Editing Persuade His Amused Lordship/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 His Amused Lordship/Tables|Base Difficulty]]
|Value 1 = 1 - [[Plan the next route through occupied buildings, alongside the Moloch Line|Recommending a Route through Occupied Buildings]]
|Effect 1 = 240
|Value 2 = 2 - [[Plan the next route through abandoned buildings|Proposing the Demolition of Unused Houses]]
|Effect 2 = 100
|Value 3 = 3 - [[Plan the next route through the Pitiless Bog|Recommending a Route over Marshland]]
|Effect 3 = 220
|Value 4 = 4 - [[Plan the next route across the Plain of Thirsty Grasses|Recommending a Route through Plainsland]]
|Effect 4 = 260
|Value 5 = 5 - [[Plan the next route over the Monkprince Hills|Route through Hills]]
|Effect 5 = 100
|Value 7 = 7 - [[Plan the next route across a ravine|Recommending a Route across a Ravine]]
|Effect 7 = 240
|Value 9 = 9 - [[Plan the next route through Wasteland|Recommending a Route through Wasteland]]
|Effect 9 = 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 = 100
|Value 14 = 14 - [[Vote Feducci off the board|Proposing the Removal of Feducci]]
|Effect 14 = 300
|Value 15 = 15 - [[Vote Virginia off the board|Proposing the Removal of Virginia]]
|Effect 15 = 100
|Value 16 = 16 - [[Vote Furnace off the board|Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona]]
|Effect 16 = 100
|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 = 300
|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 = 100
|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 = 100
|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 = 400
|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 = 100
|Value 29 = 29 - [[Vote Cornelius off the Board|Proposing the Removal of Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist]]
|Effect 29 = 100
|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 = 100
|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 = 240
|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 = 100
|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 = 380
|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 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 182 = 182 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near the Magistracy of the Evenlode|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near the Magistracy of the Evenlode]]
|Effect 182 = 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 = 100
|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 = 100
|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 = 100 + (60 × {{<noinclude>IL</noinclude><includeonly>Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|Train Defences}})
|Value 205 = 205 - [[Build more room for baggage on the train|Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train]]
|Effect 205 = 100 + (60 × {{<noinclude>IL</noinclude><includeonly>Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|Train Baggage Accommodations}})
|Value 210 = 210 - [[Add Train Luxuries|Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train]]
|Effect 210 = 100 + (60 × {{<noinclude>IL</noinclude><includeonly>Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|Train Luxuries}})
|Value 220 = 220 - [[Advocate paying off the striking workers|Recommending More Worker Compensation]]
|Effect 220 = 400
|Value 230 = 230 - [[Recommend giving the workers a share of the company|Recommending Worker Co-ownership]]
|Effect 230 = 340
|Value 240 = 240 - [[Recommend giving the workers a sharp corrective|Recommending the Strike be Broken]]
|Effect 240 = 100
|Value 250 = 250 - [[Free up the funds to excavate whatever the Tracklayers found|Requesting Funds to Excavate the Remains of a Prehistoric Creature]]
|Effect 250 = 160 or 220
|Value 260 = 260 - [[Pave over whatever the Tracklayers found|Suggesting the Union Pave Over a Prehistoric Creature]]
|Effect 260 = 300
|Value 270 = 270 - [[Vote extra funds to build around the anomalous block|Requesting Funds to Route Around an Anomalous Section of London]]
|Effect 270 = 260
|Value 280 = 280 - [[Propose a Red Science solution that would remove the anomalous block|Proposing to Drive the Track through the Zone]]
|Effect 280 = 180
|Value 300 = 300 - [[Vote congratulations to the Board on its formation|Proposing a Vote of Self-congratulation]]
|Effect 300 = 100
|Value 310 = 310 - [[Vote to honour this historic moment with a donation to the Impoverished|Proposing a Charitable Gift]]
|Effect 310 = 100
|Value 320 = 320 - [[Propose an explicitly scientific charter|Proposing a Scientific Charter]]
|Effect 320 = 120
|Value 330 = 330 - [[Propose an expressly Infernal charter|Proposing a Charter declaring an Alliance with Hell]]
|Effect 330 = 160
|Value 340 = 340 - [[Propose an emphatically mission-oriented charter|Proposing a Charter engaging in the Work of the Church]]
|Effect 340 = 160
|Value 400 = 400 - [[Vote a dividend to the shareholders|Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders]]
|Effect 400 = 200 + (20 × <noinclude>{{IL</noinclude><includeonly>{{Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|In Corporate Debt}})
|Value 500 = 500 - [[Suggest a detour through Parabola|Proposing a Bypass through Parabola]]
|Effect 500 = 300
|Value 510 = 510 - [[Plan to hire Hellworms and drill through rock that way|Proposing the Rental of Hellworms]]
|Effect 510 = 200
