| Searing Enigma | |
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| Category | Curiosity |
| Type | Knowledge |
| Price | 1000 x Echo (Sell) at The University |
| Data ID | 111726 |
Searing Enigma is considered a Knowledge Curiosity item.
Item description[ | ]
"Mysteries are fire. Truth burns."
Obtaining[ | ]
Searing Enigma can be obtained in the following ways. Please note, this is far from a comprehensive list. Please check the full interactions below to see a complete list (there really are a LOT).
Story events[ | ]
| Story event name | Item location | Action name | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Festival of Flourishing | Visage | Shine a light on the bat-faced figure |
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| Shiftwork in the Dead Letter Office | Nuncio | Descend into the basement with flame |
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| Descend into the basement with sunlight | |||
| Descend into the basement with mirrors | |||
| The Wisp-Ways | Mangrove College | The Pillar of Riddles |
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| The Festival of Silk | Saviour's Rocks | The Emissary of Spiders |
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| At the Mansion of the Jewel-Turbaned Youth | Varchas | Invent a fanciful tale | Veils success:
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| Deliver the Sphinxstone | Grand Geode | Deliver (?) |
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Interactions[ | ]
| Item location | Action name | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Republic | Seek a Tittering Artificer's help to awaken the Seal |
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By following the Irrepressible Cannoneer's storyline. |
| Frostfound | Unveil a Judgement's Egg |
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In the final room of The Corridors of Frostfound |
| Wisdom | Ransom a Prisoner |
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In the Whom Have You Freed section |
| Nacreous Survivor | Invite it to dine with you | A jubilant dinner
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By following The Pulse of the Principles storyline |
| The Tree of Ages Uprooted | Learn | "A safe distance?"
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Available after killing the Tree Of Ages |
Farming tips[ | ]
- A captain may quickly trade for Searing Enigmas by buying Dread Surmise for 9 x Searing Enigma at House of Pleasures in the Iron Republic and selling it for 10 x Searing Enigma at Wind-Come-Calling in Irem. Needless to say one would need to have 9 Searing Enigmas beforehand.
- It is possible to 'buy' Searing Enigmas at Wind-Come-Calling in
Irem for 
1665 x Echo, by buying 
5 x Extraordinary Implication at 333 x Echo each and then trading them for a Searing Enigma. This is likely the most expedient way to gain Searing Enigmas and the most expensive. - The previous trade can also be done with only 525 x Echo, by buying 3 x Ambiguous Eolith from Mount Palmerston at 35 x Echo each or Anthe at 30 x Echo each and then trading them for a 1 x Extraordinary Implication in Chapel of Lights. Note that this requires Something Awaits You at the Chapel of Lights each time you trade 3 Ambiguous Elioths for an Extraordinary Implication, so it would be a very time-consuming way to earn a Searing Enigma.
- With a Zubmarine and A Page from 'The Neathbow': Gant, you can repeatedly obtain Star-Shells from Gant Pole by spending 1 x Foxfire Candles. Each Star-Shell can be sold for 2 x Extraordinary Implication at The Hunter's Cage in Whither. Since Whither, Palmerston (along with Anthe) and Chapel of Lights are always located near the northern edge of the map, and Gant Pole is always near the eastern edge, as well as Irem, it is possible to combine this route and the previous one to obtain a Searing Enigma in two turns for only 260 x Echo at worst and with an Extraordinary Implication to spare. Selling it to The Alarming Scholar for 250 x Echo will cover the price, especially if you bought the candles in in Khan's Heart instead of Fallen London. Alternatively, you can:
- Buy 12 x Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans in Khan's Heart, trade them for 1 x Bale of Parabola-Linen each in Irem and sell these in London.
- Kill lifebergs you encounter along the way and search for treasure. This has 50% chance to give you 2 to 3 x Outlandish Artefact, sold for 100 x Echo each to the Scholar.
- Buy 22 x Firkin of Prisoner's Honey in London to trade them for 1 x Carboy of Primordial Shrieks each in Gant Pole and then sell these at The Chelonate nearby.
- If Wrack and Scrimshander are placed conveniently, instead obtain the Prisoner's Honey by trading Supplies in Wrack, trade Primordial Shrieks for Mutersalt in Scrimshander and trade it for Scintillack in Anthe. This will yield whopping 50 x Echo of profit per unit of cargo, covering the Implications' price with just 5 units. And on any ship with more than 40 Hold, it is possible to buy Enigmas directly from Irem with ease, making any other ways of farming them obsolete.
