Editing Persuade Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist/Tables

<noinclude>[[Category:Tables]]</noinclude>
==Difficulty==
{{Variant table
|Condition = Question before the Board |Condition alias = Question
|Condition type = <noinclude>Raw</noinclude><includeonly>Math</includeonly>
|Effect = [[Persuade Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist/Tables|Base Difficulty]]
|Value 9 = 9 - [[Plan the next route through Wasteland|Recommending a Route through Wasteland]]
|Effect 9 = 100
|Value 10 = 10 - [[Vote His Amused Lordship off the Board|Proposing the Removal of His Amused Lordship]]
|Effect 10 = 100
|Value 11 = 11 - [[Vote the Efficient Commissioner off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Efficient Commissioner]]
|Effect 11 = 100
|Value 12 = 12 - [[Vote the Jovial Contrarian off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Jovial Contrarian]]
|Effect 12 = 100
|Value 13 = 13 - [[Vote Sinning Jenny off the board|Proposing the Removal of Sinning Jenny]]
|Effect 13 = 200
|Value 14 = 14 - [[Vote Feducci off the board|Proposing the Removal of Feducci]]
|Effect 14 = 200
|Value 15 = 15 - [[Vote Virginia off the board|Proposing the Removal of Virginia]]
|Effect 15 = 300
|Value 16 = 16 - [[Vote Furnace off the board|Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona]]
|Effect 16 = 300
|Value 17 = 17 - [[Vote the Dean of Xenotheology off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Dean of Xenotheology]]
|Effect 17 = 240
|Value 18 = 18 - [[Vote the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's]]
|Effect 18 = 100
|Value 19 = 19 - [[Vote the Bishop of Southwark off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Southwark]]
|Effect 19 = 100
|Value 20 = 20 - [[Vote the Tentacled Entrepreneur off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Tentacled Entrepreneur]]
|Effect 20 = 100
|Value 21 = 21 - [[Vote the Gracious Widow off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Gracious Widow]]
|Effect 21 = 200
|Value 22 = 22 - [[Vote April off the Board|Proposing the Removal of April]]
|Effect 22 = 100
|Value 23 = 23 - [[Vote the Wandering Gondolier off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Wandering Gondolier]]
|Effect 23 = 300
|Value 24 = 24 - [[Vote September off the Board|Proposing the Removal of September]]
|Effect 24 = 200
|Value 26 = 26 - [[Vote the Viscountess off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle]]
|Effect 26 = 200
|Value 27 = 27 - [[Vote the Rubbery Yes-Man off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Rubbery Yes-Man]]
|Effect 27 = 100
|Value 28 = 28 - [[Vote the Hell-Scarred Gondolier off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Hell-Scarred Gondolier]]
|Effect 28 = 200
|Value 30 = 30 - [[Vote January off the Board|Proposing the Removal of January]]
|Effect 30 = 200
|Value 31 = 31 - [[Vote the Wry Functionary off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Wry Functionary]]
|Effect 31 = 100
|Value 32 = 32 - [[Vote the Delightful Reverend off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Delightful Reverend]]
|Effect 32 = 100
|Value 33 = 33 - [[Vote the Drummer off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Drummer]]
|Effect 33 = 300
|Value 35 = 35 - [[Vote the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner]]
|Effect 35 = 100
|Value 37 = 37 - [[Vote the Implacable Detective off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Implacable Detective]]
|Effect 37 = 100
|Value 100 = 100 - [[Propose a plan for the next Station building and for the train engines to go there|Proposing a Station Plan]]
|Effect 100 = 100
|Value 105 = 105 - [[Propose a station that is a defiance to All|Proposing a Station Plan more like a Fortress]]
|Effect 105 = 520
|Value 115 = 115 - [[Propose a daringly-built station in brass and rose, tribute to Hell|Proposing a Station Plan styled in the Manner of Hell]]
|Effect 115 = 100
|Value 120 = 120 - [[Propose a station building proclaiming the Bazaar's great reach|Proposing a Station Plan that Honours the Bazaar]]
|Effect 120 = 100
|Value 130 = 130 - [[Propose a station building unmistakably of the Empress' realm|Proposing a Station Plan that Speaks to the Glory of London and the Empress]]
|Effect 130 = 240
|Value 140 = 140 - [[Propose a station fit for the wilderness|Proposing a Station Plan Suited to Wasteland]]
|Effect 140 = 100
|Value 150 = 150 - [[Propose the kind of station one might find in a sleepy village in Oxfordshire|Proposing a Station Plan Suited to a Surface Summer]]
|Effect 150 = 100
|Value 160 = 160 - [[Plan for an icy route to the Hurlers|Proposing an ice-resistant route and a well-insulated station]]
|Effect 160 = 100
|Value 170 = 170 - [[Put forward the last plans for the last station|Proposing the connection to the final station at Marigold]]
|Effect 170 = 100
|Value 181 = 181 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Ealing Gardens|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Ealing Gardens]]
|Effect 181 = 100
|Value 183 = 183 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Balmoral|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Balmoral]]
|Effect 183 = 100
