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|Success summary = The description has a few optional sentences for each Morbid Fad that you collected. If you have several of them, it can get quite long. | |Success summary = The description has a few optional sentences for each Morbid Fad that you collected. If you have several of them, it can get quite long. | ||
{{Variant table|Condition = Rumours|Condition type = Quality|Effect = Additional description | {{Variant table|Condition = Rumours|Condition type = Quality|Effect = Additional description | ||
| − | |Value 1 = | + | |Value 1 = Rumours at the Bone Market |
|Effect 1 = The diverse opinions of the Bone Market make for engaging copy. You publish the most outrageous opinions of all involved and frame it as 'scholarly debate'. A job very well done. | |Effect 1 = The diverse opinions of the Bone Market make for engaging copy. You publish the most outrageous opinions of all involved and frame it as 'scholarly debate'. A job very well done. | ||
| − | |Value 2 = | + | |Value 2 = Rumours from the Carnival |
|Effect 2 = Despite its dubious connection to the realms of science, palaeontology and the probable, you include Mrs Plenty's subject as a 'human' (ho ho) interest story. The photograph is definitely arresting. | |Effect 2 = Despite its dubious connection to the realms of science, palaeontology and the probable, you include Mrs Plenty's subject as a 'human' (ho ho) interest story. The photograph is definitely arresting. | ||
| − | |Value 3 = | + | |Value 3 = Rumours from the Department of Cryptozoology |
|Effect 3 = You give due weight to the opinions of the professional academics, that is to say a short paragraph in the third column. You don't wish to bore your readership, after all. | |Effect 3 = You give due weight to the opinions of the professional academics, that is to say a short paragraph in the third column. You don't wish to bore your readership, after all. | ||
| − | |Value 4 = | + | |Value 4 = Rumours from the Singing Mandrake |
|Effect 4 = You seek out the vox populi and print most of the drunker utterings of the Mandrake crowd. Authentic speech from authentic people. You anticipate an angry response from the Shrewsbury Chronicle, but then controversy is the grist to your papermill. | |Effect 4 = You seek out the vox populi and print most of the drunker utterings of the Mandrake crowd. Authentic speech from authentic people. You anticipate an angry response from the Shrewsbury Chronicle, but then controversy is the grist to your papermill. | ||
| − | |Value 5 = | + | |Value 5 = Rumours from the Debonair Palaeontologist |
|Effect 5 = Cutting away the Debonair Paleontologist's more measured utterances, you pare their speech to the bone. You can't say that the Neath is breeding monsters […] to menace the gentle shires above. But you can't say that it isn't either. | |Effect 5 = Cutting away the Debonair Paleontologist's more measured utterances, you pare their speech to the bone. You can't say that the Neath is breeding monsters […] to menace the gentle shires above. But you can't say that it isn't either. | ||
| − | |Value 6 = | + | |Value 6 = Rumours from the Carpenter's Granddaughter |
|Effect 6 = The Carpenter's Granddaughter is your centrepiece, your expert opinion, lauded and feted. […] you find yourself loading it down with all manner of quotes and attributions. Your job, as ever, is to make what people said sound better to the public ear. | |Effect 6 = The Carpenter's Granddaughter is your centrepiece, your expert opinion, lauded and feted. […] you find yourself loading it down with all manner of quotes and attributions. Your job, as ever, is to make what people said sound better to the public ear. | ||
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