(Assign work shifts) (Liberationist)

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From: The Business of the City

Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on the city's Style.

Style	Title	Description
First City Porous Ivory Remembered Celestial Mycologene Heliconian Cartographical	Assign munitions stocktakers	It's important not to lose any Hillmovers, lest they be found again in the most undesirable way.
Bethlehem	Assign laudanum-couriers	Sleep and dreams must be metered out carefully in this city of red velvet and brass.
School of Beatrice	Assign shifts in the hospices	The Manager's city is full of hospitals, and the city has the will to keep them staffed.
Auroral	Assign wall-painters	Despite the Liberationist alignment of the city, your double persists in offering a gentle auroral glow. Painting it over is the only way.
Nocturnal	Assign munitions stocktakers able to count in the dark	They must distinguish the explosives by touch and the varieties of gunpowder by smell.
Bazaarine	Assign oracle-givers	Furnace has dubiously concluded that a Bazaarine city needs enigmatic street-performers.
Terpsichorean	FATE	FATE
Cenotaphic	Assign eulogists	The memory of your departed is refreshed each day.

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Game Instructions: If successful, this will reduce The City Waning.

Unlocked with Exploration of a Hinterland City, Hinterland City - Official Alignment Prehistoricist, Radical Prehistoricist, or Prehistoricist-Emancipationist, Leader of the Tracklayers Furnace Ancona, Unopposed or Furnace Ancona

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, A Player of Chess 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

Well supported

You have chits representing the available work days from each eligible citizen, and a board with holes to drop them into. [...]

Description summary:
The rest of the description varies based on the city's Style.

Style	Description
First City Porous Ivory Remembered Celestial Mycologene Heliconian Cartographical	But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: there are additional questions of ability and determination and, in particular, of who can be trusted not to play games with the stock.
Bethlehem	The difficult part is coordinating with the arrival of proper supplies; that requires cross-reference with journey time to the nearest station, and the expected schedule of trains. "When they run on time," adds Furnace, unnecessarily.
School of Beatrice	But it's not enough to allocate enough people [...] there are additional questions of ability and determination and empathetic manner. Bedside manner never mattered when all you were attending was a metal track. You get the notion Furnace misses those days.
Auroral	But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: there are additional questions of ability and determination and willingness to go back over the same stretch of wall five or ten times until the coats are sufficiently opaque.
Nocturnal	But it's not enough to allocate enough people [...] there are additional questions of ability and determination; deftness in handling dangerous objects in pitch darkness; and an ability to record their findings in raised lettering with a specialised stylus.
Bazaarine	Each performer is assigned a Power (a Master, the Sun, a member of the Royal Family) and a prophetic utterance to combine with that person's name.
Terpsichorean	FATE
Cenotaphic	But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: there are additional questions of sensibility and eloquence.

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  The City Waning is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

It should have been simple...

Furnace, it seems, cannot entirely satisfy this population. "Collaboration with the Light!" they shout, when she announces changes. "What's next, fresh lanterns? Candle imports? Mirrorcatch boxes of actual sunlight?!"

[...]

Description summary:
The second paragraph varies depending on how many of Furnace's Faces remain.

Faces	Second Paragraph
3	Furnace replies from a second mouth, then a third. The complaints die back a bit: they're reminded, perhaps, that she is also one of them.
2	Furnace speaks to them from her second mouth. The complaints die back a little, but it is still difficult.
1	"It's the single face," she tells you later. "The other factions think I've stopped attending to them as much. Or they pretend to, anyhow. Sometimes I think they prefer their leaders scarred."

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+? CP)
• [Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)