Man I kinda feel bad for Lihua, she's burning so many rerolls just to avoid getting smooth-talked by Lulu and Nunnally. Don't sweat the details, we just want to help you help us help you lol. At least she won't need those rerolls against the Eunuchs with their crap luck
Didn't Lelouch say the stuff Charles wanted was for if he *failed* to win the Empress' hand? I'd rather get Australia support honestly. I do like picking a place in the administration though.
Governing Guangzhou would put you more immediately 'under' Lihua in her role as the Empress. IE: You'd be a part of the executive apparatus of China itself and report directly to her.
An Intrigue option to interfere in Japan domestically is on the table with established personnel in the country.
Lelouch does not believe Kallen will be in physical danger should she return home to Japan.
What I'd give to see someone post a very conflicted LihuaQuest Omake with the players loving how much Lelouch is doing for them and hating how he keeps crushing them in diplomacy lol.
No, you are not.Stupid question, but are we allowed both?
I present you with this quote that has answered that question before:
I imagine by sheer scope of his shipping business stadtfeld will benefit from this. Getting Ashford roped in is relatively simple. We just need to take a leaf out of Carine's book and repurpose Glasgow for construction work in war devastated china.
I believe first consort is something of a closer position that Interacts more with the empress based on previous slayer posts. We could still do it, but their are maybe political or etiquette issues that would act as limiters until a heir was birthed to the first consort. I'd really rather be safe than sorry, and it's not like Lelouch hasn't more than earned it.
I meant more the place in her administration.
This in other words. I'd very much like a clarification on the minister position.
Fair point. I can support that change.
Establishing bodyguards would also help I believe?
I can do this when voting ends. Can't promise it'll be particularly long though. Only so much mileage I can squeeze out of "Damn those dastardly handsome smooth talking Vi Britannia's. Why are their pants so deliciously tight?"
On a lighter note
Lihua: "He cannot keep getting away with this!"
"Yes your celestial majesty! We shall redouble our efforts! Next time, we shall get the best of him!"
These poor naive Chinese diplomats. Lelouch has only gotten started.
Was about to ask a stupid question, but then I read the bottom text, lol
Stupid question, but are we allowed both?
Still, it doesn't feel right to ask to be her First Husband when we are neither willing nor able to offer her First Wife status.
Similar, but with more responsibilities, authority, power, and oversight.
The benefits of a place in her administration would be acting with the authority of the Chinese Empress and the Chinese Federation as a whole, a very large budget (depending on your specialty), and a rather immense allowance to work on personal projects.
They will help as much as Kallen allows them to.
Awesome. Everything I'd hoped this would be. As stewardship admin, we could help her people recover from the brutal war to earn more of her gratitude and affection, further political and economic ties between CF and HBE, and maybe even help the Directorate rebuild the thought elevator without having to use one of our rewards for it, as well as try and track down blue mineral deposits in China without needing the resources extraction reward.
Just to check Slayer, Guangzhou is just one city but this reward says the "Province of Guangzhou" so did you actually mean the entire Province of Guangdong? Because that would be more in line to contrast with India.
Kallen doesn't want bodyguards tho. Ninja'd by Slayer.
I imagine Euphemia is okay with it given her efforts to ease relations with potential other spouses/lovers of Lelouch. Her most recent request of us was to demonstrate our ability to balance ambition with fatherly duties with another woman, which we accomplished in excess. So long as we don't backtrack, it's hard to imagine this is much different than what she was expecting.
The question was about Euphie's input on the second/first consort position, not whether she's okay with Lulu marrying Lihua.
Ahh. My bad. It's a bit late and I'm a bit hungry. It's making it harder to focus.
The first decision is if we want to send Kallen to Japan or not. I would be more confident if we had completed the Bodyguards Intrigue action.
As to the marriage. The "original super to do list" had to give Li Xingke the first spot. On the other hand all the crits we had basically threw out that plan. First Husband is more prestigious and will be a more public position. It might require us to spend some actions dealing with the public face of Chinese politics. As for marrying the cousin I'm not really interested in her. Especially as I like the badass Lihua.
Slayer already explained what this would entail. I'm not really interested in them as I still want Australia and those options will take a lot of work. But as it was previously explained those positions are one of the options for a public position to go with the marriage.
The administration positions are another way to have a public position together with being a consort. The Stewardship is the most influential due to Lihua planning major reforms to bring the farming and industry up to standards. Intrigue would require us to most likely focus our own network on helping with the job as Lihua can't trust the old guard here. Piety would have us basically build it from the ground up but would synergize with helping the Directorate and the Psionic Research Foundation.
We could leverage this into a greater income or trade favors with Britannian nobles (like we did with the Stadfelds) but there are better options.
I'm wary of this as this would be a major shift in the global politics and could cause more problems with the EU feeling boxed in.
Basically what we could have had after the Indonesia Conference. It would give us more weight in local Chinese politics.
This is an option that was asked for if we didn't go for our marriage goal. With our position as consort we most likely will be able to use our normal actions to set this up over time. It will just be a lot more work.
I still want to take over Australia. Having land there will allow us to reward our followers with their own landed titles. Also removing the pirates will stabilize the trade in the region if we go for Stewardship advisor position. The question is where to hit first. I want to at least finish the next step in our Mantle quest before we challenge the leader of New Heaven to a psionic duel.
Until we start to majorly focus on importing those resources competition shouldn't be a problem unless there already is a monopoly. Also as a Stewardship advisor we can easily set up our own mining operations before we start our sakuradite production on a large scale.
We want to become the leading force in psionic research and this will help. It will also most likely lead to third Learning/Piety action. The minus of this is that we will need to show some results and advantages for China and not only us and Britannia. Which VV might not like. But if we can give him more toys to play with in China then he should get over it. It would also have the best synergy with us being a Piety advisor and I prefer Stewardship.
I agree on that. That and we can let with Xingke for some time, we can focus on the rest with more support and have a more cordial relation from the start. That and like Hunter531 said, feels like an asshole to do that, maybe we are nicer and far more competent than the eunuchs but we will still start this relation with the pressure of tradition and more.
Kallen doesn't want to bring Bodyguards with her, and if she's fussed over her safety too much Lelouch suspects she would just cancel the trip, like the update said. Slayer clarified the main danger is political/bureaucratic, not a physical threat to Kallen or her family, unless it's a worst case scenario, in which case our shinobi and Kallen are trained and capable of exfiltrating themselves.
