Conversation 1098: PLAZA ORB / rain shivers

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ID	Character	Dialogue	Conditions	Links
0	None			1
1	None			2
2	Shivers	All around you, rain falls on the great city of Revachol. Rain drips from the eaves and floods the gutters, washing the filth away.		152
3	You	What am I doing?		6
4	You	Shake the shivers off. [Discard thought.]
5	Shivers	The spring thaw must be here. The snow is melting...		3
6	Shivers	Looking up at the sky, cold water dripping from your hair.		7 4
7	You	What do I see?		8
8	Shivers	Grey sky like great battleships, clouds colliding with one another. Rain falls down on the world.		9
9	You	How does it feel?		148
10	Shivers	Your shirt sticks to your chest. The shoulders of your disco blazer grow heavy. The cold finds its way in under your skin. You shiver, and the city shivers with you.		11
11	Composure	You're not dressed for this weather. You should get an overcoat, or a patrol cloak.		12
12	None			16 14 13 15 41 26 45
13	You	What's in the north?		39
14	You	What's in the east?		17
15	You	What's in the south?		42
16	You	What is in the west?		38
17	None			18 19
18	None		Variable["plaza.sense_rainshivers_composure_cloak"]	20
19	None		(Variable["plaza.sense_rainshivers_composure_cloak"]) == false	21
20	Composure	There's a Frittte on the corner. A plastic coat is folded into a small triangle under the counter by the window. Beyond that, the strikebreakers have gathered.		21
21	Shivers	The great gates of the industrial harbour are locked. A chill runs down your back. You shudder like an animal trying to shake water from its hide.		22 23
22	You	Clench your teeth to stop shuddering.		27
23	You	Shake your shoulders again.		24
24	Shivers	You shudder, looking down at your feet. Dirty rainwater runs veins into the plaza snow.		73 74 75
25	None			12
26	You	What's below?	Variable["plaza.sense_rainshivers_looked_down"]	48
27	Shivers	Behind the gates -- heaps of supply crates. Red and blue metal shipping containers slick with rain. The Greater Revachol Industrial Harbour is an artificial mountain range. Immense wealth resides within, and immeasurable poverty in its shadow.		28 29
28	You	And beyond that?		31
29	You	And before that?		30
30	Shivers	You -- on the Martinaise plaza. A small dot looking up at the sky. Droplets form on your eyelashes.		28
31	Shivers	La Drisienne, King Dris's Passenger Harbour. Cruise ships flanked by dock arms. Cranes watching over the mouth of the river distributary.		32
32	You	What is across the distributary?		33
33	Shivers	Couron, the lower middle class. Distributary after distributary cuts the city blocks in half. Seven-story buildings trail off into the rain.		35
34	Shivers	A silvery curtain of rain over the houses. The class divide.		36
35	You	What is beyond the Couron?		34
36	Rhetoric	You have never been there. They don't need the law east of the river.		37
37	None			12
38	Shivers	Sheets of rain over the water. A flight of stairs leading into the ocean. Wave after wave washing the coast of Martinaise, with its motorboats and gently swaying reeds.		130
39	Shivers	Capeside apartments -- tower blocks crowd one another, 4.46 mm bullets still lodged in their war-torn stone walls.		131
40	Inland Empire	Will you ever go there?		60
41	You	What's above?	Variable["plaza.sense_rainshivers_looked_up"]	165
42	Shivers	A traffic jam. Rain thrumming on the roofs of motor vehicles. Inside, drivers watch water streaming down their windshields. The statue of a king shudders, he too is cold. The canal bridge has been raised.		43
43	You	What's on the other side?		44
44	Shivers	The road ascends; a raised motorway loops above the ghetto. Beneath its concrete columns -- a sea of rooftops, woodwork, and tar stretches northward. Four-story buildings as far as the rain can fall. The snows melt in Jamrock.		188
