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{{Infobox location |image = Tolltower ambience.png |px = 200px |ports = [[#The House of Days|The House of Days]] |shops = None |part of = [[The Blue Kingdom]] |id = }} '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a [[platforms|platform]] in [[the Blue Kingdom]], located slightly west from [[Sky Barnet]]. == Guide == Captains must be non-Invisible to enter the first time, but can later enter with any status. In The Court of Apes, [[Antedeceased]] captains can gain a [[Testament of the Feather]] costing 1 [[Cryptic Benefactor]] and a difficult veils challenge. Visiting the Pansekritis costs 2 Testament of the Feather with a litigator, and studying them with a very difficult mirrors challenge can earn you 1 [[Searing Enigma]]. Annoying the Pansekritis changes your status from Any to [[Invisible]]. In The Court of Oaks, [[Yoked]] captains can change their status to [[Ephemera]]. This costs 1 [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours|Unseasoned Hours]], 1 [[Testament of Salt]] and 2 [[Cask of Navaratine Gemstones|Navaratine Gemstones]]. In the Court of Mayflies, Antedeceased captains can change their status to Ephemera. This requires a litigator. =Log Entries= ''Here, the dead can plead their case, in hopes of altering their status.''<br> ''This is the House of Days, where the Pansekritis may be petitioned.'' =The House of Days= ''The House is lit from nowhere in the colour of dawn. It has no windows anywhere in its great facade, only colonnades and stone. It gives the impression of having been extended again and again, portions of the building at different heights with different roofs.''<br><br> <br> {{Infobox story |name = The Porch of the House of Days |image = Locomotive.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 307354 }} ==The Porch of the House of Days== ''The House of Days is a palace so large that it is hard to see both ends of the facade. The staircase up is many stories tall and ballrooms wide.''<br> ''There is only one door. Spirits go in briskly, but those who come out are slower, not always sure where to go next.<br> ''A masked Rubbery spirit sits on the steps, holding an application tablet smeared in yellowish fluid: Application Denied, No Right of Appeal.''<br><br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Attempt the doorway}} <div>The door is guarded by two wheels of light, living and resplendent. They are not quite too bright to look at.</div> | <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≤ 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Invisible</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] ≤ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Unwelcome! '''</span> <div>One of the Wheels circles you. You have no shadow, illuminated like this. The fact strikes you as obscurely shameful. "You are Invisible," says the Wheel, though the language it uses is a single word, which is its own name, and which you comprehend without translation. "You must present yourself to the proper authorities and be given a Status in the Blue Kingdom." A masked chimpanzee passes you, snickering. It has been marked with a seal that declares it Ephemera. {{game note|Speak with the Secretary at the Embassy of Albion in the Toll-Tower to learn how you may change your status.}} </div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Attempt the doorway}} <div>You have the Status to enter, but you have not been to the House of Days before, and there are rituals to perform.</div> | <ul> * [[File:pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] ≤ 0<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Acknowledged '''</span> <div>You must be clean in purpose and in body, and to this end, you are washed with vinegar and scrubbed with salt. Then you are given three poems in honour of the Sapphir'd King, which you must read aloud, in chorus with the others entering the House just now. "Not as bad as my Litigator made me think," remarks a cheerful shade beside you. But that is before the Ceremony of Inhalation. You are tested with the odour of the rotting dead, and you only just escape being most improperly ill. After all this, the attendants direct you towards the Court of Apes.</div> <ul> * [[File:pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] = 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have at some time gained entrance to the House of Days</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> {{trigger event|The Court of Apes||genericcharacter}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Return within}} <div>You have been to the House of Days once before, and may reenter now.</div> | <ul> * [[File:pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] ≥ 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have at some time gained entrance to the House of Days</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|The Court of Apes||genericcharacter}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Lurk near the Entrance}} <div>Perhaps someone will tell you what lies inside.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Rumours gathered '''</span> <div>Once upon a time, the House of Days was only one court, with the Pansekritis inside. They built new Courts each time a new need was found. Now, several floors of the House of Days are too low-ceilinged for a human to enter, and others are scaled for giants. Two sections of the House are underwater, and one burns without respite, catering to the spirits of those born in volcanoes. These surface differences do not signify. Every court is essentially alike: a place to wait, a place to fill forms, a collection of weighing and measuring devices, a window with a secretary.</div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Mingle in the crowds approaching the staircase}} <div>There are creatures and spirits without number.