Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus

"A travelling circus has settled here, too afraid to go further and too afraid to turn back. Its clanking, gaudy locomotive scavenges such audiences as it can from nearby homesteads and delivers them for an evening of shabby desperate big-top magic."

Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus, perhaps the successor to Mrs Plenty's Carnival in Fallen London, has become unfortunately stranded in the Reach. Furthermore, a giant obelisk within causes those from the circus to feel that they are needed in there.

"The Greatest Show!"

"Bored-looking circus folk man rotting booths and the clowns' painted-on smiles are no match for the deep-set misery behind the greasepaint. Even the calliope music, playing on a run-down piano, is more 'grimly resolute' than cheery."

The circus is in a very poor condition. At least each of the performers are facing their own problem:

• If it weren't for the fact that you need to kill horrifying sky-beasts to fix it, the Humiliated Magician's equipment would have been fixed. But as it is, his act will continue to fail.
• The Bereaved Acrobat perform acts that are very clearly should be perform by two people: him and his twin. His twin has run away, somewhere.
• The Pensive Clown acts rely on his ducks, and the hilarity of both of his duck rely on their costumes. Unfortunately for them, the duck's costume is easily destroyed.
• The Headstrong Strongwoman is strong enough to lift anything the audience bring to her. The problem lies in the fact that her audience doesn't know that they have to bring her something.
• "The less said about the lion tamer, the better. He should recover."

The Obelisk

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"The obelisk is marked with the words of the emissaries – of meeting, of peace. One, close to the point, ignites in searing light: 'A Commingling of Radiances'."

Brightness in harmony, not competition. Polyphony. Consonance. Symbiosis.

The obelisk was erected by the Garden-King's fungal servants and a messenger "emblazoned with the sign of two overlapping suns" as a form of alliance between their masters. It details the long forgotten promise and concord between both Judgements.