Establish a new sport

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From: Day of Rest

[City name] could do with a few official teams.

Unlocked with Habituated to the Hinterland 17

Success

Now for some rules

You gather in [open space] near the [Founding Body landmark]. On your side, you have grizzled veteran Tracklayers from the Moloch Line days; [a passenger]; and a trio of [Site newcomers]. On the opposing team are several [Founding Body newcomers], captained by [Airs of Balmoral-based person].

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Description summary:
The first paragraph varies based on the city's Style, Founding Body, and Chosen Site, in addition to Airs of Passengers and Airs of Balmoral. The second paragraph varies based on the city's Official Alignment.

Style	Open space
None True Beatrice	a wide courtyard
First City	a public park
Bethlehem	a charnel yard
School of Beatrice	a cozy courtyard
Porous	an abandoned courtyard
Ivory	a broad square
Attenuated	a broad terrace
Remembered	an oddly familiar courtyard
Celestial	an open lawn
Auroral	a faintly luminous terrace
Nocturnal	an unlit courtyard
Bazaarine	a mosaic-tiled courtyard
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE
Cenotaphic	a memorial plaza

Founding Body	Landmark
none	subterranean reservoir
Furnace Ancona	reserve silo
Furnace Ancona, Starved	amber spire
Cornelius	hatching arena
Your Own Double	amphitheatre
The Double of the Manager	grand hotel

Airs of Passengers	Passenger
0	a person in a dove-grey suit
1001 - 1029	a lady in a blue gown
1030 - 1049	a gentleman in a grey silk waistcoat
1050 - 1059	a Rubbery man in fawn-coloured gloves
1060 - 1064	a Gondolier of upper rank with the uniform to prove it
1065 - 1069	an agent of the Bazaar
1070 - 1079	a judge from the Evenlode
1080 - 1089	a friend of the Veteran Privy Counsellor
1090 - 1099	a very bureaucratic-looking man
1100 - 1109	a woman dressed in Bohemian style but very expensive fabrics
1110 - 1119	a man with a briefcase covered with Correspondence sigils
1120 - 1124	a man in a very thick fur coat
1125 - 1129	a woman with a mink stole
1130	a determined Baroness with a hand-stamped letter of recommendation to the gates of Hell
1131 - 1140	?
2001 - 2049	a mushroom-farmer
2050 - 2059	a Rubbery man dressed for the factory
2060 - 2069	a down-at-heels ex-Gondolier
2070 - 2074	an escapee from the prisons of the Evenlode
2075 - 2136	a speechless woman with a lamp affixed to her hand
2137 - 2140	?
3001 - 3009	a scholar in Benthic robes
3010 - 3024	a palaeontologist (bag of tools uncouthly on the table)
3025 - 3049	a scholar in Summerset robes
3050 - 3059	a scholar of Rubbery linguistics
3060 - 3064	a professor interested in the sociology of the Gondoliers
3065 - 3069	an archaeologist investigating the Sere Palace
3070 - 3130	a legal scholar of the Evenlode
3131 - 3140	?
4001 - 4009	a determined-looking Tracklayer
4010 - 4019	a Tracklayer wearing the insignia of the Prehistoricists
4020 - 4049	a solicitor employed by the Tracklayers' Union
4050 - 4059	a Rubbery man in a Tracklayer's uniform
4060 - 4069	a Tracklayer recruited from the Gondoliers
4070 - 4079	a burly Tracklayer
4080 - 4089	a wiry Tracklayer
4090 - 4099	a scrawny Tracklayer
4100 - 4109	a Tracklayer with a book of psalms
4110 - 4119	a Tracklayer with thick protective boots
4120 - 4129	a Tracklayer who hasn't bothered removing her helmet
4130 - 4137	a Tracklayer in fire-proof gloves
4138 - 4140	?
5001 - 5009	a vicar
5010 - 5024	a deacon
5025 - 5039	a rector
5040 - 5049	a lay preacher
5050 - 5059	a lay theologist translating the Bible to Rubbery speech
5060 - 5069	the vicar-sailor of the floating Church of Saint Barbara
5070 - 5079	a prison chaplain
5080 - 5089	a dour-looking rector
5090 - 5099	a factory chaplain
5100 - 5109	a lay preacher of the Church in the Wild
5110 - 5119	a Church historian
5120 - 5124	a monk in black robes
5125 - 5129	a Follower of the Anchoress
5130 - 5138	a militant preacher against devils
5139 - 5140	?
10001 - 10009	a sardonic-looking Devil
10010 - 10019	a grim-looking Devil
10020 - 10029	a glum Deviless
10030 - 10049	a smug Deviless
10050 - 10059	an expert in Rubbery souls
10060 - 10130	one of the regulars of the Fiddler's Scarlet
10031 - 10140	?