</div> | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] ≥ [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Timer: Blue Kingdom Encounters]]<p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> * [[File:wind icon.png|23px]] [[Airs of the Blue Kingdom]] = (1 to 6) <p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Timer: Blue Kingdom Encounters]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] + 15<p></p> {{trigger event|An Encounter in the Blue Kingdom||maskedshade}}<p></p> </ul> | Advanced query needs investigation |} <br> {{Infobox story |name = The Antechamber of the Pansekritis |image = Pansekritis.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 307312 }} ==The Antechamber of the Pansekritis== ''One may see the Pansekritis at any time. He appears as a sigil of flame at the heart of the House of Days. The same sigil is reflected in the polished stone. It is written at the head of the page, every page, in every appointment book of the House. It is spoken as greeting and parting by the servants of the House. To be noticed by the Pansekritis, however, requires effort and prior arrangement.''<br><br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Return to the Presence of the Pansekritis}} <div>Now that you have been once, it is easier to claim a second visit.</div> | <ul> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] [[Testament of the Feather]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] ≤ 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Your liver is in its place</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pansekritis icon.png|23px]] [[Approved for the Presence of the Pansekritis]] ≥ 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have performed the proper rituals to come into the presence of the Pansekritis</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Familiar scents '''</span> <div>Your liver is removed, its place is packed with herbs and white linen and an astringent powder. The jackal in attendance nods as it does its work. You do not flinch, which makes the operation faster. Now it is over, and you are free to enter.</div> <ul> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Testament of the Feather]]<p></p> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] = 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You don't have your liver with you at the moment</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> {{trigger event|The Presence of the Pansekritis||pansekritis}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Listen to rumours about the Pansekritis}} <div>Each time you hear the name, it conveys new meanings to you.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Echo on echo '''</span> <div>The Pansekritis is a Logos, a word that was spoken by the Westernmost King, and has echoed ever since. Depending on your translator, the Pansekritis’ meaning may be rendered as any of these phrases: Eternal dominion Everything in its place No drop-in meetings permitted The sigil is painted in nectar on the ceiling of the Court of Hummingbirds for the better understanding of the winged spirits; in the Court of Whales, it is expressed in bass song; in the Court of Bloodhounds, it is translated – almost accurately – as a scent of vetiver and sandalwood.</div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Claim your right to an audience}} <div>This will bring you before the Pansekritis, following the established protocols. Your liver will be required as a deposit. You will get it back later.</div> | <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] [[Testament of the Feather]] ≥ 2<p></p> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] ≤ 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Your liver is in its place</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pansekritis icon.png|23px]] [[Approved for the Presence of the Pansekritis]] ≤ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Others have vouched for you '''</span> <div>Place the Testaments of the Feather here, on the back of a heron. Then, expose your belly to the nails of a masked jackal. The wound is not fatal while you are in the House of Days. But you are committed now. Fail to come back this way and you will be, for a brief time, very sorry. The jackal packs the vacancy with linen and bitter herbs. Your liver goes into a jar which is stamped with your name in the House of Days, and the jar stored on a shelf with twelve of thirteen other jars of various sizes. Several are very dusty.</div> <ul> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-2</span> x [[Testament of the Feather]]<p></p> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] = 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You don't have your liver with you at the moment</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pansekritis icon.png|23px]] [[Approved for the Presence of the Pansekritis]] = 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have performed the proper rituals to come into the presence of the Pansekritis</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> {{trigger event|The Presence of the Pansekritis||pansekritis}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Have your Litigator argue your right to enter}} <div>Your Litigator can help you gain access to the Pansekritis at a reduced cost, and with your liver.</div> | <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] [[Testament of the Feather]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:genericcharacter icon.png|23px]] [[Accompanied by a Litigator]] ≥ 1<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Others have vouched for you '''</span> <div>[[Litigator: the Cowled Loquacitor#pansekritis_entry|Litigator: the Cowled Loquacitor(pansekritis_entry)]][[Litigator: the Embittered Devil#pansekritis_entry|Litigator: the Embittered Devil(pansekritis_entry)]][[Litigator: the Nameless Spirit#pansekritis_entry|Litigator: the Nameless Spirit(pansekritis_entry)]]</div> <ul> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Testament of the Feather]]<p></p> * [[File:pansekritis icon.png|23px]] [[Approved for the Presence of the Pansekritis]] = 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have performed the proper rituals to come into the presence of the Pansekritis</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> {{trigger event|The Presence of the Pansekritis||pansekritis}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Walk boldly into the Presence}} <div>This is dangerous. It avoids certain liturgies and rituals. Following protocols would be safer. {{game note|Failing here will strip you of your Status in the Blue Kingdom.