Conversation 266: COAST ORB / snow shivers

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• Dialogue: prose containing spoken dialogue and other description.
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ID	Character	Dialogue	Conditions	Links
0	None			1
1	None			12
2	Shivers	The spring thaw will come in earnest. Just not yet.
3	None			4 5
4	None		IsKimHere()	7
5	None		(IsKimHere()) == false	2
6	You	Stomp your feet for warmth, brushing off the snow. [Finish thought.]		3
7	Kim Kitsuragi	"We should keep moving. Who knows when this snow will let up?"
8	You	What's in the east?		54
9	You	What's in the west?		58
10	You	Shake the shivers off. [Discard thought.]		131
11	You	What's in the south?		96
12	Shivers	Winter, slow to let go of Revachol, flecks some more wet snow from above...		176 10
13	You	What am I doing?		37
14	Shivers	And to think -- it seemed as though it were already spring.		177
15	None			9 8 16 11 191 64 63 6
16	You	What's in the north?		155
17	None			18 19
18	None		Variable["plaza.shivers_activated"]	14
19	None		(Variable["plaza.shivers_activated"]) == false	20
20	Shivers	It has been a cold year. All things waiting for spring will have to wait a bit longer.		13
21	Shivers	You're warm in your hat and your coat. Like a well-equipped explorer, you comfortably survey the white landscape.		46
22	None			23 24
23	None		HasHat()	25
24	None		(HasHat()) == false	28
25	None			26 27
26	None		CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat")	21
27	None		(CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat")) == false	31
28	None			29 30
29	None		CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat")	43
30	None		(CheckEquipped("jacket_patrol_cloak") or CheckEquipped("jacket_nansencoat")) == false	34
31	None			32 33
32	None		HasShirt() or HasJacket()	41
33	None		(HasShirt() or HasJacket()) == false	42
34	None			35 36
35	None		HasShirt() or HasJacket()	44
36	None		(HasShirt() or HasJacket()) == false	45
37	Shivers	Looking up at the sky, melted snow dripping from your hair...		38
38	You	What do I see?		39
39	Shivers	The sky is full of great battleships. White clouds collide with one another, and the world is drenched with their debris.		40
40	You	How does it feel?		22
41	Shivers	The melting snow seeps through your thin clothes. Grandmothers don't let their grandchildren out dressed so lightly in this weather. At least your hair is protected from getting wet and sticking together. You look around...		46
42	Shivers	Your teeth chatter as the snow melts on your exposed skin, running down your chest and your back in icy rivulets. Your hat is of little help. To distract yourself, you look around...		46
43	Shivers	You're warm in your coat, though your cold, damp hair sticks to your head unpleasantly -- you should have a hat. You survey the landscape around you.		46
44	Shivers	The melting snow seeps through your thin clothes. Grandmothers don't let their grandchildren out dressed so lightly in this weather. You look around...		46
45	Shivers	Your teeth chatter as the snow melts on your exposed skin, running down your chest and your back in icy rivulets. To distract yourself, you look around...		46
46	None			47 48
47	None		IsKimHere() and HasJacket() == false	52
48	None		(IsKimHere() and HasJacket() == false) == false	49
49	None			50 51
50	None		IsKimHere() and HasShoes() == false	53
51	None		(IsKimHere() and HasShoes() == false) == false	15
52	Kim Kitsuragi	The lieutenant looks at you standing there shivering with some concern, but makes no comment.		15
53	Kim Kitsuragi	The lieutenant looks at your feet with some concern, but makes no comment.		15
54	Shivers	The canal you crossed to get here, and beyond it -- Martinaise proper, the district the police forgot to police. There is laughter, lights, attempts at entrepreneurial activity, cynicism.		55
55	Shivers	Someone is scraping snow off their windshield. At the roundabout, in the midst of which a statue of Filippe the III serves as a destination for grade-school field trips and a fine perch for winter birds.		172
56	You	That's all?		57
57	Shivers	Like all monuments, it's also a warning. Six-story ruins on the south side of the roundabout cast a long shadow over the profligate king.		91
58	Shivers	More winding coastline lined with abandoned buildings. Crumbling piers, salt water lapping at their dark piles. Grey and red, forgotten city blocks. What remains of the pre-revolutionary effort to gentrify the coast.		59
