Consult (the City) to find hidden hierarchies

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From: The Liberationist Way


Doing away with official structures is not the same as doing away with imbalances of power. Now they are merely unlabelled.

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[…]

You emerge from the consultation knowing just where the hidden influence lies, and what markers of speech and posture and dress convey status where no status difference should exist.

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

Founding BodyFirst Paragraph
1000 - 2000The spirit of Furnace is acutely sensitive to imbalance or need. What might, in some other city, require surveys and census work and an entire regulatory body, can here be sensed as instinctively as hunger or thirst.
3000The city is prone to fads and impulses. It's Cornelius' spirit at work again. If the leadership didn't curb it [...], it could lead the whole town into disaster [...] Its responses are therefore extreme, but you can interpret them into something more reasonable.
4000Your Double is capable of attending to the city's welfare. But it has so many different matters to consider that, if one wants a precise answer, it's wise to ask a precise question.
5000The Manager-city watches the collective well-being and it sends its omens in sleep. An imbalance of trade or a rising level of collective fear translates in dreams of inferno and flood. It has no difficulty understanding what you ask.

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