|Value 184 = 184 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Station VIII|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Station VIII]]
|Effect 184 = 300
|Value 185 = 185 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Burrow-infra-Mump|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Burrow-infra-Mump]]
|Effect 185 = 240
|Value 186 = 186 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city between Moulin and Hurlers|Proposing a Tracklayers' City somewhere between Moulin and Hurlers, as no one sensible wants that land at all]]
|Effect 186 = 100
|Value 187 = 187 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city at the outskirts of Hell|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Marigold Station, under the walls of Hell]]
|Effect 187 = 100
|Value 200 = 200 - [[Add Train Defences|Recommending Better Defences for Each Train]]
|Effect 200 = 300
|Value 205 = 205 - [[Build more room for baggage on the train|Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train]]
|Effect 205 = 100
|Value 210 = 210 - [[Add Train Luxuries|Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train]]
|Effect 210 = 200
|Value 340 = 340 - [[Accept the Bishop of Southwark's argument for an emphatically mission-oriented charter|Proposing a Charter engaging in the Work of the Church]]
|Effect 340 = 340
|Value 400 = 400 - [[Vote a dividend to the shareholders|Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders]]
|Effect 400 = 300
|Value 520 = 520 - [[Plan the next route through former battlefields|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell]]
|Effect 520 = 100
|Value 521 = 521 - [[Support Feducci's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Feducci's Guidance]]
|Effect 521 = 100
|Value 522 = 522 - [[Support April's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following April's Guidance]]
|Effect 522 = 100
|Value 523 = 523 - [[Support Virginia's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Virginia's Guidance]]
|Effect 523 = 100
|Value 525 = 525 - [[Support the motion of the Bishop of Southwark regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Bishop of Southwark's Guidance]]
|Effect 525 = 240
|Value 526 = 526 - [[Support His Amused Lordship's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following His Amused Lordship's Guidance]]
|Effect 526 = 100
|Value 527 = 527 - [[Support the motion of the Wandering Gondolier regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Wandering Gondolier's Guidance]]
|Effect 527 = 100
|Value 529 = 529 - [[Support the Viscountess' motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Viscountess' Guidance]]
|Effect 529 = 240
|Value 700 = 700 - [[Propose that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 700 = 200
|Value 710 = 710 - [[Propose September become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 710 = 100
|Value 720 = 720 - [[Propose the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 720 = 100
|Value 905 = 905 - [[Propose that the Dean of Xenotheology become Patron of the Burrow Church|Proposing the Dean of Xenotheology as Patron of the Burrow Church]]
|Effect 905 = 300
|Value 931 = 931 - [[Vote a new set of concessions to the Union|Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge]]
|Effect 931 = 100
|Value 933 = 933 - [[Vote on new illumination for the stations|Supporting a Brightly-Lit Building Approach]]
|Effect 933 = 100
|Value 934 = 934 - [[Vote a package of measures intended to get work to resume|Proposing a Package of Measures to Resume Normal Operations]]
|Effect 934 = 300
|Value 940 = 940 - [[Propose special consideration to certain charitable groups|Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups]]
|Effect 940 = 100
|Value 941 = 941 - [[Propose paying a dividend to the poor of the Hinterlands|Proposing a dividend be paid out to the poor of the Hinterlands]]
|Effect 941 = 100
|Value 1000 = 1000 - [[Propose a costly but effective tribute to Hillchanger Tower|Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1000 = 100
|Value 1010 = 1010 - [[Accept a proposal from those board members with a non-human perspective|Proposing an inhuman tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1010 = 100
|Value 1020 = 1020 - [[Accept a proposal from those board members aligned with a month|Proposing a calendrical tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1020 = 100
|Value 1030 = 1030 - [[Accept a proposal from those board members expert in the history of the Neath|Proposing a legalistic tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1030 = 100
|Value 1100 = 1100 - Proposing to send your train to war in Parabola<br/>([[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War on behalf of Cats|Cats]], [[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War on behalf of Fingerkings|FKs]], [[Propose you deploy your train in your Parabolan War campaign for the Ophidian Gentleman|Gent]], [[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War for the Viscountess|Visc.]], [[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War|Other]])
|Effect 1100 = 100 (Cats, Visc.)<br>240 (FKs, Gent)<br>140 (Other)
|Value 1110 = 1110 - [[Suggest building a spur line into Parabola|Proposing to build a spur line into Parabola so that you can send in a war-train]]
|Effect 1110 = 100
}}

