Making Friends Among God's Editors

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Chatting with the Querulous Theologian

This story begins with an Opportunity Card.

Making the Good Book Better

Saint Cyriac's Illuminated College, vulgarly known as God's Editors, revises Church texts to reflect recent events. A Querulous Theologian oversees the work.
Unlocks: A Person of Some Importance 1

Show the Querulous Theologian your Allegorical Satire

Subtle allusions. Scandalous suggestions. Lots of initials in the cause of deniability.
Unlocks: A Copy of your Allegorical Satire 1

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Not entirely impressed, but then again…

'Oh yes, that one. How you didn't get exiled for writing it, the Lord alone knows. The whole thing was rather distasteful, though, don't you think? A writer of your obvious talent shouldn't be cocking your snook at the fools at the Palace when there's honest work to be done. What of honest journalism? What of philosophy? What of our own work?'
An occurrence! Your Making Friends among God's Editors Quality is now 1!

Show the Querulous Theologian your Epic Poetic Cycle

Pentameters! Alexandrines! Noble Knights!
Unlocks:A Copy of your Epic Poetic Cycle 1

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A useful style for certain passages

'Ah, yes, I rather enjoyed your work. Thunderous shouting, and all that blood. Of course, the whole business of knights and monsters and damsels is humbug and poppycock. Your poetry certainly has something. Perhaps you could be of use to us at St. Cyriac's. You could give us a hand with some of the more… robust… Old Testament passages.'
An occurrence! Your Making Friends among God's Editors Quality is now 1!

Show the Querulous Theologian your Gothic Romance

Ruined castles. Diaphanous veils. Pale young women of a certain character.
Unlocks:A Copy of your Gothic Romance 1

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Not fooling anyone

'Oh. Oh, you wrote that, did you? I certainly didn't read that. Nobody respectable reads that sort of novel.' The Querulous Theologian tugs at her starched collar and blushes until she's scarlet.
An occurrence! Your Making Friends among God's Editors Quality is now 1!

Show the Querulous Theologian your Patriotic Adventure

Imperial fisticuffs! Stiff upper lips! Heathen foreigners getting what's coming to them!
Unlocks:A Copy of your Patriotic Adventure 1

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Did you write that?

'Oh, that was you? Yes, a most interesting piece. The main story was just nonsense, of course, but I enjoyed the spiritual aspects. Using the Elder Country as a metaphor for Purgatory was most apt. And as a tale of salvation to be found in the Neath… well, I must say that it has influenced my own work.'
An occurrence! Your Making Friends among God's Editors Quality is now 1!

Show the Querulous Theologian your Tale of the Future

New worlds. Extraordinary contraptions. Soaring speculation.
Unlocks:A Copy of your Tale of the Future 1

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Not your most faithful admirer

'You! You wrote that monstrosity! It's hard enough coming to terms with the spiritual realities of the Neath without literary hooligans like you giving people a hankering for life back on the surface. Now shoo! Get out!'
Scandal increase

Show the Querulous Theologian your Tragic Romance

Unlocks:A Copy of your Tragic Romance 1

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A romantic bent

'That was you? Oh, I'm quite the admirer of your work! Your dour imagery was quite magnificent. All of us as Saint Cyriac's took inspiration from your description of the cavern. And the 'Gloaming Flock over the Unterzee' stanzas were just lovely. Tell me, have you ever considered theological work?'
An occurrence! Your Making Friends among God's Editors Quality is now 1!

A donation to Saint Cyriac's Illuminated College

God's Editors work day and night. Alas that both require candles.
Unlocks: Connected: Bohemian 20, Connected: The Church 20, 2000 x Foxfire Candle Stub

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An Opportunity!

The following action appears in the Bazaar Sidestreets when your Making Friends among God's Editors quality is 1.

An opening among God's Editors

An editor at Saint Cyriac's Illuminated College has suffered a nasty accident with a typewriter. They have an unexpected opening. The college that is, not the editor.
Unlocked with Making Friends among God's Editors 1

Leave them to it

Editing holy books really isn't your sort of thing.

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Accept the position

Someone of your literary talents and rare spirituality would be the ideal candidate. The College is surprisingly, ahem, catholic about doctrinal differences.
Unlocks with 12 x Collated Research, Connected: The Church 20

Cost information

Costs for necessary items (available on the Bazaar Sidestreets)

Collated Research	each: 1000 x Cryptic Clue, 250 x Proscribed Material, 1000 x Whispered Secret

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In for a penny…

The Querulous Theologian greets you at the door and marches you straight upstairs. 'The most important thing about our work is to make it relevant to the citizens of the Neath,' she says over her shoulder. 'We must concentrate on the lessons of the cavern and the Unterzee. The proud diligence of the mushroom. Even low and Rubbery denizens have their place in our theology. Not an exalted place, but a place nonetheless.'

The Querulous Theologian's eyes burn with holy passion. 'Now,' she says, 'Tell me your opinion of the theological significance of the stalactite…'
An occurrence! Your God's Editors Quality is now 1! This actually gives you an Affiliation, not a Quality.
Your Making Friends among God's Editors Quality has gone!
Lose: 12 x Collated Research

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Opportunity Card(s)

Upon accepting the position, the following Opportunity Card(s) appear from time to time.

A Day with God's Editors [Standard]

At Saint Cyriac's Illuminated College, you hear typewriters clatter, the scratching of pens, the turning of pages and the occasional clerical fist-fight.
Unlocked with Membership of God's Editors 1

Examine the latest revisions

The Querulous Theologian hands you a new volume in her apparently endless series, 'Augustine and the Bat'. She would like your comments.

Rewards spoiler

Mr Sacks is a… what?

This volume makes some eye-opening…

Gain: 37 x Proscribed Material

Work diligently

The works that need revision are as numerous as the lights in the cavern roof. It's hard work, but one does what one must.

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A day well spent

Your neck aches, your shoulders are…

Scandal decrease
Nightmares decrease
[[Austere]] increase [no higher than 6]
Connected: The Church increase [5 cp]

Ask about a certain passage of St Matthew, and its revisions

"It has been subtly omitted from the Book in every church. You know the one I mean. I must see it. I can offer information…" Do not play this branch unless you have precisely the right quantity of Proscribed Material. This content is unavailable pending content revision.
[Unlocked with Impossible! 1 ]
[Unlocked with seeking Mr Eaten's Name 7]
[Unlocked with 77 x Searing Enigma]

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