So, to check this out. You're going to have almost every stat over twenty. Your Intrigue is going to be 29. Your group is Kerrie and Cormag, who are basically going to be your two conspirators as you race to kick off a Revolution or coup the country first so that you can kill all of your highly placed enemies before they decide to finally stop futzing around with "legalities" and "but he's so useful" and just deal with you permanently.

Sounds like an emininetly workable plan :V
If thats what it takes to make people pay their taxes. Thats what we'll do.
I was actually basing that it would probably be no good because it stacks a lot of burdens and you said that they are generally more painful than the shinies are good and I'm stacking a lot of them. Interesting to hear that this will have an early game bonus because I'd generally expect stats to take quite a few rolls to pay off.

Also, Phoenix Wright: Ace Revolutionary.
 
[X] Plan Two Things are Inevitable, Death and Me

I can't not pick this one lololol
 
[X] Plan Two Things are Inevitable, Death and Me

It looks like a glorious ride in flames. Sure, we may die. But it will be glorious.
 
[X] Plan Two Things are Inevitable, Death and Me

Well, this is going to be one hell of a revolution, Code Geass any one.​
 
I don't think we have a plan, hYGP was just joking that overthrowing the government was the only way we'd survive our enemies with my plan.
Worth noting: I haven't completely decided on who your ten highly placed enemies are, but right now "parts of the Royal Family, some of the leading army generals, a few archbishops, a couple of leading intellectuals, and merchant guildmasters" are all likely targets, and worse, that many enemies with a specific and long-standing grudge against you means that your reputation is going to be plummeting in their circles.

To add shit to the pile, you're going to have to aim for some position of "hero of the people", and then hope that things go really shit for the people so that the peasantry turns hard against both the upper crust (not that hard in the cities) and the Compact. You'll need to start setting things up so that the entire franchise of nobility starts getting questioned by the country, and for that you'll need some sort of crisis to kick things off. After that, you'll need to hijack that gathering so that it basically gets taken over by the non-nobility and non-clergy.

Remember how I mentioned that those intellectuals probably also hate you? Well, now that you've managed to get out of having the Royal Family hating you, and probably some of your noble enemies to be depowered, you've probably pissed off some of the liberal nobles and you've definitely pissed off the intellectuals underpinning the franchise, so during the period of constitutional royalism and the abolishment of feudalism the ruling groups still hate you.

Because they now hate you, you now need to overthrow this new gathering and install a new government that partially answers to you in the process, and now you're probably safe.

You'll then want to secure some form of spiritual backing so that the countrysides don't explode into endless numbers of Royalist and Federalist armies trying to put down the godless heretics proclaiming "down with the Compact and down with the divinities". Admittedly, just being in heterodoxy if not outright heresy is still going to get a province or two to jump in open revolt, but it's not going to be "oh the entire rest of the country is forming an army to purge us".

Don't forget that your neighbors are there too, and they're not busy partitioning some other poor sod; they might be tempted, upon seeing your internal conflict, to jump in and partition the country in pieces themselves, after installing a friendly ruler to the crown. So in order to stave those guys off, you'll need to overhaul the entire army and implement a series of crash reforms and innovations and oh shit you've just called down a Crusade to put down the Compact-breakers.

Well, shit. If you're still aiming to win, now you have to go about establishing a revolutionary government, one that brooks no disagreement and tolerates no dissent. Terror will be the order of the day, at least until all the threats to the Revolution, internal and external are shut down, spiritual and material alike. You probably won't win, if only because unless you've been moving really fast on the spiritual front the countrysides are erupting into the Armies of the Gathering to link up with the foreign armies parading through your land until the centers of these heresies are completely torn down and left as a reminder for "don't ever break the Compact"...but if you're fast and lucky and lucky time and again, you might actually...win.

Except, well, now that you've made Terror the order of the day you need to survive both the Terror from your more radical colleagues and the Reaction when you inevitably run out of steam, before eventually stabilizing and realizing shit, this system isn't stable either and you might as well get ahead of the game by couping it first.

You're basically going to have to initiate, and then survive the French Revolution while the leaders at every phase of the Revolution hates you for one reason or another. Alternatively, when things get too warm, it's probably a good idea to just...slip away where nobody pursues too hard.

Fortunately, there are some factors that makes this somewhat easier. Inflation is beginning to take off in the province with all the mints, which will inevitably propagate to all the other provinces of Oskaria - that's bound to piss the peasantry off. I hadn't expected the government at all levels to be so incompetent; in a real respect, anywhere where you aren't headed the government is busy rotting and collapsing, and that's not much of an exaggeration. Oskaria is also about to be emroiled in a Crusade with an undead lich baron trying to establish permanent rule; should that war go badly (and it can go Lich Dragon Empire badly), you'll have the justification to begin calling for total reforms, provided the right nobles are embarrassed or dead.

