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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 16h

Colours of a storm #Shetland

two young boys standing in front of turquoise wavy sea

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 16h

🧵 One of the greatest Irish artworks is a stained glass window by the great Harry Clarke (1889-1931). The window is a depiction of a poem by Keats called The Eve of St Agnes. It was completed in 1924. The beauty of the piece if that all the elements - the characters work together visually [1]

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Arachnid Press @arachnidpress.bsky.social · 22h

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in central Scotland and the far north-west. Balnakeil Church is visited by the central character. Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-thr/ind...

The image shows a corner view of a ruined T-shape church whose walls are still standing but which is roofless. The long wall on its left is entirely covered in ivy while other walls are more visible. There are gravestones in the foreground set amongst rough grass. The sea can be glimpsed on the right. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the top right corner.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 2 of #31DaysOfGraves - Urn Scotland's kirkyards are filled with beautifully carved monumental stone urns, often draped with a shroud like this example in Cockpen & Carrington Churchyard in Midlothian. For Victorians, they represented the human body, a fragile temporary vessel for the soul.

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Scottish Beach Project @scottishbeach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A beautiful day in the north west Highlands yesterday, taking the beach count beyond 320 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Loch an Loin and Glasnock yesterday morning.

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Ken Lussey @kenlussey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller that moves from the Highlands of Scotland to Malta. The Station Hotel in Kyle of Lochalsh, now the Lochalsh Hotel, has a role in the story. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/eoh/index.html

This modern image shows the Lochalsh Hotel in Kyle of Lochalsh as a large white-painted building in the upper right of the frame with its name on the front, facing left, and on the near end of the hotel. In the foreground is the old ferry slipway with stone walls up to the hotel car park and front lawn. In the background is the arc of the Skye Bridge with, distantly beyond it, the hazy mountains of Skye. The sky is light blue. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Flying towards Beinn Bhan yesterday. (Probably worth clicking through to see more detailed views). A nice quiet beach on that loch, if you fancy a very long trek!

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p

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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku

A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.

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Arachnid Press @arachnidpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can somewhere be loved to death? ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is a fast-paced new murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. Kilmuir on the Black Isle has a role to play in the early part of the story. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-bos/ind...

Kilmuir on the Black Isle. The image shows a linear village curving round to the right from the near left to the distant right. White cottages are fronted by a road and a grassy area that drops over rocks to a stony beach in the foreground and the sea. The ground rises behind the cottages and is covered in trees. The sky is blue and the scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is shown in the bottom left corner.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An Grianan from Fasnacloich, Glen Creran #Scotland #Invercreran #Appin #Argyll www.damianshields.com

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Ken Lussey @kenlussey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland, mainly in Orkney, during WW2. Stromness has changed since 1942 but would still be recognisable to the book's characters. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple: www.kenlussey.com/blork/index....

This modern image shows Stromness built on rising ground beyond its harbour, with fishing boats moored in the foreground and buildings on the hillside in the background. The scene is in bright sunlight. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the top right corner.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish military history. The Duke of Wellington, finally tired once and for all of tourists asking him directions to the Castle - despite the fact you it's clearly visible *RIGHT OVER THERE* - instead points the other way and sends them to Leith

Duke of Wellington statue in Edinburgh view from behind so that Nosey appears to be pointing left, i.e. in direction of Leith

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another in my series of libraries Library of Congress, Washington, DC #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Library of Congress, Washington, DC - large spacious foyer, with white marble staircase leading up to columned second level, Beaux-Arts design, bronze statue of woman holding light fixture like a torch

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Arachnid Press @arachnidpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and across Scotland - including Kyle of Lochalsh station - during World War Two. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-has/ind...

This modern image shows Kyle of Lochalsh railway station. There are tracks in the foreground leading to the right and the station is made of wood with a canopy and a slate roof. There’s a glimpse of a loch in the background and beyond it is a wooded hillside. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Tarot Reader Girl - Optical Illusion Skull“ by Olga Beliaeva

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing! Here's me and the wonderful Gill Khosla, braving the elements at the #CrawickMultiverse! 🤗. Well worth a visit. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭 ℹ️: www.crawickmultiverse.co.uk

Catherine standing at the Crawick Multiverse sign looking very damp but delighted with life. A rainbow is in the background.

