"What Madness Is This?" Volume II: Prophecies in the Dark
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I'm surprised that Gamble is letting the Yanks know about his designs on Mittelafrika. Might it not be better to beg forgiveness for establishing an independent power base from the RU than ask permission? I don't know about Oswald, but Steele seems like the type to accept a fait accompli, at least if his telling the Brits that they were on their own if the situtation got out of control is anything to go by, he is a fairly cold-blooded realpolitik type. Maybe that's why Gamble felt comfortable being so blatant about his plans (not realizing Oswald was different)?
Also, this song feels applicable.
Also, this song feels applicable.
Happy new year, folks! Whether you are Pinnacle Yankees or Cokies, may Jehovav's blessing be with you!
So apparently I had this thread hidden for some reason, meaning I missed over a year of updates. Well, I caught up and decided that the only appropriate way to celebrate was to port over a version of the RU into an EU4-Victoria II converter game I’m fleshing out. So far the Republican Union can do a general path to Manifest Climax, including murdering huge swathes of Inferiors if they get their hands on them.
But this puts me in an awkward position as the world develops. For instance, how does the RU view the Welsh and how would they feel about other Fascist movements that aren’t run by WASPS? I’ll have to take some liberties, for instance there’s a non-zero chance that Italy is created by Protestants, but I want to keep the feel of the RU and not have them be RU Notzies.
But this puts me in an awkward position as the world develops. For instance, how does the RU view the Welsh and how would they feel about other Fascist movements that aren’t run by WASPS? I’ll have to take some liberties, for instance there’s a non-zero chance that Italy is created by Protestants, but I want to keep the feel of the RU and not have them be RU Notzies.
The same way they view norwegians, afro-americans (both yankee and lincolnian), jewish, germanians, mittelafrikans and nipponese. Cocoreans don't exactly count because they follow cocaro style right wing authoritarianism rather than actual fascism.
We know that some RU characters have their own grudges and prejudices against these groups. Oswald disdains the mittelafrikans in the last chapter when he is talking with Gamble alone. Steele didn't seem to really believe the nipponese were that Pinnacle ("a yellow is a yellow", he said iirc). But unless you're obviously an inferior, there's no reason why you shouldn't be a fascist.
I know it may seem odd, but I really do think Oswald genuinely cared for Steele in a twisted way. Their fucked up relationship was strangely heartwarming.
Steele was probably a better dad to him than Joey Sr, tbh
To be fair, you’d have to try pretty hard to be a worse dad than Joey Sr.
By the way just out of boredom I was inserting the scene portions of this timeline into AI Dungeon(don't worry I plan to delete it all immediately. I was just curious. But I got this little gem when Lovecraft warns Steele about the Dark Prophecy.
"Yes, yes, we were just talking about that very thing," Steele replied. "Apparently the F.B.I. and the Nazis are attempting to steal the moon. We are going to stop them."
"Yes, yes, we were just talking about that very thing," Steele replied. "Apparently the F.B.I. and the Nazis are attempting to steal the moon. We are going to stop them."
That doesn't even sound that far off from something that would happen ITTL.