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Airs of Carillon
250
Category Hidden
Type Reach: Carillon
Data ID 133372

Airs of Carillon is considered a Hidden Quality Reach: Carillon in Sunless Skies.

Hidden description[ | ]

"What is the weather at Carillon?"

Obtaining[ | ]

Hidden Qualities are used to track various things and are invisble to the player.


Quality status[ | ]

Airs of Carillon has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

Variable Interaction description[ | ]

These desciptions appear when a specific group is called for text.

enlightenment_punishment[ | ]

  • [0] is having a foot surgically removed.
  • [2] is receiving the application of a seventh toe.
  • [5] is having a sixth finger grafted to the left hand.
  • [7] is enduring an old-fashioned cupping.
  • [10] is having an arm removed at the elbow.
  • [15] has been required to sing continuously, without respite, for over three hours.
  • [17] has been required to perform an amateur bagpipe recital in the presence of infamous critics.
  • [20] is being forced to perform arias in public.
  • [22] is being made to play a trombone without having had any lessons.
  • [25] is being subjected to a series of drum beats and erratic bells, just when falling asleep.
  • [28] is receiving tutelage in the use of a unicycle.
  • [30] has been given a viper in a velvet sack, and told to keep it from squirming.
  • [33] has been put in charge of a violent dog.
  • [35] has been forbidden to take tea or scones, and forced to indulge in Empyrean curries instead.
  • [38] is being made to gnaw an uncooked horseradish.
  • [40] has been restricted to a diet of crocodile jerky.
  • [42] is eating a salad made of nothing but peppercorns.
  • [44] is eating a preparation of giggling mandrake; it is hilarious when bitten.
  • [45] is receiving lessons in the conversational tongue of the Blue Kingdom.
  • [48] is receiving a tattoo of Empyrean sigils."
  • [50] has been forcibly dressed in a feathered ballgown.
  • [51] has been dressed, willy-nilly, in a striped purple and green suit, and ordered to invite people to the carnival.
  • [52] is being forced to wear a necklace of rats.
  • [55] is wearing a headdress made of chicken bones.
  • [58] is having scales grafted to the skin.
  • [60] has to wear nettle-flax gloves.
  • [62] has been dressed in the historical armour of the Third City.
  • [65] has to wear a hat lined with needles for the next several hours.
  • [70] has been dosed with a tea that induces memories of one's time in the womb.
  • [75] is drinking the sort of poison that makes your lips go numb if properly dosed, and kills you in minutes if not.
  • [78] has been stabbed with a needle that causes one to feel someone else's regrets.
  • [80] has been exposed to a disease that causes intense fevers and wicked dreams.
  • [85] has been dressed in the signature paisley of the Worshipful Company of Vermin Exterminators.
  • [90] has been given five volumes of erotic drawings from the land of the Pentecost Apes.
  • [95] is being forced to read a scandalous classic of First City literature.
  • [97] is receiving a lecture in the portraiture traditions of Rubbery Men.

ordeal_punishment[ | ]

  • [0] is being menaced by kittens.
  • [10] is having tea with a Supervising Devil and a Penitent from the Terrace of Glass Statues. None of them appears to be enjoying the experience, least of all the Devil."
  • [20] is being forced to copy out the obituaries of departed wives and beloved husbands.
  • [30] is bound, face down, to a huge block of ice.
  • [40] has been tied to one of the trees in the grove.
  • [50] has been shackled at one side of the garden, on the grounds of being too dangerous.
  • [60] has been swaddled very tightly in bandages like a small baby.
  • [70] is being prodded with pitchforks, though the Devils involved look a bit worn out.
  • [80] has been made to sit at the top of a tall pole.
  • [90] has been locked alone in an icy cage, but seems not to mind as much as the Devils might have hoped.

deprivation_punishment[ | ]

