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From: Debating Matters of Business with the Board


She protects the unprotected. And has a few other opinions.

Game Instructions: Credit with the Headmistress may affect her views, if you have access to Sinning Jenny's Finishing School.

Unlocked with Board Member: Sinning Jenny

Locked with Sinning Jenny's Vote


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 100

  • 69 - very chancy (41%)
  • 85 - chancy (51%)
  • 102 - modest (61%)
  • 119 - very modest (71%)
  • 135 - low-risk (81%)
  • 152 - straightforward (91%)
  • 167 - straightforward (100%)

Difficulty is probably 100 to start, increased by 20 per point of Board against the University, Board against Labour, Board Against Rubbery Interests, and Board for the Fingerkings, and 40 per point of Board against Urchin Interests.

QuestionBase Difficulty
1 - Recommending a Route through Occupied Buildings100
2 - Proposing the Demolition of Unused Houses520
3 - Recommending a Route over Marshland300
4 - Recommending a Route through Plainsland180
5 - Route through Hills100
7 - Recommending a Route across a Ravine220
9 - Recommending a Route through Wasteland100
10 - Proposing the Removal of His Amused Lordship100
11 - Proposing the Removal of the Efficient Commissioner100
12 - Proposing the Removal of the Jovial Contrarian100
14 - Proposing the Removal of Feducci100
15 - Proposing the Removal of Virginia100
16 - Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona300
17 - Proposing the Removal of the Dean of Xenotheology380
18 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's100
19 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Southwark100
20 - Proposing the Removal of the Tentacled Entrepreneur200
21 - Proposing the Removal of the Gracious Widow100
22 - Proposing the Removal of April100
23 - Proposing the Removal of the Wandering Gondolier200
24 - Proposing the Removal of September200
26 - Proposing the Removal of the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle200
27 - Proposing the Removal of the Rubbery Yes-Man200
28 - Proposing the Removal of the Hell-Scarred Gondolier100
29 - Proposing the Removal of Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist200
30 - Proposing the Removal of January200
31 - Proposing the Removal of the Wry Functionary100
32 - Proposing the Removal of the Delightful Reverend100
33 - Proposing the Removal of the Drummer100
35 - Proposing the Removal of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner180
37 - Proposing the Removal of the Implacable Detective100
100 - Proposing a Station Plan100
105 - Proposing a Station Plan more like a Fortress380
115 - Proposing a Station Plan styled in the Manner of Hell100
120 - Proposing a Station Plan that Honours the Bazaar100
130 - Proposing a Station Plan that Speaks to the Glory of London and the Empress100
140 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to Wasteland100
150 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to a Surface Summer100
160 - Proposing an ice-resistant route and a well-insulated station100
170 - Proposing the connection to the final station at Marigold100
181 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Ealing Gardens300
182 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near the Magistracy of the Evenlode100
183 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Balmoral100
184 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Station VIII300
185 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Burrow-infra-Mump100
186 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City somewhere between Moulin and Hurlers, as no one sensible wants that land at all100
187 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Marigold Station, under the walls of Hell100
205 - Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train100
210 - Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train400
220 - Recommending More Worker Compensation100
230 - Recommending Worker Co-ownership100
240 - Recommending the Strike be Broken300
250 - Requesting Funds to Excavate the Remains of a Prehistoric Creature100
260 - Suggesting the Union Pave Over a Prehistoric Creature300
270 - Requesting Funds to Route Around an Anomalous Section of London160
280 - Proposing to Drive the Track through the Zone180
300 - Proposing a Vote of Self-congratulation400
310 - Proposing a Charitable Gift100
320 - Proposing a Scientific Charter100
330 - Proposing a Charter declaring an Alliance with Hell140
340 - Proposing a Charter engaging in the Work of the Church140
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders (Non-worker charter)300
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders (Worker charter)100
500 - Proposing a Bypass through Parabola300
510 - Proposing the Rental of Hellworms100
520 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell100
521 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Feducci's Guidance100
522 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following April's Guidance100
523 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Virginia's Guidance100
525 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Bishop of Southwark's Guidance100
526 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following His Amused Lordship's Guidance100
527 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Wandering Gondolier's Guidance100
528 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Cornelius' Guidance100
529 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Viscountess' Guidance380
610 - Proposing that the Board Endorse the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle for Lord Mayor520
620 - Proposing that the Board Endorse F. F. Gebrandt for Lord Mayor340
700 - Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral200
710 - Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral100
720 - Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral100
800 - Proposing a tracklayer aligned with Mr Fires140
850 - Proposing Cornelius to lead100
905 - Proposing the Dean of Xenotheology as Patron of the Burrow Church100
910 - Proposing the Bishop of St Fiacre's as Patron of the Burrow Church100
931 - Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge100
933 - Supporting a Brightly-Lit Building Approach100
934 - Proposing a Package of Measures to Resume Normal Operations300
940 - Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups100
1000 - Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower100
1010 - Proposing an inhuman tribute to the Hillchanger Tower100
1020 - Proposing a calendrical tribute to the Hillchanger Tower100
1100 - Proposing to send your train to war in Parabola
(Cats, FKs, Gent, Visc., Other)
100 (Cats, Visc.)
240 (FKs, Gent)
140 (Other)
1110 - Proposing to build a spur line into Parabola so that you can send in a war-train100
1200 - Proposing a final extension of track

