Editing Persuade the Implacable Detective/Tables

<noinclude>[[Category:Tables]]</noinclude>
==Difficulty==
{{Variant table
|Condition = Question before the Board |Condition alias = Question
|Condition type = <noinclude>Raw</noinclude><includeonly>Math</includeonly>
|Effect = [[Persuade the Implacable Detective/Tables|Base Difficulty]]
|Value 1 = 1 - [[Plan the next route through occupied buildings, alongside the Moloch Line|Recommending a Route through Occupied Buildings]]
|Effect 1 = 240
|Value 2 = 2 - [[Plan the next route through abandoned buildings|Proposing the Demolition of Unused Houses]]
|Effect 2 = 100
|Value 3 = 3 - [[Plan the next route through the Pitiless Bog|Recommending a Route over Marshland]]
|Effect 3 = 100
|Value 4 = 4 - [[Plan the next route across the Plain of Thirsty Grasses|Recommending a Route through Plainsland]]
|Effect 4 = 100
|Value 5 = 5 - [[Plan the next route over the Monkprince Hills|Route through Hills]]
|Effect 5 = 100
|Value 7 = 7 - [[Plan the next route across a ravine|Recommending a Route across a Ravine]]
|Effect 7 = 240
|Value 9 = 9 - [[Plan the next route through Wasteland|Recommending a Route through Wasteland]]
|Effect 9 = 100
|Value 10 = 10 - [[Vote His Amused Lordship off the Board|Proposing the Removal of His Amused Lordship]]
|Effect 10 = 100
|Value 11 = 11 - [[Vote the Efficient Commissioner off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Efficient Commissioner]]
|Effect 11 = 100
|Value 12 = 12 - [[Vote the Jovial Contrarian off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Jovial Contrarian]]
|Effect 12 = 100
|Value 13 = 13 - [[Vote Sinning Jenny off the board|Proposing the Removal of Sinning Jenny]]
|Effect 13 = 100
|Value 14 = 14 - [[Vote Feducci off the board|Proposing the Removal of Feducci]]
|Effect 14 = 100
|Value 15 = 15 - [[Vote Virginia off the board|Proposing the Removal of Virginia]]
|Effect 15 = 100
|Value 16 = 16 - [[Vote Furnace off the board|Proposing the Removal of Furnace Ancona]]
|Effect 16 = 100
|Value 17 = 17 - [[Vote the Dean of Xenotheology off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Dean of Xenotheology]]
|Effect 17 = 240
|Value 18 = 18 - [[Vote the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Saint Fiacre's]]
|Effect 18 = 100
|Value 19 = 19 - [[Vote the Bishop of Southwark off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Bishop of Southwark]]
|Effect 19 = 100
|Value 20 = 20 - [[Vote the Tentacled Entrepreneur off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Tentacled Entrepreneur]]
|Effect 20 = 100
|Value 21 = 21 - [[Vote the Gracious Widow off the board|Proposing the Removal of the Gracious Widow]]
|Effect 21 = 0
|Value 22 = 22 - [[Vote April off the Board|Proposing the Removal of April]]
|Effect 22 = 100
|Value 23 = 23 - [[Vote the Wandering Gondolier off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Wandering Gondolier]]
|Effect 23 = 100
|Value 24 = 24 - [[Vote September off the Board|Proposing the Removal of September]]
|Effect 24 = 200
|Value 26 = 26 - [[Vote the Viscountess off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Viscountess of the Viric Jungle]]
|Effect 26 = 100
|Value 27 = 27 - [[Vote the Rubbery Yes-Man off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Rubbery Yes-Man]]
|Effect 27 = 100
|Value 28 = 28 - [[Vote the Hell-Scarred Gondolier off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Hell-Scarred Gondolier]]
|Effect 28 = 100
|Value 29 = 29 - [[Vote Cornelius off the Board|Proposing the Removal of Cornelius, the Bandaged Prehistoricist]]
|Effect 29 = 300
|Value 30 = 30 - [[Vote January off the Board|Proposing the Removal of January]]
|Effect 30 = 200
|Value 31 = 31 - [[Vote the Wry Functionary off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Wry Functionary]]
|Effect 31 = 100
|Value 32 = 32 - [[Vote the Delightful Reverend off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Delightful Reverend]]
|Effect 32 = 100
|Value 33 = 33 - [[Vote the Drummer off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Drummer]]
|Effect 33 = 100
|Value 35 = 35 - [[Vote the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner off the Board|Proposing the Removal of the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner]]
|Effect 35 = 220
|Value 100 = 100 - [[Propose a plan for the next Station building and for the train engines to go there|Proposing a Station Plan]]
