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Old 09-01-2022, 12:23 PM   #35
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Default Re: 2022 Pyramid Scheme?

Well, I guess I can now release the flavour fiction that was cut from "Nuova Città del Sole" for reasons of wordcount:
The train had been crossing the plains for days, with the views to all sides largely featureless for all that time, but now the terrain was rising into foothills, and high mountains were visible on the horizon ahead, with one dual peak the obvious terminus of the arrow-straight track. Overhead, a small airship paced the train, its steam engines howling as it struggled to keep up.
There was an open observation deck atop one carriage, and this morning, two passengers were standing there. One, a lady in austere, presentable dress, was staring fixedly ahead through a pair of opera glasses, while the other, a gentleman in casually fashionable garb, leant against the railing and glanced at the airship.
“I imagine that you wish we could’ve flown in, Miss Singleton” he remarked.
The woman spared him a glance. “Because airships are the thing?” she replied. “I do not have your obsession with vehicles, Lieutenant; I understand the technology well enough, and if I wish to examine the famed Nuova Città airship docks, I can do so very well from the ground.”
The man smiled. “By all accounts, you’ll want an escort if y’do,” he commented. “Place is a positive den of iniquity, I’m told.”
Miss Singleton frowned. “Mere ruffians and pirates can be handled simply enough,” she said. “It is the founders and plutocrats of the Città del Sole who should concern us.”
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