==Success Text==
{{Variant table
|Condition = Question before the Board |Condition alias = Question|Compact = yes
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Effect = [[Persuade Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist/Tables|Success Description]]
|Value 10 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "Not everything he laughs at is a joke."
|Value 11 = […] "An advisor fundamentally opposed to the business of the board is no use. It would be like inviting one of you to run the Union. […]

[…] I have an interest in seeing the railway built. But you have no interest in seeing the Union do its work."
|Value 12 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "What use is his advice? We might as well flip a coin. Or, I tell you what, build a weathervane that points in the opposite direction to the wind."
|Value 13 = Cornelius is in obvious distress. "But she has good stories. […] she has been the Mayor, and that reflects well on us."

[…] "Which is not to say we should keep around every Mayor […] I see I am losing the argument. […] let her know she'll be missed."
|Value 14 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "The lance doesn't fit in the boardroom." If you didn't know better, you'd think Cornelius felt awkward about his own lack of duelling expertise.
|Value 15 = "I have nothing against devilesses," says Cornelius carefully. "I've parted with my soul myself […] But. Virginia. One hears gossip about her betrayals and her changing sides. As Mayor of London, too, did she really deliver on what she claimed? […]"
|Value 16 = […]

"'Furnace,'" he says. "You all know, of course, that her name is Beatrice? She doesn't like it if you call her that. […]

[…]

"Yea," says Cornelius. "And there's three Echoes in it for you if you let me […] draft the notice to her that she's dismissed […]
|Value 17 -19, 22-24, 27 - 28, 30, 32 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "If my colleagues can dispense with the additional input, then so can I."
|Value 20 = "Aye, I suppose," says Cornelius. "Though I will miss him. The coloured cards are so cheery. Perhaps we can invite him back later."
|Value 21 = "Before I answer," [...] "do we know whether she's willing to be voted out? Because if there is anyone on this board who could have me killed for voting against... [...]" But once the rest of the board have duly reassured Cornelius, he casts his vote for removal.
|Value 26 = "I have been trying to discover whether something in the feline temperament renders her especially unfit for board work. I think there very probably is; and with that question answered, we can set her free to do something she will like better."
|Value 31 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "I find him dry, and I've just spent six months in the Tomb Colonies."
|Value 33 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "It isn't comfortable getting all its votes delivered by drumbeat. And it never proposes any resolutions of its own."
|Value 100 = "It looks like a good station to me," says Cornelius in a bored voice. He has not given much attention to the plan. "Although I did want to ask whether we've given any more thought to the idea of breeding an animal that lays stations like ''eggs''."
|Value 160 = Cornelius is sketching some kind of extremely shaggy mammoth creature – on close inspection it seems to serve as a living train station. But he eventually sighs and gives his assent to your plans.
|Value 170 = "Yes, might as well," says Cornelius.
|Value 181, 183 - 187 = "Not my first choice, but a reasonable location," says Cornelius. "I vote aye."
|Value 200 = "We might as well," Cornelius agrees. "People don't like it when the train's held up. Interferes with other business."
|Value 205 = "We'll be shipping a number of skeletons that direction, in due time," says Cornelius. "Might as well be suitably prepared."
|Value 210 = "By all means," says Cornelius. "Trick the rich passengers with soft behinds into paying more, and use the profits to fund something that matters. But no one ever went broke betting on Society to spend like fools."
|Value 300 = "That is what we are doing, so I suppose you might as well say so," Cornelius remarks. "Though I'd much prefer it if some other possibilities were at least considered. Still, I'll vote yes if it'll give a true name to our actions."
|Value 310 = "If that's the only way the GHR will give some of its profits to those that aren't directors and landlords, then I vote yes." It's not the most ringing endorsement, but you'll accept it.
|Value 320 = [...] fund a laboratory investigating [...] Crimson Recombination." Several board members make the mistake of looking curious [...] prehistoricist-reconstructionist anatomy [...] half an hour is lost [...] hoping to proceed with the rest of the conversation before dinner time.
|Value 340 = "On the one hand," says Cornelius, "it's a bad idea. On the other hand, I doubt you'll do anything about it. So certainly, I will vote in favour, if it means we can go forward with more pressing matters."
|Value 400 = "I wonder," remarks Cornelius, "what would happen if I held out steadfastly for a no? Would you just remove me from the board, or would I find myself punished in a more dramatic manner? No, don't worry. You may all have your dividends."
|Value 520 - 523, 525 - 527, 529 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "Though I could have offered a number of improvements on this scheme."
|Value 905 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "Her theories give me headaches."
|Value 940 - 941 = "Yes, yes, why not," says Cornelius. "But such charity is merely a palliative."
|Value 1000 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "I lost a fight with a standing stone. I don't want to take on a whole landscape."
|Value 1010 - 1030 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "This does not sound to me like an argument we are going to win."
|Value 1100 - 1110 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "It is an entirely futile effort, even by the standards of this Board."
|Value 1200 = "I vote yes," says Cornelius. "There are materials the city will require, and it's better if they arrive by rail, at least until we've improved on the present supply of pack animals."
}}