Chosen Site	Newcomers
Ealing	Rubbery newcomers
Evenlode	ex-prisoners
Balmoral	retired highwaymen and former servants in the royal household
Station VIII	former factory workers
Burrow	retired laity from the Church of the Wild
Moulin	befuddled historians
Marigold	yellow-eyed exiles of Hell

Founding Body	Newcomers
Furnace Ancona	workers from Iron and Misery
Furnace Ancona, Starved	Starved persons tired of the roof
Cornelius	displaced tomb colonists
Your Own Double	folk from the Surface
The Double of the Manager	Clay men and women

Airs of Balmoral	Person
1 - 14	a man in a kilt
15 - 24	a girl with a pistol tucked in her sash
25 - 34	a young Scotsman
35 - 49	a young Scotswoman
50 - 74	an ageing portrait-painter
75 - 89	a woman in a blue and grey tartan sash
90 - 100	a landscape painter

Alignment	Second Paragraph
Liberationist, Radical Liberationist, Liberationist-Prehistoricist	Immediately someone objects to the existence of team captains, and it is further suggested that the game become a competition to see which team is able most expeditiously to assassinate or explode their putative leader.
Prehistoricist, Radical Prehistoricist, Prehistoricist-Emancipationist	[...] then a debate over whether animals are also allowed on teams; [...] whether it is only to be constructed animals [...], or [...] ordinary cats and dogs are allowed[...] None of the cats canvassed show the least inclination [...] this does not prevent [...] hearty disputation of the rules.
Emancipationist, Radical Emancipationist, Emancipationist-Liberationist	Several of the players put forward the idea that this should really be a cooperative game, though perhaps [...] teams are prevented from communicating [...] The rest of the afternoon goes to scrounging up folding screens and curtains to divide the field in half [...]
Anti-Liberationist	Several of the more zealous members of the team insist on making the sport as ideologically pure as possible, which is to say, to make it into a competitive illumination event. The opposing team goes so far as to name themselves the Solars.
Anti-Prehistoricist	Someone proposes [...] a competitive anti-palaeontology event, in which skeletons are deconstructed and the bones buried in a variety of locations around the city; but the idea peters out for lack of a skeleton [...] you refrain from offering one of your own.
Anti-Emancipationist	[...] all the participants [...] want to include some secondary event, though they can't agree whether this should be chess or boxing or [...] competitive mammoth-roasting. [...] the ultimate order of play is thirteen rounds long; round seven poisons off half the contestants.
Mixed, Balanced, Complacently Unrevolutionary	This [...] opens the question of whether [...] it would better suit the TLU to have a three-sided sport [...] This then leads to [...] argument over whether [...] so few people on a team is really any fun [...] Thus the afternoon is pleasantly expended without [...] ever deciding on rules of play [...]
Unknown	[...] the question of what equipment [...] The team members [...] put forward [...] common tracklaying tools [...] hammers, pickaxes, and a not-ungenerous collection of explosives. The rest of the day goes to trying to invent a [...] sport that will not take too many legs off the players.

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