Soliloquise

ID: 275410

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From: ACT (N), SCENE (m)

A daring move – to address the audience directly.

Unlocked with Crimson Airs 1-50

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 250

• 171 - very chancy (41%)
• 213 - chancy (51%)
• 255 - modest (61%)
• 296 - very modest (71%)
• 338 - low-risk (81%)
• 380 - straightforward (91%)
• 417 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Enthralling

The mask is hot upon your face – joyous, to give access to its innermost thoughts to this […] audience. Other players are banished from the scene, and you spill forth a [role]'s […]

Laced, too, with dramatic irony, a forward-casting hint that […]

Description summary:
The adjective used to describe the audience varies with The Shape of the Audience:

The Shape of the Audience	Adjective
(n/a)	endarkened
1 - Beating Hearts	aortal
2 - Faceless Courtiers	faceless
3 - Abandoned Bones	osseous
4 - Blood	sanguine
5 - Red, Red Glasses	languid
6 - Tangled Roots	tangled
7 - Piles of Teeth	chattering
8 - Roaring Flame	crackling
9 - Empty Mirrors	empty

The way the role's interiority is described depends on the Genre:

Consuming Genre:	Description
Comedy	brightest interiority,
Tragedy	blackest interiority,
History	truest interiority,

The end of the second sentence depends on your Role:

Starring Role:	Phrase
King	speaking on legacy, on death, on slippery control.
Queen	speaking on justice, and ambition, and dreams of bloody change.
Knave	speaking on lust, and performance, and the ironies of birthright.

The end of the final sentence depends on the Genre:

Consuming Genre:	Phrase
Comedy	all shall be well.
Tragedy	all shall not be well.
History	all shall not be well.

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 530 x Scarlet Applause
•  You've gained 1 Scene
•  [Crimson Airs change…] (random)

Failure

"Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb"

Robbed of your moment – for who should scamper on stage at the dawn of your grand soliloquy but the Fool, determined to engage you in dialogue? His jokes are not funny. [See below]

Description summary:
The final sentence depends on the Genre:

Consuming Genre:	Final sentence
Comedy	All the worse, when the audience laughs and laughs.
Tragedy, History	Each quip twists in your gut like a thorn.

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 250 x Scarlet Applause
•  You've gained 1 Scene
•  [Crimson Airs change…] (random)