|Effect 100 = 100
|Value 105 = 105 - [[Propose a station that is a defiance to All|Proposing a Station Plan more like a Fortress]]
|Effect 105 = 380
|Value 115 = 115 - [[Propose a daringly-built station in brass and rose, tribute to Hell|Proposing a Station Plan styled in the Manner of Hell]]
|Effect 115 = 100
|Value 120 = 120 - [[Propose a station building proclaiming the Bazaar's great reach|Proposing a Station Plan that Honours the Bazaar]]
|Effect 120 = 100
|Value 130 = 130 - [[Propose a station building unmistakably of the Empress' realm|Proposing a Station Plan that Speaks to the Glory of London and the Empress]]
|Effect 130 = 0
|Value 140 = 140 - [[Propose a station fit for the wilderness|Proposing a Station Plan Suited to Wasteland]]
|Effect 140 = 100
|Value 150 = 150 - [[Propose the kind of station one might find in a sleepy village in Oxfordshire|Proposing a Station Plan Suited to a Surface Summer]]
|Effect 150 = 100
|Value 160 = 160 - [[Plan for an icy route to the Hurlers|Proposing an ice-resistant route and a well-insulated station]]
|Effect 160 = 100
|Value 170 = 170 - [[Put forward the last plans for the last station|Proposing the connection to the final station at Marigold]]
|Effect 170 = 100
|Value 181 = 181 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Ealing Gardens|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Ealing Gardens]]
|Effect 181 = 100
|Value 182 = 182 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near the Magistracy of the Evenlode|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near the Magistracy of the Evenlode]]
|Effect 182 = 0
|Value 183 = 183 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Balmoral|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Balmoral]]
|Effect 183 = 380
|Value 184 = 184 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Station VIII|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Station VIII]]
|Effect 184 = 100
|Value 185 = 185 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city near Burrow-infra-Mump|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Burrow-infra-Mump]]
|Effect 185 = 100
|Value 186 = 186 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city between Moulin and Hurlers|Proposing a Tracklayers' City somewhere between Moulin and Hurlers, as no one sensible wants that land at all]]
|Effect 186 = 100
|Value 187 = 187 - [[Plan your last route, and set aside land for a tracklayers' city at the outskirts of Hell|Proposing a Tracklayers' City near Marigold Station, under the walls of Hell]]
|Effect 187 = 100
|Value 200 = 200 - [[Add Train Defences|Recommending Better Defences for Each Train]]
|Effect 200 = 60 × {{<noinclude>IL</noinclude><includeonly>Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|Train Defences}}
|Value 205 = 205 - [[Build more room for baggage on the train|Recommending More Baggage Accommodations for Each Train]]
|Effect 205 = 100 + (60 × {{<noinclude>IL</noinclude><includeonly>Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|Train Baggage Accommodations}})
|Value 210 = 210 - [[Add Train Luxuries|Recommending More Luxurious Fittings for Each Train]]
|Effect 210 = 100 + (60 × {{<noinclude>IL</noinclude><includeonly>Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|Train Luxuries}})
|Value 220 = 220 - [[Advocate paying off the striking workers|Recommending More Worker Compensation]]
|Effect 220 = 200
|Value 230 = 230 - [[Recommend giving the workers a share of the company|Recommending Worker Co-ownership]]
|Effect 230 = 100
|Value 240 = 240 - [[Recommend giving the workers a sharp corrective|Recommending the Strike be Broken]]
|Effect 240 = 100
|Value 250 = 250 - [[Free up the funds to excavate whatever the Tracklayers found|Requesting Funds to Excavate the Remains of a Prehistoric Creature]]
|Effect 250 = 160 or 220
|Value 270 = 270 - [[Vote extra funds to build around the anomalous block|Requesting Funds to Route Around an Anomalous Section of London]]
|Effect 270 = 260
|Value 280 = 280 - [[Propose a Red Science solution that would remove the anomalous block|Proposing to Drive the Track through the Zone]]
|Effect 280 = 100
|Value 340 = 340 - [[Accept the Bishop of Southwark's argument for an emphatically mission-oriented charter|Proposing a Charter engaging in the Work of the Church]]