}} </div> | rowspan='4' border-bottom: 1px solid #A36A00; | <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:hearts icon.png|23px]] [[Hearts]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''134'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> * [[File:pansekritis icon.png|23px]] [[Approved for the Presence of the Pansekritis]] ≤ 0<p></p> </ul> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Cast out '''</span> <div>Some courts rely on guards. The Pansekritis needs none. You have not been granted an audience. Therefore, you have no place claiming the attention of the Pansekritis. When you receive it anyway, for a fraction of an instant, you see yourself as the Pansekritis sees you: Impertinent. Intruding. Insignificant. It has concerns you cannot imagine. Business like yours is for the servants of servants. Then your presence, your highly unsuitable presence, is... negated. You are slapped backwards, outside the House, status stripped away, Invisible again. The experience doesn't physically harm you, but you cannot forget the sight of your own smallness. {{game note|You are once more Invisible to those of the Blue Kingdom.}} </div> <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] = 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Invisible</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+10</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> {{trigger event|The Porch of the House of Days||locomotive}}<p></p> </ul> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Between the glance of one guard and the next '''</span> <div>You go with courage. It is the only way. Admit doubt that you belong, and you will not belong.</div> <ul> * [[File:pansekritis icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+10</span> x [[Approved for the Presence of the Pansekritis]]<p></p> {{trigger event|The Presence of the Pansekritis||pansekritis}}<p></p> </ul> |} <br> {{Infobox story |name = The Presence of the Pansekritis |image = Pansekritis.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 307423 }} ===The Presence of the Pansekritis=== ''The Pansekritis is a wall of flame and wind and noise. So strong is the light that your body is transparent. Even the shadow of your bones is only a faint pattern on the ashen floor. The Pansekritis perceives you. Each hair on your head is counted, every scar. It does not have time for delays. What do you wish? What would you convert from Should to Is?''<br><br> <big>Trigger conditions</big><br> [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|A Rental Dispute: Keep the Ambassador where she is, untroubled by Devils}} <div>Her work is not complete. {{game note|You can only do one thing here before being cast out.}} </div> | <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 60 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Visit the Pansekritis in the House of Days for a final ruling between Albion and the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''No more discussion '''</span> <div>Your skin burns. Your hair prickles. You are frisked by a hurricane. There are no questions. You might have thought that there would be some final consultation, that you would have to defend your case to this final arbiter. But the Pansekritis has no interest in your words. It marks your paperwork with its own name, which is to say, with itself. Then it is finished noticing you. You are left holding something that looks like a lease document, but that weighs on your hand like a shield. You must deliver it to the Ambassador, and it will put the Devils in their place.</div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 70 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Take the renegotiated contract to the Ambassador at the Embassy of Albion in the Toll-Tower</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] = 0 <span style='color:white;'>(if ≥ 10)</span> <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Your liver is in its place</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|A Rental Dispute: Enforce the eviction of the Embassy of Albion}} <div>It is time. {{game note|You can only do one thing here before being cast out.}} </div> | <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 65 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Visit the Pansekritis in the House of Days for a final ruling between Albion and the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''No more discussion '''</span> <div>Your skin burns. Your hair prickles. You are frisked by a hurricane. There are no questions. You might have thought that there would be some final consultation, that you would have to defend your case to this final arbiter. But the Pansekritis has no interest in your words. It marks your paperwork with its own name, which is to say, with itself. Then it is finished noticing you. You are left holding something that looks like a lease document, but that weighs on your hand like a sword. You must deliver it to the Ambassador, and it will evict the Embassy at once. You forgot to ask what would happen to you.</div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 80 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Deliver an Eviction to the Ambassador at the Embassy of Albion in the Toll-Tower</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] = 0 <span style='color:white;'>(if ≥ 10)</span> <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Your liver is in its place</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Make a study of the Pansekritis}} <div>Seek to understand it. {{game note|You can only do one thing here before being cast out. Be sure of your choice.