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==Port interactions== ===[[File:SS Interactions The Chelonate.png|42px]] The Chelonate=== <span style="color:white;">Waves lap the slabby sides of a vast turtle-shell - bigger than any cathedral. Chelonites loaf on wooden docks around the shell-sides, staring sullenly. Lamps hang like decorations in a festive butcher's window. All around you, the sea is rank with scraps of ancient flesh.</span> {| class="ss-table" style="width:100%;" !style="width:16%;"|Actions !style="width:18%;"|Requirements !style="width:18%;"|Effects !style="width:10%;"|Notes |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Allow the Plausible Surgeon to go ashore here'''</span> "Oh, my word. Look at these scars. Look at these ''stains''. Release me from my contract, Captain, I beg you. I've saved up enough to compensate you." | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS burlyman2gaz.png|23px]] 1 x [[Plausible Surgeon]]<p></p> </ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''A pocketful of Echoes'''</span> The Surgeon is as good as his word. Hands trembling, he counts out the coins, and whispers a little secret he picked up back in London. He's vague about why he didn't mention it before. He collects his knives and instruments, heads into the Shell, and is gone. <ul> [[File:SS burlyman2gaz.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-1</span> x [[Plausible Surgeon]]<p></p> [[File:SS wilmotsendsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Strategic Information]]<p></p> [[File:SS echosmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+200</span> x [[Echo]]<p></p> <ul> | |- | rowspan="4"| <span style="color:white;">'''Shore leave at the Chelonate'''</span> Beer and roistering are cheap here, but the hunters of the Chelonate take their roistering seriously. You can't be sure your crew will make it back safely. | rowspan="4"| <p></p><ul> [[File:SS ironsmall.png|23px]] [[Iron]] challenge (<span style="color:teal;">'''167'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> [[File:SS echosmall.png|23px]] 30 x [[Echo]]<p></p> [[File:SS skullsmall.png|23px]] [[Terror]] β₯ 1<p></p> </ul> | style="background: #002020; border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Failed event</span> | rowspan="4"| |- | style="border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;" |<span style="color:white;">'''One voice missing'''</span> "We lost the new one, cap'n. She had one too many and started on the Turtle not being real. Chelonites were on 'er like ants. Not enough to send home." <ul> [[File:SS echosmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-30</span> x [[Echoes]]<p></p> [[File:SS crewsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-1</span> x [[Crew]]<p></p> [[File:SS skullsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">-15</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> </ul> |- | style="background: #002020; border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Successful event</span> |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Voices raised in song'''</span> "It's not actually beer, cap'n," a zailor confides. "It's eel-blood fermented with zee-fungus, or somefin'. I didn't hear the whole account. I was too busy throwin' up." <ul> [[File:SS echosmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-30</span> x [[Echoes]]<p></p> [[File:SS skullsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">-15</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> </ul> |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Deliver Sphinxstone for Penstock'''</span> The Bone Man awaits you. His face and chest are streaked with white clay. His forehead bears a glyph, in the deep code of the void. Long ago, his mother ritually severed his littlest finger. "STONES HERE," he rumbles. | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS bonessmall.png|23px]] 1 x [[Sphinxstone]]<p></p> [[File:SS saltlions_portsmall.png|23px]] [[Objective: Deliveries from the Salt Lions]] = 103 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''Deliver the Sphinxstone to the Chelonate, in the East, where pain is remembered''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> </ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''The Death of Stones'''</span> The Bone Man carries a maul. No: he ''bears'' a maul. "WATCH," he growls. He brings the head of the maul down on the largest stone. It puffs into dust: instantly pulverised. "YOU MUST STRIKE THEM IN ONLY THE CORRECT PLACE." Another dissolves, with a sound like a sigh. "THUS." Perhaps it's just that you've inhaled too much dust, but as you watch the Bone Man, the scene becomes distant. You are watching it from a great height. The roof? The maul swings: the stones shatter. This is the nature of strength. This is good. "THIS IS THE WORK OF STORM," intones the Bone Man. You blink. "FREEDOM IS HIS GIFT TO THE BAZAAR. AND THIS IS MY GIFT TO YOU." He hands you a bag of coins, white with dust. You, too, are white all over with dust - white as bone. <ul> [[File:SS ironsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Iron]]<p></p> [[File:SS whispered_secretsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Secret]]<p></p> [[File:SS echosmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+[[Sphinxstone]]*50</span> x [[Echo]]<p></p> [[File:SS saltlions_portsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+100</span> x [[Objective: Deliveries from the Salt Lions]]<p></p> [[File:SS bonessmall.png|23px]] [[Sphinxstone]] = 0<p></p> [[File:SS cloudssmall.png|23px]] [[The Gods of the Zee: Storm's Attention]] = 1<p></p> </ul> | |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Obtain a Doomed Monster-Hunter'''</span> The Chelonate is stiff with Monster-Hunters, awash with the peligin juices that give them strength. A good number of them are Doomed, too. But