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The exact nature of your occupation is immaterial to the city. The city only concerns itself with how you contribute to its vitality.

Do you produce goods for others to consume?

Do you hold essential knowledge?

Do you encourage denizens to meet and transact?

Do you exert a modicum of order over the denizens?

Then you do not just live in the city, you are part of it.

Apparatus, The Sustainer

Favored Attribute: Lore

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The city is a great machine, an intricate connection of cogs and wheels ever ticking through infinite calculations. But every machine, even the great ones, need occasional winding, lubricating, and de-bugging.

Play this if you want to…

• Have intimate knowledge of the city’s infrastructure
• Get wrapped up in municipal corruption

Clamor, The Dabbler

Favored Attribute: Lore

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The city is your laboratory, and you study everything that comes through it – a dilettante whose curiosity is matched only by your persistence.

Play this if you want to…

• Enjoy everything the city has to offer
• Revel in the mysteries of the city

Conduit, The Connector

Favored Attribute: Network

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The city is the greatest marketplace in the world for goods and information but without you, people wouldn’t find each other to make such exchanges.

Play this if you want to…*

• Witness fireworks as you introduce people to each other
• Get to know the denizens of the city

Crossroads, The Painkiller

Favored Attribute: Sway

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The city overwhelms its inhabitants and you offer them an escape, providing temporary confections, more permanent remedies to what ails them, or otherwise idle distractions.

Play this if you want to…

• Offer people respite from the stress of the city
• Use people’s vices to manipulate them

Foundry, The Producer

Favored Attribute: Environs

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Quote You contribute to the lifeblood of the city, producing goods and services for the use or benefit, enjoyment or satisfaction of others.

Play this if you want to…

• Focus on making, building, or crafting
• Appreciates the value of unique and well-crafted items

Pillar, The Enforcer

Favored Attribute: Sway

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The city is chaos, a swarming mass without form or direction, unless you command them and direct them.

Play this if you want to…

• Act tough and intimidate others
• Enforce order of one form or another

Remnant, The Discards

Favored Attribute: Environs

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If the city is a giant living thing then you are its waste – its sweat, its tears, and its ordure. You are a byproduct of its greatest efforts, but also essential to its ongoing health.

Play this if you want to…

• Sit outside the norms and conventions of the city
• Operate in the city’s nether reaches and bowels

Skyline, The Watcher

Favored Attribute: Network

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The city is a great chessboard, an ever-shifting flow of moves and counter-moves: stratagem, maneuvers, and gambits. It would be easy to lose track of everything going on, but not for you.

Play this if you want to…

• Use the connections between people to your advantage
• Struggle between keeping an eye on the city and getting caught up in it

Vault, The Patron

Favored Attribute: Network

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The city hums with activity, but without your patronage, it would come to a screeching halt.

Play this if you want to…

• Influence others by throwing money around
• Prove your value beyond your resources or wealth

Wellspring, The Maven

Favored Attribute: Lore

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The city is a vast library of knowledge, and a small piece of it is yours, but yours alone.

Play this if you want to…

• Use your knowledge to impress and get ahead
• Run in the circles of the city’s intelligentsia