}} </div> | rowspan='4' border-bottom: 1px solid #A36A00; | <ul> * [[File:mirrors icon.png|23px]] [[Mirrors]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''134'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> </ul> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Staring into something blinding '''</span> <div>You stand at the outskirts of the court, in an attitude of supplication, with your knees slightly bent and your palms outward. As long as you hold this appearance of worship, no one troubles you. You may watch others come and go. But the longer you wait, the less you understand. Is the Pansekritis making rulings, or does it merely affirm those that have gone before? Is it a person of sorts, or something rather less, or more? It dispenses with the population of an entire city and does not grant their petition to be remembered, after plague has taken them all.</div> <ul> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] = 0 <span style='color:white;'>(if ≥ 10)</span> <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Your liver is in its place</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Staring into something blinding '''</span> <div>You stand at the outskirts of the court, in an attitude of supplication, with your knees slightly bent and your palms outward. As long as you hold this appearance of worship, no one troubles you, and you are free to observe. The Pansekritis grants an Obliteration against a city founded on land that did not belong to the founders, and authorises a Ritual of Cessation against a language that should no longer be spoken. This is the Pansekritis: not fire, ice, hurricane or trumpet blast, but a Power for which there is no difference between intention and achievement.</div> <ul> * [[File:searingenigma icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Searing Enigma]]<p></p> * [[File:amberred icon.png|23px]] [[Liver-deprived]] = 0 <span style='color:white;'>(if ≥ 10)</span> <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Your liver is in its place</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |} <br> {{Infobox story |name = The Court of Mules |image = Iron.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 307299 }} ==The Court of Mules== ''Smaller and more dimly lit than the other courts, this place is for applicants who wish to appeal or clarify a previous decision. The spirit of a pear sapling is next in line, followed by a liger in a striped mask, and a pair of women holding hands.''<br><br> <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big><br> [[File:Pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] ≥ 10 <br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:25%;'| Requirements ! colspan='3' style='width:45%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Study the signs outside the Court of Mules}} <div>You can listen for rumours about the cases being heard within.</div> | <ul> </ul> |colspan='3'| <span style='color:white'>'''Several purposes '''</span> <div>The Court of Mules attends to spirits that inherit more than one category; to exceptionally stubborn and determined spirits; and to appeals on rulings that have already been given. The queue moves slowly.</div> <ul> </ul> | |- | rowspan='2' | {{effect title|Contest the interpretation of the Embassy lease}} <div>To be seen in the Court of Mules, one must either belong to the Court by nature, or be sent by another functionary.</div> | rowspan='2' border-bottom: 1px solid #A36A00; | <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 30 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of Mules in the House of Days to argue about contract terms</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] [[Testament of the Feather]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | rowspan='2'| <span style='color:white'>'''Solid attention '''</span> <div>You must surrender your Testament of the Feather in order to be given a place in line. Then you must wash your body with a sponge dipped in vinegar-water. After this, the masked attendant kneels beside you on a square of bleached linen. She takes careful and copious notes. She does say, with a sigh, that you can never tell with contracts drawn up by Devils. Finally she asks: should the Ambassador of Albion hold the Toll-Tower, though it belonged to the Devils for millennia? Though she has already stretched her time with imported hours? Though she has no respect for bounds?</div> <ul> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Testament of the Feather]]<p></p> | <span style='color:white'>'''Yes, she has made great progress'''</span> <div>She needs just a little more time. {{game note|This choice will commit you to act against the Devils and for the Ambassador.}} </div> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #feeb75; |<div>"Very well," says the attendant. "The Mayflies control precedent that pertains to unfairly short contracts, rents, and leases of life. Ask them to rule."</div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 40 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of Mayflies to renegotiate the lease in favour of the Ambassador</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:experience icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+200</span> x [[Experience]]<p></p> </ul> | rowspan='2'| |- | <span style='color:white'>'''When it's put that way, no'''</span> <div>Albion has no rightful claim. {{game note|This choice will commit you to act against the Ambassador.}} </div> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #feeb75; |<div>"Then we are pursuing an eviction," says the attendant. "The Court of Oaks controls precedent around unreasonable delays and matters of endurance. Ask them to rule."</div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 50 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of Oaks to renegotiate the lease in favour of the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:experience icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+200</span> x [[Experience]]<p></p> </ul> |- </ul> |- | {{effect title|Seek a removal of your Curdled Soul flaw}} <div>The spirits of the Court of Mules offer you insight. {{game note|This will remove your Flaw: Curdled at the permanent cost of 1 Iron.