| Iron Republic | |
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| Iron Republic (Map) | |
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| Iron Republic (Gazetteer) | |
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| Located in | Iron Republic |
| Ports | Van Horn Harbour |
| Shops |  Fire in the Belly
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| Shipyard | No |
| Data ID | 143349 |
The Iron Republic is the fiery region south of London, where Fuel is an abundant resource. The Iron Republic became available in the Emerald release.
Port description[ | ]
Hell's client-state. Be wary. Their laws are not the laws of Man or Nature.
Port interactions[ | ]
Iron Republic[ | ]
Location description[ | ]
Factory-engines roar like false lions. Blood thunders in the dock-pipes. Crimson lightning skitters across the deck, leaps to the rail, coils there like a cat. The city is reflected in glassy-calm harbour water: the citizens there have the heads of dogs and serpents.
Hell has brought freedom to the Iron Republic: freedom from all laws, even those of nature.
Shops[ | ]
While Fire in the Belly sells cheap Fuel (and nothing but Fuel), the MARKET OF HUNGERS is a cycle of 4 different shops, reflecting the ever-changing nature of the Iron Republic. Only one of those is available at any time. The current shop is chosen based on 
Another Day: Iron Republic Days Quality, which is normally changed with every other 
Something Awaits You. To switch the current shop, sail until the next Something Awaits You event.
- House of Pleasures ( Another Day: Iron Republic Days 1-4)
- House of Milks ( Another Day: Iron Republic Days 5-9)
- House of Harvests ( Another Day: Iron Republic Days 10-14)
- House of Harms ( Another Day: Iron Republic Days 15-19)
Interactions[ | ]
| Actions | Requirements | Effects | Notes |
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| Engage an Officer: the Irrepressible Cannoneer
“Captain! Are you looking for a gunner? I'm looking for a ship! Here are my references!! Here are more references!! Here's my design for a whistling shell!! Here's my colleague!! (He'll stay on shore.) Here's my hand!!! Will you take it?”
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 0 x Irrepressible Cannoneer
 20 x Echo
Something Awaits You ≥ 1 |
“Welcome aboard!!”
“Oh, this is interesting. Room for improvement! There's always room for improvement. Wait: let me make notes. Paper!!” -20 x Echo
+1 x Irrepressible Cannoneer
That's all for now |
Game note: Appoint your new Officer by dragging them from the Officers tab to his slot at the top of the screen. Do this in port, not at sea, or you may unsettle your crew. |
| Allow your zailors time ashore
Do they need shore leave this badly? |
50 x Echo
Something Awaits You ≥ 1 |
An open door
The city is a temple where shattered columns Let slip from time to time impossible thoughts; Man finds his way through labyrinths of words capture his own eyes. What happened? Did you pay for it? Why did you pay for it? -50 x Echo
 -5 to +19 x Terror
 +1 to +20 x Fragment
+1 to +4 x Another Day: Iron Republic Days
That's all for now |
Game note: Probably this will increase your Terror. Perhaps something else horrible will happen. |
| Rare event (30%) | |||
| Tea with devils
How you all laughed! Their yellow eyes remain with you, swimming in your vision, as you stagger back to the ship with the skull in the tea-cosy. The eyes remain literally, that is - they coalesce in the palm of your hand each time you open it. Devils and their flirtations. At least you have the tea-cosy. +5 x Terror
+1 x Lamentable Relic
 +1 x Outlandish Artefact
 +1 x Tale of Terror!!
+1 to +20 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
| “Listen.”
Your fears line up on the quay, waiting, waving like old lovers. |
Terror ≥ 70
Something Awaits You ≥ 1 |
As you touch the dock, your fears leap fondly into your waiting arms. They dissolve. Gather the oily scraps they left.
+35+Terror/2 x Fragment
That's all for now |
Game note: The higher your Terror, the more Fragments you've received. |
| MARKET OF HUNGERS: The Parliament of Flies
The Market of Hungers, with its spires and sigils. Is it a parody of the Bazaar? Today, flies fill its arcades. Buzz, buzz. |
A new day comes
Game note: Visit the Shops tab. After this visit, the Parliament will no longer be here: the Republic will seek zzoup and supplies instead. +1 x Terror
+1 x Fragment
Another Day: Iron Republic Days = 5
Enables the  House of Pleasures shop |
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| Rare event (70%) | |||
| The murk folds
Game note: Visit the Shops tab. +1 x Terror
+1 x Fragment
Enables the House of Pleasures shop | |||
| MARKET OF HUNGERS: The Calvary Doctrine
On days such as this, the Market is filled with crucified dragons and laws-in-waiting. They whistle a welcome. |
Another Day: Iron Republic Days ≥ 5 and ≤ 9
Something Awaits You ≥ 1 |
Game note: Visit the Shops tab. After this visit, the Doctrine will no longer be here: the Republic will seek wine and honey instead.
+1 x Terror
Another Day: Iron Republic Days = 10
That's all for now
Enables  The House of Milks shop |
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| Rare event (70%) | |||
| Game note: Visit the Shops tab. The merchants in their Doctrine-masks will accept Echoes.