|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 = 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 = 380
|Value 528 = 528 - [[Support Cornelius' motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Cornelius' Guidance]]
|Effect 528 = 240
|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 = 100
|Value 600 = 600 - [[Propose that the Board endorse the Tentacled Entrepreneur for Lord Mayor|Proposing that the Board Endorse the Tentacled Entrepreneur for Lord Mayor]]
|Effect 600 = 460
|Value 620 = 620 - [[Propose that the Board endorse F. F. Gebrandt|Proposing that the Board Endorse F. F. Gebrandt for Lord Mayor]]
|Effect 620 = 100
|Value 700 = 700 - [[Propose that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 700 = 100
|Value 710 = 710 - [[Propose September become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 710 = 300
|Value 720 = 720 - [[Propose the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 720 = 300
|Value 800 = 800 - [[Appoint (a Tracklayer) in Furnace's place|Proposing a tracklayer aligned with Mr Fires]]
|Effect 800 = 300
|Value 850 = 850 - [[Appoint Cornelius in Furnace's place|Proposing Cornelius to lead]]
|Effect 850 = 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 = 100
|Value 910 = 910 - [[Propose that the Bishop of St Fiacre's become Patron of the Burrow Church|Proposing the Bishop of St Fiacre's as Patron of the Burrow Church]]
|Effect 910 = 300
|Value 931 = 931 - [[Vote a new set of concessions to the Union|Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge]]
|Effect 931 = 260
|Value 932 = 932 - [[Vote on Cornelius' plan to build a Tracklaying Beast|Supporting Cornelius' Prehistoricist Building Approach]]
|Effect 932 = 260
|Value 933 = 933 - [[Vote on new illumination for the stations|Supporting a Brightly-Lit Building Approach]]
|Effect 933 = 220
|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 = 180
|Value 940 = 940 - [[Propose special consideration to certain charitable groups|Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups]]
|Effect 940 = 260 or 300
|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 = 260 or 300
|Value 1000 = 1000 - [[Propose a costly but effective tribute to Hillchanger Tower|Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1000 = 260
|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 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 His Amused Lordship/Tables|Success Description]]
|Value 3 = "As long as I don't have to go out there myself," says His Amused Lordship with a chuckle. "There aren't enough wine cellars in the world to pay for that."
|Value 4 = "Perhaps we might burn the grasses on the ground ahead," he says. "That might make it safe enough."
|Value 7 = "I'd like to see the view from the top," […] "I think we should plan the line so that the train stops right above the lava flow, and perhaps serve meals or picnic lunches... if the bridge could bear any extra weight, we might add a viewing platform."
|Value 29 = "By all means, let us get rid of him!" exclaims His Amused Lordship. "He has the methods of a poisoner and the manners of a dockyard dog."
|Value 100, 105 = "Yes, yes, of course! What's a railway without stations? Why would this be a matter for question?"
|Value 115, 120 = "It is certainly... ah." His Amused Lordship tilts his head at the plans. "Novel? I think we may call the plans novel."
|Value 130 = "Ah! This is the sort of thing we might have been building all along," remarks His Amused Lordship. "Very superior to the other architect's drawings, I will say that. Without question."
|Value 140, 150 = His Amused Lordship groans. "if we must," he says. "But it isn't at all the kind of thing I expected we would be doing."
|Value 160 = His Amused Lordship approves the plans, though he's not overly pleased. "Suppose the cold does put a limit on how big the windows can be," he says with uncharacteristic sadness.
|Value 170 = "Good! Why not!" exclaims His Amused Lordship. "Come along, let's get the vote passed, shall we?"
|Value 181 - 187 = "A delightful experiment! I think I shall like to visit," says His Amused Lordship. "With an armed escort, perhaps," he adds, winking. "I vote aye."
|Value 205 = "There might be a value in it," he concedes. "If we need to mount an expedition to the Upper River, for instance."
|Value 300, 320 - 340 = "Having a clear Charter is the first requirement of a well-run business," says His Amused Lordship. "I might quibble with a few lines, but I can accept this if it is in line with the news of the rest."
|Value 400 = "Yes, dividends!" He considers the accounts, then sighs. "Of course, one would like to see amounts large enough to make it worth the bother of calculating them. I suppose, however, that the situation will improve with time."
|Value 510 = "Much safer than any other recommendation I've heard," says His Amused Lordship. "Perhaps we can contractually require that the Devils supply a handler for the worms as well as the worms themselves."
|Value 520 - 523, 525, 527 - 529 = "I suppose it will work as well as any other way," he says. "Though I would have liked the pleasure of planning it myself. But –" He holds up his hands. "That is a whim, only. I don't need to be indulged."
|Value 600 - 620 = Reluctantly," says His Amused Lordship. "When society asks what we were thinking, perhaps I can tell them we meant it in jest."
