Keep an ear to the ground

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From: The Season of Silver


The players of the Game are in a tizzy.


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What's going on?

(see table below)

Description summary:
The description varies based on your value of For Want of Coins.

For Want of CoinsDescription
1 - 9The novelty of the magpies is wearing off. They leave the bats hungry and menace vendors of Surface fruits.
10 - 19Teams of rats splash in the filthy gutters as they run to seek out the missing coins. Why they seek them, they will not say.
20 - 29London's beggars are in a state of some confusion. Well-dressed ladies and gentlemen keep offering them stacks of Echoes in exchange for their coppers. They're not complaining, mind.
30 - 39Moralists and the Constabulary denounce recent outbreaks of violence in the street, as supposedly respectable individuals come to blows over coins left on the cobbles.
40 - 49The urchins are out in force, turning up the cobbles and digging through the refuse to find any lost coins. The Knotted Sock seems happy to sell; the Regiment, to hoard.
50 - 59It is whispered that the Captivating Princess herself has developed an interest in collecting coins. As a result, fashionable salons throughout the city now gather to show off their own collections.
60 - 69The Ministry of Public Decency has, with frightening swiftness, repressed a treatise entitled: 'The Coin and the Celestial: A History of Stories'. All copies have almost certainly been pulped; likewise the author.
70 - 79An influential poet has published a song-cycle about the plague of avarice which has struck the city. The songs are so vicious you can only assume she's attempting to dissuade the competition.
80 - 89You can tell who the players are. Listen carefully next time you're travelling across London: do you hear the ladies and gentlemen jingle?
90 - 99Public notices around the city warn the citizenry to take extra care: instances of pick-pocketing and mugging have increased tenfold.
100Scandal hits the Church! The coins from their donation boxes have not been going to the poor. The Church offers up a scape-deacon; the public is sated, and the hunt continues.

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