Remind them of what the city is

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From: Drained


Spoken, it is only a history lesson. Sung, it is a shared identity.

Game Instructions: This will significantly reduce The City Waning.

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It takes considerable confidence in one's material to stand on an empty street corner in the cold and [style description]

What sounds thin and silly when it is only you, sounds much better together. [site description]

Description summary:
The second half of the first paragraph with certain City's Style, and the second paragraph varies based on the city's Chosen Site.

StyleFirst Paragraph
None
First City
School of Beatrice
Attenuated
True Beatrice
belt out these words. But you are heard, and a crowd gathers, and a chorus joins you.
Bethlehembelt out these words. The ears on the closest building swivel like a cat's, malevolently attentive. But you are heard, and a crowd gathers, and a chorus joins you.
Porousbelt out these words. The never-ceasing breath of the city draws in sharply when you begin. But you are heard, and a crowd gathers, and a chorus joins you.
Ivorybelt out these words. The avenues are wide and a voice could be echoed until meaning is lost. But you are heard, and a crowd gathers, and a chorus joins you.
Remembered
Celestial
Auroral
belt out these words. The city may be your double, but that doesn't mean it always approves of you, any more than the mirror does.
Nocturnalbelt out these words. belt out these words. The city may be your double, but that doesn't mean it always approves of you, any more than the mirror does. But you are heard, and a crowd gathers, and a chorus joins you.
BazaarineAnd they must be strange words, full of allusions and references, because a Bazaarine city would respond to nothing less. But you are heard, and a crowd gathers, and a chorus joins you.
MycologeneFATE
TerpsichoreanFATE
HeliconianFATE
CartographicalFATE
Cenotaphicbegin the dirge. But you are heard, and a crowd gathers, and a chorus joins you.
Chosen SiteSecond Paragraph
EalingEven the Rubbery counterpoint doesn't ruin it.
EvenlodeUnder the last verse you can hear the keening of the barrows, a desolate wind-tune that only makes the rest of the song jollier: the way a hearthfire is warmest when it rains.
BalmoralThe pipes come in on the last verse, a remembrance of where you are.
Station VIIIJust at the end of the last verse, and perfectly in tune, comes the distant whistle of shift change at Station VIII.
BurrowIn the last verse, a devil picks up the tune with a brassy instrument, and it carries everyone home.
MoulinAn imp comes in over the last verse, in a falsetto both comical and perfectly right.
MarigoldAt the end of the last verse, a violin comes in, a wistful heartraising lily-song of Infernal understanding; of what it means to be seen thoroughly without either kindness or condemnation.

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