Airs of the Most Serene Mausoleum

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Circumstance description
"You have walked amongst the deathless few."

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Journal description

 * [ 1 ] The Most Serene Mausoleum is a hive of insular activity. The dead do not rest quiet here

Interaction description
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 * [ 1 ] Sobbing can be heard from the direction of the Prince-Consort's tomb. Mourning is a competitive event here.
 * [ 50 ] Dust drifts down in clouds from the vaults high over your head. Parts of the Mausoleum are left to rot so that they may be cannibalised for new extensions.
 * [ 100 ] Footmen move through the shadowed aisles, lighting fresh candles of the finest Chorister wax.
 * [ 150 ] A trumpet blares. A page is playing the victory lament of Her Renewed Majesty entering Albion to claim her dominion.
 * [ 200 ] Soft laughter comes from a side altar. The ruffle of silk, a sudden giggle, the clatter of a falling reliquary.
 * [ 250 ] A hush descends on the Nave. The Dismal Chamberlain is making his rounds.
 * [ 300 ] Bells toll in the towers far above. A long doleful knell, sounding the hour of the Consort's death.
 * [ 350 ] The scent of burning incense wafts by. The Duchess Incarnadine is abroad today.
 * [ 400 ] A candle gutters in front of a vast oil portrait of Her Renewed Majesty.
 * [ 450 ] Banners bearing crossed keys are being raised all over the Mausoleum. The Luminous Cardinal is staging a miracle play.
 * [ 500 ] A statue in the rafters moves. The Engraved Mourner is repainting the frescoes in the choir.

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Dinner

 * [ 0 ] The Dismal Chamberlain receives you in a well appointed antechamber. Black candles flicker like failing stars behind the Chamberlain. He serves you a meal from his own kitchens: hand-reared poultry in saffron, roast Chorister, and wine as pallid as the Chamberlain's hand. He eats little but watches you dine with evident satisfaction.
 * [ 100 ] The Macabre Counsellor receives you in a converted chapel off the choir. She rests against a misericord while her sombre-liveried servants wheel in the banquet. This was the feast served at Emperor Nero's funeral apparently: honey and sweetbreads, roast chestnuts and amphora full of wine dark as Eleutheria. She inquires if you've made plans for your own funeral.
 * [ 200 ] The Luminous Cardinal has taken over a radial chapel off the Nave to receive you in. It is the Feast of St Blythe, he tells you, or it will be if he's able to send the papers back to the Holy See for canonisation. There is a special liturgy. Afterwards, wiping his mouth of communion wine, he asks for your opinion on the question of revelation, and the division between vision and temptation.
 * [ 300 ] The Duchess Incarnadine receives you in a private catacomb, where cobwebs festoon the vaults like triumphal banners. She has brought cards, good cheese, and wine. She trounces you thrice at gin rummy while you watch the spiders go to war in the webs. Had she lit a candle flame under them?
 * [ 400 ] The Engraved Mourner has invited you to a feast of all his favourites. You are a motley bunch; you make polite conversation with a deacon and a prospector. The food is unusual; you would never have pared olives with cantankeri, but here you are. The Engraved Mourner watches on, a beatific smile on his sculpted face, as he listens to your conversation."

Dance

 * [ 0 ] The Dismal Chamberlain invites you a little soiree in a sepulchral vault above the Nave. Behind a great clockface, a gathering of respectable notables has been assembled. A gallery of musicians plays a selection of Her Renewed Majesty's favourite waltzes. The Dismal Chamberlain is very interested indeed in your opinions on contemporary music.
 * [ 100 ] The Macabre Counsellor is having some sort of party. Your name is on her list. You are brought to a catacomb the size of a cathedral, where an orchestra is mishandling Saint-Saëns. There are costumes. You are made Pope. It emerges the Macabre Consellor is attempting to recreate a tableaux she once saw in Siena.
 * [ 200 ] The Luminous Cardinal has organised a dance in the cloister. You are invited. The Cardinal has you waltzing through the cloisters draped in speckled cloaks. It seems he is attempting to recreate the moving Constellations of the Stars. He watches from behind a desk, pausing to sketch something every now and then. Ideas for illuminations, he says later, for his new Bible.
 * [ 300 ] The Duchess Incarnadine has invited you to a dance in the Nave. Pews and candlesticks have all been cleared away to make space for the dancing. You are given a comfortable dinner suit, a helmet, and padded gloves. Their neccesity soon becomes apparent. The Duchess has devised an exotic new dance, combining elements of the waltz, the joust and something called 'shinty.' You acquit yourself admirably, and a doctor is on hand for the worst of it.
 * [ 400 ] The Engraved Mourner invites you to join him and a select few friends in the transept, where there is to be dancing. What transpires is something more akin to musical chairs. You and your partner will begin the waltz only for the Mourner to call a sudden halt, silencing the beleagured fiddler. Then he will produce his sketchbook and spend several minutes detailing your form, caught in the middle of your move. And then repeat. It is a trying if athletically stimulating evening.

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