Catherine living her best life, absolutely drenched, with a ring of cairns on top of a hill behind her. (That is a landscape representation of Andromeda)

Catherine and Gill, the dark grey raining sky behind hime. Stones are jutting up out of the landscaped grass. (This was part of the colliding galaxies sculpture)

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Ken Lussey @kenlussey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can somewhere be loved to death? ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is a fast-paced new murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. The Kylesku Bridge appears in the story as well as on the cover. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/bos/index.html

The image shows a high-level view down onto the Kylesku Bridge from above its north end. The roadway comes into the bottom left of the frame and curves left and then right as it is carried over a stretch of water on angled supports. There is a loch in the upper left of the frame and the rough ground beyond the loch and bridge blends into rocky hills in the distance. The viewer is looking into the sun. The front cover of ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Opened #OTD in 1831, Scotland's first passenger railway, the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway. The line was originally run as a goods service, funded by Charles Tennant & Co manufacturers, with horse-drawn coal trucks operating on the 4ft 6in wide Scotch Gauge line. Pic: David Octavius Hill

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Rich Welsh @rdwglass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As part of our Glass residency we offer our artists an introduction to stained glass painting, and luckily five minutes from the studio we can show how some of the best artists did it! at Glasgow Cathedral and St Mungo Museum of Religious Life & Art #stainedglass #glasgow #scotland

Saint mungo religious museum glasgow stained glass tour

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Arachnid Press @arachnidpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland. The magnificent beach at Oldshoremore serves as a backdrop to the story. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-atw/ind...

The beach at Oldshoremore. The image shows an extensive length of beach facing to the left out to sea. It has light-coloured sand and is backed by dunes. There is marram grass at the foot of the frame and a headland sweeps to the left beyond the beach, ending in an island. The sea is rough and there are two tiny figures walling along the beach. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's designed to do this, but here's the dam at Loch Coire nan Arr being breached this morning, after heavy overnight rain. For reference, how it usually looks in a typical dry Spring.

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” ― Virginia Woolf writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ten years ago today I was in the High Sierra in California on the fourth day of one of my favourite walks, Yosemite Valley to Death Valley. It was very hot and very beautiful. #hiking

A landscape with trees and rocky mountains under a blue sky.

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Ken Lussey @kenlussey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. The Castle of Old Wick in Caithness is visited as the hunt for a killer gathers pace. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/ttw/index.html

The image shows a view along a fenced path in the bottom right of the frame. It leads to a square roofless stone structure with an uneven wall top near the middle of the frame. To the left of the path the ground drops down steep grassy slopes to cliffs and there is an inlet of the sea with rough water in the bottom left of the frame, with rocks to its left. There is open sea in the background and the scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the top right corner.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The south face of Beinn Bhan.

A break in the cloud on a green hilly landscape.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Smile, it’s Friday! 😃 Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years! Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a human figure roughly carved from dark brown oak wood during the Mesolithic period about 5,400-5,300 BC. It is 12.5 cm tall with a long body with two finger-shaped indents on the right hand side (left in my photo), suggesting it was made to be held in the hand. The stylized head has deeply carved eyes, nose, and open mouth. The triangular shape of the mouth makes it look as if the figure is smiling, leading to its description as ‘The oldest smile in the world’. It is displayed against a black display case background at Landesmuseum Halle in Germany where the figure is currently on loan for the ‘Shamaness’ exhibition. It is part of the permanent collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Netherlands. It was found in a layer of peat in 1966 during the construction of a dock at Willemstad, North Brabant, Netherlands.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This old wall on the banks of the Clyde in the East End of Glasgow might not look like much, but it's got a great story behind it, and its one that still has an impact to this day. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #harviesdyke #publicrightofway

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Arachnid Press @arachnidpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can somewhere be loved to death? ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is a fast-paced new murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. The central characters visit Chanonry Point to watch dolphins at the end of the book. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-bos/ind...

