Mr Stones

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"You have proven useful. But I am a step ahead. Observe. Caught him trying to sell the diamonds you gave him. New to the city. Didn't know that the diamonds are mine. All mine. Now he knows."[1]

Mr Stones is a terse and avaricious Curator who serves as a Master of the Bazaar.

Mine.

"Jewels. Quarrystone. Salt. Blasting Powder. Enough."[2]

A small diamond in a blue background.
An Ostentatious Diamond.

Mr Stones controls trade in all kinds of stones and minerals, including jewels, quarrystone, salt, blasting powder, corrosive mineral compounds,[2][3] brick, metal,[4] moon-pearls,[5] and glim.[6]

Stones is an elusive Master who prefers to have its employees do its bidding.[7][8] It only intercedes personally when dealing with matters of business,[9] or when valuables catch its interest.[10][11]

Diamonds in the Rough

"Why are diamonds so hard to find down here? Does Mr Stones really keep them for itself?"[12]

"Magnificence! A piece of eternity! Especially brilliant. Exposed to the surface. Sunlight is trapped within. Pinned. Like insect in amber. Majesty. Mastery. Potential."[1]

A valuable diamond.
A Magnificent Diamond.

Mr Stones is fascinated with diamonds, and has laid claim to all the diamonds in London.[13] Trading or hoarding diamonds without permission is illegal,[13][14] and any citizen,[14] visitor,[13] or rival jeweler who breaks Stones' rules is harshly punished.[15] Thanks to Stones, diamonds in London are considered rare,[12] and trades involving diamonds, even official ones, may happen without its knowledge.[16] Despite its laws, Stones does permit a few diamonds to be sold to those of "good character", such as patrons of the Bazaar Side-Streets.[17]

Stones is especially interested in any gems from the Surface[18] and has imposed a high tax on them.[19] A diamond,[20] or apparently any jewel,[21] can trap sunlight within itself, a quality that fascinates Stones.[22] In its workshop, Stones experiments on sunlight-diamonds and compels them to "blaze" with their trapped radiance.[23][24]

Stones has quarries in the Neath[25] staffed with Clay Men, who act as patrols and spot smugglers.[26] The mines are usually located far from London,[27] but when they tunnel too close they may cause earthquakes[28] and other disturbances.[29] The quarries also experience lacre flooding from the Bazaar, resulting in mass casualties.[30]

Other Domains and Names

"Most people think Mr Stones only cares about gems. But Mr Stones controls value itself. Precious minerals are just one way to manipulate it, to accumulate it."[31]

"Nowadays, nobody mentions the Khan of Gifts... or the Khan of Shackles. Those were other names for the Master. I have to keep my value high. No matter what."[31]

A diamond with a purple background.
A Fabulous Diamond.

Mr Stones is not solely focused on the gem trade; it has domain over "value itself."[31] This may be one of the reasons for its fixation on gems[32] and why its products carry high price tags.[33] It also has domain over walls and certain boundaries, since it controls the sale of building materials.[34][35]

Mr Stones was known as Mr Marble until a recent issue with the Tomb-Colonies.[36] This matter probably involved the massive marble palaces being constructed there for the dead.[37]

In the Fourth City, Mr Stones was known as the Khan of Gifts and the Khan of Shackles, implying it was a slaver during that time period.[31]

Appearance

"Anyone else strutting about with this many exposed jewels, as ready to be plucked as ripened fruit, would be plucked very barren indeed in London. But Mr Stones plucks back."[38]

A claw covered in jewelry and ornaments.
Mr Stones' talon.

Mr Stones is the most outlandishly dressed of the Masters. It is covered from head to toe in adornments,[39] including teeth made from gold and diamond,[40] fangs covered in jewels,[41] numerous bracelets under its robes,[42] and ornaments affixed to its hood.[43] Unlike the other Masters,[44][45] Stones does not wear gloves to conceal its claws. Its talons are very sharp and are unsurprisingly decorated with gems.[46]

Stones also has a darker-colored robe covered in minuscule and glittering diamonds.[47] It may dress anonymously in generic robes, but its fondness for adornments usually gives it away.[48]

Personality

"Stones is curt, impolite, wary, and very, very rich."[49]

"Dispose? Ignominy! Outrage! Flee, thou false little worm, before I tread thee underfoot!"[1]

An unremarkable diamond.
A Flawed Diamond.

