To: Korea, Vietnam
From: Portugal
CC: France, Great Britain, Netherlands
Portugal will join the other great powers in discouraging a potential Korean-Vietnamese military alliance, in concern of the effects it could have on the stability in the region that we have all worked so hard to achieve.
To: Austria-Hungary
From: The Holy See
Your apology has been accepted. May God be with you.
His Holiness, and his blessed successors, has been most concerned with the liberal reformist direction Austria has been taking over the past several decades. Bringing your country back towards a state less influenced by the unholy writings of Voltaire and Marat would be looked favorably upon by His Holiness. End this "constitutional" nonsense and restore true, divine, rule.
(OOC: I don't have Jehoshua powers unfortunately, so feel free to laugh uncontrollably at how horrible my Papal roleplaying is, but that sums up the Pope's position on the matter.)
To: Austria-Hungary
From: Hanover
The Kingdom of Hanover is not interested in making any agreements with you, who was allied to the country that helped steal our rightful territory.
To: Austria-Hungary
From: Hessia
Hessia is interested in a military alliance. Let this be the dawn of a new era of friendship between Kassel and Vienna.
To: Austria-Hungary
From: Wurzburg
Wurzburg is interested in a defensive alliance. Perhaps sometime in the future, if conditions are right, a full military alliance would be in the cards.
To: Austria-Hungary
From: Wurttemberg
Wurttemberg is interested in a defensive alliance, but no more than that right now.
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Delhi here.
Though I wanted to point out that in the stats it says my upkeep is 43 but the 2 numbers below it add up to 50.
Thank you for catching that, it should be 50, not 43. I'll change it.
Question for GM- Which views are most popular amongst dissenters against the Austro-Hungarian regime?
Mostly various minorities, particularly in the Balkans, arguing for greater representation/ self-determination or even independence from Vienna. There are also those calling for the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic, but that mostly goes with the aforementioned nationalism, and most of the Germans and Hungarians within the empire aren't in favor of such a radical proposition, instead favoring merely increasing constitutional power. There's also a small but vocal minority of German nationalists calling for Austria to become part of a pan-German state, but their numbers are declining.
It's also worth pointing out to everyone that the Catholic Church is currently Europe's running punchline because of how irrelevant it is and how relevant it likes pretending to be. The Catholic Church's views should not be taken as representing any form of widespread sentiment.
I'd like to play as Sardinia, if it isn't already taken.
Welcome!
lurker's comment: Should have gone for Butterflies with Bullet Wings.