith] Send Leah to attend this month's meeting of All Faiths Harmonious and keep her ear to the ground.
[ ][Faith] Reach out and try to connect with the local preachers, temples and shrines.
[ ][Faith] Idols, Magical Girls, and the radio broadcasters who make them famous can all be found here in Gradentine. Try to get closer to that brilliant glamour.
[ ][Faith] Dance with Leah and practice its use as a channel for Steamborne power.
[ ][Faith] Try to organize a dance between the Kalinsha and Marielle.
[ ][Faith] Look into the Coppergold faith of the Ceverra.
Personal:
[ ][Personal] Take more time alone to cultivate your Aura and Orbite.
[ ][Personal] Personally teach your Redcaps some more Broken Fang Way.
[ ][Personal] Spend time overseeing one of the major business areas. (Write in a stat; Control, Charm, etc.)
[ ][Personal] Take some time to get to know one of the staff. (Write in a name.)
[ ][Personal] Spend some time relaxing and unwinding in the gardens.
[ ][Personal] Experiencing your own business from time to time can generate real insights. Take tea at Harbour Tea.
[ ][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
[ ][Personal] Take Edie aside and try to talk her out of succubus liberation. It's just a bad move.
[ ][Personal] Go to the adventuring store and purchase supplies or weaponry from them.
[ ][Personal] Go to the Progressivist Jeweller's and see what he has in stock. (Opens jewellery store event; likely to cost a few hundred Dirty Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the local magic shop and see what trinkets and doodads they have on sale. Perhaps they'll have a radio or a record player? (Opens magic store event; likely to cost a few hundred Clean Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the proscribed apothecary and haggle over lines on spices, teas, medicines and potions. (Opens apothecary event; likely to cost a few hundred dirty Æ)
[ ][Personal] Try to find somebody selling silk, so that you can renovate the second floor with it as well. (Opens silk merchant event; likely to cost a few hundred clean Æ)
[ ][Personal] Go down to the docks and purchase "lost" or confiscated cargoes from the Port Authority on the sly.
[ ][Personal] Go to the underground printer's and have some leaflets commissioned.
[ ][Personal] Go to the transmuter to have something duplicated.
You blink. "Shouldn't I be the one asking you questions?"
"This is supposed to be a status update meeting, right? So dish. What happened at the ball?"
"I was able to direct a few more enterprising young merchants to the Suffragists' Union. That's about all."
"Alright," says Holly. "I suppose it's my turn to confirm they got there. Which they did."
"Was that so hard?"
"No, not really. On to Edie?"
"On to Edie. Edie, how did your search for contacts in the city go?"
"I encountered an organization giving aid to the poor, Cadis' Servants. They seemed like they might be a useful contact point if we wanted to recruit from the downtrodden in the city."
"Good work. Varielle?"
"I finished my batch and also made sure my previous one got all the way to the treasury; sorry for forgetting to move them last time!"
"Don't let it happen again, alright?"
"Yes Mistress."
"I hope we have enough potions."
"Me too."
The cramped side office of the Port Authority is as dingy as always. The official you talk to is the same one as before; it's only now that you notice the tattoo of a shark just above his wrist.
"Good hunting," he says. "Can't say as there's much in this lot would help you, but be my guest to buy whatever you please."
[ ][Crates] Crate of 10 Silk Bolts for 250 Dirty Æther
[ ][Crates] Crate of 5 Fur Bolts for 50 Dirty Æther
[ ][Crates] Crate of Soundstage Equipment for 500 Dirty Æther
[ ][Crates] Crate of Fresh Grapes for 50 Dirty Æther
"So," says Leah. "Your people should be hitting the Mob any minute now. This could be our last chance to dance for a very long time."
"Let's make the most of it, then."
Despite the dark clouds on the horizon, your dance is still as passionate and perfect as ever. Nothing like the one you had with Leah's Vansaga mentor.
This is a dance between equals.
When you step away from the dance, something goes click in your brain.
"I have an idea."