45	You	"Motherfucker." [Finish thought.]		126
46	Shivers	These spring thaw will not last. The winter will return to Revachol.
47	You	What is Jamrock?		69
48	Shivers	Collapsed storm drains. Old sewage systems flooded with rainwater. Hidden weapon caches from the Revolution. Doors leading down to Le Royaume -- the catacombs to which, for three centuries, they delivered the blue-blooded dead.		91
49	Shivers	The skyscrapers of La Delta, the financial district. Faint golden light seeps from the office windows.		40
50	None			51
51	None			52 53 54
52	You	Who are you, ghosts?		49
53	You	What is down the shore?		57
54	You	Run your fingers through your dampened hair.		58
55	Shivers	Coal City, end of all lines.		59
56	You	And beyond that?		55
57	Shivers	Urban coastline, rain dripping off eternite-covered roofs. Cinder blocks left over from half-finished construction. A defunct research and development building once seized by revolutionaries. An old wooden church stands on stilts above the water.		56
58	Shivers	Your hair is an oily mess flecked with ash from neighbouring coal plants. Smoke stacks rise somewhere in the distance.		67
59	None			51
60	None			61 62
61	None		Variable["plaza.rainshivers_inland_longs_for_delta"]	63 64
62	None		(Variable["plaza.rainshivers_inland_longs_for_delta"]) == false	50
63	You	Will I?		65
64	You	Let go of the feeling.		66
65	Shivers	No. You are just one of the hundreds of thousands who watch them rise across the bay from Martinaise every day.		50
66	Shivers	Your hair sticks to your forehead, cold and wet.		50
67	None			12
68	None			12
69	Shivers	Revachol is the capital of the world. Jamrock is the capital of Revachol. Droplets form on your eyelashes.		70
70	Inland Empire	It's home.		92
71	You	And closer to here?		160
72	Shivers	A yard. Rain falls onto the roof of a woodshed. Coal leaks into a puddle beneath a dead man's feet. He swings from a tree, bloated. Droplets of rain slip from his cold cheeks.		68
73	Shivers	You realize you still have only one shoe. Nearby, on the balcony of the Whirling-in-Rags hostel-cafeteria, a single crocodile-skin shoe now fills with rainwater.	CheckEquipped("shoes_snakeskin_left")	76
74	Shivers	Two green snakeskin shoes stand at attention on the mosaic paving of the plaza.	CheckEquipped("shoes_snakeskin")	25
75	Shivers	You realize you have no shoes on. Your feet are red with cold.	CheckEquipped("shoes_snakeskin") == false and CheckEquipped("shoes_snakeskin_left") == false and CheckEquipped("shoes_snakeskin_right") == false	76
76	None			77 78
77	None		IsKimHere()	79
78	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	25
79	Kim Kitsuragi	From the corner of his eye, the lieutenant gives your feet a worried glance. Rain drips from his glasses.		80 81 82
80	You	"It's cool. I'm in control."		84
81	You	"I should probably do something about this."		85
82	You	Say nothing.		83
83	Shivers	The rain falls.		86
84	Kim Kitsuragi	The lieutenant nods, then looks east.		89
85	Kim Kitsuragi	The lieutenant nods, then looks east.		89
86	None			12
87	You	What is there?		90
88	You	Look up.		83
89	None			87 88
90	None			27
91	None			12
92	None			101 93 95 103
93	You	Why am I not there?	Variable["plaza.sense_rainshivers_inland_home"] or IsTHCFixed("the_way_home") or Variable["tc.live_in_jamrock"]	96
94	You	What am I doing here?		100
95	You	Where do I live?	Variable["plaza.sense_rainshivers_inland_home"] and IsTHCCookingOrFixed("the_way_home")	97
96	Shivers	To be in Martinaise, where no one goes. At the run-off point of a long-forgotten canal, in the whitest part of town. In the shadow of the day the Revolution failed.		94
97	Shivers	On a street there that flows like a muddy river in the snow, with fire traps rising on either side. A film rental opens its doors to the rain, an armoured motor carriage rushes past the corner where you used to walk together... Suddenly, the hair on your back rises.		98
98	Shivers	YOU CANNOT RETURN.		99
99	None			92
100	Shivers	Standing in the rain, looking north, where Jamrock Rock City stretches inland.		99
101	You	Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?		102
102	Shivers	HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?		99
103	You	Shudder, look further...		104
104	Shivers	In the rain-swept distance above the rooftops of Jamrock, a re-purposed silk mill stands perched above the motorway exit. Precinct 41 hunches in the rain.		173
