Romantic Notion

Romantic Notion
When buying these, the Bazaar borders on generosity. Do the Masters aspire to poetry?
sells for 10 pence

Using Romantic Notions

Exploit your Romantic Notions

Who says there isn't good money to be made from all that sighing and moping?

Pen some Neathy love poetry for a Surface audience

Surface folk find the romances of the Neath particularly poignant. Best get writing. [This will always gain you Visions of the Surface. There may be other effects.]
Unlocked with 50 x Romantic Notion, Connected: Bohemian 3
A matter of luck: pretty good odds.

Lucky spoiler

A little something

A Disreputable Zee-captain smuggles your work out, and returns with a little something extra for you. Tear-stained handkerchiefs bear salty testimony to the power of your poetry. There must have been quite a few before your smuggler stole most of them.

Lose: 50 x Romantic Notion
Connected: Bohemian decrease (1-3 change points)
Gain: 10 x Vision of the Surface
Gain: 4 x Surface-Silk Scrap

Rare spoiler

Not quite sure how to take that

Someone on the Surface doesn't care for your poetry, or what it's doing to her intended. The gentleman in question moans and wails at the terrible pain of Neathy romance, and refuses to court her appropriately. She has sent you a considerable consideration, in the hope that you won't write any more.

You've lost 50 x Romantic Notion
Connected: Bohemian is dropping…
You've gained 10 x Vision of the Surface
You've gained 1 x Comprehensive Bribe.

Unlucky spoiler

Tears and ink

The ink dries. Love and hope and loss, nailed to the page with your pen. Now it's just a matter of getting the stuff smuggled out. There is an unexpected tax on exported love poetry.

Lose: 50 x Romantic Notion
Connected: Bohemian decrease
Gain: 10 x Vision of the Surface

Hold a salon dedicated to nostalgia for the Surface

Throw your doors open to lovers, poets and those who regret leaving the wide skies of the Surface. Scatter cushions about for the inevitable swooning. [This will always gain you many Visions of the Surface.]
Unlocked with 500 x Romantic Notion

Result spoiler

That went splendidly

Your guests barely touch their tea and macaroons. All they speak of is the lost, mourned Surface. They weep, they swoon (onto your thoughtfully provided cushions) and most of all, they expound. There isn't a dry eye in your house.
You've lost 500 x Romantic Notion
You've gained 105 x Vision of the Surface

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