Persuade Feducci/Tables

Success Text

Question before the Board	Success Description
1 - 3, 9, 181 - 187	"I am not as familiar with this terrain as with certain other countries," he says. An allusion to the Elder Continent? At any rate, he waves through the plan.
4	"The land is voracious," he says, with a keen and unkind smile. "Let's feed it, then."
5	"I have an ambition to go out there myself," he says. It's hard to be sure, but the grin under the bandages looks wolfish.
7	"They say Station VIII's a good place to be poisoned," he says. This is approval.
11	"Please, yes," says Feducci. "Let us be rid of the Commissioner and her endless pedantry. She will weigh down the debate with history even the Tomb Colonists have forgotten."
13	Feducci gives a raspy laugh. "Yes, we can do without Jenny on the board. Her weapons are fierce but her targets are poorly chosen."
15	"I believe," says Feducci in a rusty voice, "that we can do without my distinguished successor-but-one." It is popular in London to say that Virginia accomplished more than any mayor since Sinning Jenny herself, and Feducci holds a grudge.
16	"By all means, let us rid ourselves of Furnace," says Feducci. "I never understood why we needed to listen to her in the first place."
20	Feducci says yes, in a way that suggests he hopes someone will fight him over it.
100	Feducci rasps out his agreement to this idea.
205 - 220	Feducci refrains from threatening to run you through, which you must interpret as support.
230	"A vile idea," says Feducci. "One that encourages the most slovenly behaviour among everyone we might hire in the future... but I can see that I will not win this argument. Very well."
240	Feducci agrees to the plan, and offers to help lead the strike-breaking effort himself. He appears to consider members of the Tracklayers Union a limited threat to a person like himself.
300, 320, 340	"The Charter could be more definitely worded," says Feducci. "But in substance, I accept." He has a blade handy even during the meeting, which raises the question of how much the Charter is likely to bind him. No matter.
310, 932	Feducci says yes, in a way that suggests he hopes someone will fight him over it.
340	Feducci's comments on the Church are such as could not be printed in the newspaper. It does not seem that he considers the Church's mission worthy of promotion.
400	Feducci's calculations apparently satisfy him about the financial wisdom of such a step. "This should suit," he says, in the hoarse whisper you know is an affectation. Usually he does not bother with such foolishness here.
500	"Parabola suits me better than the alternative," says Feducci. "And the train need not spend very long in the realm of the Is-Not. Put the mirrors a short distance apart, on that side..."
510	"Have they been deployed in combat, I wonder?" Feducci 's mind is racing ahead to acquiring one for personal use.
520, 522, 523, 525 - 529	"If we are not doing it in the way I would recommend, this way will work," admits Feducci. "But my way would have been better."
620	"It cannot be a worse idea than some other mayors we have had," says Feducci. Everyone stares in his direction.
700, 720, 800	Feducci's expression is hard to read under the bandages, but he doesn't have anything against the idea.
710	"He has a fighting spirit," says Feducci. So that's a yes, then.
850	If you were expecting enthusiastic solidarity amongst Tomb-Colonists, you are destined for disappointment. But Feducci does not evidently disapprove.
905	Feducci shrugs. "Her presence or absence make relatively little difference to me."
910	Feducci shrugs. "He manages to keep up his work here with his duties at the Club. I cannot imagine a little church will overtax him."
940 - 941	"Very well," says Feducci. He seems relatively uninterested in the whole affair.
1000 - 1020	"I have dealt with powers of the Elder Continent," Feducci remarks. Which is apparently to indicate that the Tower does not alarm him.
1100, 1110	Feducci lets out a long, throaty chuckle. "Of course I am in favour," he says. "Provided I may sit in the gun-battery when we make our little jaunt."
1200	Feducci's expression is hard to read under the bandages, but he doesn't have anything against the idea.

Failure Text

Question before the Board	Failure Description
1 - 3	Feducci does not like any suggested route for the train. He agrees that it must go westward, but he does not care for any of the […] directions or terrains. "A flat terrain, with firm soil and no existing inhabitants, would be a better bargain."
4	"Those plains kill," he says. "As indeed do many of us. But the Tracklayers may not like it."
5	"Those hills are not our territory," he says. "We might be wiser to respect other ownership."
7	"Won't it be a great deal of cost and bother?" he demands. "I have serious questions about the cartographical competence of our esteemed fellow director." And he gives you a glance that dares you to strike him.
9	Feducci does not like any suggested route for the train. He agrees that it must go westward, but he does not care for any of the available directions or terrains.
10	"His Amused Lordship stays." Feducci does not bother to advance an argument.
12	Feducci expresses his displeasure with knife-slash to the upper arm. It's more persuasive than most of the arguments advanced by other board members.
100, 105, 115 - 160	Feducci reaches for his lance, then pauses. "I disapprove," he says. "Though a poor choice of architecture may not deserve my full duelling power."
181, 182, 184 - 187	"No, no, this is all wrong," says Feducci. "The terrain is just not defensible. Where would you put the ramparts?"
200	Feducci lays out a counter-proposal: instead of spending the company's money to protect the passengers, why not arm anyone who expects to ride, and let them protect themselves?
205	Feducci lays out a counter-proposal: why not strap the passengers' possessions to the roof of the train?
210	"A duelling room would be a greater improvement," says Feducci. A few of the others exchange glances. Is he sincere?
220	"Break the strike by force," says Feducci. "We cannot be hostage to such demands."
230	Feducci's hand goes to his lance and the other to an off-hand dagger. He dislikes this proposal as intensely as any he has ever heard, and he is ready to fight you, and any other comers, here or […] at another location of your choosing […]
300	"Nonsense," says Feducci tersely.
310, 932	Feducci says no, in a way that suggests he hopes someone will fight him over it.
320	Feducci lets it be known that his favourite science is the science of duelling, and that bones are not interesting to him unless they are [...] encased in the body of one of his enemies. [...] none of the other board members particularly wishes to argue with him.
400	Feducci has been working out his own accounts for the Company the whole time others have been speaking. Something in the numbers displeases him.
500	"I never turn away from danger, but I would not put our trust in the Snakes," says Feducci.
510	"A daring exploit," Feducci remarks. "But I don't consider it wise."
520, 523, 525, 527 - 529	"I can suggest a superior alternative," says Feducci. "This approach is nonsensical."
700 - 720	Matters of inheritance and royal prerogative are just the sort of thing to gall Feducci into action, and he barely hears out the proposal before reaching for his lance.
800, 850	Feducci groans. "Why can't we have more adventurous candidates?" […] You get the sense he'd prefer a Union that spent most of its time fighting duels and hunting the stranger beasts of the outer Neath, and ignored the tedious nonsense of the rails.
905, 910	Feducci waves a hand. If he has to attend every one of these meetings as a Board member then so should they.
1000 - 1020	"One might cooperate, if one cannot fight," says Feducci. "But have we considered demolishing this tower? Explosives and a good set of cannons should do it."
1100, 1110	Feducci looks disheartened. "It's not that I disapprove of loading the train with bombard and send it hurtling into the unknown. I just find myself ideologically against the idea of doing it in a place that technically does not exist."
1200	Feducci sighs. "Its distance from London is what provides its savour. It would be a pity to ruin that."

Other Votes	Second paragraph of Failure Description
The Wandering Gondolier's Vote	The Wandering Gondolier has, by now, had an opportunity to see how Feducci settles disputes. […] he moves to […] the other side of the table. Feducci smirks in return. "It's not you who's going to have to fight me on this, stripling," he says.