Colonies Actions (Retired)

I'm not sure if all of these are retired, but I haven't seen a single red card here so far. Move stuff back to the main page if you find it!

Most of these Opportunity Cards are red-bordered (indicated by Auto-fire) which means they take effect when you select them.

reduces Scandal by 5 change points

With friends like these…

'My dear, I wish you would be a little more circumspect….'

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'My dear, I wish you would be a little more circumspect. You might have consulted me before publishing the sorry facts in the matter of Mme L. and myself. Yes, it will repair my reputation a little. Yes, I suppose it is better that innocents do not suffer. But the truth is damnably embarrassing! I will be a laughing-stock in the Singing Mandrake…'

Scandal decrease (5 change points)[confirmed]
Connected: Tomb Colonies increase
Persuasive decrease (5 change points)

These reduce Scandal by 2 change points

A chilly infestation

'The frost-moths here vastly outnumber those in London….'

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Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 7

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'The frost-moths here vastly outnumber those in London. I have to shield my candle nightly in a little wire cage or they smother and devour it. Even so, when I wake each morning, the cage is matted with tiny furry visitors. Horrible. Worse even than the harrassment of priests…'

Watchful increase
Scandal decrease (2 change point)
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

A Friend of Sorts

'And I hasten to add, no rival or challenge for you, my dear…

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'And I hasten to add, no rival or challenge for you, my dear, even if I had a taste for bandages. Nevertheless, human warmth of any kind is welcome here. Ha, human warmth! A term for the living. There is no warmth here. Arguably nothing human either. Still, the occasional game of chess passes the time…'

Scandal decrease (2 change point)
Gain: 1 x Sudden Insight
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

A letter from an old acquaintance…

'He sends me assurances of his continued respect and admiration….'

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Unlocked with an Admirer of Art 1

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A letter from an old acquaintance

'He sends me assurances of his continued respect and admiration. It seems a little cold, to be frank, and he tails off half-way into some nonsense about his latest work and the commotion it has caused. At this point the letter becomes incoherent and is much spotted with ink and paint. Nonetheless, I must take the fact of his corresponding at all as a sign of his regard…'

Gain: 1 x Confident Smile
Scandal decrease (2 change points)

A letter from an old acquaintance…

'She sends me fond wishes, and hints that I may be home sooner than I had expected….'

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Unlocked with An Admirer of Beauty 1

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'She sends me fond wishes, and hints that I may be home sooner than I had expected. She boasts - I hesitate to use the word, it is unkind, but she does boast - about her own prospects for advancement. She is much admired, it seems…'

Scandal decrease (2 change point)
Gain: 1 x Confident Smile
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

A letter from the Comte

'I had not thought that he would have any desire to speak with me again….'

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Unlocked with a Finder of Heiresses 1

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'I had not thought that he would have any desire to speak with me again. The dreadful fate his daughter suffered was none of my doing, but he no doubt feels I failed him in some respect. He is cordial nonetheless, and hints that he is speaking kindly of me. I almost think it is more than I deserve, but I too have suffered monstrously of late. My sins must be well on their way to expiation…'

Scandal decrease (2 change points)

A letter from the Palace

'It contains no words of regard. A little hurtful….'

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'It contains no words of regard. A little hurtful. Still, an ounce of help is worth a pound of flattery. He tells me he has ensured that several scandalous matters have been quietly buried. I almost miss the fellow, dry as he may be…'

Gain: 4 x Cryptic Clue
Scandal decrease (2 change point)
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

An unexplained disappearance

'..a friendship of sorts with a gaggle of decaying violin-players who haunt the Hungarian Café….'

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Unlocked with having Recurring Dreams: Burial of the Dead 10

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An unexplained disappearance

'..a friendship of sorts with a gaggle of decaying violin-players who haunt the Hungarian Café. This morning, however, my first acquaintance was absent. I was unable to tease any useful information on the subject from his associates. They would say only that "the wings have her"…'

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Scandal decrease (2 change point)

An unusual remedy

'…

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An unusual remedy

'..leapt shouting from the table and grabbed a jar of what I believe to be rubbing alcohol. She turned from us then, but I am quite certain she poured it into her décolletage… a sigh of relief and a sound I cannot quite describe. Something like the rustling of leaves. She left us then without a goodbye. The other players at the table frowned when I raised the matter, as if I had shown poor judgement…'

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Causing a scene

'A ghastly plop, and a spray of wine…'

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'A ghastly plop, and a spray of wine… I looked down and there was an eyeball floating in my wineglass. Just when one thinks one has suffered all the indignities Providence has to offer, she finds some new and monstrous device in her bag of wicked traps. I screamed and flung the glass away from myself, much to the amusement of the eye's owner. His laughter was cut short, I am not sorry to say, when he saw that I had flung the glass into the fire…'

Nightmares increase (1 change point)
Scandal decrease (2 change point)
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

Lamentable Tastes

'Some of the citizens here are in the most extraordinary state of decay….'

