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}}<blockquote>''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus#Jervaise.27s_Rest|Jervaise's Rest|Sunless Skies}}</ref></blockquote>'''Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus''', perhaps the successor to [[Mrs Plenty's Carnival]] in Fallen London, has become unfortunately stranded in [[the Reach]]. To compound on its worries, a nearby giant obelisk causes those from the circus to feel that they are needed within.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus|Climb the obelisk in search of a lost sigil|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
}}''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus#Jervaise.27s_Rest|Jervaise's Rest|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
Ah, eldritch objects.__FORCETOC__
 
 
 
 
 
'''Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus''', perhaps the successor to [[Mrs Plenty's Carnival]] in Fallen London, has become unfortunately stranded in [[the Reach]]. To compound on its worries, a nearby giant obelisk causes those from the circus to feel that they are needed within.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus|Climb the obelisk in search of a lost sigil|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
Ah, eldritch objects.
 
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== "The Greatest Show!"==
== "The Greatest Show!"==
<blockquote>''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Inconceivable_Circus!|The Inconceivable Circus!|Sunless Skies}}</ref></blockquote>The circus is in ''very'' poor condition.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Inconceivable_Circus!|Enter the Big Top|Sunless Skies}}</ref> Each of the performers is facing their own problems:<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Tasks for the Circus|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Inconceivable_Circus!|The Inconceivable Circus!|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
 
The circus is in ''very'' poor condition.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Inconceivable_Circus!|Enter the Big Top|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> At least each of the performers are facing their own problems:<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Tasks for the Circus|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>


* If it weren't for the fact that there are horrifying sky-beasts all over the place, '''the Humiliated Magician''''s equipment would have been fixed.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to repair the Magician's props|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
* If it weren't for the fact that there are horrifying sky-beasts all over the place, '''the Humiliated Magician''''s equipment would have been fixed.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to repair the Magician's props|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
*'''The Bereaved Acrobat''' is missing his twin and acrobatic partner, who has run away... somewhere.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to reclaim the Acrobat's twin|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
*'''The Bereaved Acrobat''' is missing his twin and acrobatic partner, who has run away... somewhere.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to reclaim the Acrobat's twin|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
*'''The Pensive Clown''''s acts rely on his ducks, who are dressed up in costumes. Unfortunately, the ducks' costumes were destroyed, and the Clown needs new ones.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to purchase costumes for the Clown|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
*'''The Pensive Clown''''s acts rely on his ducks, who are dressed up in costumes. Unfortunately, the ducks' costumes were destroyed, and the Clown needs new ones.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to purchase costumes for the Clown|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
*'''The Headstrong Strongwoman''' is ripped enough to lift anything the audience brings to her. But the audience isn't bringing anything heavy!<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to post flyers for the Strongwoman|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
*'''The Headstrong Strongwoman''' is ripped enough to lift anything the audience brings to her. But the audience isn't bringing anything heavy!<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Tasks_for_the_Circus|Accept a commission to post flyers for the Strongwoman|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
*''"The less said about the lion tamer, the better. He should recover."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus|Enter the Big Top|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
*''"The less said about the lion tamer, the better. He should recover."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus|Enter the Big Top|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>


==The Obelisk==
==The Obelisk==
{{major spoiler small}}<blockquote>''"The obelisk is marked with [[The Correspondence|the words of the emissaries]] – of meeting, of peace. One, close to the point, ignites in searing light: 'A Commingling of Radiances'".''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus|Approach the obelisk|Sunless Skies}}</ref></blockquote>[[File:Sigil9.png|thumb|150px|Brightness in harmony, not competition. Polyphony. Consonance. Symbiosis.]]
{{major spoiler small}}''"The obelisk is marked with [[The Correspondence|the words of the emissaries]] – of meeting, of peace. One, close to the point, ignites in searing light: 'A Commingling of Radiances'".''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Polmear_%26_Plenty%27s_Inconceivable_Circus|Approach the obelisk|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>
The obelisk was erected by the Garden-King's fungal servants and a [[The House of Rods and Chains|messenger]] "emblazoned with the sign of [[The Halved|two overlapping suns]]" as a form of alliance between their masters. It details the long forgotten promise and concord between both [[Judgements]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/A_Moment%27s_Memory|A Moment's Memory|Sunless Skies}}</ref>
[[File:Sigil9.png|thumb|150px|Brightness in harmony, not competition. Polyphony. Consonance. Symbiosis.]]
The obelisk was erected by the Garden-King's fungal servants and a [[The House of Rods and Chains|messenger]] "emblazoned with the sign of [[The Halved|two overlapping suns]]" as a form of alliance between their masters. It details the long forgotten promise and concord between both [[Judgements]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/A_Moment%27s_Memory|A Moment's Memory|Sunless Skies|}}</ref>


==References==
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