you'll need to provide for their families. | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS diamondsmall.png|23px]] 1 x [[Captivating Treasure]]<p></p> </ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''The hunter's price'''</span> "That will suffice. When news of my death comes, they'll offer this treasure to the Bone Men. If they die, they will still be remembered." Cheery lot, the Chelonites. <ul> [[File:SS diamondsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-1</span> x [[Captivating Treasure]]<p></p> [[File:SS lurkersilhouettesmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Doomed Monster-Hunter]]<p></p> <ul> | |- | rowspan="2"| <span style="color:white;">'''Meet your contact'''</span> A Mutilated Hunter makes her home in a plastron at the wretched end of the shell: well, the ''more'' wretched end. Her face is half-immobile from a jillyfish sting. Give her a Hunting Trophy, and she'll share zee-gossip. | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] 1 x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS aestival portsmall.png|23px]] [[Objective: Kingdom]] β€ 0<p></p> [[File:SS papers5small.png|23px]] [[Objective: An Admiralty Commission]] = 14 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''Retrieve Strategic Information from the Chelonate, far to the East''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> </ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''A rich vein of story'''</span> She has zee-ztories for you - drownie-whispers, Chelonite murder-myths, truths found engraved on bound-shark harnesses. And she adds: "Tell the Admiral: Aestival remains empty. The Sun still kills." <ul> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-1</span> x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS gossipsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Intriguing Snippet]]<p></p> [[File:SS wilmotsendsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Strategic Information]]<p></p> [[File:SS wavesmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+3</span> x [[Zee-ztory]]<p></p> [[File:SS papers5small.png|23px]] [[Objective: An Admiralty Commission]] = 0 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''You've completed your Commission - return to the Admiralty.''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] 1 x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS aestival portsmall.png|23px]] [[Objective: Kingdom]] β₯ 1<p></p> [[File:SS papers5small.png|23px]] [[Objective: An Admiralty Commission]] = 14 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''Retrieve Strategic Information from the Chelonate, far to the East''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> </ul> |She has zee-ztories for you - drownie-whispers, Chelonite murder-myths, truths found engraved on bound-shark harnesses. And she adds: "Tell the Admiral: our hunters are eyeing Aestival. There is a temptation now." She eyes you. "But I suspect you'd know that, wouldn't you?" <p></p><ul> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-1</span> x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS gossipsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Intriguing Snippet]]<p></p> [[File:SS wilmotsendsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Strategic Information]]<p></p> [[File:SS wavesmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+3</span> x [[Zee-ztory]]<p></p> [[File:SS papers5small.png|23px]] [[Objective: An Admiralty Commission]] = 0 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''You've completed your Commission - return to the Admiralty.''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> </ul> | |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Find someone to teach secrets of butchery to the Bandaged Poissonnier'''</span> A Bone Man shows you the glyphs cut into his white-dusted palms. "They mean 'Separation'," he tells you. He will instruct your chef, if you can prove your worth. | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] 3 x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS bandagedpoissoniersmall.png|23px]] [[Learning About: The Bandaged Poissonnier]] = 4 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''The Bandaged Poissonnier wants to study butchery at the Chelonate.''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> |<span style="color:white;">'''An improvement'''</span> When the Poissonnier returns to the ship, he is red to his elbows. "I have learned what I need to know," he says, his voice haggard. Back in the galley he throws away all his knives but one. You watch it slice, skin, bone, and butterfly: as precise as a surgeon's scalpel; as quick as a minnow. Flesh goes one way; skin and organs another. As the crew dine, he seeks you out. "It goes well, my captain. I have my initial ingredients. I have my skills. But the flavours I pursue must be coaxed forth, like a hermit crab from its shell. I'm afraid I need very particular seasoning: mutersalt and zzoup. They sell the former at Whither, where the salt-pools fizz and pop. Zzoup is made at Mount Palmerston. Its composition is a secret, but anything that can be combined can be separated again, with the right equipment." <ul> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-3</span> x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS bandagedpoissoniersmall.png|23px]] [[Learning About: The Bandaged Poissonnier]] = 5 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''The Bandaged Poissonnier requires zzoup and mutersalt.''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> | |- | rowspan="3"| <span style="color:white;">'''Put a blemmigan ashore'''</span> Perhaps it will nestle in some crevice in the ancient shell. You chivvy it onto the quay. | rowspan="3"| <p></p><ul> [[File:SS blemmigansmall.png|23px]] 1 x [[Docile Blemmigan]]<p></p> </ul> | style="border-bottom: 1px solid orange" | <span style="color:white;">'''Oh. Ouch!'''