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'Some of the citizens here are in the most extraordinary state of decay. Today I found myself bullied into reading Tennyson to a bandaged, bedridden harridan. Do you have any idea how boring Tennyson is to read at length? It's like being trapped in a train on a bumpy track. The lady in question has lost the use of her arms and legs - though not, alas, the use of her voice. I have endured all kinds of vituperation, but at least it has done my reputation a little good…'

Scandal decrease (2 change point)

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A moment of joy

'It took me several moments to realise why the effect upon my palate was so startling….'

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'It took me several moments to realise why the effect upon my palate was so startling. The label might have been Greyfields, but this was real wine! I mean to say Surface wine, from grapes ripened in honest Surface sunlight! My dear, I am not ashamed to say I wept a little. I asked my host how he came by it, and he laid his finger alongside his nose (at least, the former site of his nose…)'

Hedonist increase (1 change point)
Melancholy decrease
Scandal decrease (1 change point)
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

Among the dead

'I examine myself in the mirror for signs of decay….'

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'I examine myself in the mirror for signs of decay. Yes, I know it is ridiculous. Death is not a transmissible disease, except perhaps in times of war. These are not lepers: they are merely men and women nearly dead. Still, my dearest, I shudder at each bandaged hand on my arm. Still I find myself rushing to wash their touch from my skin…'

Watchful increase
[[[Nightmares]] increase (1 change point)
Scandal decrease (1 change point)

A tiny square of paper

'It was all hatched over with minute scratchings…

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'It was all hatched over with minute scratchings, and I thought at first it must be some sort of Oriental puzzle. But when I examined it under a magnifying-glass, I discovered a letter, writ minutely small but with both penmanship and spelling better than some I could name. It purports to be from a bandit-rat who is not entirely ill-disposed to me. I hardly know how seriously to take it, but it does contain some valuable advice…'

Scandal decrease (1 change point)
Gain: 1 x Sudden Insight
Gain: 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson
Gain: 1 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

..I have attended a ball…

'Or what passes for a ball in this appalling crypt….'

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'Or what passes for a ball in this appalling crypt. They can dance after a fashion: a pitiable shuffling, punctuated now and then by the partial disintegration of a dancer. The first time this happened it gave me quite a start. I shall not be wearing those shoes again. But one grows used to anything…'

Scandal decrease (1 change points)
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

Remnants

'None of the dead women and men here predate the Fall of London….'

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'None of the dead women and men here predate the Fall of London. But their colony is built upon the ruins of an older one: there is stonework here of a kind I have never seen. I suppose the Fourth and earlier cities had their own difficulties with death, and in turn their own tomb-colonies…'

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The construction of the 'Grand Sanatoria'

'It is strange to see dead men labour so….'

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'It is strange to see dead men labour so. It will be a splendid building once completed: more like a palace of marble than any sanatorium I have seen… My understanding is that the colonists whose decay is too advanced to permit speech or movement - but who still 'live' - are to be relocated within (I had almost written 'interred'). Some mysteries remain, however… '

Scandal decrease (1 change point)
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

Unorthodox technologies

'Forgive me for committing this to paper, my dear, but I feel compelled to unburden myself….'

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'Forgive me for committing this to paper, my dear, but I feel compelled to unburden myself. For special occasions, certain of these bandaged lunatics render their own body-fat into candles! 'It's not as if we're giving up our bones,' one of them pointed out. 'We scent them with lilac,' another explained. Scent them with lilac! Now perhaps you understand why I am so eager to return to London…'

Watchful increase
Nightmares increase
Scandal decrease (1 change point)
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

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Unwelcome Advances

'She placed her hand on my knee….

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'She placed her hand on my knee. I can say with utter conviction that I had not expected this. Naturally I refused her overtures. Whether or not they might have been welcome in life, her charms are muted by her advanced state of decomposition. I made my excuses and left before she could make good on her threat to unwind the bandage around her face. Do not, I beg you, mention this: it will not assist my reputation…'
Persuasive increase
Gain: 1 x Confident Smile
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase

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I met a Curious Creature

The bandaded lion was once a performer in some travelling show or circus…

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Unlocked with Making progress in the Labyrinth of Tigers 16

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I Met a Curious Creature

'The bandaged lion was once a performer in some travelling show or circus. It had been maltreated, and I gained its loyalty through only a tiny kindness. I am confident that the Bishop will approve of such a regal creature, even though the smell is rather robust…'
A twist in your tale! You are now In the Company of Monsters.

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