Observe the (Alignment) culture at work
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From: Hinterland City Streets (Card)
What has become of [City Name]?
Challenge information
Broad, Unknown Difficulty Level
Success
Politics in action
Description summary:
This action's title and success description vary based on the Official Alignment of the city.
Alignment | Description |
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Liberationist | Lighting is kept to a minimum, and the constabulary finds no assistance when it heads this way. In some parts of the city even the light of the false-stars is blotted out with black awnings. |
Radical Liberationist | There are no street-lamps and no candles. Thick canopies overhead black out even the feeble light of the false-stars. One navigates instead by scent and sound and the varying sensation of the pavements underfoot. |
Liberationist-Prehistoricist | There are all sorts of creatures in the street, black-scaled and lamp-eyed: defenders of the walls, and fierce against any soldier or constable who might come from outside. Towards the local citizens, they are meek as rabbits. |
Prehistoricist | The work of street-sweeping is not considered suitable for humans: bred to this cause instead is a spined bullfrog […] With every leap, it gathers […] rubbish and paper on its quills. It is out of sight before you can see how it cleans itself again. |
Radical Prehistoricist | The gate of the city is ringed with teeth; emblazoned overhead is […] a snapped chain. […] far more creatures than human beings, and many of the humans are no longer […] as they were at birth. Laboratories are as common as costermongers, […] |
Prehistoricist-Emancipationist | Humans work side-by-side with the caretaker monsters of the city; a girl with a taper is seeing to the lamps on one side of the street, but her colleague on the other side has the neck of a giraffe and a breath like a lit sparkler. |
Emancipationist | At the street corner is a public cupboard, stocked with spare rations […] It contains […] incorruptible biscuits. The real wealth of the city is distributed in a more organised fashion: every household has a claim to the share of the harvest and proceeds. |
Radical Emancipationist | The city is very practically arranged, with plenty of street lights, and storehouses for common goods. Laboratories are discouraged, however, and […] esoteric sciences are frowned upon. No mucking about with bones here! as one bit of graffiti has it. |
Emancipationist-Liberationist | The city prides itself on the sanctuary that it offers refugees, whether these are criminals or Clay Men escaping unpleasant owners, or curious newcomers from further away. A dormitory by the city gate provides them with temporary shelter[…] |
Anti-Liberationist | The city is brightly lit, and in some places, a figure of the sun is inscribed. Darkness is not prohibited - this is not Varchas - but the citizens are keen to distinguish themselves from any form of liberationist approach. |
Anti-Prehistoricist | Every kind of job is performed by humans in rotation, and the subjugation of pets is discouraged. […] backlash against Prehistoricism means that even […] a trained ferret or a raven may provoke a warning about forcing other creatures to perform our work. |
Anti-Emancipationist | Signs here and there in the city suggest that people without ideology are not welcome here: Liberationists and Prehistoricists each have their visions of the city, but no one tolerates a milksop. |
Mixed | The political arguments on-going before the foundation of the city have not entirely ceased: the relative merits of emancipationism and prehistoricism – not to mention the dark of liberation – are debated in graffiti form. |
Balanced | Different neighbourhoods [...] lean a little more in this direction or in that: a Liberationist [...] keeps the southern [...] in shadow, while the northeast [...] more laboratories [...] The citizens plainly derive some satisfaction from the balance of their views, however. |
Complacently Unrevolutionary | Some people say it feels just like London now. That is incorrect, of course. The city has nothing like London's vibrancy, its size, its ambition. No, it feels more like a fallen Tunbridge Wells. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained (200 + ) x Hinterland Prosperity
Failure
Curious
[See above]
The sight leaves you unsettled. Even when there is no one on the streets, the city is watching you. It sees every place you go.- Watchful is increasing…
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- [Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)
Categories:
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Tracklayers' City Text Uses
- Hinterland City - A Blithe Indifference to Politics
- Watchful Challenge
- Diff
- Hinterland City - Official Alignment Text Uses
- Actions
- Habituated to the Hinterland Gain
- Hinterland Prosperity Gain
- Hinterland Efficiency
- Hinterland Efficiency Formula Uses
- Nightmares Gain
- Airs of Passengers Gain