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|notable_inhabitants = [[Mr Chimes]]
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|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-chimes House of Chimes]
|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-chimes House of Chimes]
}}''"I've heard tell that there's a fancy club for exceptional sorts. It's on the river, in the shell of some old clock tower. The things that go on there! They'd curl your hair and clench your toes."''
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Big Ben}}<blockquote>''"I've heard tell that there's a fancy club for exceptional sorts. It's on the river, in the shell of some old clock tower. The things that go on there! They'd curl your hair and clench your toes."''</blockquote>The '''House of Chimes''' is an exclusive club run by the [[Masters]], with an exorbitant monthly fee. It is housed in what was formerly known as Big Ben. Upon their first entrance, patrons must prove why they consider themselves exceptional. Only then will they be able to access the House's resources and opportunities.


The '''House of Chimes''' is an exclusive club run by [[The Masters of the Bazaar|the Masters]], with an exorbitant monthly fee. It is housed in what was formerly known as Big Ben. Upon their first entrance, patrons must prove why they consider themselves exceptional. Only then will the House's resources and opportunities be available to them.
==The Very Biggest of Bens==
 
<blockquote>''"The Tower of Chimes drifts in the darkness, wracked by winds, sparkling with frost."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Ambition:_The_Martyr-King%E2%80%99s_Cup_%E2%80%93_Stealing_Time_from_the_Tower_of_Chimes|Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – Stealing Time from the Tower of Chimes|Sunless Skies|}}</ref></blockquote>During the move to the [[High Wilderness]], Big Ben was moved together with Parliament, leaving most of the [[Masters of the Bazaar]] behind in the [[Neath]]. Both buildings were set adrift together in the skies of [[Albion]], away from London. Big Ben has been renamed The '''Tower of Chimes''', and no longer houses the club. There is [[The Vake|''something'' in there]], however...<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Last_Minute|Heave-ho!|Sunless Skies|}} ''"Something hunched and tattered crawls from the broken hole, its limbs unpleasantly long, its movements erratic. Shaking powdered glass from its leathery wings, it hooks one claw around your chain.  It raises its head. Its screech is the sound of death in the dark."''</ref>
==The Biggest of Bens==
 
During the move to the [[High Wilderness]], Big Ben was moved together with Parliament, leaving the Masters of the Bazaar behind in [[The Neath]]. Both buildings were set adrift together in the skies of Albion, away from London. Big Ben has been renamed "The Tower of Chimes", and no longer houses the club.


== References ==
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"I've heard tell that there's a fancy club for exceptional sorts. It's on the river, in the shell of some old clock tower. The things that go on there! They'd curl your hair and clench your toes."

The House of Chimes is an exclusive club run by the Masters, with an exorbitant monthly fee. It is housed in what was formerly known as Big Ben. Upon their first entrance, patrons must prove why they consider themselves exceptional. Only then will they be able to access the House's resources and opportunities.

The Very Biggest of Bens

"The Tower of Chimes drifts in the darkness, wracked by winds, sparkling with frost."[1]

During the move to the High Wilderness, Big Ben was moved together with Parliament, leaving most of the Masters of the Bazaar behind in the Neath. Both buildings were set adrift together in the skies of Albion, away from London. Big Ben has been renamed The Tower of Chimes, and no longer houses the club. There is something in there, however...[2]

References

  1. Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – Stealing Time from the Tower of Chimes, Sunless Skies
  2. Heave-ho!, Sunless Skies "Something hunched and tattered crawls from the broken hole, its limbs unpleasantly long, its movements erratic. Shaking powdered glass from its leathery wings, it hooks one claw around your chain. It raises its head. Its screech is the sound of death in the dark."