- Buy
- With a Judgement's Egg and at least 50 Mirrors, one can brave the The Corridors of Frostfound, at the end of the journey, one can hatch The Egg for a Searing Enigma. Since Frostfound is extremely risky and detrimental to the character (one point in each stat, at least, needs to be sacrificed to gain passage to the ultimate chamber), it is hardly a good way to farm Enigmas.
- Well-armed captains could buy Mountain-Sherds in Adam's Way for 2000 x Echo each, and then summon, defeat, and loot Mt. Nomad. Each victory will grant a Captivating Treasure (worth 1000 x Echo by itself, and useful for making Heirlooms), a Mt Nomad's Heart, and +1 to Iron. One could then trade the Mt Nomads' Hearts in for a Searing Enigma each in Chelonate, resulting in an arguably decent trade of (roughly) +1 Iron and Enigma for 1000 Echoes + repair costs (take note that repair costs is more than just 100 gold. Depending on how far you are from your planned stop in London, needing repairs may mean having to skip other encounters). For comparison, you could kill a lorn fluke, sell its core covering 500 out of 1665 echo from Irem price, and gain 3 secrets in the process. This way you need extra 165 echo but get two extra secrets and take much less damage in the process.
- A somewhat similar, but even less reasonable idea would be using an Element of Dawn (bought for 50 supplies, 7 crew members, and a single piece of vital intelligence), to summon a Tree of Ages. After uprooting and examining the vessel, one is rewarded with a Searing Enigma and an Extraordinary Implication (worth 1/5 of the Enigma in Irem by itself). This, however, is neither easy nor cost efficient, but most importantly, it is not reasonably repeatable. Just the "cost to self" of an Element of Dawn is over 1.5k echo (Vital intelligence is worth 600, supplies 1000, crew around another 100, see the link for details), then there's all the hassle associated with purchasing it (lugging around 50 crates for the transaction), and there's dealing with the ugly itself. But the toughest nail in this method's coffin is !!!WARNING SPOILERS!!! going to surprise you in London after you do this enough times.
- DO note however than actually killing either of those two bosses the normal way IS a decent method of obtaining Searing Enigmas.
- For those with the access to the zubmarine though, the best method is probably killing dawn flukes. It requires a pages check (100 for 100% chance) and the creature WILL deal some damage before it goes down (decent ranged attack, about 30 HP per hit IIRC, has 500 HP and a ram attack for 80HP - engage with caution on corvette, don't engage on anything weaker than that), but it's by no means a boss and with good enough stats on a good enough ship doesn't pose any serious threat.
Usage[ | ]
Searing Enigma has the following uses:
- One is needed near the end of the Irrepressible Cannoneer storyline to obtain Memento Mori.
- One is needed to dine with the Carnelian Exile and open her storyline.
- Any amount can be sold to the Alarming Scholar at The University in London, for +1000 x Echo
- Note: Searing Enigma is one of the rarer items in the Neath, and many mid- to late-game stories specifically calls for one or even many of these; it's much better to sell off other items, or to just go hauling cargo if you're in dire need of cash.
- Note: Searing Enigma is one of the rarer items in the Neath, and many mid- to late-game stories specifically calls for one or even many of these; it's much better to sell off other items, or to just go
- Can be traded in for Dread Surmise (in stock amounts for 9 SE in Iron Republic, House of Pleasures, or one-shot at 7 SE at The Alarming Scholar in London, killing him/her); Searing Enigmas are the only way to obtain said item. Since it can be sold for 10 SE in Irem, it can be considered a good late-game trade route (both don't take cargo hold) - it's still a trip across the entire Zee, though.
- Can be traded for a Hesperidean Apple in Irem (1 x Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans is also required).
- Can be traded 1:1 for a Doomed Monster-Hunter in Codex (very pricey).