}} </div> | <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Curdled]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as sickly, cloying and unappetisingly crawling. </span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Iron]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |colspan='3'| <span style='color:white'>'''An antidote '''</span> <div>The memories are vivid, varied, distracting. In many cases they are disturbing, even frightening: marriages of defiance, unsuitable love affairs, children born to imprisoned mothers. A duckling adopted by a sympathetic poodle. The synthetic growth of a Rubbery Appendage. A thousand thousand rejections of status and social striving, in exchange for a moment's true connection, no matter how unlikely that connection might seem. The Blue Kingdom swallows fame, fortunes, titles and estates as though they had never been. But it cannot digest these events. They persist, sapphires caught in the crop of a basilisk.</div> <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Curdled]] = 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as tantalisingly opaque, and rich with personality.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Iron]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Subcontract your Litigator to another applicant}} <div>A masked shark would pay for the assistance of your Litigator. You will also need to wait while its case is made. {{game note|This will exchange a Barrel of Unseasoned Hours for 100 Sovereigns.}} </div> | <ul> * [[File:genericcharacter icon.png|23px]] [[Accompanied by a Litigator]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:BarrelofUnseasonedHours square icon.png|23px]] 1 x [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours]]<p></p> </ul> |colspan='3'| <span style='color:white'>'''Some grumbling '''</span> <div>The [[Litigator: the Cowled Loquacitor#name|Litigator: the Cowled Loquacitor(name)]][[Litigator: the Embittered Devil#name|Litigator: the Embittered Devil(name)]][[Litigator: the Nameless Spirit#name|Litigator: the Nameless Spirit(name)]] is mildly annoyed by the extra work, and the shark's concerns are not easy to understand. You wait to one side, while the [[Litigator: the Cowled Loquacitor#name|Litigator: the Cowled Loquacitor(name)]][[Litigator: the Embittered Devil#name|Litigator: the Embittered Devil(name)]][[Litigator: the Nameless Spirit#name|Litigator: the Nameless Spirit(name)]] pulls three of the shark's teeth and conveys them to the attendant of the Court. Further ceremonies are conducted in an oversized bathtub, wheeled in by three Yoked spirits for the purpose. After considerable splashing, the shark passes onward to the Court of Whales, and you receive your payment.</div> <ul> * [[File:sovereigns icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+100</span> x [[Sovereign]]<p></p> * [[File:BarrelofUnseasonedHours square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours]]<p></p> </ul> | |} <br> {{Infobox story |name = The Court of Apes |image = Genericcharacter.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 307297 }} ==The Court of Apes== ''This is where you belong. A man in military trousers reads a newspaper. A masked gorilla holds a sheaf of documents written on banana leaf. On the wall is a sign that says, "Everything in its place." When you read it a second time, it says, "The Queue Forms to the Right." This is where you belong.''<br><br> <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big><br> [[File:Pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] ≥ 10 <br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Lurk near the Court of Apes}} <div>You may wish to observe its protocols.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Those going in '''</span> <div>This Court attends to apes and monkeys, to humans, and to certain orders that appear similar to humans. It issues Testaments of the Feather, when the attendants think another Court should listen to someone's rightful claim. And they say that Lightless souls can be cured here, though at a significant price. As you watch, a Yoked Shade carries in a basket of figs.</div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|A Rental Dispute: Begin renegotiating the Embassy's lease}} <div>Take a number. Wait on a cushion until the number is called.</div> | <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 20 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of the Apes at the House of Days to present a case</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Clear]] ≤ 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as tantalisingly opaque, and rich with personality.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''You are number 2047 '''</span> <div>You sit. You lose feeling in your legs. Sometimes, you see another Ape rise from its place. It shakes hands with the Ape to its left and the Ape to its right: grave courtesy from gorilla to chimp, from chimp to woman, from woman to gibbon. At last, Ape 2047 may approach the window. You perform your handshakes. The attendant holds the lease close to the eyeholes of its mask. Finally its voice-jar speaks. "Clarifications on existing contracts go to the Court of Mules. You will need a Testament of the Feather to be heard there." It hands the lease back and summons Ape 2048.</div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 30 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of Mules in the House of Days to argue about contract terms</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|A Rental Dispute: Begin renegotiating the Embassy's lease}} <div>Take a number. Wait on a cushion until the number is called.</div> | <ul> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Clear]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as disappointingly clear; almost transparent.