Success

She is convinced!

[See table below]
QuestionSuccess Description
1 - 3, 7, 9She hears you out. Then she nods. The route might not entirely satisfy her, but she's one to face the truth as it stands, and not argue about how it ought to be.
4"If we must," she says. "Only because the alternative is worse, and only if we can provide generously for the protections the workers will need."
5"Better through the hills than through the grass," she says firmly.
10 - 12, 14 - 24, 26 - 33, 35, 37"A smaller board is easier to persuade," says Sinning Jenny. "Too many foot-soldiers and everyone is tripping over everyone else."
20She hears you out. Then she nods.
100"I suppose it will do," Sinning Jenny says, grudgingly. She evidently thinks the place should be more fortified without and more pleasant within – a difficult set of requirements to meet, especially if you hope to keep to budget.
105, 120, 130, 150 - 170, 300"It is nothing other than I would expect," says Sinning Jenny. In that tone of voice, it isn't a compliment.
115"Difficult to storm," says Jenny approvingly. "And room for a cannon here." She taps a corner of the plan. "It won't withstand a full assault, of course. If Hell were really provoked."
140"I like it," says Sinning Jenny. Several other board members look at her in surprise. "[...] It doesn't have too many gaping windows for monsters to climb in, and it doesn't pretend that it's standing under the open sun. It's an honest building."
181 - 187"This seems like a reasonable place for a new city," says Jenny. "A new city! How exciting. I hope it succeeds."
205"More room for weaponry," Jenny observes. "If we had reason to go hunting in the Upper River."
210"Oh, very well!" Sinning Jenny looks like a child forced to sit for too long in an uncomfortable chair.
220"It is the least we can do," says Sinning Jenny. "In fact, I would have hoped to do better. But we can begin here."
230"It is a noble experiment," says Sinning Jenny. "The practicalities of the vote leave much to be worked out, but perhaps it will succeed."
240 - 280Sinning Jenny gives a concise endorsement to the plan. She slightly sounds as though she expects that to be the end of the matter. Certainly when it comes to many of her projects, she is the sole and final arbiter of how to proceed.
310"If I have doubts, they are about the execution rather than the intent," says Sinning Jenny. "I have listened to any number of charitable proposals that turned out to be anything but. However, in principle, I am agreed."
320"If you think running a track over something will increase your scientific understanding of it," says Jenny. "I'm not a scientist myself."
330"I'll sign," says Jenny. "Such a charter will keep things lively, at all events."
340"There are churches and churches," […] "I will vote in favour if only because we must have some counterbalance if we march toward Hell. However, I excuse myself […] from any subcommittees on liturgy or pious clubs for the planning of altar-cloths."
400"It is our financial obligation," agrees Sinning Jenny. "As long as we can in fact afford the expenditure."
500"I would not recommend it in most cases," says Jenny. "But if anyone in London knows how to do such a thing safely, it is the members of this board."
510"With the proper equipment, even they can be kept in line," Jenny says. "Without the proper equipment, anything is a risk."
520 - 523, 525 - 529"Yes," says Jenny. "But we should send no one into that place of weapons unless they have proper shields."
600"Our Rubbery friend has a perspective that many of us cannot," she says. "If we vote for him, that will be my reason."
610"The Viscountess is a warrior," says Sinning Jenny. "You should see her in battle. On the other side of the mirror, of course."
620"F. F. Gebrandt has done a great deal for London already. Some of us rely on her Tincture of Vigour." Someone in the boardroom snickers. "After a fight," says Jenny pointedly.
700"Why not?" says Jenny. "Hardly anyone lives in the region; there are few inhabitants to mind one way or another."
710"Yes, give it to September," she says. "It won't do harm, and it might help."
720"She has spirit," says Jenny, with a wry half-smile.
800, 850"Very well," says Jenny. "Though I think the Tracklayers really should have the right to choose their own. But I can see it's a difficult situation, with Furnace gone."
905"I wouldn't dream of standing in the Dean's way!" Jenny insists, smiling across the table. "Perhaps I might get an invitation to the Church when it's all finished? I have a passion for ecclesiastic architecture."
910"I wouldn't dream of standing in the Bishop's way!" Jenny insists, smiling across the table. "Perhaps I might get an invitation to the Church when it's all finished? I have a passion for ecclesiastic architecture."
931, 933 - 934She hears you out. Then she nods. "I'm with you on this one."
932[...] "If it escapes its handlers and needs to be hunted down, call on me. I doubt it will prove difficult to guess which way a tracklaying beast has gone. Though perhaps it won't come to that." She looks as though she rather hopes it does come to that.
940Jenny nods. "Of course. It sounds like a very worthy cause."
1000 - 1020[…] "On balance, it sounds more like the custodian of its territory than like a danger to us. And considering how long it has sat on top of Aescwine without hurting anyone, I think we must accept its word about its intentions."
1100, 1110Sinning Jenny nods, reluctantly. "If this were a vote on whether or not to engage in the War, I would of course vote in the negative. But as it is happening, this seems the fastest way to bring it to a swift conclusion."
1200Jenny nods. "If it allows us to be of more use to them. And vice versa, of course."
Other VotesSecond paragraph of Success Description
AprilApril is sitting so that she can see the Board Secretary's notes as the meeting proceeds. As he writes down Sinning Jenny's answer, April nods and meets Jenny's eye.