Just, uh, keep in the back of your mind that if you fail at any of these steps, you're liable to find yourself executed. Fortitude may not have been the right pick here.

This convulted series of events would be a lot easier to arrange if you picked Prudence as your Virtue, I'm just saying :V

I'm growing increasingly unsure if we're meming.
I may have started something that I cannot control.
Welcome to the not!French Revolution :V
 
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And all that because the nobility and the church refused to pay for the war effort, they deserve it.
 
Worth noting: I haven't completely decided on who your ten highly placed enemies are, but right now "parts of the Royal Family, some of the leading army generals, a few archbishops, a couple of leading intellectuals, and merchant guildmasters" are all likely targets, and worse, that many enemies with a specific and long-standing grudge against you means that your reputation is going to be plummeting in their circles.

To add shit to the pile, you're going to have to aim for some position of "hero of the people", and then hope that things go really shit for the people so that the peasantry turns hard against both the upper crust (not that hard in the cities) and the Compact. You'll need to start setting things up so that the entire franchise of nobility starts getting questioned by the country, and for that you'll need some sort of crisis to kick things off. After that, you'll need to hijack that gathering so that it basically gets taken over by the non-nobility and non-clergy.

Remember how I mentioned that those intellectuals probably also hate you? Well, now that you've managed to get out of having the Royal Family hating you, and probably some of your noble enemies to be depowered, you've probably pissed off some of the liberal nobles and you've definitely pissed off the intellectuals underpinning the franchise, so during the period of constitutional royalism and the abolishment of feudalism the ruling groups still hate you.

Because they now hate you, you now need to overthrow this new gathering and install a new government that partially answers to you in the process, and now you're probably safe.

You'll then want to secure some form of spiritual backing so that the countrysides don't explode into endless numbers of Royalist and Federalist armies trying to put down the godless heretics proclaiming "down with the Compact and down with the divinities". Admittedly, just being in heterodoxy if not outright heresy is still going to get a province or two to jump in open revolt, but it's not going to be "oh the entire rest of the country is forming an army to purge us".

Don't forget that your neighbors are there too, and they're not busy partitioning some other poor sod; they might be tempted, upon seeing your internal conflict, to jump in and partition the country in pieces themselves, after installing a friendly ruler to the crown. So in order to stave those guys off, you'll need to overhaul the entire army and implement a series of crash reforms and innovations and oh shit you've just called down a Crusade to put down the Compact-breakers.

Well, shit. If you're still aiming to win, now you have to go about establishing a revolutionary government, one that brooks no disagreement and tolerates no dissent. Terror will be the order of the day, at least until all the threats to the Revolution, internal and external are shut down, spiritual and material alike. You probably won't win, if only because unless you've been moving really fast on the spiritual front the countrysides are erupting into the Armies of the Gathering to link up with the foreign armies parading through your land until the centers of these heresies are completely torn down and left as a reminder for "don't ever break the Compact"...but if you're fast and lucky and lucky time and again, you might actually...win.

Except, well, now that you've made Terror the order of the day you need to survive both the Terror from your more radical colleagues and the Reaction when you inevitably run out of steam, before eventually stabilizing and realizing shit, this system isn't stable either and you might as well get ahead of the game by couping it first.

You're basically going to have to initiate, and then survive the French Revolution while the leaders at every phase of the Revolution hates you for one reason or another. Alternatively, when things get too warm, it's probably a good idea to just...slip away where nobody pursues too hard.

Fortunately, there are some factors that makes this somewhat easier. Inflation is beginning to take off in the province with all the mints, which will inevitably propagate to all the other provinces of Oskaria - that's bound to piss the peasantry off. I hadn't expected the government at all levels to be so incompetent; in a real respect, anywhere where you aren't headed the government is busy rotting and collapsing, and that's not much of an exaggeration. Oskaria is also about to be emroiled in a Crusade with an undead lich baron trying to establish permanent rule; should that war go badly (and it can go Lich Dragon Empire badly), you'll have the justification to begin calling for total reforms, provided the right nobles are embarrassed or dead.

Just, uh, keep in the back of your mind that if you fail at any of these steps, you're liable to find yourself executed. Fortitude may not have been the right pick here.

This convulted series of events would be a lot easier to arrange if you picked Prudence as your Virtue, I'm just saying :V
Well...
I think Speed put it best:
Well, this is going to be one hell of a revolution, Code Geass any one.
Guys I might have to go back and add more enemies, clearly we need back up.

Welcome to the not!French Revolution :V
If its starting over taxes isn't this more like the opposite worlds American Revolution?
 
Worth noting: I haven't completely decided on who your ten highly placed enemies are, but right now "parts of the Royal Family, some of the leading army generals, a few archbishops, a couple of leading intellectuals, and merchant guildmasters" are all likely targets, and worse, that many enemies with a specific and long-standing grudge against you means that your reputation is going to be plummeting in their circles.
Holy shit, what did we do to get that many people mad at us? Did we seduce their moms or something?
 