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 20 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of the Apes at the House of Days to present a case</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''You are number 2047 '''</span> <div>You sit. You lose feeling in your legs. Sometimes, you see another Ape rise from its place. It shakes hands with the Ape to its left and the Ape to its right: a grave courtesy from gorilla to chimp, from chimp to woman, from woman to gibbon. At last, Ape 2047 may approach the window. But no sooner do you get there than the attendant clicks angrily. "No boons, favours, requests or solicitations are honoured from persons with a Clear soul!" it snaps, as though you ought to know this already. "Go to the Mayflies first!" {{game note|A visit to the Court of Mayflies will allow you to lift your Clear Soul flaw.}} </div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Undergo the removal of your Lightless soul flaw}} <div>The spirits of the Court of Apes offer you this gift: their appetite. {{game note|This will remove your Flaw: Lightless at the permanent cost of 1 Mirrors.}} </div> | <ul> * [[File:mirrors icon.png|23px]] [[Lightless]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as distressingly bland, inoffensive and liable to dissatisfaction.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:mirrors icon.png|23px]] [[Mirrors]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''These are the desires that they display to you '''</span> <div>To have a taste of blood on the teeth. To smile like a killer. To fill the lungs completely. To uncover the mechanism that drives the birth of stars. To fling faeces into the cogs. To rejoice in the equations of rotation, and also in the squishy stink. To have kin, and to be chief among them. To mark the world deeply. One by one the others in the Court of Apes offer you these ambitions, and then they go to the window and meet with the creature that presides. Every one bows to its edict. Every one passes silently from the Court.</div> <ul> * [[File:mirrors icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Mirrors]]<p></p> * [[File:mirrors icon.png|23px]] [[Lightless]] = 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as tantalisingly opaque, and rich with personality.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | Advanced query needs investigation |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Achieve a Testament of the Feather}} <div>A matter of convincing the attendants of this Court that your case deserves to be heard by another. {{game note|A Testament of the Feather can be used to gain access to various officials elsewhere in the Blue Kingdom.}} </div> | rowspan='4' border-bottom: 1px solid #A36A00; | <ul> * [[File:veils icon.png|23px]] [[Veils]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''92'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> * [[File:crypticbenefactor icon.png|23px]] [[Cryptic Benefactor]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Unconvinced '''</span> <div>Perhaps, suggests the Court, you are meddling in things that you ought to leave alone. Nuisance suits are not regarded kindly in the Blue Kingdom.</div> <ul> * [[File:crypticbenefactor icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Cryptic Benefactor]]<p></p> </ul> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''A grant of Favour '''</span> <div>You tell a story that moves the attendant to tears. You invoke the influence of your benefactor. You embellish certain points, and gloss over others. It is enough. "I have a friend in another Court. You will only need to bring a message from me..." says the attendant, proud of his generosity. All the trouble of your case will land on someone else. The attendant inscribes the Testament of the Feather in clay and bakes it with the glare of his will. When you pick it up, it feels like a brick that has been left in the sun.</div> <ul> * [[File:originpoet icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Testament of the Feather]]<p></p> * [[File:crypticbenefactor icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Cryptic Benefactor]]<p></p> </ul> |} <br> {{Infobox story |name = The Court of Oaks |image = Bronzewood.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 307296 }} ==The Court of Oaks== ''The vaulted ceiling is distant as a cloud-forest canopy. The spirits, too, are mostly vegetative: an unyielding bronzewood; a Welsh yew; some species with scales for bark. The officials and attendants of the court are masked, Yoked shades in muddy overalls. Even this court honours the Pansekritis, highest official of the House of Days. Its name is worked into the soil, expressed in the exact proportions of sand and clay and loam.''<br><br> <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big><br> [[File:Pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] ≥ 10 <br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Observe the Court of Oaks}} <div>One may watch, with or without entering the court itself.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Endurance '''</span> <div>The Court of Oaks serves creatures with very long lives, those with a great deal of patience, and those bringing suit because a contract or term of service overran its natural bounds. Souls with the Flickering flaw can be remedied, though at significant cost. Those with the Yoked status can be returned to Ephemera status on recognition that they have been too long in service.</div> <ul> </ul> | |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|A Rental Dispute: Wait for a ruling on an overlong contract}} <div>You will need a tremendous persistence and a suitable bribe.