Evoke for visitors the memory of a lost time
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From: Merely Passing Through
Once it was an [Initial Alignment] stronghold. A few signs of the old days are still visible here and there.
Unlocked with 
Hinterland City - Official Alignment Complacently Unrevolutionary
Challenge information
Broad, 
Persuasive 150
- 103 - very chancy (41%)
- 128 - chancy (51%)
- 153 - modest (61%)
- 178 - very modest (71%)
- 203 - low-risk (81%)
- 228 - straightforward (91%)
- 250 - straightforward (100%)
Narrow, 
Mithridacy 7 (50% base)
- 3 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 4 - high-risk (20%)
- 5 - high-risk (30%)
- 6 - tough (40%)
- 7 - very chancy (50%)
- 8 - chancy (60%)
- 9 - modest (70%)
- 10 - very modest (80%)
- 11 - low-risk (90%)
- 12 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Astonish [a Passenger]
[...] But you can give a sense of how it was: [...]; you visit the oldest buildings in [District].
The tourists are delighted. They will go home and tell this astonishing story at their firesides.Description summary:
The identity of the passenger varies based on the 
Airs of Passengers. Then, the first paragraph varies based on the city's 
Style, 
Initial Alignment, and 
Chosen Site.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Style | First Paragraph |
|---|---|
| Attenuated, Remembered, Celestial | The earliest days of the city are hard to imagine now. |
| Auroral | The earliest days of the city are hard to imagine now; visitors tend to regard it as a sort of elegant light-show. |
| Nocturnal | The earliest days of the city are hard to imagine now. The darkness, once fundamental to its politics, has now become a novelty attraction. Visit a place you cannot see! Heighten all your other senses! |
| Bazaarine | The earliest days of the city are hard to imagine now. Visitors puzzle over the carvings, the inscriptions on buildings, the whelk in stained glass, and they forget that anyone really lived inside this riddle-box. |
| Alignment | First Paragraph |
|---|---|
| Liberationist-Prehistoricist | you show off an abandoned laboratory, its roof now open to the elements; you describe the sightless work-beasts that could be seen roving the town |
| Prehistoricist | you show off an abandoned laboratory, its roof now open to the elements; you describe the drill-beaked well-herons that could be seen roving the town |
| Mixed | you show off an abandoned meeting hall, its roof now open to the elements; you describe the citizen-creatures of all sorts that could be seen roving the town |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Persuasive is increasing…
Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
You've gained 2 x Romantic Notion
You've gained (220 + 
Hinterland Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Failure
Distress
[...]
Unfortunately, your tour produces neither nostalgia nor delicious fear, but a sense of a possibility squandered. "Why didn't it come to anything?" asks one of the tourists, when you stop in the shadow of the [Building]. "What went wrong?"Description summary:
The first paragraph varies based on the city's Initial Alignment, and Chosen Site, as for success, and part of the second paragraph varies based on its 
Founding Body.
| Founding Body | Building |
|---|---|
| Furnace Ancona | reserve silo |
| Furnace Ancona, Starved | amber spire |
| Cornelius | hatching arena |
| Your Own Double | amphitheatre |
| The Double of the Manager | grand hotel |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
[Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)
Categories:
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Hinterland City - Official Alignment
- Persuasive Challenge
- Mithridacy Challenge
- Airs of Passengers Text Uses
- Hinterland City - The Style of a City Text Uses
- Hinterland City - Initial Alignment Text Uses
- Actions
- Habituated to the Hinterland Gain
- Romantic Notion Gain
- Hinterland Prosperity Gain
- Hinterland Efficiency
- Hinterland Efficiency Formula Uses
- Hinterland City - Founding Body Text Uses
- Nightmares Gain
- Airs of Passengers Gain
