Harlequin

Harlequin is a city in The Chimeric Empire.

Description
A city of fools and jesters, but nothing about Harlequin is amusing.

Most of the citizens live outside the city walls in vast tent-slums, ragged and bright and teeming with disease.

Gaining Entry
To gain entry to Harlequin, you will need one of the following:
 * 4+ Reputation: Chimeric Empire
 * 30 G + Stats check
 * 1 Droll Recollection

Rest and recover.
Requires: Sanity damage, Spirit check

This will recover some of your Sanity.

Success: +Sanity

Failure: -Sanity

Repair your hull.
Requires: Hull damage

Sixteen raucous clowns pile into your kinetopede, waving wrenches and blow-torches with a gleeful lack of regard for each other's lives.

-# G

Hull to max

Gather news.
Requires: 0 Current Affairs: Harlequin

''The tannoys, of course, are useless for anything but propaganda and punning. You'll need to speak to the beggars, who won't be willing to talk for free.''

-10 G

+1 Current Affairs: Harlequin

An audience with the Painted Queen.
Once per visit

''The Pasquinade Palace is hosting one of its games. You may petition the Queen if you wish, but try not to bore her.''

+1 Lurid Tale

Violence in the tent-slums.
Once per visit

You hear gunfire, and screams that could be laughter.

Possible results:
 * +1 Lurid Tale
 * +1 Unsettling Conjecture

You are invited to a Night of Revels in the Pasquinade Palace.
Requires: 8+ Reputation: Chimeric Empire

The messenger is a blind old clown whose eyes have been replaced with plastic flowers.

+1 Disquieting Incident

Ascertain the loyalty of the Painted Queen.
Requires: Empire's Overthrow 5

+2 Angelwine +1 Obscene Booklet

Accompany Harmony to the Grotesquerie.
Requires: Harmony Ricketts on board, Beauty in Abomination 6, Vigilance check

Always: -2 Terrible Secret, +1 Disquieting Incident, +1 Horrifying Ordeal, -Sanity, Beauty in Abomination 7

Success: +1 Box of Terrifying Memories

Failure: +1 Disquieting Incident

The Grotesquerie
Clowns in white coats perform their craft upon willing and unwilling subjects, with vats and pins and scalpels. (Note: Although some of the descriptions suggest that items are available for sale, the Grotesquerie only ever purchases.)

Grueber's Sardonic Implements
''Grueber is not merely a merchant - he also offers his services as a prankster, musician and thief for hire. His shop is fashioned in the sickeningly colourful Harlequin style and filled with weaponry.''