Keep an ear open

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From: Beneath the Sign of the Midnight Moon


Description summary:
Description varies with Upon the Belly of the Whale.

Upon the Belly of the WhaleDescription
1-9What is there to discuss, except the rain?
10Goods and information from all across the Roof pass through the Midnight Moon. There is much to learn here.

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Unlocked with Upon the Belly of the Whale 10 (It is too wet and miserable for juicy rumours.)


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Overheard

Description summary:
The text varies with Smuggled Airs

Wiki note: Numbers unaccounted for: 9, 20 – 22, 29 – 37, 40, 47 – 51, 57 – 59, 65 – 69, 79 – 84, 98 – 100

Smuggled AirsText
1-8"—and so I says to 'em, 'ave you looked down? Place doesn't look very low to me!" The speaker [...] basks in the laughter of his fellows. "They didn't seem to think it was so funny," he muses. "Had to get out of there sharpish."
10-19A visiting Miserherder describes, in halting English, an isolated fortress belonging to 'a priesthood of the vulgar tongue'. […] the smuggler across from her listens intently. When she is done, he nods. "We'll chart a different course. Thank you."
23-28A man with a stentorian slur and ale in each hand tells tall tales. A warren of death and madness. Bones falling like rain from new-cut bore-holes. Skulls arranged in unseeing mosaics. [...] rumbling from the dark above, like the approach of a great beast.
38-39A woman with a knife at her belt and rust beneath her nails eats with a vigour that repels and fascinates in equal measure. "More," she calls as each plate empties. "More!" Tears carve rivers down her dirty cheeks.
41-46The Starved and slowly Starving [...] argue endlessly about their Moon-Misers. Whether they flourish. Where the next migration will end. Whose is quickest, or strongest, or most lovely. Which will bear the fairest clutch when they next visit the Mooncotes.
52-56Returning smugglers bring news of the latest tricks of the revenue men, the White-and-Golds, [...]. "We'll need to change the designs of the barrels again," one laments. [...]

"I'll let the Candle-Men know," [...] "We lead, the law follows. It was ever thus."

60-64A [...] youth, clearly fresh from New Newgate, pulls a knife after a particularly pointed jibe. The room stills.

"We don't do that here, boy." A Starved Man stands [...]

[...]"This one stays aboard your vessel until you leave. [...]"

The youth's captain nods, white-faced.
70-78By the hearth, a lad with [...] sallow complexion of a New Newgate inmate stands to bellow a toast. "To Old Resurrection!" A ragged cheer rises in the pub, with many glasses raised [...]

"Don't let 'er hear you call 'er old," a voice from the corner croons.

85-89An [...] accordion struggles through the final bars of something halfway between a shanty and a nursery rhyme:

'Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
Dim the lights, o hunger, as the Candle-Men go by.'

Most of the patrons [...] seem to […]

90-97Today the Moon hosts a captain who – or so the story goes – has flown so far east that the Roof begins to curve back down towards the zee.[...]

[...] "Do you think you'll ever return?"

She peers at the querent [...] "Return? I never left."

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