All Interactions[ | ]
Interactions in Brief[ | ]
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| Interaction | Action | Result Type | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Alarming Scholar | 'A Searing Enigma' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Alarming Scholar | 'A Searing Enigma' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The Alarming Scholar | 'A Dread Surmise' | Requirement | ≥ 7 |
| The Alarming Scholar | 'A Dread Surmise' | Default / Challenge Fail | -7 |
| The Alarming Scholar | 'A Dread Surmise' | Rare Event | -7 |
| Whither | 'Deliver the Fading Haruspex' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Chapel of Lights | 'Attend a service at the Chapel' | Success | +1 |
| Chapel of Lights | 'Attend a service at the Chapel' | Success | +1 |
| Chapel of Lights | 'Reject what you have learnt' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Chapel of Lights | 'Reject what you have learnt' | Success | -1 |
| Grand Geode | 'Deliver the Sphinxstone' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Iron Republic | 'Seek a Tittering Artificer's help to awaken the Seal' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Irem | 'The Riddle of Stones' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Irem | 'Voyage of the Snow Child' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Kingeater's Castle | 'Construct the Fulgent Impeller' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Kingeater's Castle | 'The Sixth Witness' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Wisdom | 'Exchange a Secret for a Prisoner' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Wisdom | 'Exchange a Secret for a Prisoner' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Receive an Embassy | 'An understanding with the Presbyterate' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Receive an Embassy | 'An understanding with the Presbyterate' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Salt's Song | '"The price might be an Enigma."' | Requirement | ≤ 0 |
| Salt's Song | '"There is no price."' | Requirement | ≤ 0 |
| Salt's Song | '"An Enigma will not suffice."' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Speak to the Doctor | 'A Long Talk: Cold Reality' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Speak to the Doctor | 'A Long Talk: Inner Emptiness' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Speak to the Doctor | 'A Long Talk: For London!' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Speak to the Carnelian Exile | 'Invite her to dine with you' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Speak to the Carnelian Exile | 'Invite her to dine with you' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Speak to the Carnelian Exile | 'Ask her to dine with you' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Speak to the Carnelian Exile | 'Ask her to dine with you' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Visit to the Smith's Emporium | 'Ask the smith to construct an assembly-housing for the Cannoneer's weapon' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Visit to the Smith's Emporium | 'Ask the smith to construct an assembly-housing for the Cannoneer's weapon' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Vienna | 'Ask the Bureau friend whether you had met before, long ago...' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Between You Two | 'Accept. Murder the Investigator' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Abbey Rock | 'Watch' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| At the Mansion of the Jewel-Turbaned Youth | 'Invent a fanciful tale' | Success | +1 |
| Departure in Darkness | '"You should go."' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Light of Mihir Shines Bright | 'You nod' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Isle of Codex | 'Acquire a Doomed Monster-Hunter' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Isle of Codex | 'Acquire a Doomed Monster-Hunter' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The Isle of Codex | 'Allow your Navigator to join the Mute Exiles' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Tree of Ages Uprooted | 'Learn' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Uttershroom | 'Consume the jarful of tether' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Wisp-Ways | 'The Pillar of Riddles' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Speak to your nacreous acquaintance | 'Invite it to dine with you' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Pulse of the Principles | 'Lose the match' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Festival of Silk | 'The Emissary of Spiders' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Venturer's Passage | 'Watch as he completes his scheme' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Venturer's Passage | 'Pass beyond with him' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Ritual's End | 'Set off a flare, allowing you to see everyone' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Ritual's End | 'Set off a flare, lighting this place up' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Ritual's End | 'Shine a light on the bat-faced figure' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Throne-Cyst | '"Your Complexity: I pray you, give me back my Campaigner."' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Throne-Cyst | '"Your Complexity: I pray you, give me back my Campaigner."' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The Throne-Cyst | '"Give me back my Magician."' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Throne-Cyst | '"Give me back my Magician."' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The Throne-Cyst | '"Give me back my Outcast."' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Throne-Cyst | '"Give me back my Outcast."' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The New Sequence | 'Progress?' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Carnelian Conspiracies | 'An offering to the Banded Prince' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Carnelian Conspiracies | 'An offering to the Banded Prince' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The Lost Treasure Hunter | 'Persuade him to give you his map' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Lost Treasure Hunter | 'Persuade him to give you his map' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The Fathomking's Answer | 'The Fathomking's Key' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Mirror-Marches | 'Rarest fruit' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Mirror-Marches | 'Rarest fruit' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Shiftwork in the Dead Letter Office | 'Descend into the basement with flame' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Shiftwork in the Dead Letter Office | 'Descend into the basement with sunlight' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Shiftwork in the Dead Letter Office | 'Descend into the basement with mirrors' | Success | +1 |
