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With these thoughts, also hold the knowledge of the other cities that have come to the Neath, […] and all you know of their histories. | With these thoughts, also hold the knowledge of the other cities that have come to the Neath, […] and all you know of their histories. | ||
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|Success summary = The third paragraph varies with {{IL|Airs of Parabola}}. | |Success summary = The third paragraph varies with {{IL|Airs of Parabola}}. | ||
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| + | |Condition = Airs of Parabola|Effect = Third paragraph|Compact = yes | ||
| + | |Value 1 - 16 = And so, understand: the Chessboard is one of many game-boards in Parabola. There are other games: some skill, some chance, some of daring and bluff. There are other kingdoms, and some […] do not consider it merit when they prevail, but only Fortune. | ||
| + | |Value 20 - 28 = And so, understand: devils hunt now in the Forgotten Quarter. Time was when their silver hunting-horns rang out over Parabola instead […] Perhaps that is even where they got a taste for the sport – though one can't be sure. | ||
| + | |Value 32 - 43 = And so, understand: there are dreamers who have slept for centuries, holding fast their corner of Parabola, […] spouses and children long since passed into dust: a private Waswood for a singular past. But when they wake, Parabola will wash all clean. | ||
| + | |Value 50 - 66 = And so, understand: there are pyramids and ziggurats in Parabola […] all thriving as though newly built. But to a large extent, these districts conceal themselves from Londoners, so that you will not commit the effrontery of finding them antique. | ||
| + | |Value 70 - 88 = And so, understand: spiders dream in Parabola, whole citadels of silk. If you could find that place, you could walk in those same palaces, though you would soon lose your way. | ||
| + | |Value 91 - 96 = And so, understand: even Polythreme has dreams. Sometimes, its resting denizens will shed a sentient harpsichord or a disgruntled tuba into some adjacent sleeper's field. | ||
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With these thoughts, also hold the knowledge of the other cities that have come to the Neath, […] and all you know of their histories. | With these thoughts, also hold the knowledge of the other cities that have come to the Neath, […] and all you know of their histories. | ||
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|Failure summary = The third paragraph varies with {{IL|Airs of Parabola}}. | |Failure summary = The third paragraph varies with {{IL|Airs of Parabola}}. | ||
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| + | |Condition = Airs of Parabola|Effect = Third paragraph|Compact = yes | ||
| + | |Value 1 - 16 = And so, understand: the Chessboard is one of many game-boards in Parabola. There are other games; there are other kingdoms, waging their wars not as chess but as poker or roulette; gathering their dead with a croupier's hook. | ||
| + | |Value 20 - 28 = And so, understand: devils hunt now in the Forgotten Quarter. Time was […] their silver hunting-horns rang out over Parabola instead, and devils played the Nightmare's part. How many Surface dreamers […] woke sweating and eager to tithe to their church? | ||
| + | |Value 32 - 43 = And so, understand: there are dreamers who have slept for centuries, […] so that an inhabitant there might almost fancy they lived in the Is. Families of Fingerkings are born and nest there, and grow old in that facsimile of Being. | ||
| + | |Value 50 - 66 = And so, understand: there are pyramids and ziggurats in Parabola, and mound-cities: abandoned long ago when their inhabitants decided that the life of a city was unhealthy and unkind. | ||
| + | |Value 70 - 88 = And so, understand: spiders dream in Parabola. In the thick webbing of their dreams, every sort of succulent insect is caught and lies ready to eat. Every larger animal is also an insect: […] all dreamed with faceted eyes and sweetly fluid bodies. | ||
| + | |Value 91 - 96 = And so, understand: even Polythreme has dreams. Sometimes, the screaming can be heard in other nightmares far away. | ||
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