  • [0] has been shut up in a giant clock.
  • [5] follows a personal calendar of feast days, fast days, and days of abstinence. This calendar has been plotted a full century from the present.
  • [8] may speak no adjectives, and is restricted to nouns of Roman derivation.
  • [10] eats only three bites of leafy vegetable and four bites of prepared meat at each meal.
  • [12] chews a sprig of mint before speaking.
  • [15] wears a blindfold at all times.
  • [18] sees the world through frosted white glasses.
  • [20] has been given a regimen of bowing each time the seventh bell rings its change.
  • [22] is calculating a list of the first 3000 prime numbers.
  • [25] is being scrubbed head to toe every fifteen minutes with a harsh carbolic soap.
  • [28] cannot go out without a veil.
  • [30] may only wear clothing of undyed linen and nettle-flax.
  • [35] sleeps in a cupboard, wrapped in heavy wool, and is not allowed a fan.
  • [38] may sit only on one buttock, never squarely on both.
  • [40] is responsible for copying down the pattern of the bells on a scroll many feet long, and punished for each error.
  • [42] wears a heavy chain for a belt, and a ball at each ankle.
  • [45] may speak, eat, or drink only while kneeling on the left knee.
  • [48] may not sleep except with the supervision of another Penitent.
  • [50] is allowed to eat only boiled grains and the breast meat of virgin hens.
  • [52] consumes only food that has first been soaked for thirty hours in vinegar.
  • [55] has been forbidden the use of chairs, seats, chaises, and divans.
  • [58] is not allowed ever to lie down.
  • [60] is allowed to sleep in two hour stretches twice a day, inside a silk cocoon insulated from the sound of the bells.
  • [62] is not permitted ever to stand up straight.
  • [65] is forced to stand for hours at a time under a dripping pipe. The drips correspond with the ringing of the second bell.
  • [70] bathes seven times a day and cleans their teeth fourteen times; has a shaved head beneath a paper cap; and eats nothing containing mushroom."
  • [72] wears only clothes that have been thoroughly bleached.
  • [75] must go without water, tea, or beer.
  • [80] is not allowed to hear music or see the light of day.
  • [82] is not allowed any reading material except a timetable of trains.
  • [85] may eat only after having swallowed a preparation that numbs the tongue and nose.
  • [90] is following a discipline of fasting and abstinence on every day except seventh Sundays.
  • [95] breathes only through a fine mesh that keeps out both scent and smoke.

endurance_punishment[ | ]

  • [0] has been locked in a lightless box.
  • [10] has been buried alive.
  • [20] has been put in the sand up to the neck.
  • [30] is meditating on the nature of nonexistence.
  • [40] is listening to a series of lectures on the pointless misery of the grave.
  • [50] is copying out a list of registered deaths."
  • [60] is lying on the sand in the pose of one deceased.
  • [70] is sitting motionless and staring into an empty glass bowl.
  • [80] is hearing readings about the effects of plague and similar miseries.
  • [90] is reading through a manual illustrating the decay of bodies.

conversion_punishment[ | ]

  • [0] has been stripped of garments and possessions and given an entirely new name.
  • [20] is doing vigorous exercises in a sweaty room.
  • [40] is being subjected to daily readings on the importance of knowing one's place.
  • [50] has a locked tongue to prevent so much as speaking the name of a superior.
  • [70] suffers consistent nightmares of having devolved into a lower creature, such as a Fluke."
  • [80] is being told glamorous stories of parties, but never invited to them.

excess_punishment[ | ]