| Wisdom: whom have you freed? | 'Some Poor Soul' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Dark Room | 'Unveil a Judgements' Egg' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Dark Room | 'Eat' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Dark Room | 'Fumble in the darkness' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| The Dark Room | 'Fumble in the darkness' | Success | +1 |
| The Dark Room | 'Fumble in the darkness' | Rare Success | +1 |
| The Iridescence | 'Know yourself' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| The Iridescence | 'Know yourself' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| The Name-Which-Burns | 'The last letter: the East' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| An understanding with the Presbyterate | 'An ancient treaty' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Invitation to a Beheading | 'Flee' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Liturgy of Souls | 'Sing your part in the Liturgy' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Secrets Wrapped in Blood and Bone | 'Ask the Sixth Witness' Question' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Secrets Wrapped in Blood and Bone | 'Ask your own Question' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| You have defeated a Dawn Fluke | 'Fetch a piece of the fluke to study.' | Success | +1 |
| Exploring a wreck | 'Enter the captain's cabin ' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Discoveries in the Ivory Archives | 'The first skeleton of Scrimshander' | Default / Challenge Fail | + 2 - [q:128381] |
| The Writhing Gullet | 'Investigate a biological peculiarity' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
| Engineering the Downfall of Nidah | 'Defeat the Presbyter's armies: foster a popular uprising' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
| Engineering the Downfall of Nidah | 'Defeat the Presbyter's armies: foster a popular uprising' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
| Engineering the Downfall of Nidah | 'Breaching Nidah's walls: invest in experimental munitions research' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Interactions in Detail[ | ]
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| Story | Action | Required | Effect |
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| The Alarming Scholar | A Searing Enigma | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: -1 x Searing Enigma +1000 x Echo +[1-5] x Fragment +1 x Favours: Antiquarian |
| A Dread Surmise | Searing Enigma ≥ 7 |
Default: -7 x Searing Enigma +1 x Dread Surmise +1 x Doom: Scholar's Madness +15 x Terror +1 x Doom: Scholar's Madness -7 x Searing Enigma +1 x Dread Surmise +15 x Terror
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| Whither | Deliver the Fading Haruspex | Default:  Gant Pole: The Fading Haruspex = 0 +1 x Searing Enigma
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| Chapel of Lights | Attend a service at the Chapel |  Supplies ≥ 5 Pages (167 for 100%) Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel = 4 [St Destin's Lesson] Menaces: Unaccountably Peckish ≥ 4 |
Success:  +1 x Secret -5 x Supplies +10 x Terror +1 x Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Menaces: Unaccountably Peckish |
| Attend a service at the Chapel | Supplies ≥ 5 Pages (200 for 100%) Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel = 5 [St Erzulie's Lesson] Menaces: Unaccountably Peckish ≥ 5 |
Success: +1 x Secret -5 x Supplies +10 x Terror +1 x Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel +1 x Searing Enigma -5 x Mirrors | |
| Reject what you have learnt | Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel ≥ 1 ≤ 6 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Hearts (167 for 100%) |
Success: + Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel x Hearts Terror = 0 [Serene] -1 x Searing Enigma Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel = 8 [The Lesson of the Heart] Menaces: Unaccountably Peckish = 0
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| Grand Geode | Deliver the Sphinxstone |  Objective: Deliveries from the Salt Lions = 50 [You've agreed to take this last load of Sphinxstone to the Grand Geode] Sphinxstone ≥ 1 |
Default: + Sphinxstone*50 x Echo Sphinxstone = 0 +1 x Secret +1 x Mirrors +1 x Searing Enigma +100 x Objective: Deliveries from the Salt Lions +1 x Supremacy: The Dawn Machine +1 x Menaces: Yearning, Burning
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| Iron Republic | Seek a Tittering Artificer's help to awaken the Seal | Default:  -1 x Judgements' Egg -1 x Seal of the Red Science +1 x Awakened Seal of the Red Science +1 x Searing Enigma Learning About: The Irrepressible Cannoneer = 150 [Take the Seal to the heartmetal smith at Station III]
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| Irem | The Riddle of Stones | Default: +1 x Mirrors +1 x Pages +1 x Memoirs: Beginner's Luck +1 x Searing Enigma | |
| Voyage of the Snow Child |  Sacks and Snow: What Snow May Become = 20 [The Snow Child will head East from Irem] The Snow Child ≥ 1 |
Default: The Snow Child = 0 [The Snow Child has departed.] Sacks and Snow: What Snow May Become = 80 [The Snow Child has begun its journey] The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Curse = 0 +1 x Searing Enigma +2 x Hearts +2 x Pages
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| Kingeater's Castle | Construct the Fulgent Impeller | Element of Dawn ≥ 1 Stygian Ivory ≥ 40 The Mechanic's Secret ≥ 1 Unsettling Sage ≥ 1 A Casket of Sapphires ≥ 1 Objective: Materials for the Impeller ≥ 1 Crew ≥ 5 |
Default: -40 x Stygian Ivory -1 x Element of Dawn +1 x The Fulgent Impeller -1 x Unsettling Sage Objective: Materials for the Impeller = 0 +10 x Terror +1 x Searing Enigma -1 x A Casket of Sapphires Learning About: The Tireless Mechanic = 30 [You've learnt that the Mechanic stole a secret from the dreams of the Stone Pigs.] |
| The Sixth Witness |  Gant Pole: A Witness to Nothing = 2 [You have the answer for the Sixth Witness at Kingeater's Castle] Under the Unterzee ≥ 1 |
Default: The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Curse = 0 The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Attention = 1 Gant Pole: A Witness to Nothing = 3 [The Seventh Witness has looked East from Kingeater's Castle] +1 x Searing Enigma
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| Wisdom | Exchange a Secret for a Prisoner | Pages ≥ 175 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: -1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event:  Wisdom: whom have you freed?