Stones has a menacing[50] and ill-tempered personality.[51] It is prone to threats,[52] intimidation,[53] and violence when enraged,[54] and it can be extremely persistent and focused,[55] especially when gems are involved.[56][57] It respects cunning, perseverance, brutality, and mercilessness, and those who display such traits may receive offers of employment.[58][59] Mr Stones is a greedy Curator: it desires everything that interests it,[60] and it reacts poorly[61] when denied.[62] For lesser valuables it may bargain, but its greed does not discern.[60] In spite of these qualities, it may reward charity when it is the recipient.[63][64]

A spired building.
The Echo Bazaar

Stones has respect for the Great Chain of Being[65][66] and uses it as an excuse to look down on humans.[67] It seems to mistrust the Echo Bazaar[68] and considers arriving in the Neath a grave mistake.[69] It also resents[70] its fellow Curators of the High Wilderness that it once lived amongst.[71][72]

Mr Stones speaks tersely,[58] and doesn't bother with formalities or politeness.[73] Its statements usually consist of single words or sentence fragments,[58] but when it feels verbose, it may speak an archaic form of English, using words like "thou" and "thee."[74]

According to its iteration of Mr Sacks, Mr Stones does not drink[75] and dislikes lacre.[76]

A Mindscape of Mr Stones

"Iron shackles circle your wrists and your ankles. You are dragged forward by copper-helmeted guards and deposited before a golden throne. Looking up, you find yourself faced with Mr Stones, dressed in a robe of fine silk, considering you as a schoolboy might consider an ant."[1]

"Behind it, an alcove of a dozen multi-faceted mirrors show six other iterations of Mr Stones: one dressed in furs, one in its familiar robes. One crouched over a well. One soaring upon an astral wind, and another squatted grotesquely atop a glittering heap. The seventh mirror is shining so brightly it hurts to look upon."[1]

"Thou has a request of me," says Mr Stones. "Speak now, and if thy words displease me, thy tongue is forfeit."[1]

Businesses

"Go as far upstairs as all the stairs at the Emporium will take you, and you may find Mr Stones' discreet little counter. The prices are monstrously expensive. Mr Stones knows the value of everything. But where else can you find sapphires of this quality?"[77]

A sapphire.
A sapphire.

Mr Stones has many businesses to its name. It has a shop in the Labyrinth of Tigers called Mr Stones' Exquisite Gifts and Luxuries, which offers jewels such as emeralds, diamonds, and sapphires for very high prices.[78]

During the Grand Clearing-Out, Stones opened a tent in Moloch Street called Mr Stones' Pavilion of Subterranean Delights,[79] which sold items found in the dig sites to help with the excavation.[80] After the Grand Clearing-Out,[81][82] Stones was not present[83] during the Masters' efforts to quell the Stone Pigs attempting to destroy London.[84][85]

At some point, Hell made a deal with Mr Stones to explore the Hurlers,[86] but their expedition failed.[87] After the Great Hellbound Railway arrived, Stones established a trade outpost there[88] to obtain the Hurlers' many rocks and crystals,[88] especially those that "unmake boundaries."[89]

Mr Stones has an exclusive business contract with Lowell's Locks and Cages.[90][91]

Dwellings

"Your footsteps echo in Mr Stones' cavernous workshop. The place is an assault on the eyes – a cascade of glimmers and glitters and gleams. Emeralds embedded in beeswax. Opals nested in silk cushions. Vats of smoking ochre. Precise tools with complex geometries laid meticulously upon a table top."[1]

A spiked gemstone ring with a closed eye.
A Winking Gemstone Ring.

Mr Stones typically dwells in its jewel-encrusted workshop.[92] It has a floor tiled with gems[93] whose colors are apparently chosen to match Stones' mood; for example, darker gemstones line the floor when it's feeling dreary.[94] In its workshop, Mr Stones inspects,[95] experiments with,[96] and cuts jewels with its various tools, which include hammers, chisels,[97][98] lenses, and clamps.[96]

Mr Stones has an Astrarium within the Echo Bazaar.[99] This chamber is massive and contains tunnels[100] lined with dark onyx and glass, with gems embedded within to resemble constellations in the night sky.[101] Inside, Stones has a glass box it uses to torture and execute prisoners. They're sealed within the box while diamonds cascade from above,[102][103] falling until they completely bury the victim.[104]

While traveling, Stones prefers luxurious transports, such as hansom carriages with interiors of gem and gold.[105] It has a train for the Great Hellbound Railway with a private car for itself, well-decorated and well-armed.[106][107]

The Affair of the Box

"This thing has seven locks, each more difficult than the last. You haven't yet found a way to open it."[108]

"...And Mr Stones is furious that its box has gone missing again. The Clay twins are tearing the place up looking for it. No box means no moon-milk. And that means our exiled captain won't provide it with the troops it wants. It'll just have to wait for its blessed Sixth City."[109]

Despite sharing an employer,[71] the Masters are not united.[110] Each has their own schemes and plots that oppose others,[111] and Stones is no exception.[112]

A Heavy Iron Box.

