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=The Niobe Seclusion= ''A mansion of immense size, surrounded by acres of neatly-kept garden. It is tranquil here; in fact, it appears utterly devoid of life.'' {{Infobox story |name = Explore the gardens of Piranesi |image = genericcharacter.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 303732 }} ==Explore the gardens of Piranesi== ''Things are quiet outside the prison. The doors rarely open to let newcomers in, and almost never to let reformed prisoners out. The chaplains busy themselves caring for their small garden. It has no flowers, only exquisitely-tended weeds.'' <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big> [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] β₯ [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[An Opportunity in Piranesi]], <br> [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[An Opportunity in Piranesi]] β₯ 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|Contemplate the sculptures}} <div>Euclid would not approve of their impossible angles.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''A puzzle for the eyes '''</span> <div>The sculptures of Piranesi follow no law but chaos. The chipped marble juts in and around itself, its polyhedrons offering no perceptible start, end, or often middle either. Fascinating. You could stare at them for hours. In fact, you do.</div> <ul> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>-10</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[An Opportunity in Piranesi]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]]+15<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Airs of Opportunity]] = (1 to 100) <p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Recruit a former prisoner}} <div>The prison doors have opened. Someone stands, freshly released, before them</div> | <ul> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Airs of Opportunity]] β₯ 1 and β€ 36<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''A wayward soul '''</span> <div>The former prisoner takes a deep breath of freedom. The person they were when they entered Piranesi is gone. The person they are now remains to be discovered. They happily sign up with your crew in the hope of finding out who it is.</div> <ul> * [[File:crew icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Crew]]<p></p> * [[File:visionoftheheavens icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Vision of the Heavens]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[An Opportunity in Piranesi]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]]+15<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Airs of Opportunity]] = (1 to 100) <p></p> </ul> | |} {{Infobox story |name = The Prison and the Cottage |image = bronzewood.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 285092 }} ==The Prison and the Cottage== ''Polyhedric sculptures, the dimensions eye-wateringly off. Grass of uniform colour and uniform length. Placid canals, criss-crossed at right angles. All bisected by a pale gravel path, leading to the door of a broad ivy-shrouded mansion. Only its lack of windows betrays Piranesi as a prison. Utter silence, bar the crunching of gravel beneath your feet. As you approach, you take note of a tiny cottage, incongruously nestled beside the mansion like a louse. A curtain twitches.'' <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big> [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] β₯ [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi is Closed to Visitors]], <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|Accompany the Felined Eccentric to the gardens}} <div>She said that here you would learn about her malevolent cats, and why she can't be rid of them.</div> | <ul> * [[File:felinedeccentric icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Felined Eccentric]] β₯ 25 and β€ 27<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The Eccentric tells her tale '''</span> <div>"I entered Piranesi as something else β something vast and inhuman. Something tired. In my nightmares I remember a cold court. Countless statues. I remember the dead, prostrate before me as I pronounced sentence." she shudders. "I wasn't kind." "Piranesi changes you, but it's merciless. I cut off those parts of myself that were false and laid them on the Protean Altars. I outwitted the Facemonger and chose a countenance of my own. I hauled my better self through the Labyrinth of Names. I defied the judgement of the Moon's Locks, and they opened. "I emerged: new, raw, happy; the person β more or less β that I'd chosen to be. But the cats came too." She scowls at one, which is clawing at a sapling. "I have my suspicions about them." She stops. A stern, grey-haired woman is watching you both from beside one of the sculptures. "We don't get many return visitors," the woman remarks. "Tea?" She leads you to the little cottage.</div> <ul> {{trigger event|Join the Grey Conformer for tea||chippedmugoftea}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Enter the cottage}} <div>The prison is locked, but the cottage door swings open at your approach.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 2 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed your second tour of Piranesi! </span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Chance of Being Followed]] = (1 to 5) <p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Gallant Reformer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Glib Performer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Glistening Deformer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Grey Conformer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Chaplains||chippedmugoftea}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Enter the cottage}} <div>The prison is locked, but the cottage door swings open at your approach.