Reference Key:
Option Title
I’ve often put Descriptions directly under their Options.
(Plain words in these parentheses are simply my personal notes.)
(Italicized words in these parentheses are item descriptions.)
Text for a Masquing option on the “An Encounter at the Feast” opportunity card:
The briefest of encounters
Candle-light in Hollow Street. Breathy laughter. Sudden silence.
Result -
Silence at the Feast
And just like that, you’re alone again. A mask lies crumpled on the ground. A street or more away, you hear a Master’s fluting voice. “All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well! The Bazaar has promised us, my dears. The Bazaar has made so very many promises.”
Text for the end of the Feast of the Exceptional Rose 2013:
Gold Storylet name -
…sunlight?
(name changes as time passes to the one below)
…a wash of sunlight?
(and once more)
…a fading wash of sunlight?
Description(s) -
What is that light at the Bazaar’s summit? A summery, buttery golden glow! The air of the Neath is warm, suddenly. Forgotten scents touch the air. New-cut grass; mountain-winds; warm stone.
(as time passes, it changes to include the following words)
[Already the light is fading. In a few minutes it will end, and so too will the Feast.]
(and once more)
[The clock is striking half-past nine. The light is very nearly gone. A few glints remain.]
Bask in the light
(a 10-action option that disappears towards the end)
Description -
A crowd of Londoners faces the Bazaar, exulting, weeping at the miracle of it. Some sing hymns. One is selling hastily assembled golden ribbons. A Yelping Patriot claims it’s a French trick.
(as time passes, it changes to include the following words)
As the light begins to dim, a priest falls to his knees, imploring it to return.
Result 1 -
A voice?
“These are my children and this is my light. These are my words in the merciful night. This is the Sun whose commands run below, and the Feast of it all is the way we must go. The One who denied is love’s enemy but the enemy, love, is the last we shall see.”
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Your Wounds are gone!
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Your Nightmares are gone!
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Your Scandal is gone!
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Your Suspicion is gone!
(These menaces are fully removed by each basking result every time and noting them once here should suffice.)
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You’ve gained 1 x Primaeval Hint
(A distant echo: an apprehension of something impossibly ancient. What will the Masters pay for this?)
Result 2 -
Whose memories are these?
The first descent, the unnaming of flight, that was forgiven and all shall be well. So It said. The second, a shrug and a time. It was fair, It was fair. The third, oh the rage at the deceptions of sand. All of us were, all of us, and now all of us will.
- You’ve gained 1 x Searing Enigma
(Mysteries are fire. Truth burns.)
Result 3 -
A voice?
“The first taught restraint and the second betrayed. The third taught us hunger: the fourth we remade. The fifth will live on in the heart of the Sun, and the sixth…”
- You now have 1 x Elemental Secret
(The Neath is the place where Earth places the memories that shame her. This is such a memory.)
Result 4 -
A voice?
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. I will not fail. I have not failed. He will not regret. All these words. All these words. Mark me…”
(Rewards were randomized Primaeval Hints or Searing Enigmas at first. They became Elemental Secrets towards the end.)
Result 5 -
A voice?
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. The marks are a legion: their stories are swords. Be forgiven, O please, O please, let us be forgiven.”
(I’m unsure of the order in which the basking results occurred. They seemed to be completely random; if there was a definite first or last result text, I don’t know.)
Bask in the last remnants of the light
(a 3-action option that appears near the end)
Description -
Londoners weep and shriek, imploring the light to return.
Result 1 -
A voice?
"This is my promise: all shall be well and all shall be well. Crown me with a knot of flames, my love, my love. Forgive me my trespasses. The fire and the rose are one, are one, are one - "
At the corner of your vision, a Radical Factotum hisses, whips out a notebook, and desperately scribbles notes. He catches your eye. “For the Wicked Book,” he offers. “Where we share knowledge.”
Result 2 -
A voice?
“Please,” the voice begs, “let him understand. Let this all not be in vain. Give me your tales, your tales, delicious ones. You are all I ever hungered for.”
At the corner of your vision, a Radical Factotum hisses, whips out a notebook, and desperately scribbles notes. He catches your eye. “For the Wicked Book,” he offers. “Where we share knowledge.”
Take advantage of the distraction
Yes, very pretty. Let’s see what’s in the pockets of all these gawping fools.
Result -
Heaped treasures!
Excuse me - excuse me - thank you - excuse me - do excuse me! You go through the crowd like a weasel through a wheat-field. And what a shiny little haul this is - wait, what’s this blue stuff?
- You’ve gained 1 x Trembling Amber
(It thrills with electric life. Something in it glows like the very most distant of suns.)
A Weeping Tatooist
(Unlocked with Entwined in the Intrigues of the Clathermont Family 1)
Description -
“Millicent! Millicent!” A beefy man barrels through the crowd. Where is he going?
Result -
There he goes -
He’s pushing through the crowd after a slender woman - you catch a flash of lilac as she turns. “No!” he shouts. “Don’t go near it! They’re not tattoos! They’re something else!” Then the crowd closes in.
Trap a little sunlight in a Mirrorcatch Box!
(Unlocked with 1 x Mirrorcatch Box)
Description -
If indeed it is sunlight. Perhaps the Calendar Council can tell you, or the Cheery Man.
Your Dark-Carapaced Crustacean is wriggling free!
(Unlocked with 1 x Dark-Carapaced Crustacean)
Description -
It’s trying to reach the light! Hold it up! Or will it escape?
Result -
A sizzle and a crack!
Your Crustacean breaks open like an egg. Something smaller wriggles free from within. Something that giggles.
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You’ve lost 1 x Dark-Carapaced Crustacean
(A lumpen, vicious, scuttling thing, patched with fur and fronded with light-tipped tendrils. It moves as if in pain. It’s savage, and oddly loyal. It smells faintly of fish.)
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You’ve gained 1 x Gilded Crustacean
(This was a lumpen, vicious, scuttling thing, patched with fur and fronded with light-tipped tendrils. Now it’s still all those things, and it still smells of fish, but it’s also blazing yellow, the colour of a daffodil under an arc-lamp. And it giggles like a school-girl.)
A memory…
The ground beneath your feet is trembling, very slightly. [This will use up your Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre.]
(Unlocked with Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 7)
Result -
If lacre is the Bazaar’s tears…
…what is this light? A laughter? A memory? A blaze of photochemical reaction? Is the Bazaar signalling? To whom, and what? It seems…involuntary.
(There may be one more or a hundred more basking results which haven’t been recorded. Please share them if you know them!)
edited by Zeedee on 3/4/2013