After the Festival

After the Festival
After the Festival (Gazetteer)
Located in	Mutton Island
Ports	No
Shops	Harbour Provisioners
Shipyard	No

After the Festival is one of four possible port outcomes for the story of Mutton Island.

Location description

Mutton Island rests, silently, under the false-stars. No smoke rises from the chimneys. No feet tread the streets. No ruddy-cheeked locals trade rustic aphorisms on the jetty. What has happened?

Availability

The permanent port interaction for Mutton Island when Mutton Island: The Airs Of Mutton Island ≥ 25 and ≤ 29.

Available after completion of the Last-Minute Preparations and The Fruits of the Zee story events at Mutton Island.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Investigate the Cock and Magpie It was the heart of the village, once.		Drunk dry Most of the brasses still hang on the beams, but now they are joined by an incongruous studding of barnacles. Behind the bar, the floor is littered with empty bottles. You test the beer kegs - also empty. The cellar is flooded with three feet of zeewater. Drowned rats float slowly across the surface. +1 x Terror +1 x Mutton Island: The Airs Of Mutton Island (Only if ≤ 27)
Investigate the hill A hunched shape looms on the hilltop.		The effigy The hill is strewn with dead fish. Silvery scales shine under your lamp; glassy eyes glint. You come across the old stone well, and peer in. The water is high. A salt reek rises from it. On the hilltop, a wicker figure stands. When it was built, it must have been ten feet high; now it is slumped and sagging. The papier-mâché of its skin has sloughed away, but it still wears a knobbly crown of coral. +1 x Terror +1 x Mutton Island: The Airs Of Mutton Island (Only if ≤ 27)
Explore the village You wander through the empty, winding streets. Zeeweed hangs from windowsills. Thatches are sodden. Drenched bunting hangs, limply, from the eaves.		No one's home You check house after house, and don't find a soul. The carpets squelch underfoot, oozing zeewater. The curtains drip. No valuables have been left behind - no jewellery, no heirlooms. But there is still cutlery in the drawers; plates and bowls stacked in the damp-stinking cupboards. Something rattles in a coal scuttle. You tip it over, and a crab crawls out. It peers around, clearly lost. +1 x Terror +1 x Mutton Island: The Airs Of Mutton Island (Only if ≤ 27)
Explore the shore What's that on the beach?		Laces and soles Shoes litter the length of the shore and bob in the sighing surf. Sunday-best boots; solid farmers' shoes studded with hobnails; small, neat children's shoes with gleaming buckles. Wherever the inhabitants went, they went barefoot. +1 x Terror +1 x Mutton Island: The Airs Of Mutton Island (Only if ≤ 27)
Entertain your crew's terrified speculations Each of them has a theory about what happened on the island.	Mutton Island: The Airs Of Mutton Island ≥ 28 Zee-ztory ≥ 3	Unlikely tales A Sprightly Deckhand blames Storm. “'e's always gustin' and blusterin' round 'ere. The islanders must 'ave angered 'im!” A Craggy Crewman shakes his head. “No. It were that well of theirs. There was something waiting in the bottom of it, and it finally climbed out.” "Pssh," scoffs a Solemn Stoker. “Mark my words: this is the work of the Fathomking. And His complexity only takes what's offered.” +4 x Tale of Terror!! -3 x Zee-ztory +2 x Terror	This trades 3 x Zee-ztory for 4 x Tale of Terror!! and 2 x Terror.
Compose a Port Report Brief though it might be.	0 x A Port Report: Quaker's Haven	Little to report Still here. Still sodden. Empty as a politician's promises. +1 x A Port Report: Quaker's Haven
Put a blemmigan ashore Even boggier than usual: Mutton Island is perfect blemmigan country.	1 x Docile Blemmigan Propagation: Quaker's Haven ≤ 0	A soggy kingdom It scuttles gleefully into the twisty streets, climbs a wall, and roosts in a sodden thatch. It clicks its beak happily. -1 x Docile Blemmigan +1 x Blemmigans Abroad +1 x Propagation: Quaker's Haven