Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre

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That taste has something of ammonia about it. But not only ammonia.

[At 3 or higher, this will give access to Penstock's Wicket at certain times of year.]

[Lacre sometimes falls at Christmas.]

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LevelsEdit

• 1: Neath-snow - or is it 'lacre'?
• 2: Lacre can poison, intoxicate or even transform...
• 3: Why does the lacre accumulate at Christmas?
• 4: Why has there been so much lacre recently?
• 5: Is lacre touched by the Correspondence?
• 6: What draws the lacre up from its reservoirs?
• 7: Lacre. Is it what happens when the Bazaar weeps?
• 8: Lacre. What memories are inscribed in its frozen core?
• 9: Lacre. What longing does it embody? What urge to alteration?
• 10: What fills the lacrimal founts?
• 11: What stirs the lacred waters?
• 12: What walks in crimson guise?
• 13: What is fashioned with lacre?
• 14: What use have the Masters for lacre? ...is it the Masters themselves?
• 15: Where are past years? under the ground?
• 16: What would it mean, to drown in lacre? Who would hold you beneath its surface? 
• 17: 'Sunt lacrimae rerum et astra mortalia tangunt.' A hopeful incantation in a buried temple.
• 18: Dreams are such stuff as this is made on.
• 19: Cities can be drowned in dreams.
• 20: Stone-Pigs cannot be drowned in lacre. They only slumber.
• 21: There is a sunless sea. What other seas remain below?
• 22: There is always one who keeps the wicket-gate.
• 23: Why does the Bazaar reshape London? Where do the channels flow?
• 24+: At the loneliest of seasons, the lacre overflows.

Level Change DescriptionsEdit

• 1: Neath-snow - or is it 'lacre'?
• 2: Neath-snow - which some call 'lacre' - can poison, intoxicate or even transform...
• 3: Why does the lacre accumulate at Christmas?
• 4: Why has there been so much lacre recently?
• 5: Is lacre touched by the Correspondence?
• 6: What draws the lacre up from its reservoirs?
• 7: Lacre. Is it what happens when the Bazaar weeps?
• 8: Lacre. What memories are inscribed in its frozen core?
• 9: Lacre. What longing does it embody? What urge to alteration?
• 10: What fills the lacrimal founts?
• 11:
• 12:
• 13: What is fashioned with lacre?