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<<nobr>><<set $Setting to "In Florence, 1559">>
<<set $Relationship1p1 to "Faith">>
<<set $Relationship1p2 to "Love">>
<<set $Relationship1p3 to "War and violence">>
<<set $Relationship1p4 to "Arts and crafts">>
<<set $Relationship1p5 to "At court">>
<<set $Relationship1p6 to "Of low morals">>
<</nobr>>$Setting, you are part of a group with the relationship:
<<set $Relationship1 to either("$Relationship1p1", "$Relationship1p2", "$Relationship1p3", "$Relationship1p4", "$Relationship1p5", "$Relationship1p6")>>$Relationship1
[[Keep going->Relationship2]]
[[Redo this step->Start]]To be specific, you have the relationship:<<nobr>><<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p1">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Brothers in Christ", "Front bench at Sunday’s Mass in Santa Croce", "Penitent and confessor", "Neighbors, devout and not so devout", "Inquisitor and heretic", "We share common beliefs, best kept private")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p2">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Spouses in a loveless marriage", "Secretly betrothed", "The shameful mistake of one night", "Tied by a forbidden passion", "Bitter ex-lovers", "Chaste, yet burning for one another")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p3">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Protector and protected", "Former brothers in arms", "Deadly rivals", "Veterans of a free company", "Hired assassin and target", "Mercenary and employer")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p4">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Artist and young apprentice", "Artist and patron of the arts", "Rival merchants", "Ex students at Pisa’s University", "Skilled laborer (carpenter, sculptor) and supervisor of the Opera del Duomo", "Established court artist and young rising star ")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p5">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Noble and page/handmaiden", "High rank parent and bastard child", "Younger cousins in a noble family", "Secret lovers", "Servant and servant’s servant", "High ranking noble and lowly subject")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p6">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Corrupt public officer and rich merchant", "Moneylender and debtor", "Wrongdoers (thugs, housebreakers, pickpockets, thieves) ", "Con man and mark", "Members of the same cabal/conspiracy", "Relic peddler and religious zealot")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
[[Keep going->Need1]]
[[Redo this step->Relationship2]]
[[Go back a step->Start]]You have the relationship:
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
You need:
<<nobr>><<set $Need1p1 to "To get rich">>
<<set $Need1p2 to "To right a wrong">>
<<set $Need1p3 to "To abandon">>
<<set $Need1p4 to "To prove your repentance">>
<<set $Need1p5 to "To defend Florence">>
<<set $Need1p6 to "To complete your mission ">>
<<set $Need1 to either("$Need1p1", "$Need1p2", "$Need1p3", "$Need1p4", "$Need1p5", "$Need1p6")>><</nobr>>$Need1
[[Keep going->Need2]]
[[Redo this step->Need1]]
[[Go back a step->Relationship2]]To be more specific, you have the relationship:
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
You need:<<nobr>><<if $Need1 is "$Need1p1">><<set $Need2 to either("...through fraud and duplicity", "...by blackmailing the Archbishop", "...by robbing a money changer", "...through a once in a lifetime opportunity", "...by carefully saving every penny over a lifetime ", "...through one huge winning bet at Il Palio")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p2">><<set $Need2 to either("...by one of the powers that be", "...to get back at an old love that ended badly", "...with a public challenge", "...by one of the faith", "...to get your name back", "...to save a life")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p3">><<set $Need2 to either("...temptation on the altar of righteousness", "...the life your family has planned for you", "...a helpless woman and the child you sired", "...holy orders", "...the oath of allegiance to your Lord", "...the conspiracy")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p4">><<set $Need2 to either("...to your loved one", "...from your unforgivable sins", "...to Cosimo himself", "...before you can kill him", "...to a friend you have wronged", "...to an innocent dragged into scandal")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p5">><<set $Need2 to either("...by silencing a rival", "...by defending Cosimo De’ Medici", "...from her own ungodly vanity", "...from Siennese spies, real and imagined", "...with a casual threat of heresy", "...with great enthusiasm but no real effect")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p6">><<set $Need2 to either("...and write your name in history", "...by returning to your village richer than Croesus", "...by slaying Cosimo", "...by destroying yourself, literally or figuratively", "...whispered in your ear by the Devil", "...by delivering a message of the utmost importance")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
$Need1 $Need2
[[Keep going->Location1]]
[[Redo this step->Need2]]
[[Go back a step->Need1]]You have the relationship:
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
You need:
$Need1 $Need2
This is all happening at:
<<nobr>><<set $Location1p1 to "In Piazza della Signoria">>
<<set $Location1p2 to "The narrow streets of the center">>
<<set $Location1p3 to "In the country">>
<<set $Location1p4 to "A place of the faith">>
