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Guy who knows nothing about saints trying to dedicate the church he doesn’t really want to manage:

“Behold, I have brought you a saint!”

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Ambrose would be such an annoying board member lol. His opinions change regularly depending on what he finds most amusing in the moment, he never shuts up, and he will start vicious gossip campaigns outside of meetings if things don’t go his way. He votes in support of Financial Interests, Preservation, the University, and against the Status Quo. He can be bribed. He will argue with the Jovial Contrarian, engage with Cornelius on anything to do with bones, flirt with September (…or the Jovial Contrarian), and make playful jabs about His Amused Lordship.

Emery doesn’t like meetings and spends the whole time looking bored and annoyed, possibly straight up working on something else while the other board members talk. They vote in support of Revolutionary Interests, the LoN, Hell, Urchins and against Society and the Bazaar. They can be swayed by Obfuscation. They will try to have side conversations with Sinning Jenny or April, threaten to duel Feducci mid-meeting if he disagrees with them, start to doze off if anyone goes into a long-winded speech, and they have some kind of interaction with September and January.

Henry supports a Scientific charter. He tends to take a pessimistic outlook on any issue he disagrees with and will point out its potential flaws or worst-case scenarios. He votes in support of the University, Preservation, the Status Quo, and against Hell, Criminals, and the LoN. He can be swayed by Respectability and interacts with the Dean of Xenotheology, Cornelius, January, and the Implacable Detective.

Liam is trying his best but is in a little bit over his head with the amount of decision-making and responsibility. He can be influenced fairly easily by Obfuscation. She votes in support of Labour, Rubbery Interests, the Church, the University, and against Hell and Society. She interacts with the Tentacled Entrepreneur, the Dean of Xenotheology, the Bishop of Southwark, Furnace, has negative interactions with Virginia, and reacts to the Bishop of St Fiacre’s with a sort of long-running weariness.

Railway players, what would OCs be like in the board room? Whose interests would they be for and against? Would they be ripe for bribery, or would they be swayed with obfuscation or Respectability? Would they have any unique interactions with other members of the board?

Betty would be very disinterested in the board, but would feel obliged to come along because of the players' acquaintance with her. She would mostly be for Urchin, Labour and Revolutionary interests, voting in favour of a charity charter and basic necessities like benches and access in the train cart. Anything promoting Hell or Society would be an instantenous challenge for her.

Betty would be easily swayed with obfuscation, taking it at face value after a moment of uneasy consideration. No amount of respect would get her to agree with you; it might have the opposite effect.

If she is on the same board as Sinning Jenny, she might be seen whispering to her and engaging in an entirely unrelated conversation. With the Contrarian, she sends him a death stare if he comments after being unconvinced. With the Commissioner, the two might share a knowing glance if both of them agree on a matter brought forth.

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Steam locomotive Class 71000 ‘Duke of Gloucester’ photographed outside the sheds at Didcot Railway Centre in 1988.

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I had a dream that at the end of the railway during the tracklayers’ city prep there was an option where if you had given the prehistoricists enough support, rather than healing Cornelius you could instead choose to make him Weirder by attaching extra bones to him (I think mammoth ribcage was one of them) to turn him into some kind of creature

Honestly I feel like it’s what he would want

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I love Cornelius and his horrible beasts so much

I’m also obsessed with Sinning Jenny’s text when she agrees

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I love the rare occasion when doctor profession is helpful for something other than free echoes

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I actually put off finishing the railway on Robin’s account for like. months. maybe longer. Because I wanted to see what the tracklayer city outcomes would be before making my decisions, but then this week I decided Fuck It We Ball and finished it off anyway, to see what happens

So this is what we’ve got going in to City of Silver…

Ambrose’s city by the Magistracy of the Evenlode:

Emery’s city by Balmoral:

Robin’s city by Moulin:

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Since it’s Henry hours today apparently, a fun fact about him is that he became railway director through the 7 Notability route. How on earth did this man get people to start talking about him?

I imagine the newspaper headlines were something like “Local Science Recluse Emerges from Lab Long Enough to Take an Interest in Something, Must be Important”

(He was going around town like ‘hey, does anyone know a good use for all this railway steel I’ve just made in my lab?’ And then they put him in charge of the railway)

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Also Henry: I may not be an expert on the Correspondence, but nothing will stop me from trying to see what’s on the forbidden rock

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One thing I enjoy about replaying the Railway is customizing the board composition to suit my OCs’ personalities and interests. Ambrose had a pretentious intellectual board with a hint of revolutionary tendencies, Emery had a chaotic fighty board, and Robin had as much of the Calendar Council as they could manage.

Henry has uh whatever this is

Lawful girlboss board?

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I love her

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Feducci got a chance to be on the board because he’s part of the Dilmun Club and Henry respects them, but if this is his response to the proposal of a scientific charter he’s gonna have to go

Henry made it to the railway 🎉

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Black and white night photo of London Midlands Trains Class 323214 electric multiple unit at Barnt Green railway station.

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Night photo of DB Cargo Class 66130 diesel locomotive waits for the green light to proceed at Banbury station, Oxfordshire, on the evening of the 13th April 2018.

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Night photo of Chiltern Railways Trains, Class 172103 Turbostar diesel multiple unit, standing in Banbury station, Oxfordshire, on the 13th April 2018

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Class 323241 electric multiple unit in London Midland Trains livery, waits at a deserted Barnt Green station, Worcestershire, before continuing on its journey towards Birmingham.