|Value 700 = "One always wants to see these responsibilities in the hands of the ''right sort''," says His Amused Lordship.
|Value 710 = "A leader should have energy, and he certainly has that."
|Value 720 = "The Fervent Widow will be a very entertaining companion," he remarks, and you have the impression he's only half thinking of her possible administrative functions.
|Value 905 = "Very well!" He is jovial as ever. "But you owe me one." He winks at the Dean who affects not to notice.
|Value 910 = "Very well!" He is jovial as ever. "But you owe me one." He winks at the Bishop who affects not to notice.
|Value 932 = "Ah, what the hell!" He chortles. "If nothing else it will be a fine spectacle."
|Value 1000 - 1020 = "This figure is much less sinister than we've been told to believe," says His Amused Lordship. "Do you suppose it has forgotten its bargain with the Bazaar entirely?" This sounds like bravado, even from him, but he is willing to vote Yes.
|Value 1100 - 1110 = "War is a terrible business," His Amused Lordship says thoughtfully. "The only honourable method is to conduct it with such force and vigour that it is not repeated lightly."
|value 1200 = His Amused Lordship laughs delightedly at the idea. He does not explain why. From the tone of his laughter, he expects that someone is going to be very very put out.
}}
==Failure Text==
{{Variant table
|Condition = Question before the Board |Condition alias = Question|Compact = yes
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Effect = [[Persuade His Amused Lordship/Tables|Failure Description]]
|Value 1 - 3, 9 = His Amused Lordship treats you to a long-winded ramble about the risks associated with building on different types of Neathy terrain, a topic in which he did not even pretend to be an expert before he joined the Railway.
|Value 4 = "It is very interesting territory," he says, and it's clear from his inflection that "interesting" is not a good thing.
|Value 5 = "I expect we could find a better solution," he remarks. "If we looked further."
|Value 7 = "It's the expense," he says. "It's so hard to be sure that expedition tickets would ever pay back what we spent on the enterprise."
|Value 11 = "I don't think it would be wise," […] "When she joined the board, she let it be understood that she knows of various dangers we may face as we head west. Moreover, her presence gives us much more latitude with the Masters and the Bazaar."
|Value 12 = His Amused Lordship's counterargument focuses chiefly on how much more tedious board meetings would become without the Jovial Contrarian's provocations.
|Value 13 = "I'd be sorry to see Jenny go," says His Amused Lordship simply, as though you'd proposed exiling her.
|Value 14 = "Oh, come, we can't be rid of Feducci!" says His Amused Lordship. "He has associates in high places, and the danger is that he might not even leave his revenge in their hands."
|Value 15 = "If we want to negotiate with Hell – and we will have to – then we will need her on our side," says His Amused Lordship. "Unless you have another Devil that you consider easier to convince. No?"
|Value 16 = "I don't keep her around for the companionship," […] "You get an earful every time she's in the room. On the other hand, inviting her to the board and then dismissing her again is likely to go over badly with the Union. […]
|Value 17 = "Ah. Yes. The Dean." HIs Amused Lordship looks into the middle distance. "I have a fondness for the University. And if we have a professor, it might as well be her."
|Value 18 = It would be awkward, says His Amused Lordship. "We share social circles. We would be bound to meet again. I would have to explain why I failed to veto his removal."
|Value 19 = "What!" roars His Amused Lordship. "When I was hoping for more wrestling matches in our meetings?"
|Value 20 = "The Tentacled Entrepreneur brought a great deal of money to the enterprise. It would be ungracious of us to reject it again. Though I am hoping it will have some additional cards made soon. The bright yellow one is getting sticky."
|Value 21 = "Her business and ours have not come into conflict so far," says His Amused Lordship. "Meanwhile, she brings with her a length of experience that would be difficult to replicate with any other director."
|Value 22, 24, 26, 28 - 33, 35, 37 = "A more compact Board is generally an improvement," His Amused Lordship remarks. "But not if that Board is unbalanced in the direction of poor decision-making."
|Value 23 = "Yes, he's young," says His Amused Lordship. "But how else is one to learn?" He's rarely extended so much credit to other members of the board.
|Value 100, 105, 115 - 130 = His Amused Lordship frowns at the elevation drawings. "I had imagined something more stately," he says. "The Great Hellbound Railway is the innovation of our age. We should express our pride in the endeavour."
|Value 140, 150 = His Amused Lordship frowns at the elevation drawings. "The style of these buildings has gone from bad to worse! Whatever architect you employ should be sacked."
|Value 160 = His Amused Lordship casts a disapproving eye over the station plans. "Just because we're building on a dismal tundra doesn't excuse such a dingy little building."
|Value 181 - 187 = His Amused Lordship scoffs. "Seems politically difficult. I vote nay."