Mr Stones' own scheme began with capturing a moon-miser in an iron box.[113] The box also contained love letters from the Fourth City[114] that Stones stole from Mr Fires.[112] It was secured with a lock that could only be opened with a song from a Drownie,[115] and seven decoy locks were added along with fake keys scattered across London.[116][117]

Stones ordered two Unfinished Men, Jasper and Frank, to keep track of the box if it was ever lost.[118] It was also kept secret from the other Masters[119] and was transported around London repeatedly.[120] Given these facts, it's not surprising powerful figures in London took an interest in the box, such as devils,[121] Special Constables,[122] and the Gracious Widow.[123]

Mr Stones wanted to give the valuable moon-milk produced by the miser to an exiled captain of Hell.[124][109] In return, the captain would assemble an army and start a war in London.[109][125] It also wanted to give the love letters in the box to the Echo Bazaar.[126] These acts were intended to expedite the fall of the Sixth City, as Mr Stones tires of London.[109][127]

Adornment

"This is simple caprice. It is an obsessive. You are here to complete its collection. You flee. You do not get far, in this realm where the light is word is law. The weight of its gaze almost crushes you. It utters a single incandescent word."[1]

"Adornment."[1]

A bat-like being with large wings and ears.
A Curator.

Like the rest of the Masters, Mr Stones is a Curator,[71][72] one of the bat-like beings that roam the High Wilderness in search of treasures for their collections.[128] Before it arrived in the Neath,[71] Stones repeatedly broke the laws of the Judgements.[129] One of its sins eventually led to it being forced into service under the Echo Bazaar.[71]