The Steamborne Revolution 8/10
You can hear the gunshots across the harbour.
There just isn't enough of anything to dampen the racket. Too much sea, not enough buildings.
It sounds like a war zone.
You take a sip of your tea, and try not to worry about your people dying out there. They're strong, and well-prepared. You'll be fine.
Some hours after the gunshots stop, Valerie comes in to the teahouse. She looks exhausted.
She pays for a room, but goes to the warded meeting room. You follow.
She closes the door behind you.
"It was bad," she says. "Lots of casualties, both ours and civilians. We had enough potions for everyone, thank all the gods, but it was an awful bloody mess."
"We got them all, though. We won. Us and the Sharks, and I swear the Sharks need to learn to shoot straight, they caused half as many problems for us as the Mob…"
She sighs. "It was a victory in the end. We didn't lose anybody. But it's going to be in the papers tomorrow that we went in and wiped out the mob here. There were at least a half-dozen witnesses, probably more."
"On the bright side, we were able to capture the Mob's account books for this area and even after a 50/50 split with the Sharks it'll be a major gain for us."
"That's it. That's my report. Permission to go sleep, Kalinsha?"
"Granted."
28 Scandal Gained
17 Potions Expended
0 Casualties
+250 Dirty Æther per month
+100 Laundered Aether per month
+1 Bolt Silk per month
After basic interviews with all your staff, you've compiled This Spreadsheet regarding them.
Upgrades:
Tier 3 Wards
Tier 3 Silken Wonderland
Tier 2 Warded Strongboxes
Tier 2 Signage
Tier 2 Escort Beauty
Tier 2 Steamy Atmosphere
Tier 1 Landscaping
Tier 1 Renovated
Tier 1 Exclusive
Treasury:
40 Discretion
29 Scandal
340 Clean Æther
2115 Dirty Æther
1 Silvermist Consecration
1 Stainless Steel Rat
1 Sapphire Ring
1 Steamborne Talisman
1 Healing Potion
5 Libertine Favours
3 Suffragist Favours
6 Months Till Recruiting Drive
6 Months More Merchant Membership
10 Libertine Pamphlets
10 All Faiths Pamphlets
10 Suffragist Pamphlets
Current Monthly Income:
135 Clean Æther from Tea
350 Dirty Æther from Sex
5 Clean Æther from Cooked Books
5 Clean Æther from Fine Cuisine
10 Clean Æther from Ostmarkian Tea
25 Clean Æther from Hotelry
40 Clean Æther from The Band
35 Clean Æther from Apothecary Deal
200 Dirty Æther from VIP
100 Clean Æther from VIP
100 Dirty Æther Enchantress
250 Dirty Aether Harbour Tribute
120 Clean Æther from Harbour Laundry
1 Bolt Silk Silk Shop Tribute
Current Monthly Expenses:
-25 Clean Æther Room Service
-5 Clean Æther Weekly Checkups
-5 Dirty Æther Cooked Books
-10 Clean Æther Bouncers
-20 Dirty Æther Harbour Laundry
-80 Dirty Æther Gang Sponsorship
-10 Clean Æther Chef
-15 Clean Æther Gardeners
-10 Clean Æther Exclusivity
-10 Dirty Æther Exclusivity
-5 Clean Aether Cosmetics
-25 Clean Aether Etiquette Teacher
-50 Dirty Aether Apothecary Deal
-1 All Monthly Timers
Current Monthly Net:
260 Clean Aether
635 Dirty Aether
-1 All Monthly Timers
Control under Holly:
[ ][Control] Build another back of house room, at a cost of 75 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Call in a favour with the Libertines and have a room built on the cheap. Cost: 30 Clean Æ, 1 Libertine Favour
[ ][Control] Search for more contacts who sell goods & services under the table. (IE, that you can pay in dirty money.)
[-][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
[-][Control] Upgrade the entire second floor to a silken wonderland. 20 Bolts Silk, 200 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
[ ][Control] The Suffragists' Union is dedicated to political and mercantile equality. Go see what they're doing.
