Drained
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Description summary:
The description varies with the city's Alignment, Style, and Chosen Site.
Alignment | First Paragraph |
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Liberationist | There are too few people for these streets, and those who are present seldom stop to talk. Gone are the excited conversations about how the world will be when all the stars are quenched. |
Radical Liberationist | The population is scanter now, and the conversations angrier. Rifts appear even among the staunch […]: these want to put out all light, those to abandon even the words for the concept of law. Scuffles break out over who is the truest Liberationist. |
Liberationist-Prehistoricist | There are too few people for these streets, and those who are present seldom stop to talk. Gone are the speculations of a peligin future, of brawny midnight Shames. |
Prehistoricist | There are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak, much less to talk of the beasts they mean to breed. |
Radical Prehistoricist | The population is scanter now, and the conversations angrier. There are disagreements about whether the Prehistoricist purpose is adequately satisfied through the practical arts, or whether it requires a philosophical and theoretical engagement. [...] |
Prehistoricist-Emancipationist | There are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak, much less to talk of the beasts they mean to breed and the grander city they will one day inhabit. |
Emancipationist | There are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak. The communal silos are refilled, but only grudgingly. |
Radical Emancipationist | The population is scanter now, and the conversations angrier. Which of the resources here should be included under 'common goods'? Who gets to decide whether each family's needs are being suitably met? What's to be done with a windfall? |
Emancipationist-Liberationist | There are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak. The communal silos are refilled, but only grudgingly. There are questions over whether someone at the top is filching from the supply. |
Anti-Liberationist | There are too few people for these streets. The remaining pedestrians are stand-offish, and every stranger is suspected of being a secret Liberationist. |
Anti-Prehistoricist | There are too few people for these streets. The remaining pedestrians are stand-offish, and every stranger is suspected of being a secret Prehistoricist. |
Anti-Emancipationist | There are too few people for these streets. The remaining pedestrians are stand-offish, and every stranger is suspected of being a secret Emancipationist. |
Mixed, Balanced, Complacently Unrevolutionary | There are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak, but walk by quietly, burdened by their own affairs. |
Unknown |
Style | Second Paragraph |
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First City | The city itself seems older and less vital. |
Bethlehem | The city itself seems meeker, more resentful than dangerous. |
School of Beatrice, True Beatrice | The city itself seems smaller, its labyrinthine lanes only leading back to the same two courtyards, the same mossy fountain. |
Ivory | The city itself seems disappointed, its streets bare of the beasts that were meant to roam here. No eggs incubate in the hatching theatres. |
Porous | The city itself seems weaker, the walls bleached. |
Remembered | The city itself seems more ordinary, just another middling market town with nothing to distinguish it. |
Celestial | The city itself seems more ordinary, its pretensions to summer more pathetic. |
Auroral | The city itself seems plainer, its glow more like ordinary gaslight. |
Nocturnal | The city itself seems more ordinary, its darkness only a cover for dirt and disarray. |
Bazaarine | The city itself seems more ordinary; its secrets and riddles, more like a banal pastime for those with too much time. |
Cenotaphic | The city itself seems to have lost some of its power, like a requiem heard too many times. |
Chosen Site | Last Sentence |
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Ealing Gardens | Ealing Gardens looms larger on the horizon. |
The Magistracy of the Evenlode | the Magistracy of the Evenlode looms larger on the horizon. |
Balmoral | Balmoral looms larger on the horizon. |
Station VIII | Station VIII looms larger on the horizon. |
Burrow | Burrow-infra-Mump looms larger on the horizon. |
Moulin/Hurlers | Moulin looms larger on the horizon. |
Marigold | Marigold looms larger on the horizon. |
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Occurs with Standard Frequency
Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.
Options:
Advertise for newcomers even if not from the Union
- Spoiler
Challenge information
Broad, 100 || 69 - very chancy (41%) || 85 - chancy (51%) || 102 - modest (61%) || 119 - very modest (71%) || 135 - low-risk (81%) || 152 - straightforward (91%) || 167 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Extra arrivals
- Persuasive is increasing…
- The City Waning is dropping… (-6 CP)
- Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)
Alternative Success
An influx of [Arrivals]
- Persuasive is increasing…
- The City Waning is dropping… (-6 CP)
- Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)
- You've gained 3 x Inkling of Identity
Failure
What were you thinking?
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)
Advertise, and make sure the newcomers are welcome
- Spoiler
Challenge information
Broad, 100 || 69 - very chancy (41%) || 85 - chancy (51%) || 102 - modest (61%) || 119 - very modest (71%) || 135 - low-risk (81%) || 152 - straightforward (91%) || 167 - 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
A campaign on two fronts
- Persuasive is increasing…
- The City Waning is dropping… (-6 CP)
Alternative Success
An influx of [Arrivals]
- Persuasive is increasing…
- The City Waning is dropping… (-6 CP)
- You've gained 30 x Inkling of Identity
Failure
- Persuasive is increasing…
Remind them of what the city is
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Success
Courage
- You've lost 1 x Captivating Ballad
- The City Waning is dropping… (-10 CP)
- You've gained 4 x Antique Mystery
Hasten the decline
- Spoiler
Challenge information
Broad, 100 || 69 - very chancy (41%) || 85 - chancy (51%) || 102 - modest (61%) || 119 - very modest (71%) || 135 - low-risk (81%) || 152 - straightforward (91%) || 167 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Rumours of corruption
- Persuasive is increasing…
- The City Waning is increasing… (+4 CP)
Failure
Less effect than you might hope
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+4 CP)
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Hinterland City - Official Alignment Text Uses
- Pages with missing variant text
- Hinterland City - The Style of a City Text Uses
- Hinterland City - Chosen Site Text Uses
- Habituated to the Hinterland
- The City Waning
- Cards - The City of the Tracklayers
- Standard Frequency
- Non-discardable
- Black Cards