Persuade the Hell-Scarred Gondolier

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From: Debating Matters of Business with the Board


He's been all the way down the line, and all the way back.

Game Instructions: He is affected by Corruption. Other branches in this story may help to bribe him.

Unlocked with Board Member: The Hell-Scarred Gondolier

Locked with The Hell-Scarred Gondolier'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%)

Base difficulty is 100, increased by 20 per point of Board against the Status Quo, Board against Criminals, and Board for the Fingerkings, and 40 per point of Board Against Infernal Interests and Board against Revolutionary Interests. Every level of Corruption of the Board reduces the difficulty by 40 points, and each point of Board against Labour decreases it by 20.

QuestionBase Difficulty
7 - Recommending a Route across a Ravine0
9 - Recommending a Route through Wasteland100
10 - Proposing the Removal of His Amused Lordship300
11 - Proposing the Removal of the Efficient Commissioner300
12 - Proposing the Removal of the Jovial Contrarian300
13 - Proposing the Removal of Sinning Jenny200
14 - Proposing the Removal of Feducci500
15 - Proposing the Removal of Virginia700
16 - Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona500
17 - Proposing the Removal of the Dean of Xenotheology300
18 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's300
19 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Southwark300
20 - Proposing the Removal of the Tentacled Entrepreneur300
21 - Proposing the Removal of the Gracious Widow400
22 - Proposing the Removal of April700
24 - Proposing the Removal of September500
26 - Proposing the Removal of the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle400
27 - Proposing the Removal of the Rubbery Yes-Man300
29 - Proposing the Removal of Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist200
30 - Proposing the Removal of January580
31 - Proposing the Removal of the Wry Functionary300
32 - Proposing the Removal of the Delightful Reverend300
33 - Proposing the Removal of the Drummer700
35 - Proposing the Removal of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner300
37 - Proposing the Removal of the Implacable Detective300
100 - Proposing a Station Plan100
105 - Proposing a Station Plan more like a Fortress100
115 - Proposing a Station Plan styled in the Manner of Hell100
120 - Proposing a Station Plan that Honours the Bazaar500
130 - Proposing a Station Plan that Speaks to the Glory of London and the Empress520
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 Gardens100
182 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near the Magistracy of the Evenlode240
183 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Balmoral100
184 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Station VIII300
185 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Burrow-infra-Mump380
186 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City somewhere between Moulin and Hurlers, as no one sensible wants that land at all300
187 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Marigold Station, under the walls of Hell100
200 - Recommending Better Defences for Each Train400
205 - Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train100
210 - Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train200
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders (non-Worker charter)100
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders (Worker charter)
520 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell240
521 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Feducci's Guidance240
522 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following April's Guidance200
523 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Virginia's Guidance0
525 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Bishop of Southwark's Guidance520
526 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following His Amused Lordship's Guidance300
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' Guidance240
700 - Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral200
710 - Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral200
720 - Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral200
800 - Proposing a tracklayer aligned with Mr Fires300
850 - Proposing Cornelius to lead200
905 - Proposing the Dean of Xenotheology as Patron of the Burrow Church500
931 - Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge260
932 - Supporting Cornelius' Prehistoricist Building Approach260
934 - Proposing a Package of Measures to Resume Normal Operations0
940 - Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups100
941 - Proposing a dividend be paid out to the poor of the Hinterlands100
1000 - Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower260
1010 - Proposing an inhuman tribute to the Hillchanger Tower240
1020 - Proposing a calendrical tribute to the Hillchanger Tower240
1100 - Proposing to send your train to war in Parabola
(Cats, FKs, Gent, Visc., Other)		200 (Cats)
240 (FKs, Gent)
300 (Visc.)
340 (Other)
1110 - Proposing to build a spur line into Parabola so that you can send in a war-train300

Success

He is convinced!

"Oh, very well," says the Hell-Scarred Gondolier. His tone suggests that you have not seen what he has seen, and if you had, you would not make such proposals, but that he lacks the energy or the will to contradict you.

Description summary:
The text varies with the Question before the Board. The text above is the generic result[1]; questions with more specific results are listed below.

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

  1. ↑ Used for questions 7, 9 - 22, 24, 26 - 27, 29 - 33, 35, 37, 100, 105, 115 - 150, 170, 200 - 210, 400, 700 - 720, 800, 850, 931, 932, 934, 940, and 941
QuestionSuccess Description
160The Gondolier votes yes – but his teeth are rattling. Is there a draft in here?
181 - 187"Any place is like any other place […] Except for the place of marigolds, and the place of the rose, and the silent place, and the place of the judge, and the place where there is very little screaming..." He goes on like this […]
520 - 523, 525, 526, 528, 529"Might as well this folly as any other," […] "Since you are bound to go where you should not and see what you should not and know what you should not." Then he digresses into some business about bombs that nest like insects and birth like worms […]
905, 910"Oh, very well," says the Hell-Scarred Gondolier. "But a Church will not save you nor them."
1000 - 1020[…] "I have been to the place where the treaty was made between the ancient Guild and the powers of the Neath. […] it is inscribed in the Tongue of Ash, whose words are never used now, except in eulogy."

[…]

"Make the treaty," says the Gondolier.

1100, 1110"Why not," the Hell-Scarred Gondolier says after a moment's pause. "Death comes for us all in the end. Why should dreams be spared?"
Board MemberSecond paragraph of Success Description
The DrummerYou become conscious of a deep, slow pounding, transmitted through the floor. The Hell-Scarred Gondolier feels it too. He catches your eye and smiles without joy.

Redirects to: Debating Matters of Business with the Board


Failure

Unconvinced

"I wouldn't do that," […]

And then he tells an anecdote from the hagiography of Saint Trezigor […] you can feel your hair whitening and your teeth lengthening and your toenails growing […]

All this takes no more than seventy seconds by the wall clock. […]

Description summary:
The text varies with the Question before the Board. The text above is the generic result[1]; questions with more specific results are listed below.

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

  1. ↑ Used for questions 9 - 22, 24, 26 - 27, 29 - 33, 35, 37, 170, 181 - 187, 200 - 210, 931, 932, 940 and 941
QuestionFailure Description
100, 105, 115 - 150[…] he whispers […] about the stain left by a crushed marigold when it is ground into cloth, and the frostbite that comes of trying to stretch out one's hand to the Adulterine Castle. […] the threat hovers implacably over the boardroom […]
160"I think not," […]

[…] he's concerned about running into stones that aren't there or a castle that doesn't exist. Something about goats and the games they don't play. This non-existent threat nevertheless puts a halt to the Board's discussion.

520 - 522, 525, 526, 528, 529, 700 - 720, 800, 850"I wouldn't do that," […]

And then he tells a story about the severed head of a general that, even after his capture and imprisonment and execution, could not stop boasting of its victory in war. He does not say how this story applies […]

905, 910The Hell-Scarred Gondolier sighs despondently. "There's no point. A Church will not save you nor them, in the end."
1000 - 1020The Hell-Scarred Gondolier puts his head in his hands and will not speak, except in short bursts: something about the ally of Hell's Monarchy, and something about tumult and the earth folding itself up like a sheet of paper.
1100, 1110The Hell-Scarred Gondolier weeps as he turns his thoughts to Parabola. "They showed me its treacheries," he whispers. His tears turn to violets upon the table, withering as they fall.
Board MemberSecond paragraph of Failure Description
His Amused Lordship"Fascinating," remarks His Amused Lordship. He makes a note to himself and puts it in the pocket of his waistcoat.

Redirects to: Debating Matters of Business with the Board

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