|Effect 340 = 160
|Value 400 = 400 - [[Vote a dividend to the shareholders|Proposing to Pay Dividends to Shareholders]]
|Effect 400 = 200 + (20 × {{<noinclude>IL</noinclude><includeonly>Use|Type=Math</includeonly>|In Corporate Debt}})
|Value 500 = 500 - [[Suggest a detour through Parabola|Proposing a Bypass through Parabola]]
|Effect 500 = 100
|Value 510 = 510 - [[Plan to hire Hellworms and drill through rock that way|Proposing the Rental of Hellworms]]
|Effect 510 = 200
|Value 520 = 520 - [[Plan the next route through former battlefields|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell]]
|Effect 520 = 100
|Value 521 = 521 - [[Support Feducci's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Feducci's Guidance]]
|Effect 521 = 100
|Value 522 = 522 - [[Support April's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following April's Guidance]]
|Effect 522 = 500
|Value 523 = 523 - [[Support Virginia's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Virginia's Guidance]]
|Effect 523 = 100
|Value 525 = 525 - [[Support the motion of the Bishop of Southwark regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Bishop of Southwark's Guidance]]
|Effect 525 = 100
|Value 526 = 526 - [[Support His Amused Lordship's motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following His Amused Lordship's Guidance]]
|Effect 526 = 100
|Value 527 = 527 - [[Support the motion of the Wandering Gondolier regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Wandering Gondolier's Guidance]]
|Effect 527 = 100
|Value 528 = 528 - [[Support Cornelius' motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following Cornelius' Guidance]]
|Effect 528 = 240
|Value 529 = 529 - [[Support the Viscountess' motion regarding a route to Moulin|Proposing to Venture into the Former Battlefields Around Hell, following the Viscountess' Guidance]]
|Effect 529 = 0
|Value 700 = 700 - [[Propose that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that the Unyielding Highlander become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 700 = 100
|Value 710 = 710 - [[Propose September become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that September become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 710 = 100
|Value 720 = 720 - [[Propose the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral|Proposing that the Fervent Widow become Castellan of Balmoral]]
|Effect 720 = 100
|Value 800 = 800 - [[Appoint (a Tracklayer) in Furnace's place|Proposing a tracklayer aligned with Mr Fires]]
|Effect 800 = 500
|Value 850 = 850 - [[Appoint Cornelius in Furnace's place|Proposing Cornelius to lead]]
|Effect 850 = 300
|Value 905 = 905 - [[Propose that the Dean of Xenotheology become Patron of the Burrow Church|Proposing the Dean of Xenotheology as Patron of the Burrow Church]]
|Effect 905 = 100
|Value 910 = 910 - [[Propose that the Bishop of St Fiacre's become Patron of the Burrow Church|Proposing the Bishop of St Fiacre's as Patron of the Burrow Church]]
|Effect 910 = 300
|Value 931 = 931 - [[Vote a new set of concessions to the Union|Resuming Normal Operations with Furnace in Charge]]
|Effect 931 = 260
|Value 932 = 932 - [[Vote on Cornelius' plan to build a Tracklaying Beast|Supporting Cornelius' Prehistoricist Building Approach]]
|Effect 932 = 260
|Value 933 = 933 - [[Vote on new illumination for the stations|Supporting a Brightly-Lit Building Approach]]
|Effect 933 = 220
|Value 934 = 934 - [[Vote a package of measures intended to get work to resume|Proposing a Package of Measures to Resume Normal Operations]]
|Effect 934 = 180
|Value 940 = 940 - [[Propose special consideration to certain charitable groups|Proposing special consideration to certain charitable groups]]
|Effect 940 = 260 or 300
|Value 941 = 941 - [[Propose paying a dividend to the poor of the Hinterlands|Proposing a dividend be paid out to the poor of the Hinterlands]]
|Effect 941 = 260 or 300
|Value 1000 = 1000 - [[Propose a costly but effective tribute to Hillchanger Tower|Proposing an expensive tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1000 = 260
|Value 1010 = 1010 - [[Accept a proposal from those board members with a non-human perspective|Proposing an inhuman tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1010 = 100
