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<<nobr>><<set $Setting to "In Renaissance Italy">>
<<set $Relationship1p1 to "Religious">>
<<set $Relationship1p2 to "Family">>
<<set $Relationship1p3 to "Friendship">>
<<set $Relationship1p4 to "Peasantry">>
<<set $Relationship1p5 to "Professional">>
<<set $Relationship1p6 to "Court">>
<</nobr>>$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("Confessor to a sinner", "We are pilgrims making pilgrimage in Ferrara ", "We took holy orders together", "Papal inquisitor and heretic", "Priest and parishioner", "Holy mystic and adherent")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p2">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Siblings", "Father and bastard", "Family by arranged marriage", "Distant relatives through obscure heritage ", "We don't know we are related, but we are ", "Parent and child")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p3">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Rivals at court", "Childhood friends now torn apart by old family feuds ", "Star-crossed lovers", "A shared ambition binds us together", "Highly unlikely friends", "Firm but hugely competitive friends")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p4">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Lowly servants of the nobility", "Convicted criminals, previous recipients of secular justice", "We are landless brigands", "Young bravos with only courage and sword to earn their fortune ", "We are peasant farmers who break our backs feeding the nobility ", "A village girl who provides the sole income for her family")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p5">><<set $Relationship2 to either("Innkeeper and servant", "Master and student (dancing, fencing, music, courting, etc.)", "A patron of the arts and an artist of genius", "Tradesman and apprentice (stonemason, sword smith, tailor, etc.) ", "Rival merchant-bankers", "Assassins with the same mark")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Relationship1 is "$Relationship1p6">><<set $Relationship2 to either("We are fellow cogs in the machine of war (cook, dogsbody, courier, etc.) ", "Spy master and spy", "Rival ambassadors from the courts of other European powers", "Swiss mercenaries", "We are court functionaries (castellan, minstrel, jester, etc.) ", "Lady and her lady-in-waiting")>><<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 win renown">>
<<set $Need1p2 to "Revenge">>
<<set $Need1p3 to "To get rich">>
<<set $Need1p4 to "To woo">>
<<set $Need1p5 to "To get respect">>
<<set $Need1p6 to "To discover the truth">>
<<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("... as a great lover of women", "... as a duellist without peer", "... as a man whom God loves like His own Son ", "... as someone not to be trifled with", ".. as someone who sacrificed their all for love ", "... as the victor in a great battle")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p2">><<set $Need2 to either("... against the fools who humiliated us", "... against the sibling who's crazed ambition will ruin you all ", "... against a rich and powerful noble", "... against an indiscreet lover", "... against the bravo who so cavalierly ruined your friend", "... against those priests who damn good folk to hell")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p3">><<set $Need2 to either("... by marrying into one of the houses of the old nobility ", "... by trusting that God will reward His Godly servant", "... by murdering those of my family who stand in my way ", "... by blackmail", "... by profiting from the wars", "... through a theft of surpassing audacity")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p4">><<set $Need2 to either("... the object of my heart's most fervent desire", "... the wife of my enemy and make her fat with my seed", "... and win the hand of someone of noble birth", "... one of my own sex to sate the urgings of my ungodly flesh", "... the daughter whose father will pay the largest dowry", "... the Mademoiselle de Ferrant, whose purity will make sweet the pricking")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p5">><<set $Need2 to either("... from your venerable father", "... from God who greatly desires to redeem your blackened soul ", "... from your jealous and vengeful peers", "... from the nobility", "... from the common people, by championing their cause", "... from the many lovers who you have cast by the wayside")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Need1 is "$Need1p6">><<set $Need2 to either("... about the Archbishop da Mosta's candidacy for the Papacy ", "... about a brutal burning at the stake", "... about your parentage", "... about the dark secret that hangs over the nobility of Ferrara ", "... about the shame that stains your family name", "... about the disappearance of the Mademoiselle Luchezzi")>><<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 "The Castello Estense">>
