Persuade the Hell-Scarred Gondolier/Tables
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Difficulty[edit]
Question before the Board | Base Difficulty |
7 - Recommending a Route across a Ravine | 0 |
9 - Recommending a Route through Wasteland | 100 |
10 - Proposing the Removal of His Amused Lordship | 300 |
11 - Proposing the Removal of the Efficient Commissioner | 300 |
12 - Proposing the Removal of the Jovial Contrarian | 300 |
13 - Proposing the Removal of Sinning Jenny | 200 |
14 - Proposing the Removal of Feducci | 500 |
15 - Proposing the Removal of Virginia | 700 |
16 - Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona | 500 |
17 - Proposing the Removal of the Dean of Xenotheology | 300 |
18 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's | 300 |
19 - Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Southwark | 300 |
20 - Proposing the Removal of the Tentacled Entrepreneur | 300 |
21 - Proposing the Removal of the Gracious Widow | 400 |
22 - Proposing the Removal of April | 700 |
24 - Proposing the Removal of September | 500 |
26 - Proposing the Removal of the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle | 400 |
27 - Proposing the Removal of the Rubbery Yes-Man | 300 |
29 - Proposing the Removal of Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist | 200 |
30 - Proposing the Removal of January | 580 |
31 - Proposing the Removal of the Wry Functionary | 300 |
32 - Proposing the Removal of the Delightful Reverend | 300 |
33 - Proposing the Removal of the Drummer | 700 |
35 - Proposing the Removal of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner | 300 |
37 - Proposing the Removal of the Implacable Detective | 300 |
100 - Proposing a Station Plan | 100 |
105 - Proposing a Station Plan more like a Fortress | 100 |
115 - Proposing a Station Plan styled in the Manner of Hell | 100 |
120 - Proposing a Station Plan that Honours the Bazaar | 500 |
130 - Proposing a Station Plan that Speaks to the Glory of London and the Empress | 520 |
140 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to Wasteland | 100 |
150 - Proposing a Station Plan Suited to a Surface Summer | 100 |
160 - Proposing an ice-resistant route and a well-insulated station | 100 |
170 - Proposing the connection to the final station at Marigold | 100 |
181 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Ealing Gardens | 100 |
182 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near the Magistracy of the Evenlode | 240 |
183 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Balmoral | 100 |
184 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Station VIII | 300 |
185 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Burrow-infra-Mump | 380 |
186 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City somewhere between Moulin and Hurlers, as no one sensible wants that land at all | 300 |
187 - Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Marigold Station, under the walls of Hell | 100 |
200 - Recommending Better Defences for Each Train | 400 |
205 - Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train | 100 |
210 - Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train | 200 |
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders (non-Worker charter) | 100 |
400 - Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders (Worker charter) | |
520 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell | 240 |
521 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Feducci's Guidance | 240 |
522 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following April's Guidance | 200 |
523 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Virginia's Guidance | 0 |
525 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Bishop of Southwark's Guidance | 520 |
526 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following His Amused Lordship's Guidance | 300 |
528 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Cornelius' Guidance | 100 |
529 - Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Viscountess' Guidance | 240 |
700 - Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral | 200 |
710 - Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral | 200 |
720 - Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral | 200 |
800 - Proposing a tracklayer aligned with Mr Fires | 300 |
850 - Proposing Cornelius to lead | 200 |
905 - Proposing the Dean of Xenotheology as Patron of the Burrow Church | 500 |
931 - Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge | 260 |
932 - Supporting Cornelius' Prehistoricist Building Approach | 260 |
934 - Proposing a Package of Measures to Resume Normal Operations | 0 |
940 - Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups | 100 |
941 - Proposing a dividend be paid out to the poor of the Hinterlands | 100 |
1000 - Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower | 260 |
1010 - Proposing an inhuman tribute to the Hillchanger Tower | 240 |
1020 - Proposing a calendrical tribute to the Hillchanger Tower | 240 |
1100 - Proposing to send your train to war in Parabola (Cats, FKs, Gent, Visc., Other) | 200 (Cats) 240 (FKs, Gent) 300 (Visc.) 340 (Other) |
1110 - Proposing to build a spur line into Parabola so that you can send in a war-train | 300 |
Success Text[edit]
Question before the Board | Success Description |
160 | The Gondolier votes yes – but his teeth are rattling. Is there a draft in here? |
181 - 187 | "Any place is like any other place […] Except for the place of marigolds, and the place of the rose, and the silent place, and the place of the judge, and the place where there is very little screaming..." He goes on like this […] |
520 - 523, 525, 526, 528, 529 | "Might as well this folly as any other," […] "Since you are bound to go where you should not and see what you should not and know what you should not." Then he digresses into some business about bombs that nest like insects and birth like worms […] |
905, 910 | "Oh, very well," says the Hell-Scarred Gondolier. "But a Church will not save you nor them." |
1000 - 1020 | […] "I have been to the place where the treaty was made between the ancient Guild and the powers of the Neath. […] it is inscribed in the Tongue of Ash, whose words are never used now, except in eulogy."
[…]
"Make the treaty," says the Gondolier. |
1100, 1110 | "Why not," the Hell-Scarred Gondolier says after a moment's pause. "Death comes for us all in the end. Why should dreams be spared?" |
Board Member | Second paragraph of Success Description |
Board Member: The Drummer | You become conscious of a deep, slow pounding, transmitted through the floor. The Hell-Scarred Gondolier feels it too. He catches your eye and smiles without joy. |
Failure Text[edit]
Question before the Board | Failure Description |
100, 105, 115 - 150 | […] he whispers […] about the stain left by a crushed marigold when it is ground into cloth, and the frostbite that comes of trying to stretch out one's hand to the Adulterine Castle. […] the threat hovers implacably over the boardroom […] |
160 | "I think not," […]
[…] he's concerned about running into stones that aren't there or a castle that doesn't exist. Something about goats and the games they don't play. This non-existent threat nevertheless puts a halt to the Board's discussion. |
520 - 522, 525, 526, 528, 529, 700 - 720, 800, 850 | "I wouldn't do that," […]
And then he tells a story about the severed head of a general that, even after his capture and imprisonment and execution, could not stop boasting of its victory in war. He does not say how this story applies […] |
905, 910 | The Hell-Scarred Gondolier sighs despondently. "There's no point. A Church will not save you nor them, in the end." |
1000 - 1020 | The Hell-Scarred Gondolier puts his head in his hands and will not speak, except in short bursts: something about the ally of Hell's Monarchy, and something about tumult and the earth folding itself up like a sheet of paper. |
1100, 1110 | The Hell-Scarred Gondolier weeps as he turns his thoughts to Parabola. "They showed me its treacheries," he whispers. His tears turn to violets upon the table, withering as they fall. |
Board Member | Second paragraph of Failure Description |
Board Member: His Amused Lordship | "Fascinating," remarks His Amused Lordship. He makes a note to himself and puts it in the pocket of his waistcoat. |