May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
- Thread starter Dr. Snark
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- Location
- america
only padme and the inner council really know cairan
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This thing. Chu'unthor
- Location
- Brazil
The GM's plot's body isn't even cold and he is at it again.
Omegastar
fear the {CENSORED}.
the absolute madman XD
Personally I don't mind Ciaran failing the election. It just means that Palpatine won't be paying us a visit in person to 'congratulate' us. It would be better for us to stay out of the spotlight for now.
In fact, let's save the election until after we know he is dead and the galaxy is a safer (and more profitable) place.
In fact, let's save the election until after we know he is dead and the galaxy is a safer (and more profitable) place.
Aw. Another corrupt politician?
It's really a shame I won't have time to write my own take on the new governor anytime soon.
I love this though. If I ever write an honorable governor omake, there will be a fancy hat.
fasquardon
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
GAH beat to the punch! But I think having NO salary is foolish OR to cover his own expenses. Seriously.
But I don't want a corrupt politician! I shall make my own Lord Governor of Taris!
and he shall have defeated Wan AND Ciaran! BAWAHAHAHAHA
I just can't write as fast as the Jedi Squirrel
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
He's not really corrupt per se. He just wanted to be made Governor and had to do a lot of stuff to even have a chance at winning. Other than giving Taris a desperate need for voting reform, he's a decent guy who has the planet's best interests in mind. And since the people of Taris are very displeased that Lady Ciaran didn't win, voting reform is near the top of his list to try and salvage some goodwill.
Both the title and the terrible benefits of the job are in fact based on the real City of London and it's Mayor. Even worse, the requirements to become The Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor of London are infinitely more complicated.
Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
- Location
- Right where I want to be
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
...I feel bad for this.
You'll get the +10, but that's not going to be canon. I have a more...interesting candidate that I'm going to be rolling with.
Basically my thought process goes like this. Our man is probably a refugee; someone who personally knows the people voting for him since he's shared a camp/transport/whatever with them. Odds are that he's been hurt by the war in some fashion; maybe some family members died, a hometown burned, or whatever. He'd feel obligated to run, but he's doing it more to protect his people than out of a desire for political power. He'd make an interesting foil to Satine; while he's interested in ending the war, he's nowhere near as naive as she is due to his experiences and would be somewhere in between Ciaran's realpolitik. He's a jaded man, but still a good one at heart.
With all that in mind...I realized there's a guy I know of that fit the archetype pretty well. He's not from Star Wars, but honestly I like how well he'd fit into the narrative of Taris and the CNS. Besides, we've already got the Silencer around anyway. It'll be fine. Probably.
So stay tuned for that.
Omegastar
fear the {CENSORED}.
...dare I ask?
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The video I posted goes into more detail, but TL;DW you need to have been sheriff first, which requires that you be an Alderman first, which requires that you have freeman status, which requires that you be a member of a livery company.
Ardion Prosili
An (im)Perfect Cell
That description hit all my YES buttons. Am literally vibrating so hard will be the first self-propelled human in space.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
D : I'm so sorry I stole your notes!!!
I like to imagine some random nameless Abyss Watcher grunt, the kind of interchangeable number cruncher that we have hundreds of, walking calmly down a corridor of the Oracle on his way to send off a report to a field team and Lady Ciaran herself just flattens him with a flying tackle out of a side passage.
Here's what Pathos and I were thinking
Pathos sez:
He's a man who likely either willing to fall over himself to ingratiate himself to the most beloved person on Taris who didn't win because she was busy attempting to run a Galactic-level organization or someone who is willing to stand up to Lady Ciaran because he ran a hard slog of a campaign to stand by what he believed in and won.
Honestly, someone who doesn't have any real power to stand up to Ciaran aside from a sense of morality that tells him that he should would be interesting to deal with in at least some way. Someone who refuses to be bought or blackmailed, and who we will have to willfully run against next time and figure out whether we'll run a clean campaign against someone who has the benefit of incumbency or crush him with our horrifying skill at realpolitik.
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fasquardon sez:
Yeah, that would be fun.
It would be nice to give Satine a rival/ally as well to help her become a more well-rounded character in the quest. From what I've seen of Clone Wars, Satine is a pretty capable character, and it would be nice to give her opportunities to show her as her own person. (I've been working on an omake with her and Jango and haven't quite got the characters right yet.)
