Establish a new sport
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From: Day of Rest
Unlocked with Habituated to the Hinterland 17
Success
Now for some rules
You gather in [a Courtyard] near the [Building]. On your side, you have grizzled veteran Tracklayers from the Moloch Line days; [a Passenger]; and a trio of [Newcomers]. On the opposing team are several [Arrivals], captained by [Captain].
[...]Description summary:
The courtyard varies based on the city's Style. The building and the arrivals vary based on the city's Founding Body, while the passengers vary based on Airs of Passengers, the newcomers vary based on its Chosen Site, and the captain varies based on the Airs of Balmoral. Finally, the second paragraph varies based on the city's Official Alignment.
Style | Courtyard |
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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 | Building |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Chosen Site | Newcomers |
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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 | Arrivals |
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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 | Captain |
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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 |
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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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