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From: Participate in construction efforts

Who needs scaffolding?

Description summary:
This action's title varies based on the city's Founding Body.

Founding Body	Title
Furnace Ancona Furnace Ancona, Starved	Build a grain silo
Cornelius	Construct a hatching-ground
Your Own Double	Build a pumping station
The Double of the Manager of the Royal Beth	Add a wing to a hospital

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Game Instructions: If successful, this will more significantly increase Hinterland Prosperity, as well as your familiarity with the city in general. It will decrease The City Waning.

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Not too damaging

[varies]

There's a near miss with a load of [stone], but you manage in the end.

Description summary:
The first paragraph varies based on the city's Founding Body. An additional sentence may appear, depending on if you have The Inescapable Ubiquity of your Countenance.

Founding Body	First Paragraph
Furnace Ancona Furnace Ancona, Starved	There are already grain stores and mushroom stores and other units throughout the city, but they are too widely spaced. Every neighbourhood ought to have its own; no one should have to walk too far to collect their rations.
Cornelius	The hatching-ground is as broad as an amphitheatre, with a central space for the eggs to be kept and warmed, and galleries for the citizens to view [...] Then, too, one needs kennels for the new hatchlings, and peligin lamps to encourage their development.
Your Own Double	A city needs to drink, and this one, unlike London, did not come with its own pilfered river. The Creditor is well-supplied with aquifers, but there is still […] getting the water to the top of the city, and sending it out to the fountains and baths.
The Double of the Manager of the Royal Beth	The wounded in body and […] mind both need care, and they will find it here. It is not this city's nature to deny such patients what they need.

Style	Stone
None First City	blue-veined marble
Bethlehem	crimson marble
School of Beatrice True Beatrice	limestone
Porous	pale brick
Ivory	brick
Attenuated	grey stone
Remembered	Bath stone
Celestial	white Portland stone
Auroral Nocturnal	moon-coloured stone
Bazaarine	red limestone
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE
Cenotaphic	black marble

Have Ubiquity of your Countenance?	Additional sentence
Yes	You may have left a tiny carving of yourself under the eaves. All the best Hinterland buildings have your face on them somewhere.

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• Dangerous 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

Ouch

It seems you misjudged your own strength relative to that load of [stone].

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)