[ ][Control] Invest in a Bay Run. 500 Clean Æther; returns 600 Clean Aether in 2 months, with a small chance of disaster.
[ ][Control] Attend the Merchants' Winterend Ball.
Charm under Edie:
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts among the Ceverra.
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
[ ][Charm] Start targeting and looking for noble clients.
[ ][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
[-][Charm] Buy out the fishmarket next door so that the smell of fish won't disturb the customers. 1000 Clean Æther.
[ ][Charm] Make a public donation to charity to improve the business' good name. 100 Clean Æther.
Intrigue under Filia:
[ ][Intrigue] Continue Filia's education in Markish and Tradecraft.
[ ][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
[ ][Intrigue] You've grown accustomed to the underworld here, but more contacts are always a good thing. Cultivate more criminal contacts.
[ ][Intrigue] Continue cultivating contacts along the local waterfront. Surely there's something more interesting than the fish market next door?
[ ][Intrigue] The Succubus Liberation Front claims that the succubi are badly mischaracterized. Attend a monthly meeting and keep your ear to the ground.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an anonymous donation to charity. 100 Dirty Æther.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an under-the-table donation to the cause. 100 Dirty Æ becomes 1 Libertine Favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a major under-the-table donation to the cause. 500 Dirty Æ becomes 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a further "donation" to the struggling House Galero. 250 Dirty Æ becomes one House Galero favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
[-][Intrigue] Ask that you be introduced to Court. Costs 10 House Galero favours and requires that you both have appropriate attire for Court and know the proper etiquette.
Lore under Varielle:
[ ][Lore] Expand the front of house to add storefront for a magic shop. 250 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a new magic store on the vacant lot you purchased. 500 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Lore] Having witches and wizards on your side can only ever help. Try to make more contacts in the magical community.
[ ][Lore] Innumerable Aspect seeks to promote freedom of Orbite, encouraging the unbanning of proscribed Aspects. Go to their monthly meeting and keep an ear to the ground.
[ ][Lore] The Progressivists' Guild advocates for the free development of new magic and technology, and the reversal of laws that ban specific technologies. Contact them and stay in touch.
[ ][Lore] Purchase a smuggled load of succubus artifacts in order to research them. 100 Dirty Æther, success has a chance at unique items.
[ ][Lore] Talk to the magical girl contract magicians and see what they have to say.
[ ][Lore] Have Varielle brew some healing potions, just in case. 100 Dirty Æther should suffice for a batch for six.
Faith under Leah:
[ ][Faith] Send Leah to attend this month's meeting of All Faiths Harmonious and keep her ear to the ground.
[ ][Faith] Reach out and try to connect with the local preachers, temples and shrines.
[ ][Faith] Idols, Magical Girls, and the radio broadcasters who make them famous can all be found here in Gradentine. Try to get closer to that brilliant glamour.
[ ][Faith] Dance with Leah and practice its use as a channel for Steamborne power.
[ ][Faith] Try to organize a dance between the Kalinsha and Marielle.
[ ][Faith] Look into the Coppergold faith of the Ceverra.
Personal:
[ ][Personal] Take more time alone to cultivate your Aura and Orbite.
[ ][Personal] Personally teach your Redcaps some more Broken Fang Way.
[ ][Personal] Spend time overseeing one of the major business areas. (Write in a stat; Control, Charm, etc.)
[ ][Personal] Take some time to get to know one of the staff. (Write in a name.)
[ ][Personal] Spend some time relaxing and unwinding in the gardens.
[ ][Personal] Experiencing your own business from time to time can generate real insights. Take tea at Harbour Tea.
[ ][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
[ ][Personal] Take Edie aside and try to talk her out of succubus liberation. It's just a bad move.
[ ][Personal] Go to the adventuring store and purchase supplies or weaponry from them.