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Chance of Being Followed]] = (1 to 5) <p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Gallant Reformer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Glib Performer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Glistening Deformer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Grey Conformer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Chaplains||chippedmugoftea}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Enter the cottage}} <div>The prison is locked, but the cottage door swings open at your approach.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed a tour of Piranesi! The Chaplains will only allow two tours at a time before they temporarily close the prison to visitors.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Chance of Being Followed]] = (1 to 5) <p></p> {{trigger event|The Chaplains||chippedmugoftea}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Take the lamp}} <div>Do you still want it?</div> | <ul> * [[File:lantern icon.png|23px]] [[Retrieve a Lamp from Piranesi]] = 5 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Be incarcerated in Piranesi β if you dare</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pan icon.png|23px]] [[Changed]] β₯ 1<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Victory at what cost '''</span> <div>Once, it was important that you claimed it. Now, it lies in the gravel: dull, broken. To think that it was once yours. It does not even fit your wrist now. You could return to the Brazen Brigade and present the lamp from Piranesi. If such things still matter to you.</div> <ul> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[The Triumph of Time]] = 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have the means. Return to the Brazen Brigade</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:lantern icon.png|23px]] [[Retrieve a Lamp from Piranesi]] = 10 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>[COMPLETE]You have changed enough to receive your lamp</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> {{trigger event|The Chaplains||chippedmugoftea}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Spend some time in the gardens}} <div>There is a beauty to them, once you get past the eye-strain.</div> | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] β₯ [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[An Opportunity in Piranesi]]<p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|Explore the gardens of Piranesi||genericcharacter}}<p></p> </ul> | Advanced query needs investigation |} {{Infobox story |name = The Chaplains |image = chippedmugoftea.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 287826 }} ===The Chaplains=== ''"The only sound in the cottage is that of a teaspoon clinking against porcelain. A group of brown-robed figures turn to regard you. One β grey-haired, grey-eyed β offers you tea. "We are the Chaplains," she says. "Our role is to help inmates reach egress. You must understand: none may leave Piranesi unaltered." "We can be your guide," pipes another. "Two tours per visit. Choose your chaperone, and take care to follow the rules." "''<p></p> ''Game note: <span style='color:#C03060;'>Piranesi is a treacherous port, and not amenable to low-level visitors. Be wary.</span>'' <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|Ambition: Ask the Conformer for the location of the Martyr-King's Cup}} <div>Tell her you've proven you are worthy. Unfurl the Cloak of the Lion.</div> | <ul> * [[File:martyrkingscup icon.png|23px]] [[Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup]] = 7 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Meet the Grey Conformer in Piranesi and ask her for the true location of the Cup</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Disapproval '''</span> <div>"A tattered flag." The Grey Conformer rubs the Cloak disapprovingly between thumb and forefinger. Her fingers come away smudged with dirt. "This is evidence not of your worth, but of your delusion. You should place less stock in the mirages she creates for you." She holds your gaze with cement-grey eyes. "It has been a long time since I was a quester, and I have no more appetite for the Queen's games. I know the location of the Cup, but I will only reveal it to those who truly prove themselves. Bring me a treasure of actual value."</div> <ul> * [[File:martyrkingscup icon.png|23px]] [[Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup]] = 8 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The Grey Conformer wishes to receive either a Captivating Treasure or 5 Casks of Navaratine Gemstones before she will divulge the Cup's location</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:lantern icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Moored to Reality]]<p></p> * [[File:mirrors icon.png|23px]] [[Visions in Silver]] = 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You are seeing what really is.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Ambition: Give a Captivating Treasure to the Conformer}} <div>In exchange, she has promised to reveal the location of the Cup.