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Failure

Unconvinced

[See table below]
QuestionFailure Description
1 - 3, 7"It would be better to consult the Tracklayers' Union about these decisions," […] "They have the experience; it is their workers who will be at risk. Choosing a line on a map, from the comfort of London, is very likely to end in loss of life."
4"I would never wish that territory on the labourers," she says. "The grass clings to the skin and it drinks from the body. It withers the flesh and it ages those who walk through."
5"Imagine if the train ever gets stuck there and the passengers have to climb out," she says. "It could not be done safely." But there's a gleam in her eye as though she personally would rather enjoy a sojourn in the Monkprince Hills.
9"I would never wish that territory on the labourers," she says. "Who knows how ruined and poisonous the earth is that way?"
10 - 11, 14, 15, 17 - 22, 26 - 27, 29 - 33, 35, 37"If we are getting rid of board members, that is not where I would begin," […] this format of power by argument doesn't agree with her. On one occasion she even brought a harpoon […] claimed it was for an appointment she had immediately afterward.
12[…] "The […] Contrarian is often frustrating and rarely agrees with me. Nonetheless, he does not […] pursue aims that are actively dangerous to London, and in that he is unlike some other individuals we might be unwise enough to add to our number […]
16"No one has more right to sit on this board than Furnace […] It is her workers who lay the track; she herself has been known to go to the blast sites when new land is being cleared. We cannot do without her perspective, and we should not try."
23, 28"No," says Sinning Jenny. "His views are refreshing, and he knows more about the land we're passing through than almost anyone else here."
24"I find his presence very entertaining," says Sinning Jenny. "I'd be very sorry if there were no reason for him to come out from Balmoral." Heavens. Has she struck up an affair with September? That probably isn't what she means.
100, 120 - 170"Have you forgotten that this station will be standing in much less protected land than the centre of London?" […] "Such large windows are a vulnerability, while the unlined cellars will positively invite burrowing monsters into the building."
105"Finally, something robustly built," remarks Jenny. "But it does rather dare our enemies to attack us immediately."
115"It is certainly provocative," Jenny remarks. "If that is your intention. I'd be afraid of attracting the wrong sort of attention."
181 - 187"No, I don't think this plan works," Jenny says, frowning. "The location's no good. We must do this right, if we intend to do it."
205"Will it weigh us down?" asks Sinning Jenny. "I know that manoeuvring a train is not the key question, precisely, but we might not want to encumber the train too much, if it is often under attack."
210"An expensive indulgence that will not earn back the investment," […] Londoners […] will not pay for this. […] waste of company resources that might be spent better on other improvements and on the wellbeing of the workers."
220"This is a half-measure," says Sinning Jenny. "We could do better."