The image shows a group of people standing on a beach whose edge runs across the foot of the frame, with the sea beyond. Most have their backs to the viewer. There’s a couple on the right, with a man standing to their left looking through a camera mounted on a tripod, then, beyond a gap, a woman carrying a child with two more small children standing in front of her. Everyone except the smallest child is looking at the dorsal fin of a dolphin which can be seen a little offshore. The sea is blue and in the distance there’s a line of land. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another in my series of libraries Jose Vasconcelos Library, Mexico (complete with suspended bookshelves!) #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Jose Vasconcelos Library, Mexico - entrance atrium with suspended bookshelves hanging from overhead structure, suspended whale skeleton sculpture

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Knud Baade (Norwegian, 1808–1879) "A Norwegian Fjord by Moonlight", 1855. Oil on Canvas, 159.5 × 132 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Arachnid Press @arachnidpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Cairnryan in Galloway plays an important part as the search for a spy builds towards its conclusion. Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

This modern image shows part of Cairnryan in Galloway. A road crosses the frame from the bottom left corner to the lower right. On its near side is a grassy area that fills the bottom right of the frame. On the far side of the road is a line of houses and cottages mainly finished in white, with some houses on a higher level at the near end. Behind the buildings is a wooded hillside. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the weirdest episodes in Glasgow's history began 72 years ago today. On the 23rd of September 1954, rumours began circulating amongst local school children in the Gorbals area of the city that a seven foot tall vampire with iron teeth had kidnapped and eaten two local boys. Cont./ #glasgow

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Nos 114-28 Howard St, Glasgow, 1968. These warehouses were both built in 1903, No 114 for Schrader, Mitchell & Weir, leather merchants, to designs by Andrew Balfour, architect, and No 118 for William Cotterill, glass merchant. The latter was designed by Beattie & Morton, architects. 📷 John Hume

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Discover Cullen @discovercullen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our beautiful beach

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Arachnid Press @arachnidpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. A deadly manhunt in the book reaches its climax on a stormy day in Mallaig. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.arachnid.scot/book-dol/ind...

The image shows a view from a pier across a busy harbour towards the village of Mallaig. Small fishing boats are moored up to three abreast and there is a boatyard with slipways beyond them, with boats being repaired and a large shed in the upper left of the frame. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top left corner.

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looking forward to teaching Austen’s Teenage Writings for the first time this afternoon - and delighted to have a piece on Austen’s Scottish female contemporaries published in @uk.theconversation.com this morning! theconversation.com/the-two-scot... @uccresearch.bsky.social

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The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen

They are practically unknown today ,but Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton gave Jane Austen a run for her money.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The auditorium of the Citizens Theatre on the Southside of Glasgow, with one of its distinctive horseshoe-shaped balconies. Built as Her Majesty's Theatre in 1878, the auditorium was designed by Archibald Campbell Douglas. Cont./ #glasgow #citizenstheatre #theatre #architecture

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

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Ken Lussey @kenlussey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can somewhere be loved to death? ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is a fast-paced new murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. Ullapool has a background role in the story as it moves towards its dramatic climax. Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/bos/index.html

The image shows a view along a street. On the left, a grassy slope runs down to a shoreline, though beyond it are parking bays on that side of the road. A streetlamp in the centre of the frame carries a 20 sign. In the upper right of the frame is a row of brightly sunlit two-storey mainly white buildings which crowd in on that side of the road. The water in the left side of the frame is dark blue, reflecting the sky and on the far side of the water is a rough hillside. The front cover of ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now, for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.” - Vincent Van Gogh

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Gentlemen! Are you in want of a wife? Allow our algorithm to assist!

Image: a series of yes/no questions for that lead to different outcomes.

Questions include “are you rich?”, “are you dashing?”, “are you a rake” and “are you a vicar?”

Outcomes include “You win the most beautiful daughter of the richest man in the county!”, “You remain a bachelor”, “You marry a dowdy cousin” and “You rescue a 23-year-old from Spinsterhood”.

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