Make a run for it (Tracklayers' City)

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ID: 268818

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From: The Sound of Wings

Through the [landscape] streets, down familiar alleys – you'll throw the wingbeats off.

Description summary:
The terrain name is based on Hinterland City - Chosen Site.

Chosen Site	Landscape
Ealing	half-populated
Evenlode	cedar-shaded
Balmoral	moonlit
Station VIII	floodlit
Burrow	hilly
Moulin	frozen
Marigold	white

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Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 120

• 82 - very chancy (41%)
• 102 - chancy (51%)
• 122 - modest (61%)
• 142 - very modest (71%)
• 162 - low-risk (81%)
• 182 - straightforward (91%)
• 200 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Neathproofed 2 (50% base)

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

Success

Reprieve

You wait until the wingbeats are right behind you, then take off at a full sprint [...] Sheltering beneath the eaves of a [material] [architectural movement] [Alignment building], you peer upwards [...] the [Style landmark]. No dread and wingéd creature lurks there [...] the sound is gone, for now.

Description summary:
The description varies based on the city's Chosen Site, Official Alignment, and Style.

Chosen Site	Material
Ealing	amber
Evenlode	cedar
Balmoral	oak
Station VIII	steel
Burrow	stucco
Moulin	crystal
Marigold	brass

Founding Body	Architectural movement
Furnace Ancona	neo-horizontalist
Furnace Ancona, Starved	post-industrial nocturnalist
Cornelius	proto-columbarianist
Your Own Double	eupatrician
Double of the Manager	fertile crescent Gothic revival

Alignment	Building
Liberationist Radical Liberationist	munitions factory
Liberationist-Prehistoricist	weapons laboratory
Prehistoricist Radical Prehistoricist Prehistoricist-Emancipationist	laboratory
Emancipationist Radical Emancipationist Emancipationist-Liberationist	storehouse
Anti-Liberationist	gasworks site
Anti-Prehistoricist	bone-disposal site
Anti-Emancipationist	debate hall
Mixed Balanced	meeting hall
Complacently Unrevolutionary	shop
Unknown	townhouse

Style	Landmark
None	?
First City	monumental statue of a bearded king
Bethlehem	staring eye-windows of the meeting hall
School of Beatrice	peaked roof of the meeting hall
Porous	lattice-windowed meeting hall
Ivory	great orrery
Attenuated	austere pinnacle of the meeting hall
Remembered	impossible spire
Celestial	balconied meeting hall
Auroral	opalescent surface of the meeting hall
Nocturnal	lightless silhouette of the meeting hall
Bazaarine	peaked roof of the treasury
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE
Cenotaphic	ornamented roof of the great mausoleum
True Beatrice	peaked roof of the meeting hall

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• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
•  You've gained 1 x Rumour of the Upper River
•  You've gained 5 x Map Scrap
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)

Failure

Messy

Shouts and swearing; stale hops; the clatter of a toppled table. Your haste to escape the sound of wingbeats disrupts the drinks of a group of tracklayers sat outside the [Pub]. They demand satisfaction. All the while, the sounds of wings close in.

Description summary:
The pub's name varies based on the city's Foundation.

Foundation	Pub name
Alignment	Furnace	Furnace, Starved	Cornelius	Your Double	Manager’s Double
Liberationist	The Dark Lamp	The Attenuated Swan	The Peligin Hart	The Crown and Anchoress	The Black Lens
Radical Liberationist
Liberationist-Prehistoricist
Prehistoricist	The Triple Bird	The Pallid Hound	The Mammoth and Castle	The Marrow	The Clay Raptor
Radical Prehistoricist
Prehistoricist-Emancipationist
Emancipationist	The Beehive	The Enervated Hart	The Staff and Skeleton	The Butcher's Table	The Rose and Horned Crown
Radical Emancipationist
Emancipationist-Liberationist
Anti-Liberationist	The Boiled Swan	The Elongated Lion	The Frost-Moth	The Black King	The Fidgeting Mermaid
Anti-Prehistoricist
Anti-Emancipationist
Mixed
Balanced				The Red King
Complacently Unrevolutionary				The White King
Unknown

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• Shadowy is increasing…
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2-4 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+? CP)
•  The City Waning is increasing… (+2 CP)