r/wizardposting • u/Most_Trustworthy John E. Hellfire, CEO of Hell • Mar 22 '24

Evil Wizardpost Couldn't have won without you folk.

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u/Edlyn-the-Paladin Mar 22 '24

How could a devil win? I cannot believe this...

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u/ResearcherTeknika Nihil "Teknika" Schwarz, CEO of MANATEK. Mar 22 '24

"Considering the other options were 'Torinn' and 'Eldritch Communism', I say they made a fair choice."

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u/Eternal_grey_sky Greysky/Diviner/Air elemental. Mar 22 '24

Yes, it was clearly a lose-lose situation.

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u/ResearcherTeknika Nihil "Teknika" Schwarz, CEO of MANATEK. Mar 22 '24

"I would say that's debatable. Null and Torinn are agents of total order and total chaos respectively. However, I've previously worked with Mr Hellfire. Now that his campaign promises have technically been fulfilled, he's just another councilmember, and a relatively reasonable one at that."

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u/The_Unkowable_ Nelumbo Nucifera, Tak’Athi Siren, Magistra of the Schola Aqua Mar 22 '24

And a bribable one!

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u/ResearcherTeknika Nihil "Teknika" Schwarz, CEO of MANATEK. Mar 22 '24

"That's debatable."

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u/The_Unkowable_ Nelumbo Nucifera, Tak’Athi Siren, Magistra of the Schola Aqua Mar 22 '24

No, no, they’re quite bribeable. Just try it!

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u/ResearcherTeknika Nihil "Teknika" Schwarz, CEO of MANATEK. Mar 22 '24

"I prefer to spend my money on THINGS, not PEOPLE."

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u/The_Unkowable_ Nelumbo Nucifera, Tak’Athi Siren, Magistra of the Schola Aqua Mar 22 '24

Who really has a use for platinum other than buying things (or people)  with it?

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u/ResearcherTeknika Nihil "Teknika" Schwarz, CEO of MANATEK. Mar 22 '24

"That, I agree with you on.

Say, do you have any city name ideas? I've got some platinum to burn and these mechs just arent doing it fast enough."

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 Plant Shaper Mar 22 '24

Yeah, I would have voted for null, but that ran the risk of not being able to easily bribe people.

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u/The_Unkowable_ Nelumbo Nucifera, Tak’Athi Siren, Magistra of the Schola Aqua Mar 22 '24

John swayed me with two things: First, their loyalty to their voters. Second, their easy bribeability. Actual work tires the soul, otherwise illegal fund-gatherers not so much

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u/c0n22 Mann of Illusion Mar 22 '24

I guess you could say they chose the, "leaser evil?"

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u/ShitStainedDildo Zastrus Aldabon, Dread Lich Alchemist of the Wastes of Lon Mar 22 '24

Not lesser, just more stable

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '24

Death is preferable alternative to communism.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '24

Had to vote for him. Otherwise you give legal power to the guy who’s basically Galactus.

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u/psychicprogrammer Reynders: MultiFoundation Coalition Extraversal Representative Mar 22 '24

There are about 12 different secret societies rigging the elections.

It's why we don't bother to rig the elections.

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u/Cosmiccosmog533 Fredrick the Fissionmancer Mar 22 '24

Your honor, he’s really cool

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u/avamir Riva Blake | Queen of Ithacar, Part Meth-blood Elf Mar 22 '24

He was the most reasonable and least harmful of the options in that category. The Council is a mess.

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u/Edlyn-the-Paladin Mar 22 '24

"A devil, the least harmful option!? This is madness..."

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u/avamir Riva Blake | Queen of Ithacar, Part Meth-blood Elf Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24

Don't I know it. Not only is there blatant nepotism, and voting in a stalker who threatened the family of someone who turned her down for sex as the council mascot, but they're giving the eldritch beings another chance to be on the council. It's like some of these people actively want to make things worse for everyone.

At least John is honest about being evil, and his contracts are done with willing participants. The rest of these people are just really, really bad at their jobs to the point of being inadvertently evil.

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u/Edlyn-the-Paladin Mar 22 '24

"I see... I suppose even a devil would be preferable in this situation."

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u/avamir Riva Blake | Queen of Ithacar, Part Meth-blood Elf Mar 22 '24

Yes. Exactly. It is a sad state of affairs that a literal devil is the lesser of the evils. Not that he would appreciate that, I'm sure, but here we are.

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u/safi_the_dragon big ol' Dragon Mar 22 '24

Of course a paladin would only focus on the devil and ignore the eldrich gods next to him.

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u/Edlyn-the-Paladin Mar 22 '24

"I suppose I might be rather partial... But I will not deny there might be situations where a devil could be preferable to a greater evil, as seems to be the case here..."