Airs of Industry

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Not all workdays in the Neath are the same.

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Wiki note: Similar to Airs of the Khanate, Airs of Industry appears to have separate change descriptions for increases and decreases. When the same Airs number is generated twice, the latter is treated as an increase.

Airs Increase Descriptions

Levels

	Airs of Industry
2 - 9	A factory whistle, all too late.
10 – 19	Expensive solicitors make a show of paying for their client's expensive lunch.
20 – 29	Rows of posters stuck to walls: 'RATS CAUGHT and SPIDERS PERSUADED TO LEAVE...'
30 – 39	A teetering pile of papers, left next to the furnace.
40 – 49	A pen scratches at the dried-out dregs in the bottom of an inkwell.
50 – 59	A neat row of ledgers on a shelf – July of 1899 is missing.
60 – 69	The clock, treacherous, ticking ever-slower towards closing time.
70 – 79	Clerks watch with mounting dread as scaffolding goes up around the building next door.
80 – 89	Costermongers walk the streets, each one louder than the other.
90 – 100	The rattle of a mechanical adding machine.

Airs Decrease Descriptions

Levels

	Airs of Industry
1 – 9	A small crowd of secretaries on a break, one cigarette between the lot of them.
10 – 19	The rattling of chains and shutters as shops open for the day.
20 – 29	Long queues at the telegraph office – one of the operators is out with love-sickness.
30 – 39	Neddy-men on the prowl, hunting whispers of union activity.
40 – 49	Train engines at Moloch Street Station exchanging coal hoppers for passenger cars.
50 – 59	Signs outside a glazier's shop: working hours, prices, 'ABSOLUTELY NO MIRRORS...'
60 – 69	The dainty clanging of tiny hammers emanating from an L.B. workshop.
70 – 79	The hiss of steam and the unbearable noise of machinery.
80 – 89	Temperance campaigners handing out handbills among Bohemians, extolling the virtues of the workhouse.
90 – 99	Kaleidoscopic smells from a chemical plant. One day, sulfur; another, burnt rubber. Today, roses and rot.