<<set $Location1p5 to "At Cosimo's court">>
<<set $Location1p6 to "Someplace unsavory">>
<</nobr>><<set $Location1 to either("$Location1p1", "$Location1p2", "$Location1p3", "$Location1p4", "$Location1p5", "$Location1p6")>>$Location1
[[Keep going->Location2]]
[[Redo this step->Location1]]
[[Go back a step->Need2]]To be more specific, you have the relationship:
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
You need:
$Need1 $Need2
This is all happening at:<<nobr>><<if $Location1 is "$Location1p1">><<set $Location2 to either("Palazzo Ducale", "Loggia dei Lanzi, among the Medici’s statues", "Groundworks for the new offices (in Florentine, uffizi) of the thirteen Magistrates of the Arts", "Tribunale della Mercanzia", "Palazzo Uguccioni", "Arte del Cambio, the corporation of bankers")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p2">><<set $Location2 to either("Filthy streets of the Market after closing hours", "Lungarno, in the middle of the night", "Forgotten Roman temple, beneath the potter’s shop", "Butcher shops on Ponte Vecchio", "Goldsmith’s workshop", "Black Boar’s Inn")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p3">><<set $Location2 to either("Crossroads on the way to Montalcino", "Monastery in Chianti", "Vineyard, precious grapes on the vines", "Ancient oak in Balduccio’s field", "Old Hangman’s Coaching Inn", "Hidden bend of the Arno, downriver from the city")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p4">><<set $Location2 to either("Hidden alcove in the cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore ", "Basilica of Santa Croce, Franciscan convent and seat of the Inquisition", "Convent of cloistered nuns observing the vow of silence", "In the quiet shade of a rich Benedictine cloister", "Confessional in a discreet church", "Two synagogues in the ghetto, a few yards from the Archbishopric")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p5">><<set $Location2 to either("Cosimo’s private apartments", "Palace medicinal garden", "Beneath a long oak dining table", "Bedroom of Lucrezia, Cosimo’s stunning (and secluded) daughter", "Secret passage, cleverly disguised ", "Busy palace kitchens")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p6">><<set $Location2 to either("Gambling house", "Back of the undertaker’s workshop", "Secret chapel of a small heretic congregation ", "Cosimo’s informal torture chamber", "Stinking tannery near Ponte Vecchio", "Brothel near the Arno")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
$Location1: $Location2
[[Keep going->Object1]]
[[Redo this step->Location2]]
[[Go back a step->Location1]]You have the relationship:
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
You need:
$Need1 $Need2
This is all happening at:
$Location1: $Location2
And it involves something:
<<nobr>><<set $Object1p1 to "Religious">>
<<set $Object1p2 to "Untoward">>
<<set $Object1p3 to "Devious">>
<<set $Object1p4 to "Dangerous">>
<<set $Object1p5 to "Curious and bizarre">>
<<set $Object1p6 to "Precious">>
<</nobr>><<set $Object1 to either("$Object1p1", "$Object1p2", "$Object1p3", "$Object1p4", "$Object1p5", "$Object1p6")>>$Object1
[[Keep going->Object2]]
[[Redo this step->Object1]]
[[Go back a step->Location2]]To be more specific, you have the relationship:
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
You need:
$Need1 $Need2
This is all happening at:
$Location1: $Location2
And it involves something:<<nobr>><<if $Object1 is "$Object1p1">><<set $Object2 to either("Nail from the True Cross", "Cathedral’s Eucharistic chalice, all gold and precious stones", "Finely done illuminated Bible", "Elderly and comatose Benedictine bursar", "Ceremonial costume of Tlatlauhqui Tezcatlipoca, Aztec God of death and rebirth", "Franciscan monk’s habit and a hand-drawn map ")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p2">><<set $Object2 to either("Forbidden book, put to the Index by the Holy Church (see notes) ", "Ingredients and recipe for the Philosopher’s Stone", "Lambskin “French letter”", "Newborn bastard", "Corpse, freshly stolen ", "Siennese war banner")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p3">><<set $Object2 to either("Ring with a secret compartment", "Secret dispatch, cyphered", "Wooden cross that hides a dagger", "Incriminating testimony from a witness", "Sleeping draught, prepared a little strong", "Overheard secret that could destroy a reputation")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p4">><<set $Object2 to either("Dagger, dripping poison", "Butcher’s cleaver", "Sword, received as heirloom", "Clever collapsible bow", "Massive block of fine white Carrara marble", "Rosary with heavy stone beads")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p5">><<set $Object2 to either("Stolen plans for one of Leonardo’s machines", "Two exotic savage beasts, in cages", "Ocularia with extremely well crafted lenses from Holland ", "Siren, mummified", "Alchemical oven", "The Florentine codex, an Aztec manuscript")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p6">><<set $Object2 to either("Necklace of sapphires", "Golden signet ring", "Trunk of silver coins, half full", "Letter of exchange worth a thousand gold ducats", "Perfectly proportioned skull, cut from New World jade", "Siennese race horse named after the Pope")>><<else>><</if>><</nobr>>
$Object1: $Object2
[[In summation->End]]
[[Redo this step->Object2]]
[[Go back a step->Object1]]To sum up: $Setting, you have the relationship:
$Relationship1: $Relationship2
You need:
$Need1 $Need2
This is all happening at:
$Location1: $Location2
And it involves something:
$Object1: $Object2
[[Start over->Start]]