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Pathos sez:
Hilariously isolationist and wanting to be left alone or back in the days of the Republic, basically someone who wants business as usual to return to the galaxy because "This war as profited no one and ruins more lives every hour of every day that it continues."
Came to the CNS because their schtick is "Aggressively Uninvolved," and they want it to stay that way. No Jedi-lead Armies, no awful Trade Federations blockading, and no Senate bowing to the whims of a complete Warhawk.
Satine wants a galaxy united by peace and not being lead by the insane Ciaran who is either going to cause the CNS to implode or turn into an Empire.
Whoever is running Taris wants a galaxy where everyone leaves each other alone and not lead by the seedy and questionably moral Ciaran who has more dealings with Hutts and the Trade Federation than anyone lacking moral turpitude would be comfortable with.
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fasquardon sez:
Hmm. It would be fun to have a character who saw Ciaran like people saw Vimes in the later Watch books (by Terry Pratchett) - so she scares him (or her) because he sees her as moral, but utterly ruthless. I kinda like the idea of seeing Ciaran from that angle, and like the idea that different people have quite divergent experiences of Ciaran (since she wears so many masks that are each caricatures of some more complex but always hidden core of her character).
It would also be neat to have an isolationist character who was a warm and good person - usually isolationists get painted as the bad guys or at least useful idiots for the bad guys. And also fun to make this isolationist making lots of interventionist choices (like really backing the refugee settlement on Taris, getting involved in helping refugees across the CNS, then getting involved in the whole CNS government) due to the other elements of their moral code (and the character feeling the tension between their different morals).
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Different from what you are thinking in some ways, but some of the ideas might work with your mental image of him.
fasquardon
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Could you elaborate? The omake makes you feel bad? Giving it a +10 makes you feel bad? Declaring it non-canon makes you feel bad? What?
Fair enough. Can we at least keep the fancy hat as a benefit of the office?
Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
- Location
- Right where I want to be
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
I think we're on at least similar trains of thought here. I was more thinking along the lines of "where would this dude come from in the first place?" which led me to my answer. You guys were thinking more along the lines of "what kind of man would win this election and what would he act like," which brought you to a similar-ish conclusion.
Declaring it non-canon made me feel kind of bad, since you got it out on such short notice.
...Yes.
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Oh good. I was afraid it had offended you somehow or something. Don't worry about it. The fact that I got it out so quickly should tell you I didn't exactly pour my heart and soul into it.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
*rummages around for soul to pour*
Omegastar
fear the {CENSORED}.
...
wow.
Spent the morning with my cousin's 5-month-old puppy; spent the evening watching the Superbowl. Great day! So, what'd I miss--
Oh. Everything. Right. Well, glad to see my plan won (thanks for the competition, @Killerflood!) but yikes those rolls.
More dice statistics!
As for the rest... at least we're alive?
Oh. Everything. Right. Well, glad to see my plan won (thanks for the competition, @Killerflood!) but yikes those rolls.
More dice statistics!
- Our highest roll was 80 (for 'Virus Library') -- 0 of 18 rolls > 90%
- Our lowest roll was 1 for 'Mission to Qiilura' (rerolled)
- Our median this turn was 40
- Our dice average this turn was 38.6 (sum of all rolls is 695, divide by 18)
As for the rest... at least we're alive?
Here are the previous turns in this thread, as rolled by Dr. Snark
- Turn 23: dice average was 56.1 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 10. 2 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 22: dice average was 50.1 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 7. 2 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 21: dice average was 59.8 (highest roll was 94, lowest roll was 8. 1 of 13 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 20: dice average was 35.7 (highest roll was 63, lowest roll was 11. 0 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 19: dice average was 47.3 (highest roll was 89, lowest roll was 5. 0 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 18: dice average was 66.1 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 7. 2 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 17: dice average was 69.3 (highest roll was 92, lowest roll was 42 . 2 of 8 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 16: dice average was 58.6 (highest roll was 99, lowest roll was 25. 2 of 8 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 15: dice average was 68.8 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 21. 6 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 14: dice average was 67.3 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 13. 3 of 16 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 13: dice average was 48.0 (highest roll was 97, lowest roll was 1. 2 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 12: dice average was 67.4 (highest roll was 91, lowest roll was 36. 1 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 11: dice average was 48.2 (highest roll was 87, lowest roll was 4. 0 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 10: dice average was 56.0 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 17. 2 of 13 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 9: dice average was 65.7 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 34. 2 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 8: dice average was 54.6 (highest roll was 82, lowest roll was 18. 0 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 7: dice average was 66.4 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 38. 3 of 12 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 6: dice average was 65.5 (highest roll was 92, lowest roll was 22. 2 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 5: dice average was 74.6 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 40. 3 of 9 rolls > 90% )
- Turn 4: dice average was 69.5 (highest roll was 95, lowest roll was 52 . 2 of 10 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 3: dice average was 66.1 (highest roll was 97, lowest roll was 8. 2 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 2: dice average was 64.7 (highest roll was 99, lowest roll was 22. 1 of 7 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 1: dice average was 59.4 (highest roll was 94, lowest roll was 31. 1 of 8 rolls > 90%)
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
do we have a chart to see where the average has been? To spot trends?