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| Receive an Embassy | An understanding with the Presbyterate | Mirrors (251 for 100%) Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Kingdom: Knowledge is Power ≥ 5 |
Default: -1 x Searing Enigma
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| Salt's Song | "The price might be an Enigma." | Searing Enigma ≤ 0 Impossible! ≥ 1 |
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| "There is no price." | Dread Surmise ≤ 0 Element of Dawn ≤ 0 Mountain-sherd ≤ 0 Captivating Treasure ≤ 0 Searing Enigma ≤ 0 |
Default:  +1 x At Last: Salt's Song | |
| "An Enigma will not suffice." | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Impossible! ≥ 1 |
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| Speak to the Doctor | A Long Talk: Cold Reality |  Learning About: The Haunted Doctor = 26 Hearts ≥ 175 Moves in the Great Game ≥ 3 |
Default: Learning About: The Haunted Doctor = 30 Determined Doctor = 0 Disillusioned Doctor = 1 -3 x Moves in the Great Game +1 x Searing Enigma |
| A Long Talk: Inner Emptiness | Learning About: The Haunted Doctor = 26 Pages ≥ 175 Terror ≥ 75 |
Default: Determined Doctor = 0 Disillusioned Doctor = 1 Learning About: The Haunted Doctor = 40 +1 x Searing Enigma | |
| A Long Talk: For London! | Default: Determined Doctor = 0 Disillusioned Doctor = 1 Learning About: The Haunted Doctor = 50 +1 x Searing Enigma
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| Speak to the Carnelian Exile | Invite her to dine with you | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Supplies ≥ 1 Learning About: The Carnelian Exile ≤ 0 |
Default: Learning About: The Carnelian Exile = 5 [You dined with the Exile.] -1 x Supplies -1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Mirrors |
| Ask her to dine with you | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Supplies ≥ 1 Learning About: The Carnelian Exile ≤ 0 |
Default: Learning About: The Carnelian Exile = 5 [You dined with the Exile.] -1 x Supplies -1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Veils
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| Visit to the Smith's Emporium | Ask the smith to construct an assembly-housing for the Cannoneer's weapon |  Station III: Acquainted with a Heartmetal Smith ≥ 1 Irrepressible Cannoneer ≥ 1 Learning About: The Irrepressible Cannoneer ≥ 150 ≤ 199 Awakened Seal of the Red Science ≥ 1 Devilbone Dice ≥ 3 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Lamentable Relic ≥ 1 |
Default: Learning About: The Irrepressible Cannoneer = 200 [The Cannoneer has completed his masterwork] -1 x Awakened Seal of the Red Science +1 x Memento Mori -3 x Devilbone Dice -1 x Searing Enigma -1 x Lamentable Relic
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| Vienna | Ask the Bureau friend whether you had met before, long ago... |  Letters of the Name-Which-Burns ≥ 7 Favours: A Gentleman of the Bureau = 1 [An Understanding] |
Default: +1 x Searing Enigma Favours: A Gentleman of the Bureau = 2 [A Particular Understanding]
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| Between You Two | Accept. Murder the Investigator | None | Default: Hideaway: The Sprightly Visionary's Ambition = 50 [You ensured that Hideaway will be well maintained for Arik] Hideaway: The Truth = 99 +1 x Tale of Terror!! +1 x Iron +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event:  Hideaway
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| Abbey Rock | Watch |  Learning About: The Presbyterate Adventuress = 500 [She's ready to fight the Sisters' Adversary at Abbey Rock] Presbyterate Adventuress ≥ 1 |
Default: Learning About: The Presbyterate Adventuress = 2000 [You watched her die in combat against the Sisters' Adversary] Presbyterate Adventuress = 0 +20 x Terror +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Secret +1 x Outlandish Artefact
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| At the Mansion of the Jewel-Turbaned Youth | Invent a fanciful tale | Veils (84 for 100%) Varchas: The Knells of the Towers ≤ 4 |
Success:  Varchas: The Jewel-Turbaned Youth's Invitation = 2 +1 x Varchas: The Knells of the Towers +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event:  The Centre of Varchas
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| Departure in Darkness | "You should go." | None | Default:  Something Awaits You = 0 Varchas: the Mirrored City = 3 +1 x Tale of Terror!! +1 x Searing Enigma
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| The Light of Mihir Shines Bright | You nod | None | Default: Something Awaits You = 0 Varchas: the Mirrored City = 4 +1 x Memory of Distant Shores +1 x Searing Enigma
