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| | ''"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."'' |
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| |music=[https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/star-maddened-skies Star-Maddened Skies] | | |music=[https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/star-maddened-skies Star-Maddened Skies] |
| }}<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> | | }} |
| Ah, eldritch objects.__FORCETOC__
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| | '''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 there causes those from the circus feel that they are needed in there.''(Is it possible to free them?)'' |
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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."'' |
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| * 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> | | The circus is in a ''very'' poor condition. At least each of the performers are facing their own problem: |
| *'''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> | | *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 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 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 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 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 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 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."'' |
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| ==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'.''"[[File:Sigil19.png|thumb|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>
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| ==References==
| | The obelisk is 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]]. |
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| [[Category:Places]] | | [[Category:Places]] |
| [[Category:The High Wilderness]] | | [[Category:The High Wilderness]] |
| [[Category:The Reach]] | | [[Category:The Reach]] |