</div> | <ul> * [[File:captivatingtreasure icon.png|23px]] [[Captivating Treasure]] β₯ 1<p></p> * [[File:martyrkingscup icon.png|23px]] [[Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup]] = 8 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The Grey Conformer wishes to receive either a Captivating Treasure or 5 Casks of Navaratine Gemstones before she will divulge the Cup's location</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The Cup's location '''</span> <div>The Conformer reviews your incalculably valuable gift with a critical eye. "Satisfactory." She turns her solemn gaze to you. "The Cup is in the possession of the Arbiter of Fates, daughter of the Blue Kingdom's sun. She keeps it locked within an impenetrable vault, deep beneath Death's Door. "It is impossible for any mortal to access. I advise you to give up. The Queen is not worth dying for. In fact, she is nothing; she is less than nothing. She never existed." Real or not, you suspect the Unseen Queen will be ecstatic to finally learn the Cup's location.</div> <ul> * [[File:captivatingtreasure icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Captivating Treasure]]<p></p> * [[File:martyrkingscup icon.png|23px]] [[Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup]] = 9 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Return to the Unseen Queen in London and relay what the Conformer told you</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:searingenigma icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Searing Enigma]]<p></p> * [[File:unaccountablypeckish icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Savage Secret]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Ambition: Give 5 Casks of Navaratine Gemstones to the Conformer}} <div>In exchange, she has promised to reveal the location of the Cup.</div> | <ul> * [[File:martyrkingscup icon.png|23px]] [[Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup]] = 8 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The Grey Conformer wishes to receive either a Captivating Treasure or 5 Casks of Navaratine Gemstones before she will divulge the Cup's location</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:navarantinegemstones square icon.png|23px]] 5 x [[Cask of Navaratine Gemstones]]<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The Cup's location '''</span> <div>The Conformer reviews your incalculably valuable gift with a critical eye. "Satisfactory." She turns her solemn gaze to you. "The Cup is in the possession of the Arbiter of Fates, daughter of the Blue Kingdom's sun. She keeps it locked within an impenetrable vault, deep beneath Death's Door. "It is impossible for any mortal to access. I advise you to give up. The Queen is not worth dying for. In fact, she is nothing; she is less than nothing. She never existed." Real or not, you suspect the Unseen Queen will be ecstatic to finally learn the Cup's location.</div> <ul> * [[File:martyrkingscup icon.png|23px]] [[Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup]] = 9 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Return to the Unseen Queen in London and relay what the Conformer told you</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:searingenigma icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Searing Enigma]]<p></p> * [[File:unaccountablypeckish icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Savage Secret]]<p></p> * [[File:navarantinegemstones square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-5</span> x [[Cask of Navaratine Gemstones]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Why do you need a guide?}} <div>The windowless prison is large, but surely it can be mapped?</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''A choice, a gambit '''</span> <div>The grey-eyed woman sips her tea. "Do not attempt to judge size or distance here. Piranesi is unmapped and unmappable. There are only a few areas we know how to reach." "I'll show you the statue garden," says the bearded Chaplain with kind eyes. "Where I help prisoners achieve redemption." "I know the warrens." Beneath the shadows of the third Chaplain's hood you glimpse a slithering mass of disturbed flesh. He says nothing more. The final Chaplain wears round spectacles, but his eyes are gone. His grin threatens to break free of his face. "Come with me, come with me! Oh, please, I am so very bored."</div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Locate the 'silly old thing' for the Princess}} <div>The Incognito Princess left a 'silly old thing' in a the most secure prison in the skies. She wants it back.</div> | <ul> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Something Old]] = 20 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The Incognito Princess has what she needs from the Crossroad. She wishes to head to Piranesi</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:taleofterror icon.png|23px]] [[Tale of Terror]] β₯ 1<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The Ugly Duckling '''</span> <div>"When I was a lesser person than I am now," explains the Princess, as you approach the prison, "I had awful habits. I went through a phase that was best described as monstrous. Too much wild red honey, I'm afraid." "Perhaps it was all for the best," she says. "If I hadn't gone through that awkward stage, I wouldn't have ended up where I am today. However, before I can safely move on, I need to tidy up. As such, it really can't be alive any more. I just won't stand it." "So... we have the candle and a tale. We can begin!" she says.</div> <ul> * [[File:taleofterror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Tale of Terror]]<p></p> {{trigger event|Adventures with Beeswax and Flame||momentofinspiration}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Inter the skin of the Incognito Princess.