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|From Card/Storylet title = The Season of Silver
 
|From Card/Storylet title = The Season of Silver
 
|Description = The players of the Game are in a tizzy.
 
|Description = The players of the Game are in a tizzy.
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|Success title = What's going on?
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|Wiki Note = {{Seasonal Hub Note|For Want of Coins}}
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|Success description = (see table below)
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 1-9)
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|Success summary = The description varies based on your value of {{IL|For Want of Coins}}.
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|Success description = The novelty of the magpies is wearing off. They leave the bats hungry and menace vendors of Surface fruits.
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{{Variant table|Condition = For Want of Coins|Effect = Description|Condition type = Text
 
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|Value 0 = 1 - 9
 
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|Effect 0 = The novelty of the magpies is wearing off. They leave the bats hungry and menace vendors of Surface fruits.
 
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|Value 1 = 10 - 19
 
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|Effect 1 = Teams of rats splash in the filthy gutters as they run to seek out the missing coins. Why they seek them, they will not say.
 
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|Value 2 = 20 - 29
 
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|Effect 2 = London'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.
 
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|Value 3 = 30 - 39
 
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|Effect 3 = Moralists and the Constabulary denounce recent outbreaks of violence in the street, as supposedly respectable individuals come to blows over coins left on the cobbles.
 
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|Value 4 = 40 - 49
 
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|Effect 4 = The 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.
 
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|Value 5 = 50 - 59
 
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|Effect 5 = It 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.
 
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|Value 6 = 60 - 69
 
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|Effect 6 = The 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.
 
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|Value 7 = 70 - 79
 
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|Effect 7 = An 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.
 
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|Value 8 = 80 - 89
 
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|Effect 8 = You can tell who the players are. Listen carefully next time you're travelling across London: do you hear the ladies and gentlemen jingle?
 
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|Value 9 = 90 - 99
 
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|Effect 9 = Public notices around the city warn the citizenry to take extra care: instances of pick-pocketing and mugging have increased tenfold.
 
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|Value 10 = 100
 
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|Effect 10 = Scandal 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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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 10-19)
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|Success description = Teams of rats splash in the filthy gutters as they run to seek out the missing coins. Why they seek them, they will not say.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 20-29)
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|Success description = London'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.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 30-39)
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|Success description = Moralists and the Constabulary denounce recent outbreaks of violence in the street, as supposedly respectable individuals come to blows over coins left on the cobbles.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 40-49)
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|Success description = The 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.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 50-59)
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|Success description = It 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.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 60-69)
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|Success description = The 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.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 70-79)
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|Success description = An 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.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 80-89)
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|Success description = You can tell who the players are. Listen carefully next time you're travelling across London: do you hear the ladies and gentlemen jingle?
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 90-99)
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|Success description = Public notices around the city warn the citizenry to take extra care: instances of pick-pocketing and mugging have increased tenfold.
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}}
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{{Success
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|Success title = What's going on? ({{IL|For Want of Coins}} 100?)
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|Success description = Scandal 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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*{{Airs|For Want of Coins}}
 
*{{Airs|For Want of Coins}}
 
*{{Gain|Cryptic Clue|25 x}}
 
*{{Gain|Cryptic Clue|25 x}}

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