The Flow of Commerce
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Description summary:
The first paragraph varies based on the city's 
Style, while the rest of the description varies depending on whether or not you minted a 
Story-backed currency.
| Style | First Paragraph |
|---|---|
| First City | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. It's not easy going: the streets zig and zag, and he is constantly having to circle around some bit of Second City statuary. Their diorite faces regard him without sympathy. |
| Bethlehem | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. With every step, tendrils come up from between the cobblestones and wrap around his feet and tangle his wheels. He spends half his time swearing and kicking them away. |
| School of Beatrice | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. The streets are not designed for the likes of him; where there are ramps, they're meant for push-chairs, not for commerce. If anything, they might be getting steeper just to spite him. |
| Porous | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. The buildings sigh as he goes past. |
| Ivory | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. The walkways and plazas are broad enough to accommodate him, but they mean he has to go quite a long way from one potential sale to the next. |
| Attenuated | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. The streets are not designed for the likes of him; all the streets are a bit too narrow and the turns too angular. |
| Remembered True Beatrice | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. The streets are not designed for the likes of him; where there are ramps, they're meant for push-chairs, not for commerce. |
| Celestial | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. There are poles everywhere, supporting awnings against a non-existent sunlight. It is possible they are going to extra effort to block his way. |
| Auroral | A Feverish Relicker struggles [...] The pale, shifting lights confuse him: in fact, they seem to be misleading him intentionally, swapping colours so that he thinks he is turning down a fresh street but in fact is circling the same three houses. |
| Nocturnal | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. It is easy to get lost in a city without lights, and his wheels bump and jitter on the textured paving stones. |
| Bazaarine | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. Gargoyles misdirect him; an imp gives him inaccurate directions to the centre of town. |
| Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical | FATE |
| Cenotaphic | A Feverish Relicker struggles with his cart. It's not easy going, and he keeps accidentally heading along uninhabited tomb-streets. |
| Story-backed | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | [...] Out here, he's diversified his business [...] He's distributing what would be contraband in a more regulated city: absinthe, gin, honey from questionable bees. In exchange, he's gathering stories of love lost or sacrificed in the founding of the city. |
| 1 | His cart is piled high with [...] tales scraped from the [...] Bazaar, because you committed the Bazaar to repay the Creditor in love stories.
No one said that those [...] had to be translated and delivered to the population [...] The Masters must have added that twist. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Unlocked with 
Hinterland Prosperity 6000, 
Habituated to the Hinterland, 
Exploration of a Hinterland City 80
Locked with The City Waning 8
Card drawn in 
The City of the Tracklayers
Occurs with Frequent Frequency (twice as common as Standard)
Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.
Options:
Overhear a story in the telling
- Spoiler Locked with
Story-backed currency (hidden)
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)Success
A story told
Watchful is increasing…
Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
You've gained (220 + 
Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Failure
A story told
- Watchful is increasing…
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Help yourself to one of the stories he isn't watching
- Spoiler Unlocked with
6,250 x Hinterland Prosperity
Locked with Story-backed currency (hidden)
Success
Shared property
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
You've gained 1 x Captivating Ballad- You've lost 6,250 x Hinterland Prosperity
Censor incendiary imports
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Story-backed currency (hidden)
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)Success
An unfortunately high literacy rate in
[City Name]
Persuasive is increasing…- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Failure
[Varies]
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+1 CP)
The City Waning is increasing… (+1 CP)
[Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)
Establish a book club
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Story-backed currency (hidden)
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)Success
Rising literacy rates in
[City Name]- Watchful is increasing…
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
[Airs of Balmoral change…] (random) (hidden)- You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Failure
More refuse for burning
- Watchful is increasing…
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+1 CP)
- The City Waning is increasing… (+1 CP)
Convert a few tales into a safer form of art
- Spoiler Unlocked with 6,250 x Hinterland Prosperity, Story-backed currency (hidden)
Success
Fine work
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Captivating Ballad
- You've lost 6,250 x Hinterland Prosperity
Fish out a curious volume
- Spoiler Unlocked with
A Co-Conspirator of Mr Fires
Success
The challenge of authentication
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained (200+ Hinterland Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Recognise the tattered legacy of Mr Cups
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Ambition: Nemesis 4000-4999
Locked with Story-backed currency (hidden)
Success
A familiar variation
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained (200 + Hinterland Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Recognise the clawed grasp of Mr Cups
- Spoiler Unlocked with Ambition: Nemesis exactly 5000
Locked with Story-backed currency (hidden)
Success
A marked preference
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained (200 + Hinterland Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Contemplate what would be happening if Mr Cups yet lived
- Spoiler Unlocked with Ambition: Nemesis 4300-4999, Story-backed currency (hidden)
Success
Its talons on the Bazaar
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained (200+ Hinterland Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Accept delivery of a letter to yourself
- Spoiler Unlocked with Ambition: Nemesis exactly 5000, Story-backed currency (hidden)
Success
It was always keen on the written word
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained (200 + Hinterland Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
