The (Alignment) Way/Tables

Consultation[edit]

Hinterland City - Founding Body	First Paragraph
1000 - 2000	The spirit of Furnace is acutely sensitive to imbalance or need. What might, in some other city, require surveys and census work and an entire regulatory body, can here be sensed as instinctively as hunger or thirst.
3000	The city is prone to fads and impulses. It's Cornelius' spirit at work again. If the leadership didn't curb it [...], it could lead the whole town into disaster [...] Its responses are therefore extreme, but you can interpret them into something more reasonable.
4000	Your Double is capable of attending to the city's welfare. But it has so many different matters to consider that, if one wants a precise answer, it's wise to ask a precise question.
5000	The Manager-city watches the collective well-being and it sends its omens in sleep. An imbalance of trade or a rising level of collective fear translates in dreams of inferno and flood. It has no difficulty understanding what you ask.

Leader of the Tracklayers	Title
Furnace Ancona	Scheme to make the Bazaar outlaw the worst of Mr Fires' excesses
Cornelius	Confront the higher beings with their own hypocrisy
Fires' Lackey	Lay various plans none of which could possibly threaten Mr Fires
Your Lackey	List the stars in order of the sequence in which they deserve to be extinguished
January	Conspire in the downfall of the remaining Masters one by one

Leader of the Tracklayers	Action Title
Furnace Ancona	Lay out a breeding programme for useful labourers
Cornelius	Work side by side with Cornelius in the laboratory
Fires' Lackey	Do some ineffectual work with bones, as Mr Fires' lackey will allow no more
Your Own Lackey	Lead the breeding programme yourself
January	Oversee the monster-breeding that January is too busy to attend

Leader of the Tracklayers	Description
Furnace Ancona	[…] some debate […] One group proposes […] if you breed a creature […] create it to enjoy the task. Another objects that a creature whose preferences are dictated is no better than enslaved. […] smaller […] group insinuates that it doesn't matter […] as long as don't provide […] claws.
Cornelius	[…] no […] labour Cornelius cannot imagine performed […] Might not farming be done better by an ambulatory plant, […] which might address the seeds as brethren? […] As for masonry, the Creditor itself demonstrates what can be achieved by a sufficiently attentive mineral. […]
Fires' Lackey	The work is slow, thoughtful, advisory. From time to time you put out statements: the population should not expect any more beasts immediately. [...] You release just a few things here and there, and chafe under the Lackey's determined supervision.
Your Own Lackey	[...] You experiment with strength, with size [...] You balance the creature's ability to comprehend a blueprint against its likelihood of dousing its wranglers in hot acid. You are forced to destroy a few [...] The rest, however, are shown to the whole city in parade.
January	As long as you are making nothing high on the Chain, January takes no immediate interest […] […] You experiment with strength, with size, with docility and intelligence. […] […] forced to destroy a few […] One, you dare not use even the skeleton. That one you bury deep. […]

Leader of the Tracklayers	Description
Furnace Ancona	Furnace might be uneasy [...], but the lacreous currency has made this portion of the Neath a fervid breeding-ground of the bizarre. [...] [...] They needn't all be menacing. One of your first efforts is a maze-pine, [...] to point out directions to the passers-by.
Cornelius	There is no [...] labour Cornelius cannot imagine performed by some creature [...] Might not farming be done better by an ambulatory plant [...]? Shouldn't beekeeping be managed by a superior type of bee? [...] "Draw the shepherd from the flock" becomes his new saying. [...]
Fires' Lackey	Mr Fires' Lackey does not want to see anything done on these lines [...] To satisfy the Prehistorically inclined [...] all you can do is claim responsibility for the various oddities [...] out here. The rock eating mule? That was your design [...] Entirely intentional.
Your Own Lackey	There is no one to stop you doing as you like in the laboratory [...] You shape salamanders for the fireplaces; maze-pines for the twisting streets; hounds that search out lost objects and swallow them [...] There are a few mistakes. Most [...] you are able to destroy.
January	As long as you are making nothing high on the Chain, January takes no immediate interest in your work, except to advise you to bear the principles of Liberation in mind. […] there is no one to stop you […] You shape salamanders [...]; maze-pines [...]; hounds [...] […]