Before its time serving under the Bazaar,[71] Stones' home was subjugated by a Judgement.[130] This star was a collector of creatures, and Stones was its latest "adornment."[131] The Judgement did not seem to know its captive was a criminal,[132] but it still kept Stones prisoner for an indeterminate amount of time.[133] Stones was outraged at this treatment and the Judgement's disregard for the rules Stones believed in,[134] and it was filled with inscrutable rage, bitterness, and shame.[135]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Adornment, Fallen London
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mr Stones, Fallen London
  3. ↑ Paisley, Fallen London "Mr Stones [...] reminds you that it governs more than jewels. Blasting powder, hydrochloric acid, and numerous other corrosive mineral compounds [...]"
  4. ↑ Enter the private compartment, Fallen London "All minerals. Brick. Metal. Mine."
  5. ↑ A spot of footpadry, Fallen London
  6. ↑ Smuggle glim across town, Fallen London
  7. ↑ Establish a trading post, Fallen London "[...] a Calculating Lapidary arrives on the next train to officially oversee this 'trading post', [...] contracts are contracts, and when Mr Stones wants something, Mr Stones gets it."
  8. ↑ The devil you don't know, Fallen London "[...] Mr Stones is furious that its box has gone missing again. The Clay twins are tearing the place up looking for it."
  9. ↑ Wait until it docks and rob the warehouse, Fallen London
  10. ↑ Enter the private compartment, Fallen London
  11. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] the Masters don't meet with just any riff-raff. [...] You send out word that you have acquired a [...] fine gemstone, requiring Mr Stones' personal attention... [...] A carriage pulls up outside [...]"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Flawed Diamond, Fallen London
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Adornment, Fallen London "Caught him trying to sell the diamonds [...] New to the city. Didn't know that the diamonds are mine."
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Adornment, Fallen London "[...] we'll tell Mr Stones all about all the diamonds I found in your collection [...] Then we can both hang."
  15. ↑ Trade five Crystallised Curios, Fallen London
  16. ↑ Magnificent Diamond, Fallen London
  17. ↑ Pick out a diamond, Fallen London
  18. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] I am excellent at procuring [...] gemstones from the surface, and Mr Stones is interested in acquiring as many as possible."
  19. ↑ Avoid an Unfair Tax on Jewels, Fallen London
  20. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "It turns the cursed diamond over in its claws. "Sunlight is trapped within.""
  21. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] I am excellent at procuring [...] gemstones from the surface, and Mr Stones is interested [...] I recently closed a deal on a lapis lazuli curse-tablet [...]"
  22. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London ""Catchers of the light [...] "Especially brilliant. Exposed to the surface." [...] "Sunlight is trapped within.""
  23. ↑ Incarnadine Fur Robe, Fallen London "Mr Stones grips a chisel [...] The diamond under its attention roars with light – not reflecting it, but blazing it."
  24. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] you see Stones placing the diamond into a vice and surrounding it with [...] lenses. The diamond begins to blaze with an inner light [...]"
  25. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] you can blame Mr Stones [...] Its quarries are getting too close [...]"
  26. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Watchful Clay Men [...] patrol the quarry and catch smugglers."
  27. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "You can blame Mr Stones [...] His mining works are getting too close to the city."
  28. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] you can blame Mr Stones for all this shaking. Its quarries are getting too close to London [...]"
  29. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Different areas of London, [...] continue to shake [...] Bats are unsettled [...] Church-bells ring [...] The Stolen River sloshes over [...]"
  30. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "LACRE," [...] "IT FINDS ITS WAY INTO THE MINES FROM THE RESERVOIRS SOMETIMES. CAN SWEEP AWAY WHOLE GROUPS OF MINERS."
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 Return the Hideous Promissory Note, Fallen London
  32. ↑ Return the Hideous Promissory Note, Fallen London "But Mr Stones controls value [...] Precious minerals are [...] one way to manipulate it, to accumulate it."
  33. ↑ Mr Stones' Exquisite Gifts and Luxuries, Fallen London "Mr Stones knows the value of everything."
  34. ↑ Enter the private compartment, Fallen London "All minerals. Brick. Metal. Mine. I own the walls. I make the boundaries."
  35. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London "I may not be Mr Veils, but some borders are also my domain."
  36. ↑ How many names do the Masters have?, Fallen London
  37. ↑ The construction of the 'Grand Sanatoria', Fallen London
  38. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London
  39. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London "Anyone else strutting about with this many exposed jewels [...]"
  40. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London "Its grimace, [...] is almost completely golden: false fangs and diamond incisors."
  41. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Jewel-encrusted fangs [...] in [...] the hood."
  42. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London "You hear bracelets, [...] thousands, jangle underneath its robes."
  43. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London "Moon-pearls and glim earrings drape from its hood [...]"
