狂欢生活重心

狂欢（英文：Carousing）生活重心增加+3外交并允许举办小型私人宴会。

宴会可以提供很多提升自身外交能力等级以及与会NPC好感的机会。所有的与会者都会对宴会举办者提升+10的好感。有两个事件可以帮助你获得新的友谊（+100好感）。有些事件可以可以获得“愉悦”的角色修正，这个修正提供+10大众好感持续2年。

在使用狂欢重心举办三次宴会提升狂欢等级，你可以分别获得：

• “豪饮者”(+1外交)
• “狂欢者”(+2外交)
• 选择获得以下生活特质：
  • 享乐主义者(+2外交，+1密谋，+20%生育能力)
  • 社交者(+3外交，+10性吸引力)

通过在宴会中玩游戏，你可以获得：

• “棋盘游戏学徒”（+1外交）
• 游戏大师（+2外交，+1军事，+30%狭窄阵线）

另外需要注意的是，如果一个食人者出现在访客名单里，注意安全！而如果食人者邀请你参加宴会，更要三思而后行，不然……

举办宴会

邀请

你只能邀请本国境内的角色。每一个被邀请者都必须是成年人、不处于战争中、不是无能的以及不是被囚禁的。AI决定是否接受邀请更多的是基于自己的特质而不是好感。

• 同意
  • 非常倾向于同意：你的廷臣，具有酒鬼特质，具有享乐主义者特质，具有腐化特质
  • 倾向于同意：你的直属封臣，具有色欲特质，具有合群特质，具有暴食特质
  • 倾向于不同意：具有紧张不安特质，具有忠贞特质，具有独身主义者特质，具有多疑特质
  • 非常倾向于不同意：患有严重疾病，具有沮丧消沉的特质，好感度低于-25，具有温和特质，具有害羞特质
  • 绝不会同意：仇敌，没有享乐主义者、腐化或者酒鬼特质的穆斯林
• 拒绝
• “拒绝并谴责堕落”
  • 具有狂热特质的穆斯林或者印度教的宫廷上师
  • 如果具有勇敢特质或者好感低于-50将有5倍可能受到谴责

If someone accepts your invitation, their opinion of you increases by 10 (Carousing) and they will attend your party.

If someone declines your invitation, you lose 3 prestige. If someone declines and condemns decadence, you lose 10 prestige instead. In both cases, for two years you will have -10 opinion of them (Declined Invitation) and cannot invite them again during this time.

Party events

After 3–4 months, the invited guests arrive at your party. The party lasts about a month. It will be cancelled if nobody accepts your invitation or if you go to war.

One random event will happen at your party, affecting the host and one or all guests. By limiting your guest list, you can make some events impossible, thus making desired events more likely.

Description	Weight	Conditions	Effects
Party fling	20	Host and guest are both / and attracted to each other	Host or guest proposes* a fling If accepted: both characters get Cheery; chance of pregnancy and/or transmitting disease (similar to Seduction#Tumbling) If declined: opinion decrease; becomes if not ; proposer loses 5 prestige
Friendship forms	30	Host and guest are not already friends	A friendship forms
Fight breaks out	2	Host or guest is , , or	One character goes into a rage. The other gets a choice to: Fight. Both are at risk of injury (89% beaten up, 10% wounded, 1% maimed) Talk. Requires 15 diplomacy. 20% chance to increase diplomacy skill. 20% chance to form friendship. Hide. Removes or has 30% chance to add .
Cannibalism	2 (or 20)	Host or guest is , , or	Host eats* guest, or vice versa! Gains the trait: +3 martial, +1 personal combat, -10 general opinion, 10x more likely to trigger this event
Lunatic amuses	20	Host or guest is	Lunatic gains Cheery for 2 years. If lunatic is host, so do all guests. If lunatic is guest, so does the host.
Drunkard overdrinks	10	Host or guest is	Drunkard gets the character modifier Epic Hangover for 1 year (-2 diplomacy). Observer opinion of drunkard is changed by -10 for 4 years (Despise drunkard), or +10 for 4 years (Gained Respect) if also drunkard.
Tabletop games	10 (or 30)	Always possible; 3x more likely if host or guest is	Host chooses whether to bet 5 wealth on the outcome of the game Host gains the Apprentice Boardgamer character modifier (+1 diplomacy) if they win Host is very likely to win if Smart

A * indicates that players can decide to override their character's inclination. This may cause their character to gain a bad trait due to cognitive dissonance.

End of the party

This event triggers for the host and all guests.

• Gain 20 prestige
• 30% chance to lose /
• Cannot host a party for 200 days
• A choice of how to level up, if eligible:
  • If focus is Carousing, you can level up to Carouser (+1 diplomacy) and then Dedicated Carouser (+2 diplomacy)
  • If focus is Carousing, and you are already a Dedicated Carouser, you can upgrade to the lifestyle trait (+2 diplomacy, +1 intrigue)
  • If focus is Carousing, and you are already a Dedicated Carouser, you can upgrade to the lifestyle trait (+3 diplomacy)
  • If Apprentice Boardgamer (+1 diplomacy), and you played games at this party, you can upgrade to the lifestyle trait (+2 diplomacy, +1 martial).

Ambition events

If your diplomacy is less than 8, these events can trigger, each with a MTTH of 280 months:

• The Mirror (once per lifetime)
• The Suicide (once per lifetime) (not in hiding)
• Town Crier (not in hiding)
• Foreign Cultures
• Old Diplomat (not Indian religion)

Strategies

Get Apprentice Boardgamer for +1 diplomacy:

• Likely if you invite a .
• Guaranteed if you only invite characters who are already your friends and cannot trigger special events.

Get Cheery for +10 general opinion:

• The safe way is to become / and invite a / character with the potential for mutual attraction.
• Guaranteed if you only invite someone eligible who is already your friend and cannot trigger special events.
• Repeat every 2 years.
• To become , use the first.
• To become , throw 3 parties and choose the lifestyle.

Make friends:

• With powerful vassals.
• With councilors, so they are likely to pick the stance and support your actions in council votes.
• With an eligible skilled character, if you have any skill between 5 and 9.
• With a celibate character, if you already have 2 kids and don't want more. This requires not having a lifestyle trait, even though celibate is no longer a lifestyle trait.
• With courtiers of other religions, as there is an event that can fire to convert them to your religion or you to their religion.

Hold large parties for opinion boosts and guest health:

• Invite all vassals, along with their adult heirs, for +5 opinion from all guests.
• Invite all family members who are or , and possibly their spouses, in order to increase their health and fertility.
• Just don't invite someone who might eat you. Similarly, decline invitations from hosts who are likely to eat you as well.