|Value 1020 = 1020 - [[Accept a proposal from those board members aligned with a month|Proposing a calendrical tribute to the Hillchanger Tower]]
|Effect 1020 = 380
|Value 1100 = 1100 - Proposing to send your train to war in Parabola<br/>([[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War on behalf of Cats|Cats]], [[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War on behalf of Fingerkings|FKs]], [[Propose you deploy your train in your Parabolan War campaign for the Ophidian Gentleman|Gent]], [[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War for the Viscountess|Visc.]], [[Propose you deploy your train in the Parabolan War|Other]])
|Effect 1100 = 100
|Value 1110 = 1110 - [[Suggest building a spur line into Parabola|Proposing to build a spur line into Parabola so that you can send in a war-train]]
|Effect 1110 = 100
}}
==Success Text==
{{Variant table
|Condition = Question before the Board |Condition alias = Question|Compact = yes
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Effect = [[Persuade the Implacable Detective/Tables|Success Description]]
|Value 1, 2 = "No doubt these choices will become easier once we're outside of London itself," observes the Detective.
|Value 7 = "There is something heartening about a rugged landscape," says the Implacable Detective. She remarks that she's always wished to travel more herself.
|Value 9 = "It sounds dangerous," says the Implacable Detective. This is not a no.
|Value 10 = "I suppose," says the Implacable Detective. "We can invite him back if we change our minds."
|Value 11 = The Efficient Commissioner is opposed to a lot of our essential business. It would be much more straightforward to have a license or permit structure: we buy a permit to build west, the Bazaar leaves us alone to do it."
|Value 12 = "How does it work, voting him off the board? If I vote for him to stay, would that make him go?"
|Value 13 = "I don't question her own activities," says the Implacable Detective. "Not much. But the company she keeps sets a very bad example for London."
|Value 14 = "Good, get him out of here," says the Implacable Detective. "I've never found him even slightly tolerable." This is an old grudge, from when Feducci became mayor and the Implacable Detective only won increasing obscurity.
|Value 15 = "She has outlived her usefulness on the board, and I am not at all sure she's been open with us concerning her actual relationship with Hell. In addition to which, her choice of hats makes her look fast."
|Value 16 = "I have already solved her mystery," says the Implacable Detective. "So if it's useful to let her go, we can. I won't be suffering from the lack of an explanation."
|Value 21 = "The Gracious Widow's only interest in the GHR is in how she can turn it towards her own criminal enterprises," […] "I can't imagine why she was invited in the first place. It is not as though her affiliations are a well-kept secret."
|Value 22 = "I suspect my colleague of Revolutionary affiliations, and the GHR would not want to be associated with such a thing if she's ever caught in the midst of bombing an embassy. Consider the message that would send."
|Value 23, 27 = "He isn't causing trouble, but he isn't doing much good either," says the Implacable Detective.
|Value 24 = "He openly goes by the name September," says the Implacable Detective. "At least, he would do if his accent didn't qualify as a cipher on its own. There's no mystery about where his loyalties lie."
|Value 26 = "She might be better employed on the other side of the mirror," says the Implacable Detective. There was, it seems, a spat between the two of them, and the Detective found a dead bat in her handbag, which she has not yet been able to forgive.
|Value 30 = "She has been something of a liability all the way back to her Benthic days," says the Implacable Detective. "It was the reason they had to be rid of her, in the end."
|Value 33 = "It is not a very comfortable fellow board member," admits the Implacable Detective. "When you know what it means – which isn't always – you usually regret knowing."
|Value 160 = The Implacable Detective raises one eyebrow implausibly high – does she know something about the Hurlers that she's not letting on? – but supports the motion.
|Value 250 = The Implacable Detective sits forward and speaks eagerly of the scientific opportunity. There has always been a streak of the Benthic in her.