  44. ↑ Homecoming, Fallen London "Mr Spices lashes a gloved claw around your wrist [...]"
  45. ↑ Who are the Masters of the Bazaar?, Fallen London
  46. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "A jewelled claw twitches. [...] They are also very, very sharp."
  47. ↑ A tiny gift, Fallen London "Mr Stones' cloak shimmers, more grey than black. [...] Perhaps it's the tiny diamonds woven into the fabric."
  48. ↑ Enter the private compartment, Fallen London "The Master [...] is [...] in an unadorned robe, [...] any Master might anonymously wear, but there's no mistaking those gem-encrusted fangs."
  49. ↑ Incarnadine Fur Robe, Fallen London
  50. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Mr Stones ignores its lackeys, stalking toward the Smuggler. [...] Its claws are extended, [...] As it approaches it seems to grow in size. [...] "Collapse my mines," [...] "Fool around with my diamond. Mine. How dare thee.""
  51. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London ""Dispose?" shrieks Mr Stones, [...] "Ignominy! Outrage! Flee, [...] before I tread thee underfoot!""
  52. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London "O thou wretched [...] fiend, [...] thy ignoble deeds. I should pluck out your eyes."
  53. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "It raises a talon, as though preparing to rake at your throat."
  54. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Despicable! Idiocy!" [...] A claw swipes. Your blood arcs across the wall [...]"
  55. ↑ Establish a trading post, Fallen London "[...] when Mr Stones wants something, Mr Stones gets it."
  56. ↑ The Season of Stones, Fallen London "Ask the Masters how beholden they are to their desires [...] Mr Stones does not look up from examining its opal."
  57. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "It is currently engaged in its favourite activity: holding the [...] Diamond [...] admiring the glimmer within the stone, utterly transfixed."
  58. ↑ 58.0 58.1 58.2 A tiny gift, Fallen London
  59. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London ""The Unfinished are brutal," [...] "Merciless. Useful. Here.""
  60. ↑ 60.0 60.1 Trade one hundred Flawed Diamonds, Fallen London
  61. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Fool around with my diamond. Mine. How dare thee."
  62. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London ""I have it!" shrieks Mr Stones [...] yanking something [...] from the Smuggler's eye. [...] the diamond sparkling [...] bright [...] "All mine!""
  63. ↑ Donate one Crystallised Curio to her stock, Fallen London
  64. ↑ Enter the private compartment, Fallen London
  65. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London ""No such thing as luck," [...] "Only the inexorability of my will, and the dominion of the Chain.""
  66. ↑ Paisley (Story), Fallen London "O thou [...] false fiend, that wouldst defy the very Chain by thy ignoble deeds."
  67. ↑ The Season of Stones, Fallen London "Mr Hearts nods. "We know our place. And theirs." [...] "And yours," says Mr Stones."
  68. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "You find Mr Stones [...] its robe dragging [...] through the lacre. "Is this it?" [...] speaking apparently to thin air. "Is this what thou hast been holding over our heads for so long? [...] The others will find me soon! It shall indeed be postponed further!""
  69. ↑ The Season of Stones, Fallen London "Ask the Masters about difficult choices [...] Mr Stones shrieks: "We are here now!""
  70. ↑ The Season of Stones, Fallen London "Ask the Masters whether there are others of their kind [...] Mr Stones regards you, perfectly still. [...] you hear dark mutterings coming from Mr Stones' cowl; words which [...] might set a factory's engines ablaze, were they spoken much louder."
  71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 71.2 71.3 71.4 71.5 A secret about the Masters, Failbetter Games
  72. ↑ 72.0 72.1 Traces of Veils the Curator, Fallen London
  73. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London ""Diamond," demands Mr Stones, [...] "Now.""
  74. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Flee, thou false little worm, before I tread thee underfoot!""
  75. ↑ Mr Sacks! Would you care for a little of the '68? 3, Fallen London
  76. ↑ Mr Sacks! Take this pail..., Fallen London
  77. ↑ Mr Stones' Exquisite Gifts and Luxuries, Fallen London
  78. ↑ Mr Stones' Exquisite Gifts and Luxuries, Fallen London "Her eyes glitter [...] like the emeralds. [...] You have bought a diamond."
  79. ↑ Visit the Pavilion of Subterranean Delights, Fallen London
  80. ↑ Mr Stones' Pavilion of Subterranean Delights, Fallen London
  81. ↑ Inquire about the Clearing-Out, Fallen London "The Procedures provide for excavating the earth around the Bazaar in this eventuality [...] By my calculations, Londoners sped up the rate of excavation by several orders of magnitude [...]"
  82. ↑ 28 July, Fallen London
  83. ↑ Inquire after the other Masters, Fallen London
  84. ↑ A Conclave of the Masters, Hastily Assembled, Fallen London ""There will not be a next city!," [...] The Bazaar is being torn apart by the Stone Pigs' imminent escape." [...] "The timetable was accelerated considerably, outside of our control," [...] "There is no time to prepare London for dissolution."
  85. ↑ Inquire about a solution, Fallen London "'I HAVE MADE PLANS FOR A DEVICE,' [...] "Hence this... Device to Preserve London.""
  86. ↑ Find the Caprine Vagabond in the herd 4, Fallen London
  87. ↑ Speak with the Disembarking Deviless, Fallen London
  88. ↑ 88.0 88.1 Establish a trading post, Fallen London
  89. ↑ Enter the private compartment, Fallen London
  90. ↑ Lowell's Locks and Cages, Fallen London
  91. ↑ Lowell's Locks and Cages (Card), Fallen London