59	You	And beyond that?		60
60	Shivers	The waters turn black. Coal City in the shadow of Saint-Martin, a boom town, back when coal extracted from countless shafts near the city was needed to power Revachol.		61
61	Shivers	No more. The coal was supplanted by petroleum from the ocean floor and hydropower from the Esperance. Everything crumbled. These days, only the weakest remain in Coal City. Their hopes of getting rich linger in the defunct shafts under their feet.		178
62	Shivers	Layer upon layer of sand poisoned with industrial run-off. The storm drainage. Hidden bunkers. Rats scuttle...		185
63	You	What's below me?		62
64	You	What's above?	Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"] == false	66
65	Shivers	Coalition aerostatics hang like apparitions under the cloud cover. Occasionally, lights flash as they manoeuvre through the falling snow.		199
66	None			67 68
67	None		Variable["plaza.rain_shivers_above"]	69
68	None		(Variable["plaza.rain_shivers_above"]) == false	65
69	Shivers	More coalition aerostatics. Occasionally, lights flash as they manoeuvre through the falling snow. One large airship carries crates in its belly.		199
70	None			15
71	None			15
72	You	Le Royaume...	Variable["plaza.rain_shivers_below"] == false	75
73	You	Les *petits rats*...		77
74	You	Deeper...		79
75	Shivers	...where the Filippian kings were interred, with their doctors and their admirals. Mausoleums, burial chambers, leaf gold still remains on the Double Door of the Morning.		173 73
76	None			72 73
77	Shivers	Children under 14. They go underground, looking for artefacts to sell to foreign museums -- and for fabled relics. Their parents let them. They go deeper...		78
78	None			74 85 80
79	Shivers	...after rubies, melchiorite, lapis lazuli plundered from Safre and Seol during the time of the Suzerain. In the burial chambers of the kings: Grand Old Filippe, Guillaume II, and even in the mausoleum of Filippe the Opulent.		81
80	You	Wipe the snow from your shoulder.		87
81	Shivers	Two kilometres underground, in a winding shaft along whose walls mirrors have been placed so that daylight may eternally fall upon the richest of all the kings.		82
82	Shivers	The mausoleum contains untold quantities of gold -- and that special, purest-of-the-pure magenta cocaine favoured by Revacholian royalty.		84
83	Logic	How can it be pure if it's magenta?		86
84	Electrochemistry	Did someone say *untold quantities of cocaine*? Drop everything immediately and go looking for this hoard!		83
85	You	How can it be pure if it's magenta?	Variable["coast.snow_shivers_logic_cocaine"]	89
86	None			78
87	Shivers	Few *petits rats* return from the shafts -- and even fewer find what they're looking for. A small child steps out of a black tunnel, with silver trinkets in her pockets.		88
88	Shivers	All around her, white snow on the extinguished coke furnaces, and on the weather-worn shacks, where fathers beat their sons after drinking. The snow melts on your fingers, turning to water.		90
89	Shivers	Snow falls and there is no answer. Some things are not for mortals to know.		86
90	None			15
91	You	And further...		92
92	Shivers	A fenced-off yard. There's a truck belonging to a logistics company parked next to the gate. Bright light from a building behind the fence reflects off its hood.		93
93	Conceptualization	Clean white light, coming from the windows of a clean cube-shaped office building hidden amidst ruins. A secret...		94
94	None			15
95	Shivers	The raised motorway, 8/81, with vehicles whooshing past one another day and night, while those who reside beneath the motorway attempt to carry on with their lives in the snow and the slush. And south of the 8/81 is the Pox.		133
96	None			97 98
97	None		Variable["tc.motorway_881"]	95
98	None		(Variable["tc.motorway_881"]) == false	132
99	Shivers	...was once a park, a place for reflection and recuperation for the patients of the Old Military Hospital. In the Twenties, it was used as a quarantine centre during a measles outbreak that killed many children. Most everyone has avoided the hospital and surrounding park ever since.		100
100	Shivers	The Pox is completely wild now. Evergreen thickets covered in snow and industrial dust. Feral dogs and even wolves roaming in packs. The police try to keep the deepest corners cordoned off.		190
101	Shivers	...heavy drug users do slip through and hole up in the Old Military Hospital, hoping to find something to get high on among the hastily abandoned supplies. Or just to overdose in peace.		102