[ ][Personal] Go to the Progressivist Jeweller's and see what he has in stock. (Opens jewellery store event; likely to cost a few hundred Dirty Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the local magic shop and see what trinkets and doodads they have on sale. Perhaps they'll have a radio or a record player? (Opens magic store event; likely to cost a few hundred Clean Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the proscribed apothecary and haggle over lines on spices, teas, medicines and potions. (Opens apothecary event; likely to cost a few hundred dirty Æ)
[ ][Personal] Try to find somebody selling silk, so that you can renovate the second floor with it as well. (Opens silk merchant event; likely to cost a few hundred clean Æ)
[ ][Personal] Go down to the docks and purchase "lost" or confiscated cargoes from the Port Authority on the sly.
[ ][Personal] Go to the underground printer's and have some leaflets commissioned.
[ ][Personal] Go to the transmuter to have something duplicated.
[X] Plan Burn Baby, Burn!
- [X] [Crates] Crate of 10 Silk Bolts for 250 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of 5 Fur Bolts for 50 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of Soundstage Equipment for 500 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of Fresh Grapes for 50 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Charm] Make a public donation to charity to improve the business' good name. 100 Clean Æther.
- [X] [Control] Attend the Merchants' Winterend Ball.
- [X] [Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
- [X] [Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
- [X] [Faith] Try to organize a dance between the Kalinsha and Marielle.
- [X] [Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
I think it's wise to go for rebuilding our Discretion budget, and we can afford spending a lot. Hopefully, a plan like this should let us get closer to going to the next phase of our entanglement with House Galero, and get more money and opportunities flowing. Also, I hope that we will be able to produce e.g. more healing potions by having a big dedicated space for magic work and hiring more staff to fill that out.
- [X] [Crates] Crate of 10 Silk Bolts for 250 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of 5 Fur Bolts for 50 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of Soundstage Equipment for 500 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of Fresh Grapes for 50 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Charm] Make a public donation to charity to improve the business' good name. 100 Clean Æther.
- [X] [Control] Attend the Merchants' Winterend Ball.
- [X] [Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
- [X] [Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
- [X] [Faith] Try to organize a dance between the Kalinsha and Marielle.
- [X] [Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
I think it's wise to go for rebuilding our Discretion budget, and we can afford spending a lot. Hopefully, a plan like this should let us get closer to going to the next phase of our entanglement with House Galero, and get more money and opportunities flowing. Also, I hope that we will be able to produce e.g. more healing potions by having a big dedicated space for magic work and hiring more staff to fill that out.
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Woof, that scandal. We need to get some more discretion somehow. Publicly donating to charity, maybe? Also, that's a huge income boost.
I'll get a plan drawn up this evening if no one else chimes in with one I like beforehand. Building the new magic shop is my top personal priority. We might want to try the charity to see if we can get more discretion buffer from it.
EDIT: Whoops, crossposted with a plan. I don't see anything I dislike about that except that it doesn't have a Control option
I'll get a plan drawn up this evening if no one else chimes in with one I like beforehand. Building the new magic shop is my top personal priority. We might want to try the charity to see if we can get more discretion buffer from it.
EDIT: Whoops, crossposted with a plan. I don't see anything I dislike about that except that it doesn't have a Control option
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I think we can get more discretion by donating to charity publically, by getting more nobles into the buisness, in visiting or otherwise, and by upping how much Galero is patronizing us.Woof, that scandal. We need to get some more discretion somehow. Publicly donating to charity, maybe? Also, that's a huge income boost.
I'll get a plan drawn up this evening if no one else chimes in with one I like beforehand. Building the new magic shop is my top personal priority. We might want to try the charity to see if we can get more discretion buffer from it.
EDIT: Whoops, crossposted with a plan. I don't see anything I dislike about that except that it doesn't have a Control option
(I also added a control option, btw)
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- Location
- Somewhere in the area
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
I'm so glad we made as many potions as we did, or it would have been a lot worse for us. I don't think the Mob is gonna do anything in the Harbor for quite a while after this, they were hit too hard to do so. I wouldn't be surprised if they started getting pressured by the other underworld factions because of this.[X] Plan Burn Baby, Burn!