|Value 500 = The Implacable Detective […] has been inclined for many years to regard Parabola as a somewhat fanciful invention on the edge of truth. Once persuaded, however, she agrees the approach would open many startling opportunities to the GHR.
|Value 510 = "[…] But do the Hellworms give rides? Can they be studied? Is there anything else we should do with them ''besides'' dig tunnels […]? It seems a shame to make such an investment in the esoteric without deriving the maximum information from the process."
|Value 700 - 720 = "I have done some background investigation of my own," says the Implacable Detective, unapologetic. "I found nothing that would absolutely preclude the appointment."
|Value 800 = "He does not strike me as the kind of person with many deep strategic thoughts about matters of business," she says. "But I suppose he won't do too much harm, either."
|Value 850 = "Very well," says the Implacable Detective, with a slightly unnerving smile. "I look forward to seeing what results."
|Value 905 = The Implacable Detective shrugs. "I don't suppose the board will suffer too much from the second claim on her attention."
|Value 910 = The Implacable Detective shrugs. "I don't suppose the board will suffer too much from the second claim on his attention."
|Value 931 = "Agreed," says the Implacable Detective. "We should never have allowed things to get so out of hand in the first place."
|Value 932 = "I confess I am curious to see the consequences of this exceptionally foolish and improbable experiment," says the Implacable Detective. "Who knows! Perhaps it will be unexpectedly effective."
|Value 933 = "I favour anything that discourages the criminal element in the Neath," says the Implacable Detective. "Let's keep the Hinterlands visible."
|Value 934 = "We might as well," says the Implacable Detective. "The alternatives don't impress me."
|Value 940 = "With significant reservations," says the Implacable Detective. "But I have been brought to believe there might be some positive consequences in this case."
|Value 941 = "I question disbursing such funds indiscriminately," says the Implacable Detective. "But it might improve the popular perception of the GHR."
|Value 1000 - 1020 = "An eminently practical solution," says the Implacable Detective.
|Value 1100 - 1110 = "If you feel that strongly about the battle," says the Implacable Detective, "then it makes sense to mobilise all of the available forces."
|Value 1200 = "At the moment, the city represents a safe haven for the criminal element," says the Implacable Detective. "We may improve matters if there are links with the Magistracy and with London itself."
}}
==Failure Text==
{{Variant table
|Condition = Question before the Board |Condition alias = Question|Compact = yes
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Effect = [[Persuade the Implacable Detective/Tables|Failure Description]]
|Value 9 = "It isn't the kind of territory you'd want to walk through, let alone try to put a train over," warns the Detective.
|Value 10 = "His Amused Lordship is a less frivolous person than he might seem," says the Implacable Detective. "I'd rather not lose his influence from the board. And, to be blunt, his fortune may sometimes be an advantage to us."
|Value 11 = "I'd rather keep her. Those of us who have been here since the Fall ought to stick together."
|Value 12 = "One thing you can say for those who've run for Mayor: the public has already had a chance to discover their secrets."
|Value 13 = "Some of her activities are questionable," the Implacable Detective agrees. "But she is not primarily a criminal, and she has done some good."
|Value 14 = "Feducci has contacts and connections in many places beyond London," says the Implacable Detective. "That may prove a larger asset than we realise, when we're dealing with the powers of the Hinterlands."
|Value 15 = "If it weren't for Virginia, we wouldn't have this railway in the first place."
|Value 16 = "I admire a person who will roll up their sleeves and get to work," says the Implacable Detective. "And as far as I can see, that's Furnace."
|Value 17 = "The Dean has done some very respected research on unusual topics," says the Implacable Detective. "Matters that become more relevant the further we go into the Hinterlands."
|Value 18, 19 = "The Bishop is a person of substance," says the Implacable Detective. "You may take it from me; I've looked into his background."
|Value 20 = "The Entrepreneur's financial backing has been of significant use to the board. He deserves his place here, and I see no reason to send him away."
|Value 22 = "Assuming we don't fear her bombing Moloch Street, yes," says the Implacable Detective. She doesn't sound as though she's joking about the risks.