}} <div>Will the Chaplins free you of this turbulent skin of a princess? </div> | <ul> * [[File:incognitoprincess icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Incognito Princess]] = 75 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have decided to take the Princess' shed skin to Piranesi</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''A Little Wisdom '''</span> <div>When you present the beautiful and disturbing skin to the Chaplains they instantly understand the predicament. With long metal tongs they lift the squirming suit and convey it to Piranesi. As it disappears from view its empty fingers wave goodbye, seemingly delighted. Her absence leaves only questions. If you repeated the journey, what steps would you change? Would you have refused her the ring? Consumed the candle? Would it have been wisest to leave her sitting on her luggage receiving homage? In truth, what have you learned, and what would you do differently given the chance to wind back the hands on time's clock? Such musings are unlikely to be more than idle fancy. The Princess was many things, but unique most of all.</div> <ul> * [[File:incognitoprincess icon.png|23px]] [[The Princess' End]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:experience icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+4000</span> x [[Experience]]<p></p> * [[File:bloody icon.png|23px]] [[The Shed Skin of the Incognito Princess]] = 0 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You no longer have the shed skin of the Incognito Princess.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:incognitoprincess icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Incognito Princess]] = 100 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>[COMPLETE]You deposited the shed skin of the Incognito Princess in Piranesi</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:crimsonpromise icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Crimson Promise]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Gallant Reformer as your guide}} <div>A Chaplain with an amiable smile and grey-streaked hair. </div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Gallant Reformer]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[The Reformer is Imprisoned]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>The Gallant Reformer nods, putting aside his tea and fetching an old iron lamp from a high shelf. "Once more unto the breach," he says with a tired smile. You follow him out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he simply knocks on the grand oak door, and it opens. There is nothing and no one on the other side. You follow the Reformer into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Gallant Reformer]] = 1<p></p> {{trigger event|The Rules of Piranesi||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Gallant Reformer as your guide}} <div>A Chaplain with an amiable smile and grey-streaked hair.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β₯ 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Guided by the Gallant Reformer]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[The Reformer is Imprisoned]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>The Gallant Reformer nods, putting aside his tea and fetching an old iron lamp from a high shelf. "Once more unto the breach," he says with a tired smile. You follow him out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he simply knocks on the grand oak door, and it opens. There is nothing and no one on the other side. You follow the Reformer into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Gallant Reformer]] = 1<p></p> {{trigger event|The Statuaries||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Gallant Reformer as your guide}} <div>A Chaplain with an amiable smile and grey-streaked hair. He reminds you that this is your last tour of the day.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed a tour of Piranesi! The Chaplains will only allow two tours at a time before they temporarily close the prison to visitors.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[The Reformer is Imprisoned]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>The Gallant Reformer nods, putting aside his tea and fetching an old iron lamp from a high shelf. "Once more unto the breach," he says with a tired smile. You follow him out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he simply knocks on the grand oak door, and it opens. There is nothing and no one on the other side. You follow the Reformer into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi is Closed to Visitors]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] + 15<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 1<p></p> {{trigger event|The Statuaries||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Glistening Deformer as your guide}} <div>His hood hides the worst of him.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>A knotted, multi-jointed limb unwinds from the Glistening Deformer's sleeve. With surprising dexterity, he plucks an iron lamp from a high shelf. "Follow me," he commands. You follow him out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he unfurls a notched, scabbed finger from his unpleasant limb, and slides into the keyhole. The door opens with a click, and you follow the Deformer into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 2<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Glistening Deformer]] = 1<p></p> {{trigger event|The Rules of Piranesi||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Glistening Deformer as your guide}} <div>His hood hides the worst of him.