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 ==== Act I ====
-It is Venice in the 1890s. The mercantile markets are in disarray: there are brigands on the Silk Road, pirates around the Barbary Coast, and the arrival of venal bankers from the New World is threatening the profitability of the Venetian families. We are in the court of the largest, led by Queen [[Provocatoria Presuntuosa|Provocatoria]], a minor Venetian noble and head of the Presuntuosa family
+It is Venice in the 1890s. A [[Crisp-packet blowing across St Mark’s square|crisp packet]] blows across St Mark’s Square. Complicatio and Regolamento hurry to the reception room of the Presuntuosa family having been summonsed by its head, [[Provocatoria Presuntuosa|Provocatoria]], a minor Venetian noble.
+{{Dkt complicatio introduction}}
+The mercantile markets are in disarray: there are brigands on the Silk Road, pirates around the Barbary Coast, and the arrival of venal bankers from the New World is threatening the profitability of the Venetian families.
 Following an embarrassing upset with the firm’s major client, Archewellgos, the Queen calls in her head banker, Infernalio.