A Realignment of Local Politics/Tables

Liberationist

Leader of the Tracklayers	Second Paragraph
Furnace	Furnace is not best pleased. It's not easy managing a city in the dark. And fine as it might be to imagine a city with no sort of leadership at all, she has seen what happens in that event.
Cornelius	Cornelius [...] treats you to a long speech about how best to attack the Chain, how to break the hierarchy of heaven without denying ourselves the light. Your move has been effective, though, and there's not a great deal he can do about it.
Fires' Lackey	Mr Fires' Lackey suggests to you that this is only likely to hasten the destruction [...] Mr Fires didn't care for the place before, and he'll care for it even less now [...] But do as you like; he doesn't mind. It will be something to see the place go to smash.
Your Lackey	Your Lackey doesn't bother to ask what you're doing. You've always had your plans, a level or two above his head, and it's no difference to him what they are as long as his job continues well-paid and effortless.
January	January is delighted. Her own propaganda efforts have been effective, but never so effective as this. You make (she suggests) a formidable team.

Prehistoricist

Leader of the Tracklayers	Second Paragraph
Furnace	Furnace tolerates this development, though the exasperation is evident in her voice. The purely Prehistoricist plans were impractical when Cornelius was advocating for them, and she considers them even sillier now.
Cornelius	Cornelius regards this outcome with great satisfaction. The possibilities are limitless [...] Why, he has four or five speculative anatomies already drawn up. Regarding the problem of sewage, for instance, what do you think of this little beauty?
Fires' Lackey	Mr Fires' Lackey regards all of this as a pointless exercise. He has no intent to listen to what the citizens want, so why bother to persuade them one way or the other? Though he admits he does find the assembled creatures very funny.
Your Lackey	Your Lackey doesn't bother to ask what you're doing. You've always had your plans, a level or two above his head, and it's no difference to him what they are as long as his job continues well-paid and effortless.
January	January offers pungent views on the folly of this approach. What good will these bone-configurations ever achieve? The oppressor wins when the oppressed turn their energies to anything other than revolution.

Emancipationist

Leader of the Tracklayers	Second Paragraph
Furnace	Furnace, you know, is guiltily relieved to have a citizenry with such well-aligned attitudes. She would have served their interests anyhow, but it's easier steering a team of horses when the horses match, as she puts it.
Cornelius	Cornelius grumbles over the unimaginative bent of the populace. There's so much they could achieve, if they'd allow themselves a more ambitious dream.
Fires' Lackey	Mr Fires' Lackey regards all of this as a pointless exercise. He has no intent to listen to what the citizens want, so why bother to persuade them one way or the other?
Your Lackey	Your Lackey doesn't bother to ask what you're doing. You've always had your plans, a level or two above his head, and it's no difference to him what they are as long as his job continues well-paid and effortless.
January	January's comments on the current population are acerbic. It is naive to suppose one can merely ignore the oppressor. She will, you know, always be pulling the city in her own direction, and spitting invective at the stars.

Non-Prehistoricist

Hinterland City - Founding Body	Description
Furnace Ancona Furnace Ancona, Starved	It is an ideology that fits the city […] The city was, after all, founded by a human for the benefit of humans; it is built around storehouses and granaries and hospitals. It was never designed to accommodate a population of large beasts.
Cornelius	One has the sense of a city embarrassed by its founder. The tomb colonist garb of the city is allowed to persist, but some of the old Prehistoricist murals are covered or painted over, as though the city were putting away childish things.
Your Own Double, The Double of the Manager	The city settles comfortably into this shape. It was never built to be Prehistoricist in the first place; no such identity was written into its walls. It can easily be something else.

Non-Emancipationist

Hinterland City - Founding Body	Description
Furnace Ancona	[...] The old city streets, the comforting alleyways, the silos and grain stores, were built for an Emancipationist people. [...] [...] current ideology is starker, more defiant. [...] It's not enough to reshape the city entirely [...] But it's a repudiation, clear enough.
Furnace Ancona, Starved	There is a sense of something broken, a discontinuity with the past. [...] Once it was a city that would feed its own, above all else. [...] Some of those homely old buildings are painted over, or dressed in banners; others [...] taken down stone by stone. [...] a repudiation [...]
Cornelius	It's a vision that suits the space. [...] the city was founded on the ambitions of Cornelius; there are race tracks and birthing grounds and feeding terraces for prehistoric animals. The Emancipationists never had the vision to appreciate such facilities. [...]
Your Own Double, The Double of the Manager	The city settles comfortably into this shape. It was never built to be Emancipationist in the first place; no such identity was written into its walls. It can easily be something else.

All

Leader of the Tracklayers	Second Paragraph
Furnace	Furnace does not complain. Everyone needs a voice; she has always said so. If some of her constituents are more difficult than others, well, that's all part of the job.
Cornelius	Cornelius would have preferred a more determinedly Prehistoricist approach, but he can work with this. Let the citizens choose their own ends; for him, monster-breeding will always be the means of resolution.
Fires' Lackey	Mr Fires' Lackey regards all of this as a pointless exercise. He has no intent to listen to what the citizens want, so why bother to persuade them one way or the other?
Your Lackey	Your Lackey doesn't bother to ask what you're doing. You've always had your plans, a level or two above his head, and it's no difference to him what they are as long as his job continues well-paid and effortless.
January	January treats you to a cold little speech about how an ideology of compromise is no ideology at all. But she knows that matters could be worse.

None

Leader of the Tracklayers	Second Paragraph
Furnace	Furnace tries to see this in a positive light. The revolutionary spirit has diminished because the need for it has been alleviated, perhaps? [...] But she would prefer to hope that one day the city will be able to do more for others elsewhere.
Cornelius	Cornelius is disappointed, though he accepts that the population never did understand all the more theoretical aspects of his politics. As long as they allow some experimentation to continue, [...] there is still a hope of turning things to good account.
Fires' Lackey	Mr Fires' Lackey cackles into his soup. He always knew (he says) that they didn't really have the stomach for a proper revolution.
Your Lackey	Your Lackey doesn't bother to ask what you're doing. You've always had your plans, a level or two above his head, and it's no difference to him what they are as long as his job continues well-paid and effortless.
January	January is livid. She can barely bring herself to form sentences.