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β₯ 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>A knotted, multi-jointed limb unwinds from the Glistening Deformer's sleeve. With surprising dexterity, he plucks an iron lamp from a high shelf. "Follow me," he commands. You follow him out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he unfurls a notched, scabbed finger from his unpleasant limb, and slides into the keyhole. The door opens with a click, and you follow the Deformer into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Glistening Deformer]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 2<p></p> {{trigger event|The Warrens||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Glistening Deformer as your guide}} <div>His hood hides the worst of him. He reminds you that this is your last tour of the day.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed a tour of Piranesi! The Chaplains will only allow two tours at a time before they temporarily close the prison to visitors.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>A knotted, multi-jointed limb unwinds from the Glistening Deformer's sleeve. With surprising dexterity, he plucks an iron lamp from a high shelf. "Follow me," he commands. You follow him out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he unfurls a notched, scabbed finger from his unpleasant limb, and slides into the keyhole. The door opens with a click, and you follow the Deformer into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi is Closed to Visitors]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] + 15<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 2<p></p> {{trigger event|The Warrens||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Grey Conformer as your guide}} <div>Grey hair, grey eyes, and a grey expression. More cement than steel. </div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>"Very well." With marionette precision, she puts aside her tea and fetches an iron lamp from a high shelf. "I will guide you to the best of my ability." You follow her out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. She takes an ornate silver key from her pocket, and when the door is unlocked, she holds it open for you. The Conformer follows you into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 3<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Grey Conformer]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Listened to the Conformer's Questions]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Rules of Piranesi||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Grey Conformer as your guide}} <div>Grey hair, grey eyes, and a grey expression. More cement than steel. </div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β₯ 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>"Very well." With marionette precision, she puts aside her tea and fetches an iron lamp from a high shelf. "I will guide you to the best of my ability." You follow her out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. She takes an ornate silver key from her pocket, and when the door is unlocked, she holds it open for you. The Conformer follows you into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 3<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Grey Conformer]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Listened to the Conformer's Questions]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Flooded Cellars||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Grey Conformer as your guide}} <div>Grey hair, grey eyes, and a grey expression. More cement than steel. She reminds you this is your last tour of the day.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed a tour of Piranesi! The Chaplains will only allow two tours at a time before they temporarily close the prison to visitors.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>"Very well." With marionette precision, she puts aside her tea and fetches an iron lamp from a high shelf. "I will guide you to the best of my ability." You follow her out of the cottage, up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. She takes an ornate silver key from her pocket, and when the door is unlocked, she holds it open for you. The Conformer follows you into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi is Closed to Visitors]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] + 15<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 3<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Listened to the Conformer's Questions]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Flooded Cellars||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Glib Performer as your guide}} <div>Eyes like coalpits, incongruous above a broad and delighted smile.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Performer Imprisoned]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>The Glib Performer hoots with laughter. He grabs an iron lamp from a high shelf and hurries you from the cottage. "We shall be the very best of friends, you and I!" He prods and shoves you up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he simply stands back, whistles sharply, and the grand oak door opens without further protest. There is nothing and no one on the other side. You follow the Performer as he dashes into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 4<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Glib Performer]] = 1<p></p> {{trigger event|The Rules of Piranesi||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Glib Performer as your guide}} <div>Eyes like coalpits, incongruous above a broad and delighted smile.