</span> A casually flung fishing-spear pierces the blemmigan. It deflates to a soggy mess. A Chelonite grins savagely at you: some response is clearly required. "Good shot, madam. Ah, good shot." <ul> [[File:SS blemmigansmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-1</span> x [[Docile Blemmigan]]<p></p> </ul> | rowspan="3"| |- | style="background: #002020;" style="border-bottom: 1px solid orange" align="center" |<span style="color:orange;">Rare event (50%)</span> |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Oh. Ouch!'''</span> A casually flung fishing-spear pierces the blemmigan. It deflates to a soggy mess. A Chelonite grins savagely at you: some response is clearly required. "Good shot, madam. Ah, good shot." <ul> [[File:SS blemmigansmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-1</span> x [[Docile Blemmigan]]<p></p> </ul> |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Compile a Port Report'''</span> How does one express this very striking smell? | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS chelonate portsmall.png|23px]] [[A Port Report: The Chelonate]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''The limits of meaningful expression'''</span> No matter what details you try to record, the stench creeps in around the edges of the sentences. "The Chelonites, watchful despite the reek." "Movement among the miasmic scraps of long-abandoned monster-carcass." "Frequent duels where the stink is thickest - " <ul> [[File:SS chelonate portsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[A Port Report: The Chelonate]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | rowspan="4"| <span style="color:white;">'''Help Maybe's Daughter search for her mother'''</span> "I couldn't understand why she came here to begin with, but" - she gestures around you, at the designs sketched on hide and scratched on stone. "It's all tattoos. The alphabets of bone and flesh. That's what our family keeps coming back to." She frowns. "Our family is strange in every way imaginable." | rowspan="4"| <p></p><ul> [[File:SS maybesdaughtersmall.png|23px]] [[Learning About: Maybe's Daughter]] challenge (<span style="color:teal;">'''500'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> [[File:SS maybesdaughtergaz.png|23px]] 1 x [[Maybe's Daughter]]<p></p> [[File:SS chelonate_portsmall.png|23px]] [[Maybe: The Chelonate]] β₯ 1<p></p> | style="background: #002020; border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Failed event</span> | rowspan="4"| [[Learning About: Maybe's Daughter]] doubles with each port at which her mother is not found. |- | style="border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;" |<span style="color:white;">'''No luck.'''</span> "I found some of these, though. Well, 'found'. You can have one. Are you going to be stern with me? They have so many trophies they don't know what to do with them. Anyway, we're getting closer. I can feel it. I swear." <p></p><ul> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green;">+1</span> x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS maybesdaughtersmall.png|23px]] [[Learning About: Maybe's Daughter]] = [[Learning About: Maybe's Daughter]] * 2<p></p> [[File:SS chelonate_portsmall.png|23px]] [[Maybe: The Chelonate]] = 0<p></p> </ul> |- | style="border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Successful event</span> |- |<span style="color:white;">'''She was here last week, but -'''</span> You follow the Daughter's stunned gaze. A woman in a lilac gown strolls past the doorway-slit of the Bone Men's shrine. Her features bear an unmistakable resemblance to your officer's. "We should talk," she says to the Daughter, quite calmly. The Daughter assembles the rags of her composure with remarkable speed. "Excuse us," she says... <ul> [[File:SS maybesdaughtersmall.png|23px]] [[Learning About: Maybe's Daughter]] = 1000 <span style="color:teal;">'''['''</span><span style="color:white;">''You've found her mother!''</span><span style="color:teal;">''']'''</span><p></p> Trigger event: [[File:SS maybesdaughtergaz.png|23px]] [[Maybe a Mother]]<p></p> </ul> |- | <span style="color:white;">'''"Tales for the Bone!"'''</span> Someone is crying unusual wares. Follow the sound. | <p></p><ul> [[File:SS harpoonsmall.png|23px]] 0 x [[Memoirs: Glory's Bones]]<p></p> </ul> | <p></p><ul> <span style='color:teal;'>'''Triggers event:'''</span> [[File:SS chelonate_portgaz.png|23px]] [[The Scrimshaw Chronicler]]<p></p> <ul> | |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Show off a Hunting Trophy'''</span> Young Chelonates gather around your ship, pressing their chalked palms to your bow. They demand stories. | <ul> [[File:SS_gamekeeper_cottagesmall.png|23px]] [[Something Awaits You]] <p></p> [[File:SS steamerdarksmall.png|23px]] [[Another Day: Time, the Healer]] β₯ 50 <p></p> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] [[Hunting-Trophy]] β₯ 1<p></p> </ul> | <span style="color:white;">'''One story for another'''</span> As your tale of combat on the high zee reaches its pitch, you lift the gory trophy above your head. The children scatter. Only a young boy remains behind, staring. He holds out a mask: a mess of tiny bones. Most look like they were scavenged from a dinner plate. Nevertheless, he points at your trophy. You trade. <ul> [[File:SS_gamekeeper_cottagesmall.png|23px]] [[Something Awaits You]] = That's all for now. <p></p> [[File:SS toothsmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:red">-1</span> x [[Hunting-Trophy]]<p></p> [[File:SS guisemalesmall.png|23px]] <span style="color:green">+1</span> x [[Outlandish Artefact]]<p></p> </ul> |{{game note|Trade a Hunting-Trophy for an Outlandish Artefact.}} |- |} ===The Scrimshaw Chronicler=== See [[File: SS passerbysmall.png|42px]] [[The Scrimshaw Chronicler]] page.
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