An initial visit with Fires' Lackey (forced)

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Best remind him of his debts.

Unlocked with Leader of the Tracklayers A Lackey of Mr Fires

Wiki note: The non-autofire version of this action is An initial visit with Fires' Lackey.

Success

A familiar welcome

[...]

You gaze at him until he remembers it might not be politic to keep taking out his frustration on you. He is not, after all, his Master.

Description summary:
The first paragraph varies based on the city's Founding Body.

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Founding Body	First Paragraph
Furnace Ancona	The Lackey greets you sourly. [...] Yes, the City is full of labourers [...] But did you have to make the city out of Furnace Ancona? Did you have to sculpt the place out of her bones? The drinking water tastes like defiance. The breezes laugh at him.
Furnace Ancona, Starved	The Lackey greets you sourly. [...] Yes, the City is full of labourers [...] Yes, you made the city out of a Furnace who was much less than her true self. But the drinking water here still tastes like defiance, and the population has neither fear nor respect.
Cornelius	[...] The Cornelius-city is idiosyncratic, difficult to run. The streets are not of a good size or grade for factories [...] Mr Fires' Lackey regards all this as an inconvenience and a vulgarity. Presumably an impression he received from his Master.
Your Own Double	[...] He has any number of complaints [...]; and because the city is, in some sense, you, he expects that you will attend to all of these matters. It displeases him to hear that you cannot, in fact, alter the taste of the groundwater here merely by wishing it [...]
The Double of the Manager of the Royal Beth	Mr Fires' Lackey greets you sourly. [...] Yes, the City is full of labourers [...] But they are not very interested in labouring. The city feels old. It resists industry. It reminds Mr Fires [...] of the disappointments experienced in the First City, long ago.

You now have business at the city of the Tracklayers. (Sets Exploration of a Hinterland City to 5 - Seeking the City)