Poem Duel

[BakuMaster]

I feel I have a fun idea for a feature relating to the upcoming poet trait.

If you send an insulting poem to another poet they can respond with one of their own. This can lead to an event chain where you can spend a small amount of prestige and take a ramping stress hit to send a new reply/rebuke in poem form. The last character to respond will win the total amount of prestige spent, but will only get a small stress loss.

The idea is that it becomes a risk/reward decision or a “how long can you hold your breath” contest.

 

[klopkr]

This just makes me think of this scene.

Poets showing off their poetry to each other as my character sweats when Paulus Allinius pulls out his gold trimmed and illuminate poem.