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[the_measurers]

So the next Fay'lia propaganda announcement will involve them using their agent(s?) on board to find out the foibles and secrets of lots of the people on station.

They'll be taking one of two approaches to try to lure you over. Either they'll praise you by comparing you favorably to themselves or they'll condemn you and offer amnesty for your crimes if you work for them. The first approach is generally more useful with nobility or lawful alignment characters. The second works better with chaotic alignment characters or those involved with criminal organizations.

For instance, sample dialogue for the first approach, regarding Jinto and Lafiel: "Noble Abh, we know of your empire. It is much like ours. You seek a way of life where humans all know their place, as we do. Count Hyde, Viscountess Abriel, we would welcome you into the peerage as junior partners in this endeavor. Come to us, your true peers, rather than debasing yourselves by association with these primitive mud turtles."

And the second approach, regarding Sah'ot: "We know of your crimes too. Species miscegenation, sexual harrassment, aiding violators of the laws of the great institutes, stealing institute property, they are a long list. Come to us though and you can pay your debt by helping to enforce the law."

Reply here to sign up your characters for this announcement. Choose which approach the Fay'lia are taking with them and give us a few salient facts about them that the Fay'lia might use in that announcement. This will be ICly public so if there are secrets you don't want revealed, don't write them in your reply.

And if the attempted persuasion ends up working and your character wants to work as a Fay'lia agent, contact us mods!

Comments

[firstandonly]

This is the part where Gaunt tells the Xenos to go feth themselves.

[septim]

"I will find no rest here. I heard hertheir voice inside my head. SheThey spoke of my father and the fall of GondorTamriel. SheThey said to me, even now, there is hope left, but I cannot see it. It is long since weI had any hope. My father iswas a noble man, but his rule is failinggone, and our people lose faith. He looks to me to make things right and I would do it. I would see the glory of GondorCyrodiil restored. Have you ever seen it, AragornFay'lia? The White Tower of Ecthelionthe Imperial City, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets?"

First option, please. Appeal to his sense of duty towards Tamriel as its Emperor and the blood of Tiber Septim, the dragonborn, the Avatar of Akatosh, blah blah blah.

[questionablewit]

*in hysterics*

[barefootbg]

Signing up Murbella. I'm assuming that it is not known she captured a Fay'lia alive; in that whole mess of Water-of-Life orgy and subsequent carnage, the guy could well have been overlooked. Rather, the approach toward her should be approach #1, on the grounds that the Bene Gesserit have more in common with the Fay'lia, they were complicit with Leto's empire and can coexist in harmony with a benevolent despotic regime, the Fay'lia are an uplifting and civilizing culture in contrast to the animal excesses and disarray of those who resist Fay'lia culture/rule, and ... um, what else ... THEY CAN GIVE HER MELANGE?

and by Anders, I mean ~Sebastian Vael~

[birdhousesoul]

I'm just gonna leave this here

birdhousesoul 9:44 pm
I feel like I should sign up Murbs. Do the Fay'lia know about the BG order?

worm_dancer 9:44 pm
i don't see why they wouldn't
anders' crime should be pretty obvious

birdhousesoul 9:45 pm
Against fashion?

worm_dancer 9:46 pm
yes
the fay'lia should have a literal fashion police

birdhousesoul 9:46 pm
I want this to happen

worm_dancer 9:46 pm
they make sure people aren't wearing things that could be covert subversive symbols or stuff only the nobles or infinite hierophant can wear

birdhousesoul 9:46 pm
Anders thinks he is a badass revolutionary terrorist but instead he gets formally charged with a crime against fashion
also for trying to debauch Jinto

worm_dancer 9:48 pm
"Seducing innocent young counts? Five years! And that coat! You look like you're in mourning for your pet blackbird! Ten years!"

birdhousesoul 9:48 pm
and for dancing in such a manner as to incite immorality

worm_dancer 9:48 pm
that's ok with them

birdhousesoul 9:48 pm
yes, his makeout with Jinto is a violation of caste rules
or something

birdhousesoul 9:48 pm
and black feathers are the sole province of Fay'lia kabuki rituals or something

worm_dancer 9:49 pm
no better
they are the traditional province of court jesters

birdhousesoul 9:52 pm
yes!