+1 x Terror
That's all for now
Enables The House of Milks shop | |||
| MARKET OF HUNGERS: The Gesundheit Conspiracy
'HELL PROVIDES' reads the sign above the Market of Hungers, today. Perhaps tomorrow, too. |
Another Day: Iron Republic Days ≥ 10 and ≤ 14
Something Awaits You ≥ 1 |
Game note: Visit the Shops tab. After this visit, the Doctrine will no longer be here: the Republic will seek bone instead.
 Hunger = 0
Another Day: Iron Republic Days = 15
That's all for now
Enables the  House of Harvests shop |
Bug note: Sometimes Iron Republic Days gets stuck at certain value so only the Gesundheit Conspiracy appears. To unstick it, do "Allow your zailors time ashore". |
| Rare event (70%) | |||
| Even the air carries sustenance.
Game note: Visit the Shops tab. Hunger = 0
That's all for now
Enables the House of Harvests shop | |||
| MARKET OF HUNGERS: the Expulsus
Today the Republic inhales bone, exhales souls. Are you here to gather the souls? |
Game note: Visit the Shops tab. After this visit, the Expulsus will no longer be here: the Republic will seek zzoup and supplies.
+1 x Terror
Another Day: Iron Republic Days = 5
That's all for now
Enables the  House of Harms shop |
2021/08: Doing this will reset Another Day: Iron Republic Days to 1 or 5, which will re-open the House of Pleasures or the House of Milks shop. | |
| Rare event (70%) | |||
| Game note: Visit the Shops tab. After this visit, the Expulsus will no longer be here: the Republic will seek scintillack and the satisfactions of lusts.
+1 x Terror
Another Day: Iron Republic Days = 1
That's all for now
Enables the House of Harms shop | |||
| Compile a Port Report
It won't be entirely straightforward. The streets won't lie straight, and the ink freezes whenever you look away from the inkwell. |
Fact and fiction
To record the Republic's events - it's like trying to sing wax or believe water. You do what you can. The third paragraph buds eyes. The date is fundamentally wrong. The full-stops bite. You do what you can.  -2 to +2 x Pages
 +1 x Memory of Distant Shores
+1 x Port Report: the Iron Republic
+1 x Tale of Terror!!
+1 x Another Day: Iron Republic Days |
Your Another Day: Iron Republic Days do not affect the results. Bring the Port Report to The Admiralty Survey Office in London for -1 x Terror and +10 x Echo or +2 to +4 x Terror and +1 to +3 x Fragment. | |
| Rare event (50%) | |||
| New passions
The sensations of the Republic are overwhelming. This is a desire for years. That is a hatred for fountains. Here is an emotion that can only be expressed mathematically. Now you are awash with a nostalgia for the hatching of the egg. Write it down. Write it all down. Perhaps you'll be rid of it.  -2 to +2 x Hearts
+1 x Memory of Distant Shores
+1 x Port Report: the Iron Republic
+1 x Tale of Terror!!
+1 x Another Day: Iron Republic Days | |||
| Compile a Port Report
It won't be entirely straightforward. The streets won't lie straight, and the ink freezes whenever you look away from the inkwell. |
A bitter taste
You've written - you've written something. Your hand cramps. Your mouth is thick with a vile taste, as if you had been eating wasps. Your tongue burns. Your throat is sore. This place is not right.  -1 x Iron
 Port Report: Fallen London = 1
Another Day: Iron Republic Days (no change) |
This is an unusual port report. Instead of taking it to The Admiralty Survey Office in London, drop it off at The Brass Embassy for a A Lump of Blue Scintillack.
(2021/08: no need to panic, doing MARKET OF HUNGERS: the Expulsus will reset Another Day: Iron Republic Days to 1 or 5, which will re-open the House of Pleasures or the House of Milks shop) | |
| Put a blemmigan ashore
How will nature fare in a place which defies its laws? |
Fungal horror
The blemmigan spins boldly down the gang-plank. It seems startled when it meets itself on the quay, twice. Its duplicates bob solicitously, like ambassadors greeting their peers, and continue past it, up into your ship. The first blemmigan vanishes into the crowd. The other two peer up at you as if to say: are we quite finished here? |
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| Seek help for Sacks and Snow: The Snow Child's Name
A dapper devil listens to Sacks and Snow: The Snow Child's Name's story with glee. "Oh, yes, I know just the thing. For a delightfully excessive price, of course." |
 Sacks and Snow: What Snow May Become = 7 [The Snow Child has made a wish.]
 The Snow Child ≥ 1
 Scintillack ≥ 3
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A simple violation of nature's laws
"Such a sweet child, and there's the problem. Sweetness never lasts. A drop on the tongue, and pffft - gone. No good. No good at all. Bitterness, dear Sacks and Snow: The Snow Child's Name, that's what you need. Ice must melt and snow must thaw, but nothing lingers quite like a good, hard grudge. Let me share one of my favourites, taken from a man who may never escape the smell of our burning roses." The devil whispers something not for your ears. The Snow Child's face fills with captivated horror. The devil smiles. "Just so! Now, to hold it in place, I recommend... oh, what do you call it? Heartmetal. Yes. I hear your people have been doing delightfully terrible things with it lately, and for all the wrong reasons. A fine apprenticeship. We really must reconsider sharing some of our notes. Take them this, with our compliments." -3 x Scintillack
 +1 Soothe & Cooper Long-Box
Sacks and Snow: What Snow May Become = 10 [You know how to help the Snow Child.]
