Speak with the Last Duchess
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From: Aboard your Airship, Firmament: In Between Days
Action Cost: 0
Success
The First Officer
Description summary:
Description varies with 
Firmament level.
| Firmament | Description |
|---|---|
| 50 | [...] She is cleaning up a shattered mirror [...] when you enter. " [...] I shall like to show you my home [...]" And where is home? She sighs. "Upwards of here. [...] I had hoped to find help [...] My city is under attack. [...] I am committed to our cause. But after? My people come first." |
| 88 | The Last Duchess paces [...] "Why of everyone aboard are you the only other person to remember what we saw? [...]" [...] "Time and place, [...] ruined. [...]" [...] "And you felt the flame too. I won't ask if you have seen it before. I have. In a dream. And when I woke, my city was [...] gone [...]" |
| 200 | The Last Duchess surveys a collection of relics and holy icons she purchased [...] in Naples, [...] "I had forgotten the feeling of warmth. [...]" [...] "My life now feels as though I see through a piece of Venetian glass. All colour and reflection, distorting the pane..." |
| 240? | She is briefly in her cabin, reading her book of hours. "From the Duc du Berry's library," [...]
She smiles [...] "We have been touched by the Pentecostal flame, you and I. When I am at your side, I fear nothing." [...] "Though there is much one ought to fear here." |
| 370 | [...]
"[...] Sword of justice in hand, Fortune at my heels. I would make my city the empire I knew it ought to have been. [...] And with a threat of creatures I did not know could have existed. [...] Why fear what is when all that could have been howls at the door? [...] |
| 615 | She paces her room, [...] Around her lie maps of Ghent, [...] with images and string [...] And at its centre, [...] Maximilian, [...] Does she wish to discuss the fact she is an Apocrypha? A hurled expletive and a torn up image of a dyspeptic cousin is answer enough. |
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