Publish a Whitsun Edition
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From: Start the presses!
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of each type of copy.
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24 - 59 | An editorial from F. F. Gebrandt on toxins in eggs. |
60 - 101 | A learned disquisition by an expert in birds. |
107 - 116 | A proposition for an Egg Disposal Department, to ensure a London free of odours and rot. |
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5 - 21 | A list of the ten likeliest egg-parents, including a vast crustacean and 'a giant Drownie'. |
24 - 57 | Evidence that the eggs are a recurring plague, experienced every 247 years in the Neath. |
60 - 99 | Claims that this is a new shipping method adopted by the Boatman, and that the eggs contain the dead. |
104 - 116 | Speculation that the Neath itself is a giant egg. |
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5 - 24 | A satirical drawing of the former Lord Mayor laying the eggs. |
27 - 57 | A story of a naked danseuse who hatched from a violet egg. |
60 - 96 | Lurid reports concerning the use of eggs at Mr Wines' Revels. |
105 - 140 | An 'eyewitness account' that the eggs are the love-spawn of Mr Stones and a well-known Deviless. |
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Pages and pages of extraordinary rumour
Description summary:
The description changes every year.
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2020 | […] The Admiralty has been warehousing eggs and shipping them out to Zee. […] pool of yolk in the Forgotten Quarter […] at least one egg was dropped from a great height. […] […] But you're left with a handsome profit and a number of newly uncovered secrets. |
2021 | […] The Admiralty has been warehousing eggs and shipping them out to Zee. […] that the eggs are offspring of the Bazaar. […] 'emerging from percipient eggs are beyond […] devils are beyond humans' […] refuted by furious bishop […] 'We are all, all equal before God.' […] |
2022, 2024 | […] a hefty tax on all eggs […] creatures […] from pelagic eggs are in silent communion with the Bazaar. Penstock has employed a recently-hatched cuttlefish as his personal notary[…] […] […] an anonymous tip: a fragment […] from the Tragedy Procedures […] a phenomenon called 'eggfall'[…] |
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An occurrence! Your 'Speculation about Whitsun' Quality is now 2!
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Rare Success
Pages and pages of extraordinary rumour
Description summary:
The description changes every year.
Year | Description |
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2020 | Amid the rumour […], there are a few facts. […]
[…] No one important will admit to believing a word of it. […] someone has left you an anonymous tip: a fragment […] from the Tragedy Procedures of the Bazaar[…] a phenomenon called "eggfall." […] |
2021 | Amid the rumour and gossip, you seed a few facts. […] Three faculties of the University agree – agree! – that the eggs are offspring of the Bazaar. […] […] someone has left you […] a fragment […] from the Tragedy Procedures […] The text describes […] 'eggfall'. […] |
2022, 2024 | […] The Masters are considering expanding the tax on speckled eggs to […] all eggs […] […] a fragment […] describes […] 'eggfall': 'should excessive reproductiplying threaten the integrity of the Promise, measures will be taken to entombarricade the incubatio—' |
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'Hour before the Deadline' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
Your 'Meritorious Copy' Quality has gone!
Your 'Salacious Copy' Quality has gone!
Your 'Outlandish Copy' Quality has gone!
An occurrence! Your 'Speculation about Whitsun' Quality is now 2!
Making Waves is increasing… (+20 CP)
You've gained 1 x Vital Intelligence
You've gained 1 x Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures
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