THERE YOU HAVE IT. Anders, approach 2, crimes against fashion and immoral conduct toward a social superior.

[truthaftertheend]

Georgia will probably get it from them since she's a 'notorious scandal-monger and disruptor of the public order': she's a journalist-blogger who speaks the truth and believes in public record of everything.

They also could bribe her with the cure for Kellis-Amberlee, but she'll still probably tell them to screw off.

I think you covered Lafiel. Really, her motivation in this whole thing is 'what's best for the Abh Empire'.

Ai could go either way, since she's noble and loving and all that, but... well, the Fay'lia caste system bothers her and she wants to help everyone lead happy and productive lives. And war is wrong. OTOH, making her BSoD with the whole 'you have a noble heart, why do you work for monsters?' is always fun. So either option.

[obi_wanmanshow]

Obi-Wan should get the spiel he always gets from people who want him to come to the Dark Side. Although perhaps it is less sexy when coming from someone other than Ventress.

"Come, Master Kenobi, this rabble holds no promise for you. How long will you lived among them before you realize that they can offer your cause nothing. If one is to understand a great mystery, one must study all its aspects, not just the dogmatic narrow view of the resistance. If you wish to become a complete and wise leader, you must embrace a larger view of the world. Join us and we can elevate you above the peasant rabble, among civilized people, where you belong."

[queen_kong]

Motoko would, in a perfect world, receive contradictory offers of higher pay and increasing incentive as different Fay'lia interest groups spoke through the mouthpiece of the Fay'lia intelligence bureau trying to secure her services and/or kitty-cat rights. She'd defect to the Fay'lia when she thought they'd incentivized her enough to be worth the effort, spend some time among the enemy and then jack their shit and make out like a bandit. Literally. Could even be a good excuse to add some odd point of infrastructure to the station, because she has to steal some kind of ship to get back.

But if that's too elaborate or crazy or needs to be its own thing, I think a "Because we'll pay you ten times what the Resistance could possibly do," would be a reasonable and very straightforward call for the Major's defection.

[lest_ye_become]

For either option—

Roxie has pretty much straight-up murdered a bunch of people (who may or may not have been unwilling cho agents) back home. This gets fuzzy, though, because even though they want their own strange brand of revenge, the cho would much rather see her be free than in the hands of the Fay'lia (it's weird). Plus the cho have a tight lockdown on information that gets in and out of the areas of meta-space they control.

So I'd presume here that the Fay'lia might be able to gather some weird, jumbled information about her, that paints her in a damn creepy light without really having proper concrete proof behind it... or potentially even whitewashing things as a sideways meta-political move against the cho. Anyway, it would be interesting to see ideas for things!

[wheelsandbeats]

Well, I figure they'd try to appeal to Tavros, since he's already sympathized with one agent. Assuming they know about that, in which case they should probably claim the agent was acting without orders or something. He's way too willing to put the past behind him and forgive extremely dangerous people against all reason, no matter what he might have said after the kidnapping.

Depending on if they research his race or him specifically, they might either try to play up him being a child of Alternia and being destined to be a conqueror of alien worlds, or they might just offer him and a few close friends safety and happiness. Or both. If they're going for the first route, they should try and shame him. As ever, his weak spot is his self-esteem.

Or hey, feel free to use anything else that comes to mind, too.

[wwrathofangels]

Aha! You do still exist! :D

We still should probably talk since, you know, we do play from the same canon. Since AIM is just not working out, do you have plurk? I have plurk. If you do have plurk, hit me up at preussisch_blau?

(Besides which, Eridan is proooobably going to go 'hunting' in light of the latest npc post which this ooc stuff is about and yeah. Ehem. Sorry, don't mind me, slightly too awake.)

[wheelsandbeats]

Oh man yeah, sorry for totally vanishing forever like that. I'm eibborn on plurk, and I'll add you right away! This'll work a lot better, I think.

