Talk:The Centre of Curiosity/@comment-2601:204:2:2246:519F:ECAA:A040:8CA4-20180805020420

If you choose the option "different tune"

''It was a mere musical endeavour – you know how Her Enduring Majesty is about noise. The crowd is undeterred. Between bone rattling coughs, they demand, if not the full story, then at least some entertainment. You offer to improvise them a song; their assent is eager.''

''The lyrics are rushed, though you're proud of a couplet in the verse. The tune is an elaboration on a motif from the overture, and the improvisation adds a liveliness it lacked. Several Tomb-Colonists dance; a few accompany you on instruments passed up from the cargo hold. Others use the din to slip into semi-private quarters, to share indiscreet sighs. By the time your debauched rhapsody has wound down, one of the Tomb-Colonists has promised to make it notorious in every bawdy house from Venderbight to Carnelian.''

''Port Carnelian! It is only a matter of time before you zail there as Governor. Just have to put this brief exile behind you, then nothing will hold you back.''