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🎲 Scheme Against a Rival

3 turns3 outcomes5 events

Take preemptive action against Powerful Rivals

Run by Leader Requires Behind the Throne Duration 3 turns Cost 100 Civics Cost 2 Orders Events 5 events ↓

Outcomes

When the mission completes, a 5-sided die picks one result, weighted as shown.

Plotting leads to a potential rival's demise 2 / 5 40%

Plotting leads to a potential rival's demise

Rating influence +24 × Courage
  • The character is killed
  • Leader relationship: Assassinated By
  • Steam achievement (if the target is an heir): Assassinated Heir
  • Steam achievement (if the target leads a rival nation): Assassinated Another Leader
  • Remembered: Assassination exposed (-80 opinion for 40 turns) (no event currently keys off this)
  • Steam achievement: Behind The Throne Thats My Queue
Plotting leads to a potential rival's exile 2 / 5 40%

Plotting leads to a potential rival's exile

Rating influence +24 × Charisma
  • Remembered: Exiled by plotting (-40 opinion for 20 turns) (no event currently keys off this)
  • Gain trait: Exiled
  • Steam achievement: Behind The Throne Thats My Queue
Scheme Foiled Event 1 / 5 20%

Your scheming against a rival has led to an event...

The character's rating shifts the dice where a Rating influence is shown, but does not change the reward amounts.

Events

⚠ Weights are not in-game odds. Each event also needs its character and empire conditions to hold, and some of those are hidden in game, so how often it really fires can differ a lot from its weight.

20% of the time (a 1/5 dice result) the mission fires an event instead of its normal reward: one of the 5 events below is drawn, and you pick a response. Bracketed names like [character] show the real names in game.

Schemes Exposed one choice: Starts Civil War for you CM ✓
  • ▸ I suppose all that matters now is victory.
    Starts Civil War for youGain trait: The Uncrowned
    grants
    BONUS_START_CIVIL_WAR
    OccurrenceStartPlayer OCCURRENCE_CIVIL_WAR
    BONUS_GIVE_TRAIT_THE_UNCROWNED
    aeAddTraits: TRAIT_THE_UNCROWNED
Unsafe CM ✓
  • ▸ Sleep poorly.
    Gain trait: Paranoid
    grants
    BONUS_GIVE_TRAIT_PARANOID
    aeAddTraits: TRAIT_PARANOID
[rival] Interference one choice: The rival nation declares war on you CM ✓ Player Max Near
As it opens, before you choose The rival nation gains your cityYour character joins the nation of the rival nation
  • ▸ I suppose [character] means to provoke a war. He has.
    +6 LegitimacyRemembered: Player Offer (5 turns)The rival nation declares war on you
    grants
    BONUS_PLAYER_WAR_LEGITIMACY
    DiplomacyPlayerTo DIPLOMACY_WAR
    iLegitimacy 6
    aeBonuses: BONUS_PLAYER_OFFER
  • ▸ Not the price I wished to pay, but at least [rival] is at last rid of our dear [character].
    (no gates or payload in XML)
Accused one choice: Your leader abdicates the throne CM ✓
  • ▸ There is nothing for it, I suppose. Leave them to their whispers.
    -5 LegitimacyGain trait: Stressed
    grants
    BONUS_ACCUSED_OF_USURPATION
    iLegitimacy -5
    aeBonuses: BONUS_GIVE_TRAIT_STRESSED
  • ▸ Enough. A nest of vipers I can handle, or a court of the feebleminded. But Gods help any King when those are one and the same.
    Your leader abdicates the throne
    grants
    BONUS_ABDICATE_FREE
    bAbdicate 1
Tables Turn CM ✓
  • ▸ And somehow, none of that tells you when the knives will come out.
    Leader relationship: Plotting Against
    grants
    BONUS_LEADER_PLOTTING_AGAINST
    AddLeaderRelationship RELATIONSHIP_PLOTTING_AGAINST