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| The Isle of Codex | Acquire a Doomed Monster-Hunter | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: -1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Doomed Monster-Hunter |
| Allow your Navigator to join the Mute Exiles |  Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 70 [Your Sigil-Ridden Navigator wishes to retire. Speak with him to learn where he might find peace.] |
Default: Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 0 Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 200 [Your Sigil-Ridden Navigator has joined the Mute Exiles.] +1 x Searing Enigma
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| The Tree of Ages Uprooted | Learn | None | Default: +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Extraordinary Implication +10 x Terror
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| The Uttershroom | Consume the jarful of tether |  Wrack: Aiding Research = 5 [The Severe Chemist is waiting on the Uttershroom to collect his jarful of tether] |
Default: Wrack: Aiding Research = 25 [You tasted the tether, instead of delivering it to the Severe Chemist] +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Wrack: Tether Tastings
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| The Wisp-Ways | The Pillar of Riddles |  Another Day: Navigating the Swamps ≥ 121 ≤ 127 |
Default: Another Day: Navigating the Swamps = 0 [You've returned from the swamps!] +2 x Lamentable Relic +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event:  The Mangrove College
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| Speak to your nacreous acquaintance | Invite it to dine with you | Default:  Learning About: The Nacreous Outcast = 2 +1 x Searing Enigma
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| The Pulse of the Principles | Lose the match |  Principles' End: Principality = 25 [At the end-game] |
Default: Principles' End: Principality = 100 [A stalemate] Nacreous Survivor = 1 Nacreous Outcast = 0 +1 x Memory of Distant Shores +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Apocyan Chess-PieceTriggers event: Port Cecil
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| The Festival of Silk | The Emissary of Spiders | None | Default:  Saviour's Rocks: Caught in the webs of Saviour's Rocks = 75 [A Stooge of Spiders] +1 x Searing Enigma Saviour's Rocks: The Festival of Silk = 2 [The Festival of Silk is over]
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| The Venturer's Passage | Watch as he completes his scheme | Default: +1 x Searing Enigma +5 x Pages Materials for the Passage = 0 Objective: The Venturer's Venture = 50 [The Venturer is gone] +4 x Terror | |
| Pass beyond with him | Materials for the Passage ≥ 40 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Hearts ≥ 50 The Horizon Codex ≤ 0 |
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| Ritual's End | Set off a flare, allowing you to see everyone | Visage: Ritual Participant = 5 [Carrying a flare and brave] |
Default: Visage: Ritual Participant = 10 [Violator of the Sacred Mysteries] Visage: your Mask = 0 [Unmasked] +1 x Searing Enigma -1 x Flare +1 x Secret |
| Set off a flare, lighting this place up | Visage: Ritual Participant = 3 [Carrying a flare and nervous] |
Default: Visage: Ritual Participant = 10 [Violator of the Sacred Mysteries] Visage: your Mask = 0 [Unmasked] +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Secret -1 x Flare | |
| Shine a light on the bat-faced figure | Visage: Ritual Participant = 5 [Carrying a flare and brave] |
Default: Visage: Ritual Participant = 10 [Violator of the Sacred Mysteries] +1 x Searing Enigma Visage: your Mask = 0 [Unmasked] +150 x Fragment -1 x Flare
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| The Throne-Cyst | "Your Complexity: I pray you, give me back my Campaigner." |  Brisk Campaigner ≤ 0 Indomitable Campaigner ≤ 0 Learning About: The Brisk Campaigner ≥ 1 ≤ 100 Captivating Treasure ≥ 7 Scintillack ≥ 7 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: Learning About: The Brisk Campaigner = 50 [The Brisk Campaigner has recovered] -7 x Captivating Treasure -7 x Scintillack -1 x Searing Enigma Brisk Campaigner = 1 |
| "Give me back my Magician." |  The Prudent Magician ≤ 0 The Satisfied Magician ≤ 0 Genial Magician ≤ 0 The Urbane Magician ≤ 0 Learning About: The Magician ≥ 1 ≤ 100 Captivating Treasure ≥ 7 Scintillack ≥ 7 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: Genial Magician = 1 Learning About: The Magician = 1 -7 x Captivating Treasure -7 x Scintillack -1 x Searing Enigma | |