102	You	Further south...		103
103	Shivers	A line of motor garages with armoured carapaces, hunched in the cold. A mechanic is hard at work, patching up bullet holes in the side of a Coupris 40. These are the garages of Precinct 41. Snow settles on the roof of the re-purposed silk mill that serves as your station. Shivering RCM personnel hurry in and out of the main entrance.		134
104	Esprit de Corps	Patrol Officer Judit Minot stands in the corner, beneath the narrow awning that hangs over the main entrance. She is watching the snow absent-mindedly as she searches for her gloves in her briefcase.		105
105	None			106 107
106	None		Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit_2"]	108
107	None		(Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit_2"]) == false	139
108	Judit Minot	"Where are hell are they..." she mutters under her breath.		142
109	None			110 111
110	None		Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"]	104
111	None		(Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"]) == false	195
112	Chester McLaine	"It's not like that. They're what is called *hetero-sexual life partners*. They have a battle-tested relationship. A 'bröderbund', if you will."		116
113	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?"		119
114	Jean Vicquemare	"What?"		112
115	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
116	Jean Vicquemare	"Huh? Yeah." He takes out his gloves and struggles to pull them onto his hands.		118
117	Esprit de Corps	Satellite-Officer Jean Vicquemare rushes down the station stairs, angrily hunched over in the falling slush.		123
118	Mack Torson	"Hetero... sexual. Life... partners."		120
119	Chester McLaine	"That would have been irresponsible."		115
120	Jean Vicquemare	"Funny apery." Vicquemare finally manages to pull his gloves on. There's a small tear along the inside seam of the left glove. "Male-centric workplace humour. Have you seen him?"		122
121	Jean Vicquemare	"In Martinaise. He's in Martinaise."		128
122	Mack Torson	"Is there something wrong?"		113
123	None			124 125
124	None		Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]	127
125	None		(Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]) == false	129
126	Mack Torson	"Where's your homo, homey?"		114
127	Esprit de Corps	On the bridge, Officers Torson and McLaine are standing guard. The muscular Torson wears jeans and a leather jacket. When Vicquemare passes him, the young man remarks...		126
128	Shivers	Around you, the snow continues to fall. To the west, the ocean swells.		137 180
129	Esprit de Corps	It's the only home you have now. But you can't go back. Not like this.		138
130	None
131	None			130
132	Shivers	The raised motorway, 8/81, separating Martinaise from Jamrock. Vehicles whoosh past one another day and night, while those who reside in the labyrinthine alleyways beneath the motorway attempt to carry on with their lives in the snow and the slush. And south of the 8/81 is the Pox.		133
133	You	The Pox...		99
134	None			135 136
135	None		DayCount() < 3	109
136	None		(DayCount() < 3) == false	147
137	You	No, it was home. I want more.		141
138	None			128
139	None			128
140	None			128
141	Shivers	The stairs descend -- to Central Jamrock. A man named Kuklov has a snow-covered stall there, in the market across the bridge. He sells kebab infested with fly larvae to your colleagues who believe eating it will make them immune to food poisoning.		145
142	Nix Gottlieb	The surgeon watches her for a moment, pulling on his cigarette. "You know, it's not so cold that you're going to get frostbite without your gloves."		143
143	Judit Minot	She nods, then looks down at her hands. No frostbite, sure, but a web of thin red cracks around the wrists. She is visibly embarrassed by the delicacy of her skin.		144
144	Judit Minot	Suddenly, she smiles at some thought that had just come to her, nods to the surgeon again, and sprints down the stairs, gloveless, into the falling snow.		139
145	Shivers	Snow falls on the utility district: the library, the florist, the Saramirizian restaurant that offers homemade wine. And also on the brothels and drug dens, and the chop shops of the zemlyaki.		146
146	Shivers	All of this built around a lake that formed in a meteorite strike. At the centre of this lake, there is a little ship. There are lights at the bottom of its hull. They are lights directed toward the sea floor, looking for something, like whiskers...		182