105	Esprit de Corps	Satellite-Officer Jean Vicquemare rushes down the Precinct stairs, umbrella in hand. It's unopened. He doesn't seem pleased about the spring rain.		106
106	None			107 108
107	None		Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"]	109
108	None		(Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"]) == false	118
109	Esprit de Corps	On the bridge, Officers Torson and McLaine are standing guard. Torson wears jeans and a fishnet wifebeater. Satellite-Officer Vicquemare passes by, and the young man remarks to him...		110
110	Mack Torson	"Where's your homo, homey?"		111
111	Jean Vicquemare	"What?"		112
112	Chester McLaine	"It's not like that. They're what you call *hetero-sexual life partners*. They have a battle-tested relationship. A 'bröderbund', if you will."		113
113	Jean Vicquemare	"Huh? Yeah." He opens his umbrella, but the wind immediately turns it inside out.		114
114	Mack Torson	"Hetero -- sexual. Life -- partners."		115
115	Jean Vicquemare	"Funny apery." Vicquemare struggles with his umbrella, the ribs are protruding from its canopy. "Male-centric workplace humour. Have you seen him?"		116
116	Mack Torson	"Is there something wrong?"		117
117	Jean Vicquemare	"No, nothing. It's just... Judit went to his place and found the Monday mail unopened. I think he's still *there*. You didn't, like, drink with him over the weekend did you?"		120
118	Esprit de Corps	It's the only home you have now. But you can't go back. Not like this.		119
119	None			124
120	Chester McLaine	"That would be *irresponsible*."		122
121	Jean Vicquemare	"In Martinaise. He's in Martinaise."		124
122	Mack Torson	"With that animal? Never again, man. What, is he still down there, in... you know, south of the interchange? The... what was it?"		121
123	None			12
124	Shivers	Your vision blurs. You wipe your face with your hand. The rain stings your eyes, making you look up and blink.		123
125	Shivers	Coalition aerostatics hang like apparitions under the cloud cover. Way up there -- where rain forms -- rotors flutter silently. Your sight clears.		91
126	None			127 128
127	None		IsKimHere()	208
128	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	46
129	Kim Kitsuragi	"This rain will not let up any time soon. You should get a raincoat. There's a Frittte to the east. They sell them there."
130	Shivers	The ruins of a half-sunken seafort crumble on an inlet. Beyond the Bay of Revachol, ghosts rise into the sky.		51
131	Shivers	Hallways collapsed from the mortar hits of a war that was lost long ago. Clotheslines go to waste in the rain. Radios play.		191
132	None			133 134
133	None		HasShirt() and CheckEquipped("jacket_suede")	10
134	None		(HasShirt() and CheckEquipped("jacket_suede")) == false	135
135	None			136 137
136	None		HasShirt() and HasJacket()	138
137	None		(HasShirt() and HasJacket()) == false	139
138	Shivers	Your shirt sticks to your chest. The shoulders of your jacket grow heavy. The cold finds its way under your skin. You shiver, and the city shivers with you.		11
139	None			140 141
140	None		HasShirt()	142
141	None		(HasShirt()) == false	144
142	Shivers	Your shirt sticks to your chest. The cold finds its way under your skin. You shiver, and the city shivers with you.		11
143	Shivers	The shoulders of your jacket grow heavy. The cold finds its way under your skin. You shiver, and the city shivers with you.		11
144	None			145 146
145	None		HasJacket()	143
146	None		(HasJacket()) == false	147
147	Shivers	Water runs down your bare chest. The cold finds its way under your skin. You shiver, and the city shivers with you.		11
148	None			149 150
149	None		CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_fritte_raincoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_navalcoat")	151
150	None		(CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_fritte_raincoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_navalcoat")) == false	132
151	Shivers	Humid. Your coat shields you from the rain while the city shivers around you.		12
152	None			153 154
153	None		Variable["coast.snow_shivers_activated"]	155
154	None		(Variable["coast.snow_shivers_activated"]) == false	5
155	Shivers	Winter's grip on the city is loosening. The spring thaw is here.		156 4
