Consult (the City) to understand the city's needs

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London relies on its markets to know what is needed: an imperfect signal, and one that leaves some deprived.

Description summary:
The title of the city varies based on its Founding Body.

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Game Instructions: This will decrease The City Waning as well as providing prosperity.

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A valuable reply

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You emerge from the consultation with a far clearer sense of the work to be done.

Description summary:
The first paragraph varies based on the city's Founding Body.

Founding Body	First Paragraph
1000 - 2000	The spirit of Furnace is acutely sensitive to imbalance or need. What might, in some other city, require surveys and census work and an entire regulatory body, can here be sensed as instinctively as hunger or thirst.
3000	The city is prone to fads and impulses. It's Cornelius' spirit at work again. If the leadership didn't curb it [...], it could lead the whole town into disaster [...] Its responses are therefore extreme, but you can interpret them into something more reasonable.
4000	Your Double is capable of attending to the city's welfare. But it has so many different matters to consider that, if one wants a precise answer, it's wise to ask a precise question.
5000	The Manager-city watches the collective well-being and it sends its omens in sleep. An imbalance of trade or a rising level of collective fear translates in dreams of inferno and flood. It has no difficulty understanding what you ask.

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