</div> | rowspan='4' border-bottom: 1px solid #A36A00; | <ul> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Iron]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''92'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 50 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of Oaks to renegotiate the lease in favour of the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:undistinguishedsouls square icon.png|23px]] 1 x [[Jumble of Undistinguished Souls]]<p></p> </ul> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Is this even a line? '''</span> <div>You get into what you think must be the queue. It doesn't move. You stand. Then you sit. Then you lie down. Nothing moves. The spirit of a fungal colony occupies a space next to you. It smells like dirt and dark permanence. It doesn't go anywhere either. You haven't eaten since you got here. There are no changes of light to help you guess how long that has been. It feels like days. It feels like weeks. In the end the need to stretch your legs becomes overwhelming.</div> <ul> * [[File:undistinguishedsouls square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Jumble of Undistinguished Souls]]<p></p> </ul> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Granted, eventually '''</span> <div>The attendant asks about the Ambassador, Albion, your opinion of Devils and your reasons for siding with them against your own kind. She inks your tongue and takes its imprint. She tests your spittle with drops that turn it a vigorous puce, "to check for spite." Then she writes out her own notes in handwriting like the trace of a vine. She adduces five precedents which have bearing on this case. On the lease itself, she places a symbol which means 'the tree that dies upright in the forest, but does not fall until a snow comes.'</div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 65 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Visit the Pansekritis in the House of Days for a final ruling between Albion and the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:undistinguishedsouls square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Jumble of Undistinguished Souls]]<p></p> </ul> |- | {{effect title|A Rental Dispute: Hurry a ruling on an overlong contract}} <div>Spend a barrel of hours to get a hearing sooner.</div> | <ul> * [[File:BarrelofUnseasonedHours square icon.png|23px]] 3 x [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours]]<p></p> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 50 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of Oaks to renegotiate the lease in favour of the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Granted, in a slightly cheating manner '''</span> <div>The attendant asks about the Ambassador, Albion, your opinion of Devils and your reasons for siding with them against your own kind. She inks your tongue and takes its imprint. She tests your spittle with drops that turn it a vigorous puce, "to check for spite." Then she writes out her own notes in handwriting like the trace of a vine. She adduces five precedents which have bearing on this case. On the lease itself, she places a symbol which means 'the tree that dies upright in the forest, but does not fall until a snow comes.'</div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 65 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Visit the Pansekritis in the House of Days for a final ruling between Albion and the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:BarrelofUnseasonedHours square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-3</span> x [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Claim the Status of Ephemera}} <div>You have been Yoked long enough. The Court of Oaks might rule you to be free.</div> | <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] = 3 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Yoked</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] [[Testament of Salt]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:navarantinegemstones square icon.png|23px]] 2 x [[Cask of Navaratine Gemstones]]<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Languid investigation '''</span> <div>First there is the wait to reach the attendant's window. Then, when at last you do, it is in no hurry to collect your information. From courtesy, it asks you first about your birth and family, and then about your travels, and next about your state of health. Several hours pass before it even opens an inquiry about your status... So you talk and talk until your breath is exhausted, but it is enough, in the end. You're marked Ephemera rather than Yoked, and now you may move about as the Ephemera do.</div> <ul> * [[File:BarrelofUnseasonedHours square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours]]<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] = 2 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Ephemera</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Testament of Salt]]<p></p> * [[File:navarantinegemstones square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-2</span> x [[Cask of Navaratine Gemstones]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Undergo the removal of your Flickering soul flaw}} <div>The spirits of the Court of Oaks offer you a gift of heartwood and permanence. {{game note|This will remove your Flaw: Flickering at the permanent cost of 1 Veils.}} </div> | <ul> * [[File:veils icon.png|23px]] [[Veils]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:pastscandal icon.png|23px]] [[Flickering]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as intermittently tantalising with an aftertaste of disappointment.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Slow self-becoming '''</span> <div>You are offered an explanation so unhurried that it is difficult to follow. Is there an argument here? What could anyone make of this story, in which volumes are devoted to the layering of leaves in a single autumn? But from the crown of the narrative, look back, and see. There were circumstances. There was wind, snow, and wildfire, years whose austerity became a tight ring inside the body. There were also springs of sunward reaching, of sending roots into the available crevices. This process – you on the world, the world on you – has made you true. What is inevitable is always true.</div> <ul> * [[File:pastscandal icon.png|23px]] [[Flickering]] = 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as tantalisingly opaque, and rich with personality.