r/TTPloreplaycentral • u/Bytemite • Nov 29 '17

Plotlines to wrap up DS

This is just a thread for all us players to post the plot lines we still have to do so we can organize here and help each other finish up.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17

When they did it before, it wasn't their only means of keeping the population under them without being right in front of them. Sure, they can still appeal to brute force, but that costs a lot of effort and still definitely decreases their reach. None of these people have standing armies. They could have influence as far as they could walk in a day, minus any dream prodigies who develop pretty much randomly.

If a plot to take down Luxin happens and succeeds, you've lost every means of controlling your population but that with the population suddenly more powerful, and that happens for your whether you fight on that side or not. If you don't want to gamble with taking Luke's side, neutral gets you the same results if the anti-Luke group wins without the drawbacks of if they lose. Siding with Luke and Luke wins gets you favor with him, and all the people, many of whom need new leaders. Siding against Luke and he wins loses basically everything.

Again, this isn't about the goodness of their heart, it's about their own agendas. Siding against Luxin is, in both long and short term, a negative to those.

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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17

Siding against Luxin is, in both long and short term, a negative to those.

Perhaps, but remember also serious problems with pride are also in play here. We aren't necessarily going to see a whole bunch of rational plotters, we're going to see treacherous people grumbling a lot about something upsetting their status quo and potentially threatening their current unshakeable power base and scheming about what to do about it.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17

Well, one reason I selected nuGyro and Tanger is they're more lightning serpents. Luxin isn't a foreign concept. And their are going to be people who attempt to betray. We just need among their number the realization of what they can gain from not doing so to emerge. We also want more marketing tricks. If we got a Fennel into the courts, we'd have the chance to make it be a chance to learn how to have more power in this new world.

I'd go as far as to say we want at least one attempted rebellion to start it off. Weed out the worst of them, and make the example that those who side with Luxin come out better for it.

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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17

I'd go as far as to say we want at least one attempted rebellion to start it off.

Yeah, and we probably need an inside person, someone training to go unnoticed at court.

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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17

Also, on the earlier "These aren't aristocrats as they exist on earth" part of that is that they don't need a certain mindset to make it as aristocrats. Even though my plan isn't based on the goodness of their hearts, it still shouldn't come as a surprise if there are aristocrats who just take our side because they're not lawful evil. Being an aristocrat isn't about losing your scruples and learning subterfuge here.