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From: Landscape in Moonlight


What would it have been, if other powers had prevailed?


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 180

  • 123 - very chancy (41%)
  • 153 - chancy (51%)
  • 183 - modest (61%)
  • 213 - very modest (71%)
  • 244 - low-risk (81%)
  • 273 - straightforward (91%)
  • 300 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Mithridacy 3 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (20%)
  • 1 - high-risk (30%)
  • 2 - tough (40%)
  • 3 - very chancy (50%)
  • 4 - chancy (60%)
  • 5 - modest (70%)
  • 6 - very modest (80%)
  • 7 - low-risk (90%)
  • 8 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

What may be glimpsed

Description summary:
The description varies based on the city's Chosen Site.

Chosen SiteDescription
EalingEaling is grander than you remember it. Helicon House is almost a palace [...]

[...] London is changed as well. Gone are the chimneys and steeples [...] In their place is the dream of a Rubbery metropolis, asleep in liquid majesty.

[...] From here, there is no Bazaar.

EvenlodeIn the waters [...] shoals upon shoals of creature – lamp-cats and lamp-humans alike – that bear their own bobbing phosphorescent lights. [...] the Magistracy building fades to insignificance.

There is no longer any law, but each thing has its own imperative.

BalmoralBalmoral itself you have seen often and often by moonlight: [...] But from here, if you turn towards the east, you can see London as well. Its churches are Catholic now; its palaces are Jacobite.

As to the Bazaar, that's just where it has always been.

Station VIII[…] Station VIII looks very different in this light. The largest building has […] been engulfed in […] blue-white flames […] A mass of rioting workers are pulling down the dirigible mast […] they turn it into a battering ram and begin […] their way into the overseer's offices.
BurrowBurrow is not Burrow in this light. There is no longer any Mump. The hill and the building on its peak alike are gone […]

Where it once stood, there is now a Northampton Iconoclast, giving out pamphlets […] The masses are to be denied their opiate.

MoulinGoat demons! Goat demons by the hundreds, goat demons in herds, goat demons engaged in mock battles staged in memory of Napoleon and Hannibal. Are they taking this seriously? Has the moonlight even done anything at all?
MarigoldThe white walls of Hell shimmer in the moonlight, looking much as they usually do. Hell has already had its revolution. […]
London is far […] you can make out […] a city of identical factories. Workers file in even though there are no overseers; […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]


Failure

It's one thing to see it and another to dream it afterwards

[See above]

Your nights are unquiet afterwards. Thoughts pass that you would not keep.