230"I consider this ill-advised," says Sinning Jenny. "I admire Furnace's motives, but has she considered what the voting will be like?"
240 - 280, 931Sinning Jenny disagrees. It sounds as though she expects everyone else to give up arguing for the plan […] the rather final air of someone accustomed to directing the Parlour of Virtue and managing her schools and giving directions to younger nuns.
300 - 310Jenny listens to the proposals being read out with a frown. "Does anyone mean to enforce these statements? If not, it is a waste of time to vote on them."
320Sinning Jenny shakes her head in disapproval
400"When the Railway is complete, a successful line to Hell is established and has demonstrated continued usage to my satisfaction, that will be the time to talk about Dividends," […] Several other board members object that that might be the work of years.
500"There are things in Parabola that would be extremely dangerous to disturb," says Sinning Jenny. "Even an expert Silverer can't guarantee the outcome, and we would be running this risk twice a day."
510"Too great a concession to the Devils," she says. "We would not want to rely on them unduly."
520 - 523, 525 - 529"Both bad and dangerous," says Sinning Jenny. "There are many other ways we could go about the matter."
610Sinning Jenny refuses. "The Viscountess is prone to think that London's worst problems are the misbehaviour of Urchins and matters that happen in our dreams. There's a great deal that needs attention on this side of the mirror."`
620"The work of the Mayor is very demanding," says Sinning Jenny, allowing everyone to remember that she was first to hold the position. "Anyone who hopes to thrive will need connections and a strong understanding of how the game is played."
700, 720, 800, 850"Not the sort of power we ought to support," remarks Jenny firmly.
710"I wonder whether it's the best place for September," says Jenny slowly. "Or whether there are other things that might require his talents more."
905, 910"I don't think we ought to make a thing of this," remarks Jenny. "If they wish to overwork themselves, they should do so on their own time. Or step down."
932"This sounds rather like a distraction from more serious worker concerns," Jenny says. "Perhaps the Union could do with better leadership."
933 - 934"This sounds rather like a distraction meant to get the Tracklayers back to work," Jenny says. "Perhaps the Union could do with better leadership."
940Jenny inquires about the charitable groups the GHR would be helping. "Perhaps it's someone I would know?" she notes. Then she launches into an embarrassing interrogation of the details and specifics of the proposal.
1000 - 1020[…] "One thing concerns me. This is a creature that […] has lived on Aescwine Hill for a good portion of its life. What has it been doing there? […] And are those scorpions in the hillside its brood? I think we should know more before we decide."
1100, 1110Sinning Jenny shakes her head. "I cannot condone violence against something which is not an enemy of mine and has never done me an ounce of harm." Her smile is apologetic, her conviction is not.
1200Sinning Jenny shakes her head. "There's a time to leave people alone to make their own way."

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