On the Right Track decree_events.1
The excellent state of our road networks has attracted engineers from all over our nation that now want to work with us in various interesting ways.
"Smooth asphalt, as shining as the surface of a steel-like lagoon, calm. The smell of car smoke, rubber, nature tamed by progress... we live to make the distances shorter! If you hire any of the engineers who graduated from our prestigious university in …, I assure you, my dear friend, that nothing—nothing!—will ever stand in your way... or in the way of your car!"
The Gray Days decree_events.2
Better road networks have led to an increase in the …'s traffic, followed by a consequential increase in pollution.
"In the grim times of the post-industrial age, darkness persists. Night becomes lighter than day, shining with street lights, well-illuminated middle class accommodations, bonfires lit in the less favored districts. But the days... days have lost the endless brilliance of the sun, eternally uninterrupted until just now. Smoke rises not only from factories, but the fast wind of the traffic also rises gray skies above people's coughs."
From the Ground Up decree_events.3
A lowborn man has risen as the popular leader of the …, with some not so pleased by such social mobility.
"At first he was living with his poor widowed mother, then with his terrible uncle, then they both died, it was said, and he became an orphan and fled the state. Then he was seen as a wine merchant, as young as he was, and some say he tried to become a lawman of some kind. Then he tried writing, from which he has been moderately successful, and now... now here you see it, leader of the …, finally at peace."
From the Heart of the Sea decree_events.4
A new admiral has presented himself at the ports of …, cheerfully acclaimed by his peers. However, the nephew of … has also postulated that he has a most profound interest in the same title.
"There are stories, if one pays attention, that sound so impossible that they should belong in a novel. There was a kid, the sailors say, that started his life in a whaler, and was one of the eight men who managed to return from a terrible, terrible trip. For years, no one knew where he was, he wouldn't talk, refused to look a man in the eye. He then served in six different whalers and brought them all home safe and sound."
Night at the Opera decree_events.5
A commission has been sent to the prestigious … of … to get one of their finest composers to write a national opera that captures the grandeur of ….
"Even the harshest critics won't be able to find a single flaw in the harmony, the scale, the rhythm of my opera magna, … …. A tale about love, death, immortal topics that pertain … legends, their heroes will be forever remembered thanks to these magnificent arias!"
Music to My Ears decree_events.6
A well acclaimed troupe of wandering artists has arrived at …, followed by hundreds of requests about our generous government funding one of their concerts.
"Their lyrics... no, you wouldn't understand it, only the saddest and deepest souls are able to dive into their hearts, wide open before us through those piano notes... Their songs talk about solitude, incomprehension, the lack of a serene place to retreat to... They truly capture the sorrows of a teenage soul, how would you understand it?"
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