  92. ↑ Incarnadine Fur Robe, Fallen London "Mr Stones' workshop [...] shimmers. It scintillates! The floor, a mosaic of malachite and moonstone. The benches, [...] with lapidarists' tools. [...] Brass arrays of lenses scrutinise [...] sapphires. [...] a plate, [...] with emeralds. [...] garnets [...] on a bed of silk."
  93. ↑ Incarnadine Fur Robe, Fallen London "Mr Stones' workshop [...] The floor, a mosaic of malachite and moonstone."
  94. ↑ Incarnadine Fur Robe, Fallen London " Mr Stones' workshop floor [...] you [...] find it changed. Its new floor is [...] tiger eye and black tourmaline, as if [...] it pried free all its rainbow jewels to replace them with something befitting a gloomier mood."
  95. ↑ Incarnadine Fur Robe, Fallen London "[...] arrays of lenses scrutinise [...] sapphires."
  96. ↑ 96.0 96.1 Adornment, Fallen London "[...] from the workshop, you see Stones placing the diamond into a vice and surrounding it with [...] angled lenses. The diamond begins to blaze with an inner light [...]"
  97. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] Mr Stones hefts a hammer [...] [...] it grips the tiniest, [...] chisel you [...] seen. It hunches over a sapphire, tapping at the edges [...]"
  98. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Tap, [...] A shard of gemstone, [...] drifts to the floor."
  99. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] you meet Mr Stones in its Astrarium: [...] within the Bazaar [...]"
  100. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "its Astrarium: a vast room [...] Maze-like tunnels of [...] ripple throughout [...]"
  101. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Maze-like tunnels of onyx and smoked glass [...] darker than the darkest of nights, each embedded with [...] gemstones: [...] in painstakingly recreated constellations."
  102. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "You are confronted by the sight [...] He is imprisoned within a glass box, only a little larger than a coffin. [...] "Caught him trying to sell the diamonds you gave him," [...] Didn't know that the diamonds are mine. [...] Now he knows." [...] A hatch is open above [...] Thousands and thousands of [...] diamonds are raining down onto him [...]"
  103. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "It glances [...] at the box of diamonds. "And administer due punishment.""
  104. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] it is over. [...] gone silent, completely immersed in diamonds. [...] Only a bloodstained fingertip is visible, [...] against the glass."
  105. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "Even the carriage interior is ostentatious – rubies beaded [...] on the door-handles, sapphires clinging to the windows [...] gold thread woven through the seats."
  106. ↑ An Opulent Railway Carriage, Fallen London
  107. ↑ Enter the private compartment, Fallen London "[...] who would lounge on gem-encrusted furniture, or braid the very carpet with real golden thread."
  108. ↑ A Heavy Iron Box, Fallen London
  109. ↑ 109.0 109.1 109.2 109.3 The devil you don't know, Fallen London
  110. ↑ An understanding, Fallen London "'The Masters of the Bazaar are… not, [...] united in their aims [...] They squabble and war amongst themselves."
  111. ↑ Fires' next move, Fallen London
  112. ↑ 112.0 112.1 The devil you don't know, Fallen London "Stones hid the love-letters it stole from Fires in the box."
  113. ↑ An authority on the matter, Fallen London "You tell her about the thing in the box. "A moon-miser! [...]"
  114. ↑ Open up, Fallen London "The script is that of the fourth city, [...] These are love letters."
  115. ↑ Open up, Fallen London
  116. ↑ Take the Gracious Widow up on her offer, Fallen London
  117. ↑ Opening the box, Fallen London
  118. ↑ That dratted thing?, Fallen London
  119. ↑ Throw the box out of the window, Fallen London
  120. ↑ Going up, Fallen London "'And Stones was pushing this moon-miser all around London, was it?"
  121. ↑ Interested parties, Fallen London "People are looking for your box. A devil is offering [...] rostygold for information. [...] suspected [...] Special Constables, are making discreet enquiries [...]"
  122. ↑ Interested parties, Fallen London "People are looking for your box. [...] suspected [...] Special Constables, are making discreet enquiries [...]"
  123. ↑ An understanding, Fallen London
  124. ↑ An authority on the matter, Fallen London "A moon-miser! [...] Their exudations [...] 'moon-milk'. Horribly dangerous [...] Powerful, though."
  125. ↑ Tracking down the monarch of the past, Fallen London
  126. ↑ The devil you don't know, Fallen London "Stones hid the love-letters it stole from Fires in the box. I'm sure Stones was planning on presenting the letters to the Bazaar [...]"
  127. ↑ Go to Mr Stones, Fallen London
  128. ↑ Curator, Sunless Skies
  129. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] you have transgressed, a hundred times [...] you [...] defied the law that is word that is light [...]"
  130. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "this creature, [...] in its blazing crown who now holds dominion over your former home [...]"
  131. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "this creature, [...] is a collector. [...] Its throne is decorated with writhing things. [...] It utters a single [...] word. "Adornment." [...] what happens, which is obedience."
  132. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] you have transgressed, [...] but the arrogant creature does not know that."
  133. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "[...] what happens, which is obedience. [...] And the years fall down like hammer-blows..."
  134. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "How could they have done this [...] To you? [...] Does it all count for nothing? There are conventions. There are laws."
  135. ↑ Adornment, Fallen London "The fury is all-consuming. [...] there's more. [...] Bitterness, shame [...]"
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