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ID: 264362

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From: Troubled Times Recur

The beat rises up from the earth. There can be no work shift until all have danced.

Game Instructions: Failure will significantly increase The City Waning.

Unlocked with Hinterland City - Chosen Site is: In the Parish of Burrow, Among the Parishioners in the Church of the Wild

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 150

• 103 - very chancy (41%)
• 128 - chancy (51%)
• 153 - modest (61%)
• 178 - very modest (71%)
• 203 - low-risk (81%)
• 228 - straightforward (91%)
• 250 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Glasswork 7 (50% base)

• 3 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 4 - high-risk (20%)
• 5 - high-risk (30%)
• 6 - tough (40%)
• 7 - very chancy (50%)
• 8 - chancy (60%)
• 9 - modest (70%)
• 10 - very modest (80%)
• 11 - low-risk (90%)
• 12 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

A burning festival

[...] The percussion calls the Tracklayers away from their [Work] and their farming and their brick-laying. [...] It calls to them only as Life. [...]

When at last the dancers are at risk of drowning in the fountains, you [...] lay your hand on the face of the drum.

Description summary:
Part of the description varies based on the city's Official Alignment. The last text of the first paragraph varies on an unknown quality.

Alignment	Work
Liberationist Radical Liberationist Emancipationist-Liberationist	law-decomposing
Liberationist-Prehistoricist	peligination
Prehistoricist Radical Prehistoricist	lab-sanitising
Prehistoricist-Emancipationist	mammoth-feeding
Emancipationist Radical Emancipationist	fungal stock-taking
Anti-Liberationist	lamp-lighting
Anti-Prehistoricist	vermin-eradicating
Anti-Emanipationist	manifesto-delivering
Mixed	consensus-building
Balanced	attitude-balancing
Complacently Unrevolutionary	coin-stamping
Unknown

Unknown	Passage
?	And as Life they answer.
??	And as Life they answer, stamping their feet and raising their skirts before the staring statues.

The first paragraph also has an additional part if the city's Style is FATE Terpsichorean.

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

•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

A burning festival

[...] The percussion calls the Tracklayers away from their [Work] and their farming and their brick-laying. [...] It calls to them only as Life. And as Life they answer.

In the morning the stores are wasted and windows broken. Every limb is bruised [...]

•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Wounds is increasing… (+3 CP)
•  The City Waning is increasing… (+6 CP)