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Medium

The former overseers of Essilk #3 stood at this very window, studying the movements of the dye workers, looking for any signs of disturbance.

Trivial

Hauzmann wanted a poetry magazine from this place, didn't he?

Challenging

You may remember him from such court cases as 'CAMPF VS. SANTOS ELECTRONICS LLC' and 'CAMPF VS. STATE MARRIAGE LICENSING BOARD.'

Challenging

Doesn't seem familiar.

Formidable

'Blood Type: Hecatomb' is the book you want.

Trivial

Reno -- the city's pre-eminent capitalist and head of Renotel, of the dolphin-themed payphones.

Medium

After her work attracted the attention of the Ministry of Mass Culture, Barcide was forced to flee for the relative protection of the Eastern Republics.

Formidable

You're looking for blood-stained something... deep oracles...

Medium

A hole in the collective memory that won't be noticed at first... but it'll be felt, sooner or later.

Medium

You've seen that name before, browsing at the newsstand while Tempo badgered and bartered over cigarettes.

Trivial

The heartless man wanted a poetry magazine from this place, didn't he?

Trivial

The old spy's poetry magazine should be somewhere in that mess.

Challenging

You've seen yourself like this before.

Trivial

EMTERR, a.k.a. L'Empire sans Territoire, a.k.a. 'The Bank'. Equal parts global development fund and spy service. Linchpin of the Developed World.

Easy

Oskar Metamoto... the Party Alley casualty.

Easy

May be time to make a visit to the Party Alley tailor.

Medium

EMTERR's personnel department. Infamous for their hands-on approach to quarterly check-ins.

Legendary

He just permanently forgot his first handjob from a boy. They were fourteen, watching foreign movies in the dark. They never looked each other in the eye again.

Easy

Her sponsor... the Civilisation Trust. The blank space there gnaws away at you.

Easy

You recognise him.

Trivial

The Dream of Rustam. For eighty years, there were no kings or bosses -- only open councils, grain cooperatives, and radio poets. As the Developed World spread, the Dream cracked.

Trivial

Carabineros: Portofiro's sanctioned police investigators. They report directly to the Prefectura and deal in actual crime -- murder, grand larceny, rape.

Easy

You recall Vespar speaking of his time in the Guardia Municipal. A decade of low-stake days.

Medium

Tritos 91. A highly-inebriated Operant CASCADE (schnapps count: ??) is pulled over for 'reckless tuk-tuk driving'.

Medium

The details are hazy. It was some years ago, you were in the city for work, he pulled you over for something bad you'd done.

Trivial

Asset VIRTUE: confirmed ZEROED OUT.

Easy

A high ranking member of the military, sworn to protect the Rustamian head of state -- back when the Dream of Rustam still was a state.

Medium

At the Novessa Greenhouse, you and the other would-be operants were trained on steel. There's something comforting in the familiarity.

Medium

Professionally? Low-triple digits, by the time they put you in the Freezer.

Medium

'Nestorismo' -- Nestor's personal brand of politics. It meant whatever he meant at that moment.

Trivial

Even in this spectral form you recognise him -- Sweet Nestor, Portofiro's supreme leader.

Trivial

Even in this spectral form you recognise him -- Sweet Nestor, Portofiro's supreme leader from the years 28 to 80.

Easy

She laps from the same pool as Malen's father, who got himself kidnapped after hearing about the Phone that Makes People Disappear on this same show.

Easy

You remember a similar dark smear above the left eyehole of Recreación's mascot head -- the thing on your head right now.

Easy

Countless injuries were reported in the aftermath of the incident, and two fatalities confirmed.

Easy

You remember a similar dark smear above the left eyehole of Recreación's mascot head.

Medium

Part of the global Periphery, and not aligned with any of the major power blocs. It's estimated that about 20% of the world's telephone scams come from a single unmarked building on the edge of Tsun's Arc capital city.

Trivial

La Luz. Once a powerful empire, now reconstituted as a modern techno-fascist state, the rising military and cultural power of the day.

Easy

Being sent to organise among the lunar cadmium miners is a common punishment for political offenses in the People's Republics.

Easy

You know very little about the lunar cadmium mines and would prefer to keep it that way.

Easy

HOLOCENE would have loved this section. Cryptograms were his thing.

Easy

HOLOCENE would love this section. Cryptograms are his thing.

Challenging

In the Portofiran plushie scene, some of the knock off labels have become their own commodity, almost as sought after as the real deal.

Trivial

La Luz: Expansive techno-fascist state known for high quality electronics, pogroms, and pop music.

Medium

Sometimes they try. There was a rather notable broadcast during Nestor's second deposement where Portofiro's top radio host called for that exact thing.

Easy

The Raposeira -- Iron War Queen of the Luzian naval fleet.

Impossible

Medium

Sacrophobe coat -- the out of towner Kurt told you about.

Formidable

Psych. Evaluation #23 ('Childhood Fears') -- Subject CASCADE describes at length negative feelings associated with mother's personal study, which contained multiple graphic depictions of vintage whaling practices.

Formidable

Psych. Evaluation #11 ('Emotional Response to Targeted Stimuli') -- Subject CASCADE responds poorly when faced with critique from a simulated maternal figure. Session devolves into name-calling and personal insults.