(Assign work shifts) (Other)

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From: The Business of the City

Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on the city's Style.

Style	Title	Description
First City Porous Ivory Remembered Celestial Auroral	See to the farm assignments	The first business is to see everyone properly fed.
Bethlehem	Assign laudanum-couriers	Sleep and dreams must be metered out carefully in this city of red velvet and brass.
School of Beatrice	Assign shifts in the hospices	The Manager's city is full of hospitals, and the city has the will to keep them staffed.
Nocturnal	Assign lantern-bearers	The city is no longer strictly Liberationist, but it remains a bit dark, thanks to your double's Nocturnal inclinations. A bother, really.
Bazaarine	Assign oracle-givers	Furnace has dubiously concluded that a Bazaarine city needs enigmatic street-performers.
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE	FATE
Cenotaphic	Assign eulogists	The memory of your departed is refreshed each day.

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Game Instructions: If successful, this will reduce The City Waning.

Unlocked with ,  400

Locked with  2

Challenge information

Broad, 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, 5 (50% base)

• 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 2 - high-risk (20%)
• 3 - high-risk (30%)
• 4 - tough (40%)
• 5 - very chancy (50%)
• 6 - chancy (60%)
• 7 - modest (70%)
• 8 - very modest (80%)
• 9 - low-risk (90%)
• 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

No good deed goes unpunished

You have chits representing the available work days from each eligible citizen, and a board with holes to drop them into. But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: [...]

Description summary:
The rest of the description varies based on the city's Style.

Style	Description
First City Porous Ivory Remembered Celestial Auroral	there are additional questions of [...] leadership. These two workers hate one another, and must not be on the same shift. [...] That worker sets a good pace, but some people find him intimidating. [...] It was worse, Furnace says, when there was iron involved.
Bethlehem	The difficult part is coordinating with the arrival of proper supplies; that requires cross-reference with journey time to the nearest station, and the expected schedule of trains. "When they run on time," adds Furnace, unnecessarily.
School of Beatrice	there are additional questions of ability and determination and empathetic manner. Bedside manner never mattered when all you were attending was a metal track. You get the notion Furnace misses those days.
Nocturnal	there are additional questions of ability and determination and friendliness to lost members of the general public.
Bazaarine	You further rely on a set of dice and a deck of cards to decide [...] which Zee-island they should pretend to hail from. Furnace humours all this [...] But it [...] makes every other worker feel, if only briefly, that their efforts belong to an arcane and majestic plan.
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE
Cenotaphic	there are additional questions of sensibility and eloquence.

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  The City Waning is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

Distinct disapproval

You haven't got the knack of phrasing your assignments in a way this population will approve. There's a good deal of grumbling about your involvement, which Furnace has to soothe.

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)
• [Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)