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:veils icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Veils]]<p></p> </ul> | |} <br> {{Infobox story |name = The Court of Mayflies |image = Clock.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 307295 }} ==The Court of Mayflies== ''This Court is little bigger than a dressing room. The spirits that come here pass through quickly, and many of them belong to small creatures. But they are brightly dressed and fast-moving, giving the impression of a midge's wedding.''<br><br> <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big><br> [[File:Pairofeyes icon.png|23px]] [[Known in the House of Days]] ≥ 10 <br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Lurk near the Court of Mayflies}} <div>You may learn what rituals are offered here.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''An overlap of purposes '''</span> <div>The Court of Mayflies serves those who have had exceptionally brief lives, either by nature or by circumstance. It also hears appeals concerning matters where something has been cut off too soon, or where short measure has been granted. Souls with the Clear flaw can be remedied, though at significant cost. {{game note|Only those with a Status other than Invisible may enter here. The Market of Litigators in the Toll-Tower can offer instruction in changing Status in the Blue Kingdom.}} </div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Undergo the Removal of your Clear Soul Flaw}} <div>The spirits of the Court of Mayflies offer you this gift: a keener sense of mortality. {{game note|This will remove your Flaw: Clear at the permanent cost of 1 Hearts.}} </div> | <ul> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Clear]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as disappointingly clear; almost transparent.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:hearts icon.png|23px]] [[Hearts]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''They tell you their truth in small words '''</span> <div>Life is short. Death is all. We do the best things first. There is time for nothing else. They let you feel time as it passes for them. They are born like a drunkard falling out of a window. They live their whole span in screaming toward the ground. When you recover your senses, those who spoke to you are already gone. They have completed their wait and passed before you into the Kingdom.</div> <ul> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+10</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Clear]] = 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as tantalisingly opaque, and rich with personality.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:hearts icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Hearts]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Rental Dispute: Seek a ruling on the shortness of days}} <div>The Court of Mayflies is entitled to determine that a contract has too short a time limit.</div> | rowspan='4' border-bottom: 1px solid #A36A00; | <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 40 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to the Court of Mayflies to renegotiate the lease in favour of the Ambassador</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:mirrors icon.png|23px]] [[Mirrors]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''Special'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] ≥ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:selectionofimmaculatesouls square icon.png|23px]] 1 x [[Selection of Immaculate Souls]]<p></p> </ul> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | Special is calculated as follows: 55-(Litigator: the Nameless Spirit*20) * 1.67 |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Quickly, quickly! '''</span> <div>You are here? Go to the window! State your case! Why are you slow? State faster! No! Too slowly! Pay the fine for untimely delay! Next!</div> <ul> * [[File:selectionofimmaculatesouls square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Selection of Immaculate Souls]]<p></p> </ul> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Precedent! '''</span> <div>Three days for a contract of lease? Not reasonable! Precedent states this cannot be correct! Therefore the lease must have another meaning! The official of the court embellishes your copy of the lease with roughly fifty small red stamps, then shouts for you to make way for the next applicant. {{game note|Take your paperwork to the Pansekritis to have it converted from word into action.}} </div> <ul> * [[File:devilshell icon.png|23px]] [[Involved in a Rental Dispute]] = 60 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Visit the Pansekritis in the House of Days for a final ruling between Albion and the Devils</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |- | {{effect title|Claim the Status of Ephemera}} <div>Perhaps you were Antedeceased when you arrived here, but life is so short! Produce a witness to your death, and be recognised as Ephemera.</div> | <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Antedeceased</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:genericcharacter icon.png|23px]] [[Accompanied by a Litigator]] ≥ 1<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Your companion '''</span> <div>Your Litigator is required to recount your death, from personal experience. They describe an incident with the escaped spirit of a bull elephant, a lack of nerve, a heart attack. Two Court officials in a row go on break before the description is complete. The third attendant does stamp you Ephemera, however. The mark is applied to your lower lip and it is the iridescent green-black of a beetle's carapace.</div> <ul> * [[File:fire icon.png|23px]] [[Blue Kingdom Status]] = 2 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Ephemera</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |} {{Navbox Locations}} [[Category:Locations]] [[Category:Ports]] [[Category:Platforms]] [[Category:The Blue Kingdom]]
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