  • [0] has been tied to a banquet table and not allowed to leave until everything is eaten.
  • [10] has been served a vat of small beer and required to consume it completely.
  • [15] has been tied to a whirling carnival ride and not allowed to get down for three days.
  • [20] has been confined to a shed containing the archived confessions of the 270 nuns of Saint Guthlac.
  • [25] has been fitted with a pair of intensifying goggles that present everything at extreme magnification.
  • [30] is required to copy out a dictionary of words that, though obscene in English, carry a holy significance in another tongue.
  • [35] is being forced to mix by hand a thousand pots of black ink and two thousand pots of red ink.
  • [40] has been provided with an etiquette guide to the entry rituals of the Blue Kingdom.
  • [45] is being forced to trace line drawings of Blue Kingdom fashions.
  • [50] is buried under a hundred banned volumes, none of them even slightly legal to bring into London.
  • [55] is copying out the names of prisoners awaiting trial for crimes whose very nature is censored.
  • [60] is tasked with sorting undelivered post from throughout the Reach.
  • [65] is being made to read a Empyrean dictionary aloud from cover to cover."
  • [70] is being made to read the Unexpurgated History of the Worshipful Company of Cooperers, all 17 volumes.
  • [75] is having to sort documents into fifteen piles according to the reason they are censored.
  • [80] is being forced to copy out the map of a city forbidden to human visitors.
  • [85] is grudgingly eating through a hundred and fifteen almond cakes.
  • [90] is being tutored in Parabolan mathematical proofs from non-existence.

inescapable_truth_punishment[ | ]

  • [0] is posed naked before a portraitist of pitiless accuracy.
  • [20] has been dressed in a skin-tight garment with every body part labelled in gold ink.
  • [30] is memorising the deaths of kings, the births of bishops, and the wording of encyclicals.
  • [40] is chained to a chair with a practitioner of the psychological arts, who keeps asking questions about hidden desires and buried traumas.
  • [45] is being forced to make a handwritten copy of every informational article in The Seasonal since it began printing.
  • [50] has been made to wear a suit of iron armour all day long.
  • [55] has been locked in conversation with a Penitent from the Garden of Insatiable Roses. Neither looks happy.
  • [60] is being made to eat every past untruth, written out on tiny parchments.
  • [70] has had a second skeleton implanted alongside the first.
  • [80] is being made to copy out a heap of encyclopedias, word for word, and begin again whenever there is an error.
  • [90] is being kept in isolation in a small chamber at one side of the Garden.

Interactions[ | ]

Interactions in Brief[ | ]

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Interaction Action Result Type Change
Gaslight Terrace 'Gain a penance of Enlightenment' Default / Challenge Fail = [d:100]
Gaslight Terrace 'Gain a penance of Enlightenment' Success = [d:100]
Chequerboard Garden 'Gain a penance of Shift of Perspective ' Default / Challenge Fail = [d:100]
Chequerboard Garden 'Gain a penance of Shift of Perspective ' Success = [d:100]
Bell Garden 'Gain a penance of Deprivation' Default / Challenge Fail = [d:100]
Bell Garden 'Gain a penance of Deprivation' Success = [d:100]
Stunted Grove 'Gain a penance of Ordeal' Default / Challenge Fail = [d:100]
Stunted Grove 'Gain a penance of Ordeal' Success = [d:100]
Sand Garden 'Gain a penance of Endurance' Default / Challenge Fail = [d:100]
Sand Garden 'Gain a penance of Endurance' Success = [d:100]
Garden of Insatiable Roses 'Gain a penance of Excess' Default / Challenge Fail = [d:100]
Garden of Insatiable Roses 'Gain a penance of Excess' Success = [d:100]
Terrace of Glass Statues 'Gain a penance of Inescapable Truth' Default / Challenge Fail = [d:100]
Terrace of Glass Statues 'Gain a penance of Inescapable Truth' Success = [d:100]

Interactions in Detail[ | ]

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Story Action Required Effect
Gaslight Terrace Gain a penance of Enlightenment Default: Success:


Chequerboard Garden Gain a penance of Shift of Perspective Default: Success:


Bell Garden Gain a penance of Deprivation Default: Success:


Stunted Grove Gain a penance of Ordeal
    • Iron icon Iron (100 for 100%)
Default: Success:


Sand Garden Gain a penance of Endurance
    • Iron icon Iron (142 for 100%)
Default: Success:


Garden of Insatiable Roses Gain a penance of Excess Default: Success:


Terrace of Glass Statues Gain a penance of Inescapable Truth Default: Success:


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