Keep Furnace just where she is

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From: Furnace Leading a Radical (no-Emancipationist) City or Furnace Leading Anti-Emancipationists

You prefer the city [Alignment], and you want Furnace to stay in power. It is a productive tension, which is to say, a system that will fly apart without active maintenance.

Game Instructions: If you fail, the city will make its own choice, which might mean a change of ideology or might mean a change of leadership.

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 150

• 103 - very chancy (41%)
• 128 - chancy (51%)
• 153 - modest (61%)
• 178 - very modest (71%)
• 203 - low-risk (81%)
• 228 - straightforward (91%)
• 250 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, A Player of Chess 3 (50% base)

• 0 - high-risk (20%)
• 1 - high-risk (30%)
• 2 - tough (40%)
• 3 - very chancy (50%)
• 4 - chancy (60%)
• 5 - modest (70%)
• 6 - very modest (80%)
• 7 - low-risk (90%)
• 8 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Zeefaring 3 (50% base)

• 0 - high-risk (20%)
• 1 - high-risk (30%)
• 2 - tough (40%)
• 3 - very chancy (50%)
• 4 - chancy (60%)
• 5 - modest (70%)
• 6 - very modest (80%)
• 7 - low-risk (90%)
• 8 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

If the city's Alignment is Anti-Emancipationist, the difficulty of the narrow challenges is increased by 4 points.

Success

Rumours counteracted

You remind everyone of how much they owe to Furnace. She kept the Union together, all the way here. Perhaps her judgement should still be trusted? Perhaps she knows more than anyone about what is a real risk to community feeling?

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained (200 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

Furnace is compelling

You try to take a hand, but […] It is Furnace's actions that matter […] she is very good at playing this game, even on a difficult board. People owe her […] at least a hearing […] she can make Emancipationism seem like the bedrock under any other ideology […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  You've gained 3 x Supporting the Emancipationist Tracklayers
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+3? CP)

Redirects to: Subtle Revision of Local Politics

Failure

Furnace is expelled

You try to take a hand, but your intervention is not appreciated. The Tracklayers argue amongst themselves, at considerable length. The end of it is that they remove Furnace from office and appoint someone else. [...]

Description summary:
The end of the first paragraph varies based on the city's Official Alignment. A second paragraph may be added with sufficient Acquaintance: Furnace Ancona.

Alignment	First Paragraph
Radical Liberationist	Someone who claims to be a very ordinary Tracklayer just as committed to the Liberation as the rest of them. You may know differently, but the electorate is (distressingly) satisfied with their choice.
Radical Prehistoricist Anti-Emancipationist	Someone who claims to be a very ordinary Tracklayer who serves only the common good. You may know differently, but the electorate is satisfied with their choice.

Acquaintance	Additional Paragraph
20-25	[...] She is offended; [...] mortified [...] She doesn't consider herself too good for an ordinary work crew, but who will treat her normally there? [...] Wouldn't it have been better if she'd become the city after all? Though she wouldn't be here with you in that case. [...]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+? CP)
•  An occurrence! Your 'Hinterland City - Foundation' Quality is now ( Hinterland City - Founding Body + Hinterland City - Official Alignment + Leader of the Tracklayers)!
•  An occurrence! Your 'Hinterland City - Initial Alignment' Quality is now [Unchanged]!

With A Pawn among Tracklayers < 3:

•  A lackey of Mr Fires now leads the Tracklayers' Union. (Sets Leader of the Tracklayers to A Lackey of Mr Fires)

With A Pawn among Tracklayers 3:

•  A former lackey of Mr Fires, now loyal to your good self, leads the Tracklayers' Union. (Sets Leader of the Tracklayers to A Lackey of Yours, Formerly Aligned with Mr Fires)