Cumaean Canal Staging Area

Cumaean Canal Staging Area
Cumaean Canal Staging Area (Map)
Cumaean Canal Staging Area (Gazetteer)
Located in	Cumaean Canal
Ports	Giannotti Harbour
Shops	Harbour Provisioners
Shipyard	No
Data ID	153742

The Cumaean Canal Staging Area, located south of Fallen London in the Cumaean Canal, is the only passage between the darkness of the Unterzee and the sunlight of The Surface.

Port description

Here, the dark waters run down from the surface, from a brighter sea...

Port interactions

Port description

The Canal ascends, through locks and gates and shadowed turns, to the sunlight of the Surface.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Travel to the Surface The Sun is dangerous to Neath-dwellers like your crew, but the Surface has its temptations.	22 x Fuel 2 x Supplies Menaces: Yearning, Burning < 200	The coils of the Earth The engineers of the Canal took advantage of existing caves and passages where they could. In ancient times. this was a passage to the Underworld, they say. But still, the labour must have been staggering. The story goes that the Masters of the Bazaar lent their arts and allies to the task, but the Surface nations play down the fact. Certainly, some of the tunnels look blasted or tunneled, others look... dissolved? "Stone pigs," a stoker whispers. "Stone pigs." -1 x Supplies -10 x Fuel -25 x Terror Something Awaits You = 1 to 100 +1 x Menaces: Yearning, Burning Go to Avernus	Game note: Ensure you're well-stocked with Supplies and Fuel, or you may never return.
Rise and be lost	Menaces: Yearning, Burning ≥ 200	A golden death Crew = 0	This will kill you. Don't do this.
Listen for Surface gossip The ships of the Surface linger here: this is their life-line to a warmer place.	Something Awaits You ≥ 1	A sorry end A card game ends badly when one Surface sailor knifes another for all the usual reasons. The other players scrabble from the coins that spill from her pockets, but you snatch up a scrap of paper they overlook. Curious markings; dates, times, code-names. Spy's work? +1 x Moves in the Great Game That's all for now
		Rare event (50%)
		Daylight This would be a prime spot for a pub or wine-shop, but the interests of the Echo Bazaar, and the laws of London, prevent it. They don't like competition. Still, there are temporary half-legal hostelries in long-moored ships. Here you trade stories with suntanned Surface sailors - stories of Paris and Batavia, the Lost Fires and the Final Isles... +1 x Vision of the Surface That's all for now
Gather information for a Port Report Many ships pass this way, but perhaps you'll pick up something they missed.	0 x A Perfunctory Port Report: the Cumaean Canal	Business as usual The gates open and shut. The locks remain free from sabotage. If anywhere besides London is safe in all the Unterzee, it's here. The Surface nations have an interest in keeping the way open. +1 x A Perfunctory Port Report: the Cumaean Canal	Bring the Port Report to The Admiralty Survey Office at London for +5 x Echo.
Fulfill your Admiralty Commission	Objective: an Admiralty Commission = 11	In the shadow of the Gates +1 x Strategic Information Objective: an Admiralty Commission is Inactive
Put a blemmigan ashore	1 x Docile Blemmigan	No soil, no rot
A Gift for the Pirate-King	Objective: Seeking a Gift for the Pirate-King = 1 ( You are seeking a gift for the Pirate-King ) Veils challenge (117 for 100%) A Gift for the Pirate-King = 0	Failed event
		Still water +1 x Menaces: Suspicion -1 x Crew +10 x Terror
		Successful event
		Guest rights A Gift for the Pirate-King = 1 +1 x Menaces: Suspicion +5 x Terror Objective: Seeking a Gift for the Pirate-King = 2 ( You have a Surface sailor imprisoned below-decks )
Assist the Gnomic Gallivant in an enterprise of dubious legality "A riddle: there are ten individuals in a room, one of whom is an ancient tyrant. How can you distinguish him? Answer: burglarise a private library for a picture of him beforehand."	Ruby Writing ≥ 1 and ≤ 4 Information from the Cumaean Canal ≤ 0	Knowing the enemy As dinner bells sound throughout the port, you carry a ladder to one of the long-moored, half-legal ship hostels. You prop the ladder to the porthole of what the Gallivant assures you is the cabin of a French diplomat. He ascends swiftly, leaving you to carry the ladder away. Half an hour later, the Gallivant is back on your deck. He polishes his ruby cuffs. "I have seen the face of eternity printed in ink. It was a terrible face." +1 x Ruby Writing ( Ready to visit the chess tournament in Port Cecil.) Information from the Cumaean Canal = 1 ( The Gnomic Gallivant now knows his target's face.)