| "Give me back my Outcast." | Nacreous Outcast ≤ 0 Learning About: The Nacreous Outcast ≥ 1 Nacreous Survivor ≤ 0 Scintillack ≥ 7 Captivating Treasure ≥ 7 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Colossal Fluke-Core ≥ 1 |
Default: Nacreous Survivor = 1 -7 x Scintillack -7 x Captivating Treasure -1 x Searing Enigma -1 x Colossal Fluke-Core
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| The New Sequence | Progress? | None | Default: Supremacy: The Dawn Machine = 10 [TRIUMPHANT] -20 x Terror +1 x Searing Enigma The Horizon Codex = 1 +5 x Mirrors
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| Carnelian Conspiracies | An offering to the Banded Prince |  Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian ≥ 91 ≤ 100 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default:  +3 x Networks: Port Carnelian -1 x Searing Enigma Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian = 0Triggers event: Port Carnelian
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| The Lost Treasure Hunter | Persuade him to give you his map | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Empire of Hands: Delightful Archeology ≥ 50 |
Default: -1 x Searing Enigma +1 x An Ancient-Ish Treasure Map Empire of Hands: Explored Hearthsake Island = 10Triggers event:  Hearthsake Village
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| The Fathomking's Answer | The Fathomking's Key |  Your Father's Bones: A Cold Trail ≥ 200 ≤ 299 Your Father's Bones: a Legend's Heart for the Fathomking ≤ 0 Your Father's Bones: a Miracle of Science for the Fathomking ≤ 0 Your Father's Bones: a Sky-Light for the Fathomking ≤ 0 Your Father's Bones: a Willing Guest for the Fathomking ≤ 0 Your Father's Bones: an Eldest's End for the Fathomking ≤ 0 Your Father's Bones: Fruit of the Eternal Tree for the Fathomking ≤ 0 |
Default:  Your Father's Bones: The Fathomking's Key = Memoirs: Your Past +100 x Your Father's Bones: A Cold Trail +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event:  The Fathomking's Hold
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| The Mirror-Marches | Rarest fruit | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: +1 x Hesperidean Apple -1 x Searing Enigma Something Awaits You = 0
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| Shiftwork in the Dead Letter Office | Descend into the basement with flame | Flare ≥ 1 Foxfire Candles ≥ 5 Nuncio: Learned in Postal Secrets = 6 [Familiar with the Flaming Letters] Nuncio: Worker in Dead Letters = 5 [Basement Custodian] |
Default: +1 x Searing Enigma -5 x Foxfire Candles Nuncio: Learned in Postal Secrets = 7 [Visitor to the Centre-stone] -1 x Flare +5 x TerrorTriggers event:  Climbing out |
| Descend into the basement with mirrors | Nuncio: Learned in Postal Secrets = 6 [Familiar with the Flaming Letters] Nuncio: Worker in Dead Letters = 5 [Basement Custodian] Mirrors (167 for 100%) |
Success: +1 x Searing Enigma Nuncio: Learned in Postal Secrets = 7 [Visitor to the Centre-stone] +5 x TerrorTriggers event: Climbing out | |
| Descend into the basement with sunlight | Nuncio: Worker in Dead Letters = 5 [Basement Custodian] Nuncio: Learned in Postal Secrets = 6 [Familiar with the Flaming Letters] Sunlight-Filled Mirrorcatch Box ≥ 1 |
Default: -1 x Sunlight-Filled Mirrorcatch Box +1 x Empty Mirrorcatch Box Nuncio: Learned in Postal Secrets = 7 [Visitor to the Centre-stone] +1 x Searing Enigma +5 x Terror +50 x FragmentTriggers event: Climbing out
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| Wisdom: whom have you freed? | Some Poor Soul | None | Default: +1 x Tale of Terror!! +1 x A Shady Sort +1 x Searing Enigma
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| The Dark Room | Unveil a Judgements' Egg | Judgements' Egg ≥ 1 |
Default: Terror = 0 [Serene] +1 x Searing Enigma -1 x Judgements' EggTriggers event:  The Corridors of Frostfound |
| Eat | Hearts ≥ 25 Menaces: Wounds ≥ 3 |
Default: -1 x Menaces: Wounds -15 x Hearts +1 x Menaces: Unaccountably Peckish +1 x Searing Enigma | |
| Fumble in the darkness |  Luck (50% to win) Doom: Frostfound's Core ≤ 0 |
Default: The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Curse = 1 [Salt's curse lies on you] +1 x Searing Enigma Doom: Frostfound's Core = 1 [You have despoiled a sacred place.] +1 x Mirrors The Gods of the Zee: Stone's Curse = 1 Doom: Frostfound's Core = 1 [You have despoiled a sacred place.] +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Hearts The Gods of the Zee: Storm's Curse = 1 [Storm's curse lies on you] Doom: Frostfound's Core = 1 [You have despoiled a sacred place.] +1 x Searing Enigma +1 x Iron