147	None			148 149
148	None		Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"] or Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]	150
149	None		(Variable["plaza.rainshivers_esprit"] or Variable["coast.snowshivers_esprit"]) == false	140
150	Mack Torson	"Wonder if Vic's found his hetero-sexual life partner yet." The man in the fishnet wifebeater looks over at Chester McLaine.		151
151	Chester McLaine	"Damn, I don't know. Even a real *bröderbund* like that can't survive everything..."		140
152	None			15
153	Shivers	The abandoned church. One of two remaining stave churches which were collectively called les Sept Soeurs. The other six sisters were destroyed during the Revolution.	Variable["tc.sept_soeurs"] == false	160
154	Shivers	The abandoned church, its walls covered with hoarfrost now. One of les Sept Soeurs. The other six sisters were destroyed during the Revolution.	Variable["tc.sept_soeurs"]	160
155	None			156 157
156	None		Variable["TASK.establish_church_dance_club_done"]	158
157	None		(Variable["TASK.establish_church_dance_club_done"]) == false	159
158	Shivers	An abandoned church that's being turned into a dance club. Four youths are hard at work there, making it ever harder core.		160
159	None			153 154
160	You	And further north?		161
161	Shivers	A serpentine strip of land weaving its way into the Martinaise inlet. Unfortunates on the run -- from the law, from themselves -- sometimes hide out on nearby islets. Little dots in the ocean that are occasionally submerged when the tide is high and the weather foul.		169
162	Shivers	Then there's Ozonne... but the snow falls too thick. You cannot see that far.		165
163	Shivers	The remains of a camp on a jagged piece of rock -- a tent, old dishes and cutlery. Long since abandoned. A hermit crab scuttles among the debris, looking for a new shell.		164
164	Shivers	Further out, the lights burn bright on Résurrection; way beyond Martinaise -- a popular spa destination for ample-bodied Ozonne kids with equally ample pockets.		169
165	You	Before that? Before the curtains are drawn...		166
166	Shivers	The Bay of Revachol, vastness, great depth -- over 1200 m at its deepest. Water, air brinier than here. It is crisscrossed by huge cargo ships bearing company logos: Wild Pines, ZAMM, Moriyn.		167
167	Shivers	And, at the farthest reaches of the Bay of Revachol -- the shadow of Coalition Warship Archer, on perpetual patrol duty, ready to unleash artillery fire if you were to rise up against the market. You shudder.		168
168	None			15
169	None			170 171
170	You	And on the islets?		163
171	You	And on the other side of the inlet?		162
172	None			56 91
173	You	That's where Cuno said he's gonna go...	Variable["yard.cuno_mentioned_la_royaume"] == true and Variable["coast.shivers_la_royaume_explained"] == true	174
174	Shivers	Yes. To peel the gold off with his fingernails.		73
175	Shivers	The snow falls lazily, making the beach sand paler still, mixing with the rust-coloured sewage run-off.		17
176	You	Look around you.		175
177	You	How does it feel?		22
178	You	What is there?		179
179	Shivers	Below the old mines -- L'Ossuaire Municipal, Revachol's underground cemetery. *Les petits rats* brave the underground passageways, trying to get to Le Royaume...		76
180	You	Look around.		181
181	Shivers	A chill comes over you, crawling down your back. The sand under your feet is wet. Somewhere in the south, tarpaulin flap in the wind.		152
182	You	For what?		181
183	Shivers	Someone's stuffed a big old polar anorak into a concrete pipe under the boardwalk. It would keep you warm. You will probably never happen across it, but who knows.		200
184	You	Tell me a secret of the sands, wind.		183
185	None			186 187
186	None		Variable["TASK.enter_cavern_done"]	71
187	None		(Variable["TASK.enter_cavern_done"]) == false	184 188
188	You	No need for secrets.		189
189	Shivers	No need for anything anymore.		200
190	You	But still...		101
191	You	Where is Ruby?	Variable["TASK.ask_about_ruby_in_village"] and Variable["TASK.enter_cavern_done"] == false	192
192	Shivers	Near. Snow falls into dark water. She prays, though she doesn't believe. There is a hum in the air.		193
193	Shivers	That's all.		194
194	None			15
195	None			196 197
196	None		Variable["plaza.kineema_57th_hub"]	198
197	None		(Variable["plaza.kineema_57th_hub"]) == false	117
198	None			15
199	None			15
200	None			15