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Description summary:
The description varies with the city's Alignment, Style, and Chosen Site.

AlignmentFirst Paragraph
LiberationistThere are too few people for these streets, and those who are present seldom stop to talk. Gone are the excited conversations about how the world will be when all the stars are quenched.
Radical LiberationistThe population is scanter now, and the conversations angrier. Rifts appear even among the staunch […]: these want to put out all light, those to abandon even the words for the concept of law. Scuffles break out over who is the truest Liberationist.
Liberationist-PrehistoricistThere are too few people for these streets, and those who are present seldom stop to talk. Gone are the speculations of a peligin future, of brawny midnight Shames.
PrehistoricistThere are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak, much less to talk of the beasts they mean to breed.
Radical PrehistoricistThe population is scanter now, and the conversations angrier. There are disagreements about whether the Prehistoricist purpose is adequately satisfied through the practical arts, or whether it requires a philosophical and theoretical engagement. [...]
Prehistoricist-EmancipationistThere are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak, much less to talk of the beasts they mean to breed and the grander city they will one day inhabit.
EmancipationistThere are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak. The communal silos are refilled, but only grudgingly.
Radical EmancipationistThe population is scanter now, and the conversations angrier. Which of the resources here should be included under 'common goods'? Who gets to decide whether each family's needs are being suitably met? What's to be done with a windfall?
Emancipationist-LiberationistThere are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak. The communal silos are refilled, but only grudgingly. There are questions over whether someone at the top is filching from the supply.
Anti-LiberationistThere are too few people for these streets. The remaining pedestrians are stand-offish, and every stranger is suspected of being a secret Liberationist.
Anti-PrehistoricistThere are too few people for these streets. The remaining pedestrians are stand-offish, and every stranger is suspected of being a secret Prehistoricist.
Anti-EmancipationistThere are too few people for these streets. The remaining pedestrians are stand-offish, and every stranger is suspected of being a secret Emancipationist.
Mixed, Balanced, Complacently UnrevolutionaryThere are too few people for these streets. The pedestrians that do pass do not stop to speak, but walk by quietly, burdened by their own affairs.
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StyleSecond Paragraph
First CityThe city itself seems older and less vital.
BethlehemThe city itself seems meeker, more resentful than dangerous.
School of Beatrice, True BeatriceThe city itself seems smaller, its labyrinthine lanes only leading back to the same two courtyards, the same mossy fountain.
IvoryThe city itself seems disappointed, its streets bare of the beasts that were meant to roam here. No eggs incubate in the hatching theatres.
PorousThe city itself seems weaker, the walls bleached.
RememberedThe city itself seems more ordinary, just another middling market town with nothing to distinguish it.
CelestialThe city itself seems more ordinary, its pretensions to summer more pathetic.
AuroralThe city itself seems plainer, its glow more like ordinary gaslight.
NocturnalThe city itself seems more ordinary, its darkness only a cover for dirt and disarray.
BazaarineThe city itself seems more ordinary; its secrets and riddles, more like a banal pastime for those with too much time.
CenotaphicThe city itself seems to have lost some of its power, like a requiem heard too many times.
Chosen SiteLast Sentence
Ealing GardensEaling Gardens looms larger on the horizon.
The Magistracy of the Evenlodethe Magistracy of the Evenlode looms larger on the horizon.
BalmoralBalmoral looms larger on the horizon.
Station VIIIStation VIII looms larger on the horizon.
BurrowBurrow-infra-Mump looms larger on the horizon.
Moulin/HurlersMoulin looms larger on the horizon.
MarigoldMarigold looms larger on the horizon.

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Unlocked with Habituated to the Hinterland, The City Waning 5

Card drawn in The City of the Tracklayers

Occurs with Standard Frequency

Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.

Options:

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Advertise, and make sure the newcomers are welcome
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    Challenge information

    Broad, Persuasive 100 || 69 - very chancy (41%) || 85 - chancy (51%) || 102 - modest (61%) || 119 - very modest (71%) || 135 - low-risk (81%) || 152 - straightforward (91%) || 167 - straightforward (100%)

    Narrow, A Player of Chess 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Success

    A campaign on two fronts

    Alternative Success

    An influx of [Arrivals]

    Failure

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Remind them of what the city is
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Hasten the decline
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    Challenge information

    Broad, Persuasive 100 || 69 - very chancy (41%) || 85 - chancy (51%) || 102 - modest (61%) || 119 - very modest (71%) || 135 - low-risk (81%) || 152 - straightforward (91%) || 167 - straightforward (100%)

    Success

    Rumours of corruption

    Failure

    Less effect than you might hope

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