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| The Iridescence | Know yourself | Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: -1 x Searing Enigma +25 x TerrorTriggers event: The Corridors of Frostfound
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| The Name-Which-Burns | The last letter: the East | Letters of the Name-Which-Burns = 6 [Six letters] |
Default: Letters of the Name-Which-Burns = 7 [Seven letters: the name is complete] +1 x Menaces: Wounds +1 x Secret +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event: The Dark Room
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| An understanding with the Presbyterate | An ancient treaty | None | Default:  +1 x Trophy: A Folded Flag -1 x Searing Enigma A Travelling Light = 1
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| Invitation to a Beheading | Flee | None | Default: Memoirs: The Lessons of the Chapel = 8 [The Lesson of the Heart] +10 x Terror +1 x Searing Enigma
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| Liturgy of Souls | Sing your part in the Liturgy | Default:  -1 x Drownie Love-song Dahut: Clarity = 0 Dahut: Enthralment = 0 Dahut: Length of stay = 10 -1 x Drownie Song in Counterpoint -1 x Drownie Hymn -1 x Zee-ztory +1 x Searing Enigma -1 x Menaces: WoundsTriggers event:  Dahut
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| Secrets Wrapped in Blood and Bone | Ask the Sixth Witness' Question | Default: Gant Pole: A Witness to Nothing = 2 [You have the answer for the Sixth Witness at Kingeater's Castle] +10 x Terror Gant Pole: The Fading Haruspex = 99 [The Haruspex has faded] Gant Pole: Something Ends = 0 +250 x Fragment +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event:  The Gant Pole | |
| Ask your own Question | None | Default: Gant Pole: The Fading Haruspex = 99 [The Haruspex has faded] Gant Pole: Something Ends = 0 +250 x Fragment +1 x Secret +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event: The Gant Pole
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| You have defeated a Dawn Fluke | Fetch a piece of the fluke to study. | Pages (100 for 100%) |
Success: +1 x Searing Enigma
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| Exploring a wreck | Enter the captain's cabin | Default: +5 x Terror Another Day: Inside a Wreck = 0 +1 x Searing Enigma -3 x Hearts
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| Discoveries in the Ivory Archives | The first skeleton of Scrimshander | Default: +2 - Scrimshander: Ivory Archives: Historical Revelations x Searing Enigma +1 x Scrimshander: Ivory Archives: Historical RevelationsTriggers event:  Searching the Ivory Archives
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| The Writhing Gullet | Investigate a biological peculiarity | Default: +1 x Secret Nook: The Memory of the Beast = 1 [You have shared a moment with an ancient beast.] +1 x Searing EnigmaTriggers event:  The Bilious Cleft
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| Engineering the Downfall of Nidah | Defeat the Presbyter's armies: foster a popular uprising | Ambition: Death Hath no more Dominion = 200 [With Mariam, plan the conquest of Nidah] Ambition: Nidah's Armies ≥ 1 Echo ≥ 2000 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 |
Default: Ambition: Nidah's Armies = 0 [You have begun a scheme to defeat the Presbyter's armies.] +1 x Secret -2000 x Echo -1 x Searing Enigma |
| Breaching Nidah's walls: invest in experimental munitions research | Ambition: Death Hath no more Dominion = 200 [With Mariam, plan the conquest of Nidah] Torpedo Components ≥ 100 Vital Intelligence ≥ 1 Searing Enigma ≥ 1 Ambition: the Walls of Nidah ≥ 1 |
Default: Ambition: the Road to Nidah = 0 [You have begun a scheme to reach Nidah.] +1 x Secret Ambition: the Walls of Nidah = 0 [You have begun a scheme to breach Nidah's walls.]
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Shop availability[ | ]
| Shop | Item | Buy Price | Sell Price |
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 House of Pleasures - The Parliament of Flies
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-9 x Searing Enigma |
+0 x Searing Enigma | |
 Uncle Ankle's Lean Place - A Notch in the Shell
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+1 x Searing Enigma | ||
 Wind-Come-Calling - The Last Market
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Searing Enigma |
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| Wind-Come-Calling - The Last Market
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+10 x Searing Enigma |
