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Succession crisis [chat]

EddyEddy Gengar the BittersweetRegistered User regular
edited July 2018 in Debate and/or Discourse
I am King Edward. I am 69 years old and dying. I have had three children: oldest Son 1, middle Daughter 1, and the youngest Son 2.

I had always hoped Son 1 would inherit; he unfortunately predeceased me whilst fighting those bastards in SE++, but his virile seed left a child son (Son's Son). My daughter is single and educated and ambitious. My second son didn't really think about becoming king at first - but now he's sure he'd make a better one than a child, at any rate.

You are my obsequious yet ambitious dukes, and already my issue are currying for your favor (and your armies and your food). The succession law is very cloudy on this issue, what with all the historical foreign interventions and odd internal compromises in the name of necessity.

Who do you choose to support?

"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Eddy on

Succession crisis [chat] 100 votes

Son's Son
13%
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Daughter
74%
SniperGuyMulysaSemproniusRedTideMrMisterDevoutlyApatheticEvil MultifariousQuidBowenRchanenElement BrianHappylilElfElendilFeralTTODewbackKid PresentableIncenjucarHakkekageJamesRhesus PositiveHaphazard 74 votes
Second Son
13%
kedinikseabassCouscousoverride367ChuWonderMinktinwhiskersSleepspool32KanaInvectivuscB557Ilpala 13 votes
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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Daughter
    End the Patriarchy. Long live the Matriarchy.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Daughter
    Smash the patriarchy

  • kedinikkedinik Registered User regular
    Second Son
    Long has the House of Kedinik supported Second Son

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    clearly the second son so i can call the followers the second sons and finally give life to the erotic asoiaf narrative i've been heedlessly weaving since the 2000s

  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    Eddy wrote: »
    I am 69 years old and dying.

    Nice.

    Also, what I get for not reading the post before voting.

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Kill all three and declare myself Lord Protector.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Daughter
    i've never been kicked from a thread before

    that was neat

    also i guess it's difficult to prove a negative so we'll just have to keep trying

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • KruiteKruite Registered User regular
    Daughter
    A better question is this, who is the most competent of the 3?

  • GazingGazing In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular
    Daughter
    Excellent

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    Kruite wrote: »
    A better question is this, who is the most competent of the 3?

    since when has that mattered, you simpering child

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Daughter
    This is our chance to wipe out house Kedinik once and for all

    No more will we suffer poor storytelling or YouTube during parties

    sig.gif
  • GazingGazing In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular
    Daughter
    Kruite wrote: »
    A better question is this, who is the most competent of the 3?

    The daughter, obvs

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Daughter
    So my team submitted a paper for peer review about two weeks ago. I just got an email asking me to peer review another paper that came. I probably will if I have time. I have to look at my schedule.

    But the best part. They keep calling me Dr. Mazzyx. Well my last name. It straight up says MA in the line we sent but I guess I got an honorary degree in something. Got the PhD with none of the work. :rotate:

    @Shivahn @Arch @MrMister @LoserForHireX @simonwolf and the other actual or soon to be PhDs.

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  • kedinikkedinik Registered User regular
    Second Son
    @Evil Multifarious

    I don't know how this analysis is currently regarded by historians, but
    From 1180 to 1190, Central Mongolia experienced an intense drought that probably contributed to the political instability of that time. Established patterns of leadership were disrupted, and the region saw continuous warfare. “The worsening dry conditions…would have been an important contributing factor in the collapse of the established order and emergence of a centralized leadership under [Genghis] Khan,” the researchers write.

    In 1211, Central Mongolia then entered its most unusual period in the millennium-long record: a 15-year stretch that was warm and, more importantly, incredibly wet. Those conditions would have provided a surplus of grass for both the horses for the Mongol army—each trooper would bring three to five horses so that he always had a fresh ride—and the livestock that followed the army to keep the warriors fed.

    Without an increase in productivity, the pastoralism practiced in this region of the world would not have provided enough surplus resources for such efforts. All the resources available would have had to be devoted to keeping people alive, as they largely are now. Genghis Khan may have been a great leader, but without the warm, wet years to give the region a boost, he wouldn’t have had the resources for building a strong government and large army. The world may have been a very different place.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/warm-wet-times-spurred-medieval-mongol-rise-180950030/

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Daughter
    Kruite wrote: »
    A better question is this, who is the most competent of the 3?

    You're on the list

    sig.gif
  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Second Son
    I chose the who will never actually get it because I'm a contrarian by nature

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Son's Son
    I'll be honest I didn't even read the OP before voting.

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    I am King Edward. I am 69 years old and dying. I have had three children: Son 1, Daughter 1, and the youngest Son 2. Son 1 has died but left a child son. You are my obsequious yet ambitious dukes, and already my issue are currying for your favor (and your armies and your food). The succession law is very cloudy on this issue, what with all the historical foreign interventions and odd internal compromises in the name of necessity.