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β₯ 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Performer Imprisoned]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>The Glib Performer hoots with laughter. He grabs an iron lamp from a high shelf and hurries you from the cottage. "We shall be the very best of friends, you and I!" He prods and shoves you up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he simply stands back, whistles sharply, and the grand oak door opens without further protest. There is nothing and no one on the other side. You follow the Performer as he dashes into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Guidance: The Glib Performer]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 4<p></p> {{trigger event|The Bridges and Balconies||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Choose the Glib Performer as your guide}} <div>He tells you that this is the second of your three tours. The other Chaplains wearily correct him.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed a tour of Piranesi! The Chaplains will only allow two tours at a time before they temporarily close the prison to visitors.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Performer Imprisoned]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Into Piranesi '''</span> <div>The Glib Performer hoots with laughter. He grabs an iron lamp from a high shelf and hurries you from the cottage. "We shall be the very best of friends, you and I!" He prods and shoves you up the gravel path, to the doorstep of Piranesi. Footprints are worn into the stone. He has no key β he simply stands back, whistles sharply, and the grand oak door opens without further protest. There is nothing and no one on the other side. You follow the Performer as he dashes into the dark.</div> <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi is Closed to Visitors]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] + 15<p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Varying Chaplain Description]] = 4<p></p> {{trigger event|The Bridges and Balconies||piranesi_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Leave the cottage}} <div>You have not yet completed two tours of Piranesi, but you can come back later. The Chaplains offer you a chorus of polite goodbyes.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β€ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed a tour of Piranesi! The Chaplains will only allow two tours at a time before they temporarily close the prison to visitors.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|The Prison and the Cottage||bronzewood}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Leave the cottage}} <div>You have completed your two tours of Piranesi. As you exit, you hear the door lock behind you.</div> | <ul> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Completed Tours of Piranesi]] β₯ 2 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You have completed your second tour of Piranesi! </span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|The Prison and the Cottage||bronzewood}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Inquire about borrowing a lamp}} <div>The Scarlet Condottiere has told you that you'll need one if you wish to rise in the ranks of the Brazen Brigade.</div> | <ul> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[The Triumph of Time]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Recover the means of reaching the Idol in Piranesi or Caduceus</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:lantern icon.png|23px]] [[Retrieve a Lamp from Piranesi]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Enter Piranesi to fetch a lamp</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi: Been Told About the Rules]] β₯ 1<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The price of Piranesi '''</span> <div>The Glistening Deformer and the Grim Conformer exchange a glance. They go to speak, speak over each other, then lapse into polite silence. The Conformer tries again. "You're not the first to ask this. There have been others." The Deformer convulses, as though shaking his head. The Conformer continues. "You will have to be incarcerated. You will have to change utterly. A lamp will be waiting for what of you emerges, if you can. The lamp will be bound to you as you are now. If you can change, and get out, you may take it with you. "If you know of another way to get what you want, I suggest you take it."</div> <ul> * [[File:lantern icon.png|23px]] [[Retrieve a Lamp from Piranesi]] = 5 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Be incarcerated in Piranesi β if you dare</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Accept Incarceration}} <div>It is the price of a lamp.</div> | <ul> * [[File:lantern icon.png|23px]] [[Retrieve a Lamp from Piranesi]] = 5 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Be incarcerated in Piranesi β if you dare</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''In Carceri '''</span> <div>A sudden weight at your wrist. A lamp, shackled to your arm. Piranesi expands, staircases lengthening, walls retreating.</div> <ul> {{trigger event|Incarceration||lantern}}<p></p> </ul> | |} {{Infobox story |name = Join the Grey Conformer for tea |image = chippedmugoftea.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 310619 }} ===Join the Grey Conformer for tea=== ''The Conformer is stern and brusque, but fascinated by the Eccentric and her cats. She brews you strong, dark tea and peppers your officer with questions.'' <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|Ask about getting rid of the Eccentric's cats.}} <div>Is it really impossible, as the Eccentric claims?