Their meeting is long past overdue. We'll have to make it happen. c:

[wwrathofangels]

Oh my god that is the cutest icon abubububuhyoooooooo~

[questionablewit]

Bring it on. For Hawke, it'll probably be more interesting (and more likely) for them to go with the carrot approach than the stick. They'd have caught a glimpse of her on Xestsemon playing Lady Hawke and if you could ignore the Marian she used at the time that'd help because it was a mistake on my part. Formerly noble, wealthy, with connections and resources and influence, with responsibility, with honor and integrity, and now mucking about with the hippies eating spicy chalk. Bribe her with cheese and ale! ;)

Best to leave Ged out, I think. He's new, they'll have heard very little about him even with spies around. Though on second thought he'd be quite interested just to question them about themselves, if they want to approach and try and sell their Empire to him in its own right rather than by using any of his own history against him.

[easternseaqueen]

Isabela... honestly could go either way. Technically, she hasn't done anything wrong (yet) here, so she wouldn't figure the local authorities have any reason to pursue her. Her various crimes of piracy are easy enough to track down--heck, she'll tell stories about them unashamedly.

She does respond to flattery, though. Buy her a few drinks and flirt with her shamelessly, and she'll probably be on board for whatever, as long as the terms are spelled out and agreed upon first.

[like_a_lion]

Despite Fran's love and science approach to things, she is indirectly responsible for many people's deaths and the endless suffering of others. So that may work if someone were to point out her crimes.

Lain was also responsible for a number of deaths and the near destruction of reality as humanity knew it. She also has little confidence in herself so praise could likely be used as a weapon against her.

Saber is new so she'll be sitting this one out, and I cant see Victoria defecting no matter what was said to or about her.

[incesteyes]

Of course, Cain was, if nothing else, an assassin at least twice over. That he is also of a nice bloodline might sway them toward either direction, but it would probably be more amusing for them to accuse him of crimes and tell him he could gain penance for them. He'd probably giggle and ask what good penance does. If they threaten Mirys or Vicky, though, he might have to explain what the bodies are doing in his lab.

Horo? They can try anything, really. Horo's loyalty is to the Station only because she digs the gossip and because the Fay'lia have done some pretty shitty things to animals (see Cat Planet fiasco), but that's a shallow loyalty. Her ideal future would be arriving at her home with lawrence, and that is not happening. She is easily lured by delicious food and drink, though.

Fakir's still new, so. He's out.

[fonewearl]

Any threats made on Mirys would likely be brushed off by Mirys herself, as she's been threatened several times in her past and has generally come out fine (if not just a little crankier than before). The exact method of brushing-off that would occur would more than likely raise a few questions in Cain's mind and thus result in Mirys putting herself into a position where she needs to tell more about herself. Which she would do so privately.

[incesteyes]

Hey hey, my plot senses are tingling!

[wwrathofangels]

Oh my god I am behind on everything. This is what getting an education does to me. Oy.

I would be more than pleased for them to try with Eridan, unless he's too new for them to know much about him? But then, what they would know would certainly be enough to tempt him... Salient points including the fact that he is royalty of a race of interplanetary conquerors, has a strong belief in class hierarchy, and... um... : |a Actually that's about it. He doesn't really have a lot of friends, so they couldn't be used as a bargaining point. And while he probably brags about all the lusus and angels he's killed, those aren't crimes, per se. At any rate, the lusus thing is considered perfectly acceptable by Alternian standards... The jury is still out on the angels since technically he wasn't supposed to be killing them, but like he's going to mention that.

[fastestonnolegs]

The offer to Anna Lin would be simple: "We will help your world win the Nightmare War, details at eleven." This is more likely to anger Anna than to make her consider, unless they can prove how much more advanced their lucid tech is (likely). Anna is probably going to stay put, though, on the grounds that she liked the conquering empire better when it didn't condescend to her.

Emi really doesn't have anything to offer to them, and Shirou is new enough that they shouldn't bother.