Lustrum

 is a port in the outer circle of the Reach, located in the same snowy segment as Carillon.

=Log Entries= ''A flurry of snow blows past the window. A crewman curses the cold.'' ''Frost filigrees the window. The crew shivers. A pipe splits in the cold.'' ''Snow-laden peaks rise from the mists. And dwarfing them all, the impossible immensity of the Mother of Mountains.''

Incautious Driver: "Hours are mined in Lustrum - good for going faster than possible. Going to get some?" Inconvenient Aunt: "If we're stopping at Lustrum, remember to wrap up warm when you head out." ''The crew sees the snow on Lustrum, then stares at the Rat Brigade. The smiles hide thoughts of ear-muffs.'' The Eccentric: "Lustrum, where you can spend all your hours suffering in the hopes of finding more." ''The Princess has taken all the blankets. "Lustrum's cold. Throw something on the fire. Books, if you must."'' ''The Vagabond puffs on his pipe. "Last time I climbed that mountain, I left four toes behind."'' ''"The Mother of Mountains bleeds hours. Can you taste her misery?" The Repentant Devil is curious, not sad.''

=Prospector's Quarter= ''The frantic, hustling heart of Lustrum, crammed with prospectors, pedlars, and purveyors of essential — and occasionally legal — services. Most business takes place here, unless you're a dreamer seeking your fortune on the claim fields.''

The Mountain Sings
''Wind whistles through the Mountain's caves, promising good luck to the miners below. They raise their tankards and toast the fortune it promises.''

Trigger conditions

Date ≥ An Opportunity in Lustrum,

Interactions

An Unfrequented Soup Stall
''"Want some?" He waggles a full ladle at you. "It's free. I'll fill you a flask, for later." Despite being on the edge of the prospectors' shanty-town, no one else is taking him up on his offering. ''

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Explore Lustrum
''What was briefly a modest, pleasant town on the Mother of Mountains now runs on increasingly desperate dreams of riches. Fools sell their futures for the chance to mine years from the Mountain's frozen sides. Sharper minds sell pickaxes, supplies, and the promise of a warm bed at the end of a bitter's day work.''

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The Hanged Man
''Irritable miners jockey for space by insufficient fireplaces. They pay for the overpriced drinks with their dwindling coins or lowest quality Hours. A few fortunates bear the mark of minor success; the baby-soft hands that come from regularly handling unseasoned Hours.''

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Murgatroyd's Golden Tea Shop
''An oasis of London civility and culture in a town with little of either. Melusine Murgatroyd stands proudly behind the display of fresh scones and slightly yellowing cream buns. At small wooden tables, successful prospectors and their significant others welcome themselves to the world of the nouveau riche with a spot of afternoon tea. Pinky fingers stand proud and erect from bone china cups covertly topped up with moonshine.''

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A Potential Claim On The Mountain
"Lustrum: The Quality of a Claim(Description)"

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The Wound that Saves Your Life
A ragged sigil of loss and devastation, of bitter survival.

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Sweet Jane's Counting House
''A little accountancy firm, snuggled in the snowy drifts. Sweet Jane oversees everything herself: the transference of funds, the balancing of probabilities, the transport of commodities, the termination of contracts. She is huddled behind her desk, swaddled in a monstrously ugly red scarf. While she fiddles with her abacus with one gloved hand, she heats the other over a little coal-fire. Her one good eye focuses on you. She smiles.''

Interactions

The Vagabond's Residence
The Vagabond's Obligation(lustrum_description)

Trigger conditions

The Vagabond's Obligation ≥ 30 ≤ 39, Location: Lustrum Area: Prospector's Quarter Frequency: Always (100%)

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The O'Brien Factory
''A busy factory on the outskirts of Lustrum's sprawling shanty-town. Here, the Tacketies are hard at work on their own answer to London's new Monitor-class locomotives.''

Security is high, but the project relies on donations of expertise and resources from sympathetic communities. ''

Trigger conditions

The Tacketies' Answer ≥ 10 ≤ 30, Location: Lustrum Area: Prospector's Quarter Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions

Victory Hall in Exile
''After being driven from New Winchester, the Colonial Assembly have retreated to the Mother of Mountains, and a cluster of bronzewood log cabins. The Tackety resistance operates here, on the far side of the settlement from a Windward factory.''

Trigger conditions

Dominant in the Reach ≥ 3 ≤ 3,

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The Tacketies' Arrival
''The riotous, ramshackle port of Lustrum now hosts a fragile political enterprise. The independent settlers' nascent government, the Colonial Assembly, has been driven from New Winchester and retreated here, to a hastily-erected complex of cabins on the mountain's slope.''

Trigger conditions

Recent Dominance ≤ 2, Dominant in the Reach ≥ 3

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The Tacketies' Restoration
''The fortunes of war have shifted again. The Stovepipes – represented by the London-backed Windward Company – have suffered severe setbacks. Enough that the Tacketies' Colonial Assembly have quit their temporary headquarters here at Lustrum and are even now making full steam back to New Winchester.''

Trigger conditions

Recent Dominance ≥ 3 Dominant in the Reach ≤ 2,

Interactions

=Recruitment in Prospector's Quarter=

Recruit the Fortunate Navigator
''"A Fortunate Navigator is thoroughly examining your engine's pipework. "Crucial bit, this. Look how it's been maintained – beautiful!" Your stoker beams. "That was me. A mid-flight patch, too." "'' ''Game note: Officers require a sign-on fee. ''

Trigger conditions

Fortunate Navigator ≤ 0, Navigator's End ≤ 0,

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Recruit a Gentle Eccentric
"She's been doing odd jobs in the shanty-town that sprawls across the mountain. Mending drills and constructing shelters that are proof against the icy winds. Fixing burst pipes and hidden stills. Now she's looking for work on a locomotive. She wants to see the skies. " ''Game note: Officers require a sign-on fee. ''

Trigger conditions

Felined Eccentric's End ≥ 2 ≤ 2, Gentle Eccentric ≤ 0,

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=The Claim Fields=

''The mountain's slopes are veined with the unmined hours the Enduring Empress hungers for. They are dug from the stone as geodes, minutes growing within them like salt. Most geodes are the size of a walnut, but legend says Old Tom — one of the first prospectors — excavated a whole century, the size of a whale.

The Claim Fields
''The Mother of Mountains stretches on almost forever, from its snowy peak down through seemingly endless strata of lethal nebula gas. On the far side of its cliffs, the Windward Company's machines strip the rocky flesh from the mountain and cast its ore into the perpetual fire of their furnaces. Prospectors from Lustrum have to do everything the hard way, chip-chipping away at their frozen, hard-won claims in search of precious Hours.''

Interactions

Your Very Own Claim On The Mountain
''It is marked off by frayed ropes wrapped around tent-pegs. Your claim was expensive, but any hours below the surface are yours. Of course, your crew will handle the actual mining work.''

Trigger conditions

A Claim on the Mountain ≥ 1

Interactions

The Singing Caves
''This is as close as you can get to the peak. The air is thin, but the view is majestic. From here the Reach stretches out before you in endless waves of purple and violet, occasionally broken by a flicker of gold deep within the clouds. Far below, Lustrum is little but a small yellow glow on a blanket of winter.''

Trigger conditions

Lustrum: The Mountain Sings No More ≤ 0,

Interactions

=Shops=