Set your Fingerking Moot on the Jovial Contrarian

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From: Debating Matters of Business with the Board

Perhaps they can exhaust his desire for argument.

Description summary:
The branch description has additional text depending on which members are on the board.

Board Member	Second sentence of Description
The Viscountess	Or perhaps they will simply agitate the Viscountess.

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Unlocked with Portable Fingerking Moot, Board Member: Jovial Contrarian

Locked with Jovial Contrarian's Vote

Challenge information

Narrow, Mithridacy -2 (50% base)

• 0 - modest (70%)
• 1 - very modest (80%)
• 2 - low-risk (90%)
• 3 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

The challenge difficulty is apparently increased by 3 if the Viscountess is a board member.

Success

Dedicated disagreement

The Jovial Contrarian stakes out an opinion. The Moot takes seven related views, agreeing with one voice but disagreeing from six other perspectives.

[…]

In the end, the Jovial Contrarian's enthusiasm is satisfied[…] Happily, the vote is in your favour.

Description summary:
Some board members have additional comments.

Board Member	Second paragraph of Description
The Viscountess	The Viscountess observes the debate with her tail lashing: only respect for you keeps her from demolishing your guest.
Southwark	The Bishop of Southwark complains that it's worse than the convocation of bishops, and offers to arm-wrestle someone if that would speed things along. No one accepts the offer.

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• You've lost 1 x Uncommitted Board Members
•  The Jovial Contrarian has agreed to vote on your side. (Sets Jovial Contrarian's Vote to 1 - The Jovial Contrarian is voting on your side. Probably. Assuming he doesn't change his mind again)

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Failure

Repaid

The argument is exceptionally long-winded, but the Jovial Contrarian looks like he might be coming around.

Description summary:
There's an additional paragraph with the Viscountess as a board member.

The Viscountess on the board?	Second paragraph of Description
Yes	The Viscountess […] hunkers down in her boardroom seat, obviously about to pounce on the Moot and tear off all its tiny heads. The carnage would not be as swift and horrible as if she were still in her Parabolan form. It's warning enough, though. […]

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• You've lost 1 x Uncommitted Board Members
•  The Jovial Contrarian has agreed to vote on your side. (Sets Jovial Contrarian's Vote to 1 - The Jovial Contrarian is voting on your side. Probably. Assuming he doesn't change his mind again)

Redirects to: Debating Matters of Business with the Board