<<set $Location1p2 to "The church holdings">>
<<set $Location1p3 to "Ferrara itself">>
<<set $Location1p4 to "The back alleys">>
<<set $Location1p5 to "The countryside">>
<<set $Location1p6 to "The River Po">>
<</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("The Government Room", "The Garden of the Oranges", "The Duke's bedchamber and surrounds ", "The Hall of Games", "The dungeons", "The Lion's Fortress")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p2">><<set $Location2 to either("The residences of the priesthood", "Saint George's Basilica", "The roadside cross just outside the city walls", "The quiet gloom of Ferrara cemetery", "The stalls of the confessional that reek of incense and whispered shame ", "The monastery of Sant'Antonio")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p3">><<set $Location2 to either("The austere banking offices of the House of Medici", "The bustling market square of the Palazzo Comunale", "The small yet opulent ghetto of the Jews", "The fragrant salon of the erudite Madame de Brazzi", "The great stone city walls, pitted and scarred from countless battles ", "The Teatro Laceyo, a theatre crammed with gaudy entertainments")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p4">><<set $Location2 to either("A smoke-filled, spit-and-sawdust osteria (tavern)", "Tangled muddy streets threaded through the cramped housing of the poor ", "Madame Orbizzo's House of Fragrant Courtesans", "The pungent river wharf where life is lazy and crude", "A quiet house, wherein a corpse lies swaddled in cloth", "The snarling pigs and grimy ordure of the communal rubbish pits")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p5">><<set $Location2 to either("The grazing pastures of the Duke's herds", "The ruined Roman fort", "The forest cave dwelling of a holy hermit", "The roadside inn wreathed in greasy smoke", "The rutted causeway known as the Devil's Backbone", "The Duke's vineyards where the vines hang heavy with fat grapes")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Location1 is "$Location1p6">><<set $Location2 to either("The stinking tannery", "The Ponte Este (a sturdy stone bridge)", "The splendid home of the river pilot Renatto", "The marshy and mist-covered lowlands of the Po Delta ", "The village of the coarse local fishermen", "The picturesque flood meadows")>><<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 "Informative">>
<<set $Object1p3 to "Transportation-related">>
<<set $Object1p4 to "Dangerous">>
<<set $Object1p5 to "Odd">>
<<set $Object1p6 to "Valuable">>
<</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("A Papal Bull", "A splinter from the True Cross of the Risen Christ ", "The personalised prayer-book of a noble lady", "A wondrously illuminated Bible", "The finger bones of a martyr", "A plain wooden rosary")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p2">><<set $Object2 to either("A letter of Excommunication from the Holy Roman Church", "The gossip of the Master of the Duke's Bedchamber", "The signed terms of a secret military alliance", "Letters of love that make mention of unnatural longings", "The transcript of the last confession of the Archbishop of Ravenna ", "The testimony of the filthiest of whores")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p3">><<set $Object2 to either("An exotic Eastern sedan chair", "A great metal flying machine, a most wondrous contraption! ", "A lumbering peasant wagon", "An ornate carriage", "A spirited Arabian palfrey", "A richly outfitted river barge")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p4">><<set $Object2 to either("A herd of pigs with a taste for meat", "A garrotte greased with human fat", "A paid assassin from faraway Arabia, dusky of skin and cruel of mien ", "A phial of a “most cruel and agonising” poison", "A deep pit filled with sharp stakes and lime", "A misericorde")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p5">><<set $Object2 to either("A choir of castrati", "Wondrous plans for a great metal flying machine", "A freakish cripple reputedly from the Kingdom of Prestor John ", "The Satanic journals of a heretic alchemist", "A cockerel with the face of the Madonna visible in the feathers ", "A bloated and stinking corpse hauled from the river")>><<else>><</if>>
<<if $Object1 is "$Object1p6">><<set $Object2 to either("A richly illuminated book of Byzantine pornography", "An extant copy of Aristotle's Second Book of Poetics", "A hermaphrodite courtesan, skilled in many forms of erotic pleasure ", "One half of a treasure map", "A savage lion in a gilded cage", "A fabulous necklace bedecked with rubies “fat as hens eggs”")>><<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]]