Enables interaction  Station III - Find assistance for the Snow Child
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Game note: Scintillack can be found in the Principles of Coral, and elsewhere around the Zee. |
| Fund a Tittering Artificer's Project
"...nearly ready yes yes nearly ready I need more. You can have the prototype. When it's done. Take it, kill with it. I want to see what damage you can do. Ammunition will be difficult. It will cost you so much. So much. But the weapon. Oh! the weapon!" |
 1 x Secret
 7 x Stygian Ivory
 12 x Devilbone Dice |
Icarus in Black
"IT IS DONE. The flesh is not important, you see? It's the passion. The lessons. The spirit forged like a spear. All the spears. Into the hearts of monsters. Did I mention I don't like monsters? Monsters! Kill them for me. With my weapon. Go forth, and crack Mt Nomad. Yes." -12 x Devilbone Dice
-7 x Stygian Ivory
-1 x Secret
 +1 x Icarus in Black |
Game note: This is a Forward-mounted weapon with unusual characteristics. |
| Seek a Tittering Artificer's help to awaken the Seal
"I know people here!" the Cannoneer confides. "From the old days. Hm. Perhaps we shouldn't talk about the old days." |
An awakening
The Cannoneer and the Artificer place the Judgements' Egg on the Seal, and apply their instruments. The light in the Artificer's chamber grows dim. This, then, is what it sounds like when a soul screams... When they're done, the Egg lies in shards, and the Seal looks little different, but there is a watchfulness about it. The Artificer shakes the Cannoneer's hand. "I've missed working with you," she says. "I've missed it so much." The Cannoneer grins that grin. "Nearly done! We can mount it on the bridge, if you like. But we'll need a housing if we want to use it further. It'll have to be heartmetal. I knew a man, long ago... but I hear he went to Station III. (Swam there, the story says.) If you can get us the run of Station III, I can get you in to see him." "No, I don't know where Station III is. It's a secret." |
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| Sell the Memento Mori to a purchaser in the Iron Republic
The Iron Republic has no government, no representatives. But it has plenty of citizens eager to purchase an engine of destruction. |
 1 x Memento Mori |
YES. GIVE IT TO US.
A Wild-Eyed Prophet-Namer purchases the Memento for a cart-load of weird and sinister objects. "I will use it," she promises you. "I will use it for me."  +1 x Captivating Treasure
 +1 x Empty Mirrorcatch Box
 +1 x Zzoup
+3 x Supremacy: the Anarchists
+7 x Secret
+13 x Devilbone Dice |
Game note: This will gain you a Captivating Treasure, a Mirrorcatch Box, a bowl of Zzoup, thirteen Devilbone Dice and seven Secrets. |
| Parting with the Crotchety Tobacconist
He sniffs the air, and sneers. "What a foul stink. But I suppose this is where I must stay." |
 Rosegate: The Fate of a Cigar = 25 [You are delivering the Crotchety Tobacconist to the Iron Republic]
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The Crotchety Tobacconist strides off your deck while glaring upward into the crimson lights of the Iron Republic. "They'll help me here," he chunters. "I'll make a working underwater cigar. Then a dozen, twelve dozen, no, more! From the Fathomking to the Empress, they will know me." As he departs, you catch: "It'll burn; it'll all burn..." The zailor seeing him onto the dock rolls her eyes, then smirks when she sees you've noticed.
Rosegate: The Fate of a Cigar = 30 [The Crotchety Tobacconist will wallow within the Iron Republic]
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| Parting with the Crotchety Tobacconist
He breathes in deeply and nods his approval. "If I could wrap this place into a cigar, I'd be rich." |
Rosegate: The Fate of a Cigar = 45 [You are delivering the Crotchety Tobacconist to the Iron Republic]
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The Crotchety Tobacconist shakes your hand vigorously. "I owe you my gratitude. This will be a fine place for us to produce more of those underwater beauties. By this time next year, should have the entire zee burning." He extracts a cigar from his seemingly bottomless case, but pauses before lighting it. "Thank you again, my friend."
Rosegate: The Fate of a Cigar = 50 [The Crotchety Tobacconist will mass produce his underwater cigar in the Iron Republic]
+1 x Supremacy: The Anarchists
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Triggered interactions[ | ]
These only trigger when you are docked in Iron Republic.
Hydrogen for the Empire of Hands[ | ]
View the Hydrogen for the Empire of Hands page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
0 x A Delivery of Hydrogen
Empire of Hands: An Infernal Trade Agreement ≥ 1
Empire of Hands: The Zeppelin - Fuel ≤ 99Gallery[ | ]
Iron Republic
| Iron Republic story events | |
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| Hydrogen for the Empire of Hands | |
| Iron Republic shops |
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| Fire in the Belly • House of Harms • House of Harvests • House of Milks • House of Pleasures |