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| Ambition: an Old Friend | |
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| Category | Story Event |
| Type | Story |
| Data ID | 308938 |
Ambition: an Old Friend is a Sunless Skies Story Event.
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Following your return to New Winchester, you are eager to meet up with an old friend. She is...
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Ambition: the Truth ≥ 10 ≤ 10,
Area: Wolvesey Station
Frequency: Always (100%)
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| ...an Earnest Counterfeiter
Years ago, you were members of the same urchin gang.
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Partners in crime
When you came of age and the gang drove you out, she followed you. It would have been her turn next, anyway.
With her eye for detail, she graduated from urchinry to counterfeiting. After coming to the skies, she used her ill-gotten gains to buy her own locomotive. She is a skyfarer now, captain of the Azazel. She associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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| ...a Staunch Veteran
You served together in the military. She was reliable, and brooked no nonsense.
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Companions in arms
She left the army not long after you did, and you kept in touch; mostly via letter, occasionally meeting in pubs or clubs. When London arrived in the heavens, she was smitten by the idea of a life among the stars, and invested her savings in her own locomotive.
She is a skyfarer now, captain of the Azazel. She associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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| ...an Earnest Rival
You were each others' fiercest critic and staunchest supporter. Your artistic rivalry was tempestuous, but essentially good-natured.
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Pen-friends
You frequented the salons and honey-dens of London, where you laughed and lamented and quarrelled and forgave.
Arriving in the heavens, she became one of the reformers of the Celestial school, transforming its saccharine nostalgia for sunlit meadows and clouds into intricate paeans to the blazing stars, the wild winds, and the natural order of the sky. You were not surprised when she bought her own locomotive. She is a skyfarer now, captain of the Azazel. She associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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| ...a Staunch Practitioner
You shared a leaky student garret while you attended the University.
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Students
She studied medicine, and had a flair for innovative (her tutor would say 'inappropriate') research. You were surprised when she chose the solid, predictable path of becoming a general practitioner. Perhaps she was tired of arguing.
It didn't stick. Coming to the skies revitalised her love of research. Before the year was out, she sold her practice, bought a locomotive, and became a skyfarer. Now she is captain of the Azazel. She associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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| ...a Staunch Verger
She was the backbone of your little church, ensuring ceremonies proceeded as reliably as clockwork.
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Servants of God
While you administered to the spirit, she oversaw the more terrestrial concerns of the parish: its maintenance and improvement, its schedules and its accounts.
Until one day, not long after arriving in the heavens, she told you she had received a calling. God had decided that her place was among the stars, carrying the Word and witnessing His ineffable design. You gave her your blessing. She is a skyfarer now, captain of the Azazel. She associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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| ...an Earnest Mariner
You and she served aboard the Pimpernel, zailing the dark Unterzee from Port Carnelian to Whither, from the Iron Republic to Venderbight.
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Bound by the sea
The two of you served under several captains, before saving enough to seek captaincies of your own. You kept in touch, leaving messages for one another in twinkling ports scattered across the sea, and meeting occasionally in London to share stories of narrow escapes.
The sky was a new sea, to her. When she arrived in the heavens she immediately bought a locomotive and set out again. She is captain of the Azazel, and associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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| ...a Staunch Intelligencer
You worked together at the Ministry. Hard-working and incisive, with little tolerance for office politics, she was a gifted handler: identifying, recruiting, and developing agents.
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Colleagues
Her salary maintained a small informal zoo of dogs, cats, foxes, bats, guinea-pigs and one pony, all of which occupied her modest apartment in a state of fragile detente.
But she soon became disillusioned with the Ministry. It was monumental and stuffy, hidebound and sluggish. Tendering her resignation, she traded her pension for a locomotive, and resolved to find another way to serve her city. Now, she is captain of the Azazel, and associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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| ...an Earnest Agitator
You were firebrands together. You kept one another's secrets, even in dank brick cellars where special constables bloodied their knuckles on your ribs and jaws.
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For the revolution
In time you learned to temper your fires with guile: you were in this for the long haul. When London relocated, you went with it and resumed your activism in the heavens.
Your friend somehow acquired a locomotive, the Azazel. Perhaps it was a gift from her patrons. Perhaps, as some said, she was the black sheep of a wealthy, old-blood family. She took her cause to the far corners of the sky. She is still captain of the Azazel, and associates with a group of seasoned captains who gather at the Promise of Days, here in New Winchester. Perhaps you can find her there.
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