The art of the Brass Embassy

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From: Devils and art


The Embassy sometimes hosts exclusive soirées, at which guests can enter some of the more private rooms. You can procure an invitation to the next one[…]. It should be a perfect chance to glimpse some of the art that devils truly appreciate.

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  • 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

Beautiful and terrifying

[…]

[…] In some of the more private areas, exquisitely detailed embroideries[…] the colours muted but rich[…] many wonderfully complex abstract patterns[…] "Needlework is a particular skill of ours[…]"

[…] There are terrible secrets encoded in these gorgeous textiles[…]

Description summary:
The art in public view is baroque and extravagant: horseback riders in storms, mythical beasts being fought, women in elaborate dresses –what one expects the art of devils to look like. In the more private areas, however, the devils show a preference for intricate embroideries. There are pastoral scenes with muted but rich colours, and a lot of intricate, abstract patterns. A devil tells you that the embroiderers use only the finest sorrow-spider silks and needles so thin that they can't be seen by the naked eye. When you inspect the patterns, their threads swim in your vision.

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Failure

Soulless in more ways than one

[…] A deviless […] offers to show you an exhibition of […] watercolours. […] There is nothing there to catch your attention, nothing real beneath the surface detail. Is this art made by soulless people, or is it simply soulless art? […]

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