Maybe Palpatine is trying to sabotage our good rolls using the Force? I wouldn't put it past him.
More likely, he is trying to interfere with several of our operations in any way he can.
More likely, he is trying to interfere with several of our operations in any way he can.
- Location
- madison
Spent the morning with my cousin's 5-month-old puppy; spent the evening watching the Superbowl. Great day! So, what'd I miss--
Oh. Everything. Right. Well, glad to see my plan won (thanks for the competition, @Killerflood!) but yikes those rolls.
More dice statistics!
I'm glad we had those omakes, but still -- this turn did stink. No rolls above 90 (our highest was a mere 80!), despite rolling 18 times. And I have to admit, of all the possible actions we could have scored a super-crit on, Virus Library was not even on my radar. Still, that means we will have rolled crits or super-crits for every single Wesker-related action over the past half-dozen turns. So hopefully our rewards will be staggeringly good.
- Our highest roll was 80 (for 'Virus Library') -- 0 of 18 rolls > 90%
- Our lowest roll was 1 for 'Mission to Qiilura' (rerolled)
- Our median this turn was 40
- Our dice average this turn was 38.6 (sum of all rolls is 695, divide by 18)
As for the rest... at least we're alive?
Here are the previous turns in this thread, as rolled by Dr. Snark
Here's the previous thread, when Teron dice were rolled by Teron.
- Turn 23: dice average was 56.1 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 10. 2 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 22: dice average was 50.1 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 7. 2 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 21: dice average was 59.8 (highest roll was 94, lowest roll was 8. 1 of 13 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 20: dice average was 35.7 (highest roll was 63, lowest roll was 11. 0 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 19: dice average was 47.3 (highest roll was 89, lowest roll was 5. 0 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 18: dice average was 66.1 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 7. 2 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 17: dice average was 69.3 (highest roll was 92, lowest roll was 42
- Turn 16: dice average was 58.6 (highest roll was 99, lowest roll was 25. 2 of 8 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 15: dice average was 68.8 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 21. 6 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 14: dice average was 67.3 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 13. 3 of 16 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 13: dice average was 48.0 (highest roll was 97, lowest roll was 1. 2 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 12: dice average was 67.4 (highest roll was 91, lowest roll was 36. 1 of 14 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 11: dice average was 48.2 (highest roll was 87, lowest roll was 4. 0 of 17 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 10: dice average was 56.0 (highest roll was 93, lowest roll was 17. 2 of 13 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 9: dice average was 65.7 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 34. 2 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 8: dice average was 54.6 (highest roll was 82, lowest roll was 18. 0 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 7: dice average was 66.4 (highest roll was 98, lowest roll was 38. 3 of 12 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 6: dice average was 65.5 (highest roll was 92, lowest roll was 22. 2 of 11 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 5: dice average was 74.6 (highest roll was 100, lowest roll was 40. 3 of 9 rolls > 90%
- Turn 4: dice average was 69.5 (highest roll was 95, lowest roll was 52
- Turn 3: dice average was 66.1 (highest roll was 97, lowest roll was 8. 2 of 9 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 2: dice average was 64.7 (highest roll was 99, lowest roll was 22. 1 of 7 rolls > 90%)
- Turn 1: dice average was 59.4 (highest roll was 94, lowest roll was 31. 1 of 8 rolls > 90%)
so I think we may have gotten a bit spoiled for rolls. oh well, at least the turn of below average rolls happened when we were still riding the omake wave.