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Well...
I think Speed put it best:

Guys I might have to go back and add more enemies, clearly we need back up.


If its starting over taxes isn't this more like the opposite worlds American Revolution?
Nah, this revolution isn't over taxes so much as the cursed Duke d'Orleans Keikaku timeline, where literally the entire revolution is masterminded from the start to kill the enemies of the d'Orleans, clearing the way for d'Orlean rule. Plus the whole "we're going to drown the counterrevolutionaries in blood and Terror until the revolutionary government can give way to the constitutional government" is distincly more of a French Revolution thing than the American Revolution, which involved...significantly fewer political purges.

Holy shit, what did we do to get that many people mad at us? Did we seduce their moms or something?
Yeah, that's why one of the up and coming generals hates you. Publically bragging about it got her brother to defend his sister's honor - oh crap, have I mentioned that her brother is the Archbishop of the Eastern Diocese?

Under this timeline, you then decided to call Rosseau something so filthy out in the public that Rosseau personally wrote an essay explaining that the inherent goodness of those blessed by the divine specifically excluded you and your ilk, because you were so ... you that you clearly had to be the secular embodied spirit of Beleth the Destroyer, one of the terrifying Armors that is agreed to be responsible for ending the Precursors.

Of course, now is about the time where your entire misspent youth of loudly mocking the shit out of the border principalities comes to bite you in the ass, because as part of securing the new King's rule he married one of the families that's close to the border princes and now the Royal Family hates you. Pissing off the border principalities also means that the nobility used to being in the military, quite aside from the aforementioned general whose mom you screwed, also hate you, with at least one of the generals saying "if I had a choice between fighting our hated enemies and swatting that damned Ageuda, I'd swat Agueda first."

Have I mentioned the screwing someone's mom part? I feel like it's worth mentioning you've done it a few times. It's got something to do with why the generally younger Liberal Nobles hate you.

This build also all but guarantees that you're one of the people who start as a foreigner, so all those people who would've simply disliked you and would not shed a tear if you died suddenly have "foreigner" as an item for them to hate you for, so a whole bunch of people who would've simply held their noses at you hate you.

Among other reasons.

But hey, you'll have a stratospheric stat line!

Edit: Picking Fortitude as your primary Virtue also helps a bunch here, because it means that what you eventually forge into Fortitude was originally a streak of never backing down and shutting the fuck up, which would've helped keep you turning "bad insult" to "grievous injury that cannot ever be forgiven". Seriously, all you had to do was sit down and shut the fuck up, and you could've maybe turned your high Diplomacy into placating them!
 
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[X] Plan Accounting Sins (Alt. Title: Misfits, One and All) (Alt. Alt. Title: The 'A' in A-Team Means Auditing)
As I see it we're basically about to end up in MAD MAX so let's get ourselves enough different skills that we can survive that sort of insanity.
 
I know that. I am wondering what we did IC. Because it takes a genuine talent to piss off that many people.
Given that we have 20+ diplomacy as well...
You taunted the darkest impulses of SV, hyper competence, and yeah we can do it. Combined with the tendency to not listen to the QM saying things are bad idea.

Now might be the only chance to stop your own plan.
But if I stop it. I'll never get to see this glorious train wreck.
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[X] Plan Accounting Sins (Alt. Title: Misfits, One and All) (Alt. Alt. Title: The 'A' in A-Team Means Auditing)
As I see it we're basically about to end up in MAD MAX so let's get ourselves enough different skills that we can survive that sort of insanity.
Mad Max is specifically related to my plan. Your plan hopefully keeps everything within more normal parameters
 
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Given that we have 20+ diplomacy as well...

But if I stop it. I'll never get to see this glorious train wreck.
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Mad Max is specifically related to my plan. Your plan hopefully keeps everything within more normal parameters
I was actually referring to the whole 'terrible nation amazing protagonist' bit rather then your 'everyone in this nation wants my head.' thing.
 
[X] Plan Accounting Sins (Alt. Title: Misfits, One and All) (Alt. Alt. Title: The 'A' in A-Team Means Auditing)
 
[X] Plan Two Things are Inevitable, Death and Me

So what stops us from running to a neighboring country, or just helping out whoever would want to invade as long as they let us make the system less stupid.

Would the entire country unite in never before seen unity just so they can get to us?
 
Welcome to the not!French Revolution :V
Meanwhile, while destroying the entire national structure (given they're operated by our enemies) we must continue searching for tax dodgers, given thats kind of our job.

Basically, all our enemies came because we did our job (taxed them), and everything ends so we can do our job. Basically its like someone gave a robot the command to make paper-clips.
 
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