    Who do you choose to support?

    where is the "take over the country during the crisis" option?

  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    Sleep wrote: »
    I chose the who will never actually get it because I'm a contrarian by nature

    But son's son was right there.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Daughter
    is your daughter fair, fertile, and eligible for marriage

  • kedinikkedinik Registered User regular
    Second Son
    Elendil over here slicking back his hair

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    i'm gonna be honest i'm about a quarter into a feast for crows on my like, 4th series reread so you're gonna be getting a lot of these for the next few days

  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Son's Son
    How dumb is your second son?
    How likely am I to court your daughter?

    If either of those seem out of reach, than go with the kid so you can play king and enrich yourself while he's a baby.

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    I like to ART
  • kedinikkedinik Registered User regular
    Second Son
    This is our chance to wipe out house Kedinik once and for all

    No more will we suffer poor storytelling or YouTube during parties

    YouTube during--

    *sputtering very Bogartly* This slander!

  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    Organichu wrote: »
    i'm gonna be honest i'm about a quarter into a feast for crows on my like, 4th series reread so you're gonna be getting a lot of these for the next few days

    Are you doing the chronological thing where you splice in chapters of DoD? Cuz that's about the only way I could get through the joyless slog that is Feast.

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    of course the female issue, weak and sickly and prone to spells of shaking, gets the votes. you hyper progressive lickspittles.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Daughter
    Organichu wrote: »
    of course the female issue, weak and sickly and prone to spells of shaking, gets the votes. you hyper progressive lickspittles.

    i'm just hoping she'll touch my D if i support her

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    nah i was just reading straight through

    i tell you h'what tho i'm very much not looking forward to all these mereen chapters

  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    youtube as like, a primary content vehicle completely passed me by somehow

    like, I know there's surely tons of great stuff on there but I've never once been like, hey im bored let's go find a cool youtube video to watch

    idk, maybe cuz I remember it in its infancy when it was just basically a collection of everyone's shitty home videos? idk idk

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Second Son
    Chanus wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    of course the female issue, weak and sickly and prone to spells of shaking, gets the votes. you hyper progressive lickspittles.

    i'm just hoping she'll touch my D if i support her

    this is clifnotes for human civilization

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Daughter
    Arch wrote: »
    Fak u mazzy

    I have to correct people a lot that I am not a doctor in something with my job since I am a senior researcher and one of the main faces of the research side of the program.

    Best was I got marked as the author for like a month of one of the big survey reports that isn't even my office. I was just in the acknowledgements as I helped write some survey questions but the program that marks authorship grabbed that instead of the authors.

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  • mysticjuicermysticjuicer [he/him] I'm a muscle wizard and I cast P U N C HRegistered User regular
    Daughter
    Surely the best chat of 2018.

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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    edited July 2018
    Second Son
    Ilpala wrote: »
    Sleep wrote: »
    I chose the who will never actually get it because I'm a contrarian by nature

    But son's son was right there.

    Yeah that little shit was always told it would fall to him... he's a dick. He's gonna get so many of his followers brained.

    Second son was always told he'd never have to deal with it. He's much more laid back. He's barely in this succession. Sisters gonna kill that little shit of a nephew for the crown, she don't fuck around. Second son just wants to make sure him and his friends get to keep being rich and having few if any real responsibilities. His bid is less about success and more about maintaining position and defending from various assassinations.

    Sleep on
  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Son's Son
    The biggest problem with amazon getting shitty is the huge amount of start up capital you would need to create a competing online service. You'd really have to take an existing chain that is dead or broken and switch it to online only.

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    I like to ART
  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Chu how disappointing will the final two books be, do you think? Incredibly disappointing or just like oh well that's wasn't great but at least he actually finished?

  • GazingGazing In My Restless Dreams Registered User regular
    Daughter
    youtube as like, a primary content vehicle completely passed me by somehow

    like, I know there's surely tons of great stuff on there but I've never once been like, hey im bored let's go find a cool youtube video to watch

    idk, maybe cuz I remember it in its infancy when it was just basically a collection of everyone's shitty home videos? idk idk

    YouTube red is getting a Poppy movie

  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    I marry the daughter, get her pregnant by nightfall and rule as lord regent to the rightful heir

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  • mysticjuicermysticjuicer [he/him] I'm a muscle wizard and I cast P U N C HRegistered User regular
    Daughter
    youtube as like, a primary content vehicle completely passed me by somehow

    like, I know there's surely tons of great stuff on there but I've never once been like, hey im bored let's go find a cool youtube video to watch

    idk, maybe cuz I remember it in its infancy when it was just basically a collection of everyone's shitty home videos? idk idk

    It's very good for if you never want to get anything done ever again. Highly recommend.

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    My YouTube Channel! Featuring silly little Guilty Gear Strive videos and other stuff!
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    this is one of bogart's choose your own adventure chats right

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