Fable 3 1113 Trainer Exclusive Access
Rumors spread that those trained by 1113 returned changed. Some became saviors of districts, turning filthy canals into gardens with the precision of a callused hand. Others rose to palaces and lost themselves in silk and marble; some, the ones who traded away too many small truths, woke one morning to find they could not remember the name of the person they’d loved most.
Evangeline weighed the ledger in her pocket: enough coin for two lessons, perhaps three if she gambled. The first phantom—an aristocrat’s shadow—taught her how to bend a crowd with a sentence. She walked from the Theatre like royalty, and for a moment the city bowed. Her memory of home’s crooked fence softened; the taste of porridge was less sharp. She told herself it was a small trade.
Evangeline found him in a backroom of the Travelling Theatre, where puppeteers traded secrets and discarded hopes. The Trainer stood at a small wooden table, proffering a deck of carved ivory cards. Each card hummed faintly, and when Evangeline touched one, she tasted rain on iron and felt the tug of years she hadn’t lived. “Choose a lesson,” the Trainer said, its voice the pleasant dissonance of clockwork and memory. “One trade. One cost.” fable 3 1113 trainer exclusive
In Albion, bargains were made every day. Some bought titles, some bought trinkets, and some, for the price of a memory, bought the means to change others’ lives. The 1113 Trainer remained a whisper in the city’s underbelly—exclusive, costly, and honest. And somewhere between the palace’s marble and the theatre’s straw-strewn floor, Evangeline walked on with hands that knew how to heal and a heart missing a small, sun-warmed piece of its history—yet fuller, too, for the lives she mended along the way.
They called him 1113, though he answered to nothing more human than a soft metallic chime. Word had swept through Albion’s alleyways and gilded halls: an exclusive trainer had arrived — a thing of copper joints and glass eyes, made in the private forges beneath Brightmarket by an inventor who’d once whispered with the monarch himself. The wealthy left roses at its feet; the desperate left coins they couldn’t afford. Few saw its first lesson. Rumors spread that those trained by 1113 returned changed
She had rebelled from the dukes’ estates for less than glory: a promise to her brother, a patient dying in a cottage miles from the capital. The Trainer’s lessons were precise—tactics, speech, deceit, courage—each taught by a conjured phantom that mirrored and magnified her performance. In one hour, she could learn to talk like a lord; in a day, to fence like a palace guard. But every skill took a notch from something else: a memory of a mother’s lullaby dimmed, a single laugh erased, a freckle vanished from her hand. The Trainer did not lie. “Exclusivity is price-based,” it chimed. “One may buy the world, but not the self wholly.”
Days later, she returned. The Trainer offered a third card: the art of mercy under pressure—how to decide between one life and many and not be crushed by the choice. The lesson would cost the sound of rain on a particular summer night, the very night she’d run into the harbor to steal bread for her brother. Evangeline hesitated, then placed the coin. The phantom pressed her until her hands shook, until she saw futures and chose with the surgeon’s calm. When she left, her brother’s face remained, but the harbor’s scream of gulls on that hot evening had gone silent in her mind. Evangeline weighed the ledger in her pocket: enough
Evangeline closed her hand over a small scrap of paper she’d kept at the start: a child's drawing of a crooked fence. The edges were frayed, the crayon faded, but when she held it she felt a pinprick of something like home. The Trainer’s glass eyes reflected the scrap and, for a moment, a flicker of something like pity passed through the gears.










Hi Ben,
Great article and a very comprehensive provisioning guide! Things are moving very fast at snom and the snom 7xx devices (except currently the 715) are now supplied automatically as “Lync ready” and can be easily provisioned straight out of the box. A simple command of text into the Lync Powershell and voila!
You can find all the details here:
http://provisioning.snom.com/OCS/BETA/2012-05-09 Native Software Update information TK_JG.pdf
Regards,
Jason
Link above was broken:
http://provisioning.snom.com/OCS/BETA/2012-05-09%20Native%20Software%20Update%20information%20TK_JG.pdf
Hi Jason, Thanks. It’s good to hear that’s an option, this post was based off a mini customer deployment we had a few months ago…
(Also can’t wait to test out the upcoming BToE implementation)
Ben
Hi Ben,
just stumbled across your great article. Please note the guide still available (now) here:
http://downloads.snom.com/snomuc/documentation/2012-02-06_Update-Guide-SIP-to-UC.pdf
is kind of superseded by the fact that for about 2-3 years the carton box FW image (still standard SIP) supports the UC edition documented MS hardcoded ucupdates-r2 record:
“not registered”: In this state the device uses the static DNS A record ucupdates-r2. as described in TechNet “Updating Devices” under: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg412864.aspx.
In short: zero-touch with DNS alias or A record is possible. SIP FW will not register but ask for the CAB upload based UC FW and auto-pull it if approved (but only if device was never registered: fresh from box or f-reset).
btw: the SIP to UC guide was made as temporally workaround, but I guess the XML templates still provide a good start line.
Also kind of superseded with Lync Inband Support for Snom settings:
http://www.myskypelab.com/2014/07/lync-snom-configuration-manager.html
http://www.myskypelab.com/2014/08/lync-snom-phone-manager.html
another great tool – powershell on steroids with Snom UC & SIP: http://realtimeuc.com/2014/09/invoke-snomcontrol/
(a must see !)
Please dont mind if I was a bit advertising.
Thanks and greetings from Berlin, also to @Nat,
Jan
Fantastic article! Thanks for sharing. We’ll be transitioning our Snom 760s to provision from Lync shortly.
Are there any licensing concerns involved?
Thanks Susan,
From a licensing point of view you need to make sure you have the UC license for the SNOM phones and on the Lync side if you are doing Enterprise Voice need a Plus CAL for the user concerned…
Hope that helps?
Ben
Thanks Jan 🙂
Thanks for the licensing info. It helps a lot!