|Value 23 = "Oh, let him stay. We were all young once, and maybe it will teach him something. Besides, he gave up adventuring to Hell in order to do this."
|Value 24 = "[…] I assume, considering his loyalties and his unfitness for a business venture, that there must have been some truly compelling reason to involve him. And since I do not know what […] I also do not know whether the necessity has been resolved."
|Value 26 = "Someone with her official affiliations brings prestige to the board, and allows us to fundraise more effectively," says the Implacable Detective.
|Value 28 = "I find his predictions interesting, […] I wish he knew more about the Elder Continent as well. I wonder how he would choose to describe it... perhaps we should […] send him there? No, a foolish idea. Still, let's not throw him off the board."
|Value 29 = "Furnace aside, he seems to have the greatest sway with the tracklayers. He's a useful point of contact. I do wonder whether he's really so scarred as all that, under the bandages – but it isn't polite to pry, of course."
|Value 30 = "Do you know who she ''was'', before she had to leave Benthic?" asks the Implacable Detective. "Have you not heard of her studies – both scientific and mystical?"
|Value 31 = "The Wry Functionary is party to secrets even I don't know," says the Implacable Detective. "His position within the Shuttered Palace means that he hears everything."
|Value 32, 33 = "I disagree with removing any board members who make the meetings substantially more interesting," she says.
|Value 35 = "The Dauntless Temperance Campaigner and I have never cooperated as successfully as one might hope," says the Implacable Detective.
|Value 100 = "I'm no judge of architecture," says the Implacable Detective. "I can't say I care for it, though."
|Value 105 = The Implacable Detective frowns at the drawing. "It looks like it's drawn up for a Surface war, and not the kinds of creatures you might find down here."
|Value 115 = "Can't imagine the Church would approve of us putting up something like that. And it looks hard to police, too. Lots of concealed spots for pickpockets and that sort of thing."
|Value 120 = "That'll be expensive," she remarks, paging through the drawings. "Impressive, I can't question that. But do we want to spend that much?"
|Value 140, 150 = "I'm no judge of architecture, but the drawings look a bit foolish to me."
|Value 200 = "I wonder whether speed might be more to the point than armour?" muses the Implacable Detective. "A sufficiently fast train becomes a weapon in itself, of course."
|Value 205 = "I don't believe this recommendation was made in the spirit of a law-abiding citizen," […] "I naturally have no objection to the passengers bringing along any small personal articles, but that does not appear to me to be the true point of the proposal."
|Value 210 = "It is an expensive innovation, and I am uncertain it will pay for itself. Are we sure that very many persons of high social standing and heavy purses are inclined to buy tickets? Have we conducted an inquiry, or engaged any advertising?"
|Value 220 = "No one wants the workers to starve, of course," […] "On the other hand, an unreasonably large payment for services rendered would likely result in other labour difficulties – unrest in London, workers competing to gain entry to the Union […]"
|Value 230 = "Is that entirely necessary?" she asks. "It's a very extreme solution, and the investors put a good bit into this business. You wouldn't want to discourage them investing again."
|Value 240 = "It is an unnecessarily harsh and unjustified solution," says the Implacable Detective firmly.
|Value 800 = "Was there really no one more suitable?" […] "If not, I am frankly disappointed in Furnace Ancona's management. I would have expected her to put more care into the development of additional leaders. Did she think she would live forever?"
|Value 850 = "It will be particularly amusing if Furnace returns and objects," says the Implacable Detective. "I believe I would enjoy being a spider on the wall, when that happens."
|Value 933 - 934 = "I appreciate the aim, but I am not sure about the costs."
|Value 940 = "By 'charity', in this case, we apparently mean to denote 'smuggling'," says the Implacable Detective crisply. "I have no intention to lend the GHR's good name to such a thing."
|Value 941 = "Surely we have better uses for our wealth."
|Value 1000 - 1020 = "We don't know enough about the Tower to be making such promises," she says. "Almost all situations would benefit from more study."
|Value 1100 - 1110 = "The train was expensive," she says pointedly. "Do you want to send it where a single bad encounter could turn it all into a giant pot of treacle?"
|Value 1200 = "It's a den of criminals," says the Implacable Detective. "And the less we have to do with it, the better."
}}