|Value 200, 205, 280 = "Invest in the track first," says His Amused Lordship, as he usually does. "Everything else wears out."
|Value 210 = "The track," expostulates His Amused Lordship. "The track and the stations. That's where the money should go."
|Value 220 = "That's all very well," says His Amused Lordship. "But where does it end? If we doubled their pay, they'd want it doubled again. Don't set expectations that lead only to disappointment."
|Value 230 = His first reaction is a good laugh. When he grasps that you're serious, he asks sarcastically how you intend to fit all hundred or more owner-workers here into the board room. Folly!
|Value 240 = "I share your views […] But we need to manage this business with at least a little care. […] the consequences could also be quite damaging […] weren't you the one responsible for negotiations […]? You should have seen it didn't come to this."
|Value 250 = "If you want the thing excavated," says His Amused Lordship, "pay for it yourself! That's what I would do if I found some trinket by the track that I fancied for a conversation-piece."
|Value 260 = "Whatever is out there, it may be of some scientific value," objects His Amused Lordship. "That must be worthy of at least a little attention, don't you think?"
|Value 270 = "This sounds like meddling from the Admiralty," says His Amused Lordship. "Not content to do their confounded experiments at Zee. If you ask me, they should be the ones to pay for the entire area to be restored to its previous conditions."
|Value 300 = "I see very little value in making any sort of statement," says His Amused Lordship. "Whatever course we may intend for the Company, its history will be written by circumstance."
|Value 310 = "Occasional donations to the deserving poor are a fine objective," says His Amused Lordship. "The trouble comes when you set up expectations."
|Value 320 = His Amused Lordship is plainly […] tempted, but he says, "There are other institutions that are more straightforwardly devoted to science. We would do better to pursue the business of the company, and donate to those institutions if it seems best."
|Value 330 = His Amused Lordship sighs. "It is without question an amusing idea," he says. "But do we really want to find Moloch Street crowded with protesters?"
|Value 340 = "I'm sure we all admire the work of the Church," says His Amused Lordship. "But might we not admire it ''from a distance''?"
|Value 400 = "I would have no objection if the books were in better order," says His Amused Lordship. "However, the company's record of heedless expenditure does not justify such a motion." His eye rests on you.
|Value 500 = "It is an inventive solution," says His Amused Lordship. "And I am not excessively hesitant about bold solutions when bold solutions are required. In this case, however, there are so many possibilities for error, discovery, and outright disaster."
|Value 510 = "Is there a risk of the worms getting loose and breeding?" asks His Amused Lordship. "My cook has told me stories of a mishap in the larder, and that only involved Blemmigans. I wouldn't like to imagine these things burrowing their way to London."
|Value 520 - 523, 525, 527 - 529 = "Needlessly dangerous and expensive," says His Amused Lordship. "I cannot think this is the way for us."
|Value 600 = "Impossible that society would accept such a Mayor […] To be sure, his mastery of utensils is improving, and he has learned – or been advised – very successfully in matters of fashion. So much else remains out of his grasp, however."
|Value 700 = "Not at all the sort of individual we ought to be backing with the support of the Board," says His Amused Lordship. "I'm surprised that you even suggest it."
|Value 710 = "I can't understand half of what he says," says His Amused Lordship.
|Value 720, 800, 850 = "I can't approve, I'm afraid. Wouldn't be suitable."
|Value 905, 910 = "I can't approve, I'm afraid. We all have to make sacrifices here on the Board. I accept we get inferior port for instance."
|Value 931, 933 - 934 = "I expect we could find a better solution," he remarks. "If we looked further."
|Value 932 = His Amused Lordship takes an opposing view. A very firm opposing view, as a matter of fact.
|Value 940 - 941 = "Can't say I'd go along with that one. Seems a lot of expense for a little charity."
|Value 1000 - 1020 = "The Efficient Commissioner warned us from the very outset about a danger like this," says His Amused Lordship. "While I join some of my colleagues in having found her ''style'' overbearing, I cannot doubt she had her reasons."
|Value 1100 - 1110 = His Amused Lordship shakes his head. "I've seen a few battles in my time. I would need stronger persuasion to vote for this."
|Value 1200 = "Not worth it," he remarks sadly. "It's been a good bit of trouble settling the Creditor quietly out there. Let it stay at a good remove."
}}
{{Variant table
|Condition = Board Member: Furnace Ancona |Condition alias = Furnace On Board? |Compact = yes
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Effect = Second paragraph of Failure Description
|Value No = Everyone shifts in their seats. Several people are obviously wishing they had thought to bring a packed lunch.
|Value Yes = Furnace remarks that His Amused Lordship can always be trusted to vote against, if the proposal doesn't stand to enrich himself or his friends. His Amused Lordship laughs heartily, but in a way that does not bode well for their future relationship.
}}