</div> | <ul> * [[File:felinedeccentric icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Felined Eccentric]] = 25 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to Piranesi to learn more about the Felined Eccentric and her intolerable cats</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The changes of Piranesi '''</span> <div>"Oh yes. You can't cast them aside any more than you could cast aside your shadow. They are vestiges of that version of you that entered Piranesi long ago; vestiges you chose not to keep. For some reason they followed you out. Perhaps the old you was not cast deep enough into Piranesi. He was notably stubborn." "You see?" the Eccentric says to you. "I'm stuck with them." "Of course," the Conformer says, slurping her tea loudly, "they could choose to leave you." "Wait, what?" the Eccentric's head whips around to face her. "Why didn't you bloody say so?"</div> <ul> * [[File:felinedeccentric icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Felined Eccentric]] = 27 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to Piranesi to learn more about the Felined Eccentric and her intolerable cats</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Enquire about convincing the cats to leave}} <div>The Conformer said that the cats could choose to leave the Eccentric. Perhaps they can be encouraged to do so.</div> | <ul> * [[File:felinedeccentric icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Felined Eccentric]] = 27 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Go to Piranesi to learn more about the Felined Eccentric and her intolerable cats</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The carrot and the stick '''</span> <div>"This is an unusual case," the Conformer says, defensively. "But these vestiges are β in essence β aspects of the being who entered Piranesi and emerged as you. They have opinions and preferences, as do we all. "If you find somewhere they like, they may stay there. Or if you do something they hate, they may leave! Carrot, or stick." The Eccentric frowns at the cats. "How do we know what they like and hate?" The Conformer shrugs. "No one knows them better than you." The tea is finished. You return to your engine. "I need to think," says the Eccentric. {{game note|Talk to the Eccentric to discuss how to deal with her three cats.}} </div> <ul> * [[File:felinedeccentric icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Felined Eccentric]] = 30 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Find ways to part the Eccentric from each of her three cats</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | |} {{Infobox story |name = The Prison and the Cottage |image = bronzewood.png |px = 260px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 288276 }} ==The Prison and the Cottage== ''Polyhedric sculptures, the dimensions eye-wateringly off. Grass of uniform colour and uniform length. Placid canals, criss-crossed at right angles. All bisected by a pale gravel path, leading to the door of a broad ivy-shrouded mansion. Only its lack of windows betrays Piranesi as a prison. Utter silence. The Chaplains' cottage is dark and empty, and your knock goes unanswered.'' '''<big>Trigger conditions</big>''' [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] β€ ( [[File:piranesi icon.png|23px]] [[Piranesi is Closed to Visitors]])-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|Accompany the Felined Eccentric to the gardens}} <div>As she climbs from your locomotive, her cats spring down after her and follow you along the path. She said that you would learn about them here, and why she can't be rid of them.</div> | <ul> * [[File:felinedeccentric icon.png|23px]] [[Learning about the Felined Eccentric]] β₯ 25 and β€ 27<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The Eccentric tells her tale '''</span> <div>"I entered Piranesi as something else β something vast and inhuman. Something tired. In my nightmares I remember a cold court. Countless statues. I remember the dead, prostrate before me as I pronounced sentence." she shudders. "I wasn't kind." "Piranesi changes you, but it's merciless. I cut off those parts of myself that were false and laid them on the Protean Altars. I outwitted the Facemonger and chose a countenance of my own. I hauled my better self through the Labyrinth of Names. I defied the judgement of the Moon's Locks, and they opened. "I emerged: new, raw, happy; the person β more or less β that I'd chosen to be. But the cats came too." She scowls at one, which is clawing at a sapling. "I have my suspicions about them." She stops. A stern, grey-haired woman is watching you both from beside one of the sculptures. "We don't get many return visitors," the woman remarks. "Tea?" She leads you to the little cottage.</div> <ul> {{trigger event|Join the Grey Conformer for tea||chippedmugoftea}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Turn and leave}} <div>It seems Piranesi is closed to visitors today.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''A Chance Encounter '''</span> <div>As you leave you come across the Glistening Deformer in the cottage's herb garden. He's still wearing his hooded robes, but he's stuffed gardening gloves over the sleeves, and is engaged in a furiously futile attempt to stamp his shovel into the stony soil. "We're currently indisposed," he grunts, noticing you for the first time. "We'll be open to visitors again in two weeks." As you turn to leave, he finally manages to embed his spade into the ground, and levers up something tendrilled and twitching from the soil.</div> <ul> </ul> | |}
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