==Failure Text==
{{Variant table
|Condition = Question before the Board |Condition alias = Question|Compact = yes
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Effect = [[Persuade Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist/Tables|Failure Description]]
|Value 9 = "I vote no," says Cornelius. "I've been through that terrain once before, and it is not a pleasant direction."
|Value 13 = "No, you can't vote Jenny off the board!" says Cornelius. "She's – well, to be honest, I haven't got to know her very well. But I always have the feeling I'm about to get to know her very well indeed."
|Value 14 = "And part with a fellow Tomb Colonist?" demands Cornelius. "Surely not. Those of us who have experienced dust and bandages should make sure to stick together."
|Value 15 = "No, we need the connections to Hell," says Cornelius. "All the more so, the further the line goes."
|Value 16 = "Furnace? Furnace Ancona, the heroine of the Tracklayers? Surely you don't want to get rid of Furnace. Everyone loves Furnace." He leans back in his chair. His face is too fully bandaged at the moment to reveal his expression.
|Value 17 = "What? Get rid of the Dean?" asks Cornelius, evidently horrified. "But she's almost the only person here with a really broad understanding of different species, of the range of positions on the Chain. […] I see our work as entirely complementary. […]"
|Value 100 = "Looks over-engineered and like a bother to build," says Cornelius, without having paid terribly much notice to the content of the plans. "Nay from me."
|Value 105 = "If we are preparing for a war – and I don't say we should be – perhaps we should put a bit more attention into our soldiers and defenders?" says Cornelius. "A fortress with cannons but no gunners is going to be precious little use."
|Value 115 = "I remember when I thought Hell was all goats and roses," says Cornelius darkly. Then he gets up and paces around the room while everyone else tries to focus on the rest of the vote.
|Value 120 = Cornelius pauses. It's obvious that the plans do appeal to him […] the opulence and grandeur, perhaps? But then […] he says, "Waste of money on the materials. Save the lavish displays for London, where they might make a difference to someone."
|Value 130 = "Let the Empress put her stamp on things she's built herself," remarks Cornelius. "We needn't do it for her."
|Value 140 = "I know I should be used to such things, since I spent some time in the Tomb Colonies. But isn't it a bit... brownish-grey? Couldn't we liven it up a little?"
|Value 150 = "You must excuse me," says Cornelius. "I've never lived on the Surface and I have developed no nostalgia for it whatsoever."
|Value 160 = "Furnaces and coal are an inefficient and inadequate source of heating," Cornelius suggests. He stops short of proposing an alternative, though.
|Value 181, 183 - 187 = "No, this won't do at all. I have a much better proposal," says Cornelius, "which hasn't been given proper consideration."
|Value 300 = "There is no point in voting for a charter that simply says you are going to do what you were going to do anyway," says Cornelius. "Greed is not a principle, it is an instinct."
|Value 310 = "Charity, is it?" asks Cornelius darkly. "I've seen what goes under that name before. It's never enough and it's never at the proper time."
|Value 320 = "A fine idea [...] research program under proper direction. [...] How well developed is your understanding of the Crimson Recombination?" [...] a theoretical approach [...] which no one but Cornelius has ever heard of before, and which he most likely invented himself.
|Value 340 = "Is there a purpose to that?" asks Cornelius, in a spirit of genuine inquiry. "There's enough superstition and foolery already in the Neath. Makes it hard to tell what's really going on. I don't see the virtue in planting more."
|Value 400 = "No," says Cornelius. "Buy us all a good lunch at the board meetings instead."
|Value 520 - 523, 525, 527, 529 = "I had a much better idea," Cornelius said. "One that hasn't even been properly considered. So no."
|Value 1000 - 1030 = "I vote no," says Cornelius. "We should have asked the Tower many other questions about its position in the Great Chain and its role and intentions." He gives you a look, as though you personally betrayed him […] As though you should have known.
|Value 1100 - 1110 = "I vote no," says Cornelius. "There are more proper uses for a train than an engine of warfare and disaster. This is what comes of allowing private enterprise to manage things."
|Value 1200 = "Furnace meant the city to be somewhere London couldn't reach."
}}
{{Variant table
|Condition = Other Votes |Condition type = <noinclude>Raw</noinclude><includeonly>Quality</includeonly>
|Effect = Second paragraph of Failure Description
|Value Furnace = Furnace Ancona's Vote
|Alias Furnace = Furnace
|Effect Furnace = "Of course," Furnace remarks. "I vote yes, so therefore Cornelius needs to vote no."

"It does you good to hand off the opposition role to someone who isn't part of your own face," says Cornelius.
}}