156	You	Finally. What now?		148
157	None			158 159
158	None		Variable["TASK.get_the_dead_body_down_from_the_tree_done"]	163
159	None		(Variable["TASK.get_the_dead_body_down_from_the_tree_done"]) == false	72
160	None			161 162
161	None		Variable["TASK.fridge_victims_body_done"] or Variable["TASK.send_corpse_to_processing_done"]	164
162	None		(Variable["TASK.fridge_victims_body_done"] or Variable["TASK.send_corpse_to_processing_done"]) == false	157
163	Shivers	A yard. Rain falls onto the roof of a woodshed. Filthy water pools around a body. Droplets of rain slip from the dead man's cold cheeks.		68
164	Shivers	A yard. Rain falls onto the roof of a woodshed. The lingering odour of decomposition mixes with that of damp soil.		68
165	None			166 167
166	None		Variable["coast.snow_shivers_above"]	168
167	None		(Variable["coast.snow_shivers_above"]) == false	125
168	Shivers	More coalition aerostatics. Way up there -- where rain forms -- rotors flutter silently. Your sight clears.		91
169	None			170 171
170	None		Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]	172
171	None		(Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]) == false	212
172	Esprit de Corps	Patrol Officer Judit Minot stands beneath the awning overhanging the entrance, struggling to open her big black umbrella.		176
173	None			174 175
174	None		DayCount() < 3	169
175	None		(DayCount() < 3) == false	182
176	None			177 178
177	None		Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit_2"]	180
178	None		(Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit_2"]) == false	179
179	None			12
180	Nix Gottlieb	The Precinct surgeon, chewing on a piece of candy, throws her a questioning glance, walking by: "Need a hand with that?"		181
181	Judit Minot	"No. Thank you. I got it." She gets the umbrella to open, and, with a quick smile and nod to the surgeon, sprints down the steps. The rain falls all around her...		179
182	None			183 184
183	None		Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"] or Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]	186
184	None		(Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"] or Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]) == false	185
185	None			124
186	Mack Torson	"Wonder if Vic's found his long lost boyfriend yet." He looks over at Chester McLaine and breaks into a laugh at his own joke. The rain falls outside.		187
187	Chester McLaine	"Mack, they're *hetero-sexual life partners*. It's not like that," his partner smirks. "But yeah. There's trouble in paradise for that duo, Tequila Sunset has..." The sound of the rain grows so loud it drowns out his voice.		185
188	None			189 190
189	None		IsTHCFixed("the_way_home") or Variable["tc.live_in_jamrock"]	92
190	None		(IsTHCFixed("the_way_home") or Variable["tc.live_in_jamrock"]) == false	47
191	None			192 193
192	None		IsMorning()	200
193	None		(IsMorning()) == false	194
194	None			195 196
195	None		IsAfternoon()	201
196	None		(IsAfternoon()) == false	197
197	None			198 199
198	None		IsEvening()	202
199	None		(IsEvening()) == false	203
200	Rhetoric	The morning news.		71
201	Rhetoric	The news at noon.		71
202	Rhetoric	The evening news.		71
203	Rhetoric	Midnight news and reruns.		71
204	None			205 206
205	None		CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_fritte_raincoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_navalcoat")	207
206	None		(CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_fritte_raincoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat") or CheckEquipped("jacket_navalcoat")) == false	211
207	Kim Kitsuragi	"This rain will not let up any time soon. At least we're dressed for it -- let's keep moving."
208	None			209 210
209	None		CheckItem("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckItem("jacket_fritte_raincoat") or CheckItem("jacket_nansencoat") or CheckItem("jacket_navalcoat")	204
210	None		(CheckItem("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckItem("jacket_fritte_raincoat") or CheckItem("jacket_nansencoat") or CheckItem("jacket_navalcoat")) == false	129
211	Kim Kitsuragi	"This rain will not let up any time soon. I'd recommend you put on your coat."
212	None			213 214
213	None		Variable["plaza.kineema_57th_hub"]	215
214	None		(Variable["plaza.kineema_57th_hub"]) == false	105
215	None			124