Basically what I was gonna have for my plan. I do think we should talk with the Sharks next turn, since they originally unified to kick the Mob out of the Harbor, and now they've achieved it. We need to know if they will fracture, and what their future plans are. I don't think they are so fragile that we need to look into that immediately though.
For now, I think we've earned a breather after all that excitement, a date with Leah sound wonderful.
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- Location
- Romania
[X] Plan Burn Baby, Burn!
- Location
- USA
Jirachi47, could I convince you to edit your plan? I love everything about it, but change the Personal Action to:
[][Personal] Spend time overseeing one of the major business areas. (Write in a stat; Control, Charm, etc.
-[] Intrigue: Personally visit and thank the Redcaps/Rats for their actions
After having a bunch of civilians killed, what sounds like lots of 'friendly' fire, and blowing through a pretty large stash of healing potions, I think M. Estellé needs to be prompt in showing her gratitude and reaffirming her support of the gang. Maybe interview Valerie for any standouts to give specific recognition to, along with a monetary reward? There are now heavily armed killers working for the brothel, and they need to be kept happy and loyal.
[][Personal] Spend time overseeing one of the major business areas. (Write in a stat; Control, Charm, etc.
-[] Intrigue: Personally visit and thank the Redcaps/Rats for their actions
After having a bunch of civilians killed, what sounds like lots of 'friendly' fire, and blowing through a pretty large stash of healing potions, I think M. Estellé needs to be prompt in showing her gratitude and reaffirming her support of the gang. Maybe interview Valerie for any standouts to give specific recognition to, along with a monetary reward? There are now heavily armed killers working for the brothel, and they need to be kept happy and loyal.
- Location
- Israel
Damn, this could be really bad now with all the scandals. I hope we use the next few months to build a lot of discretion because this war was costly, and not in lives. Now all we need to do is take over more and more areas connected to the harbor and we will become the Harbor Queen.
...Yeah, I know that this will go against The Sharks, which could be a very bad idea, but eventually I want to become the Harbor Queen with full control over the city harbor. Those who commerce have all the power.
...Yeah, I know that this will go against The Sharks, which could be a very bad idea, but eventually I want to become the Harbor Queen with full control over the city harbor. Those who commerce have all the power.
- Location
- Somewhere in the area
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Valerie said that there were casualties not fatalities among the civilians and our side, so I think that while people were wounded, no one died thanks to our stock of healing potions. (Except the Mob of course.) Combining the fact that we were the ones distributing healing potions, and the fact that the Sharks were the ones who created the most "collateral damage", I think we can easily keep the public's opinion of the redcaps positive despite this. Maybe paying some reparations to the civilians wounded in the fight would work.
Depending on how the Sharks handle no longer having a common enemy to unify themselves around, it might be easier to solidify our grasp on the harbor than one might think. If they fracture, we should poach the ones that can be made into Redcaps, and remove the ones who will become problems for us if left alone.
Of course we should hope to keep things peaceful, as the fight with the Mob showed, forcibly removing a faction is costly in scandal (and potentially lives) even when successful. If we could fold them into us like we did with the Rats that would be optimal, though unlikely.
- Location
- Sol III
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Plan Denouement
- [X] [Crates] Crate of 10 Silk Bolts for 250 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of 5 Fur Bolts for 50 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of Soundstage Equipment for 500 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Crates] Crate of Fresh Grapes for 50 Dirty Æther
- [X] [Charm] Make a public donation to charity to improve the business' good name. 100 Clean Æther.
- [X] [Control] Attend the Merchants' Winterend Ball.
- [X] [Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
- [X] [Lore] Have Varielle brew some healing potions, just in case. 100 Dirty Æther should suffice for a batch for six.
- [X] [Faith] Try to organize a dance between the Kalinsha and Marielle.
- [X] [Personal] Oversee Intrigue: Personally visit and thank the Redcaps for their actions.
(The former Rats are now accounted among the Redcaps.)