Mutton Island

Mutton Island
	Mutton Island (Map)
	Mutton Island (Gazetteer)
Located in	Southern Archipelago
Ports	Quaker's Haven
Shops	Harbour Provisioners
Shipyard	No
Data ID	143382

Mutton Island, located southeast of London, is an island with the simple fishing village of Quaker's Haven on a hill. Quaker's Haven was part of London's suburbs before the fall. Map shuffling does not affect this location.

Port description[ | ]

Fires on the hillside...

Story Branch Outline[ | ]

The story of Mutton Island is driven by the player's Another Day: Time, the Healer value. The fishing port of Quaker's Haven will be available until the player docks with Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 40. At this point, the crossroads event Approach Mutton Island will trigger, randomly setting Mutton Island on one of four possible paths:

All is Well: Quaker's Haven continues with interactions described in Quaker's Haven (All is Well). As Another Day: Time, the Healer progresses, options slowly change or become unavailable, until the Admiralty ultimately seize control of the island.
The Fruits of the Zee Festival: The player finds the inhabitants preparing for a festival in the Last-Minute Preparations and The Fruits of the Zee events. Afterwards, the permanent port interaction for Mutton Island is After the Festival.
Eerie Quiet: The player discovers a horrifying secret in the Quaker's Haven is Eerily Quiet event. The permanent port interaction for Mutton Island becomes The Blockade of Mutton Island.
The Khanate Invasion: Mutton Island has fallen under the sway of the Eagle clan. The permanent port interaction for Mutton Island becomes Quaker's Haven: Under New Management.

Affected Storylines[ | ]

Docile Blemmigan: After the crossroads event Approach Mutton Island, Docile Blemmigans may only be put ashore if Mutton Island followed the All is Well or the The Fruits of the Zee Festival storyline. During the All is Well storyline, the option becomes unavailable when Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 120.
In the Service of Mr Sacks: After the crossroads event Approach Mutton Island, the option to deliver the second sack to the Cheery Man's agent on Mutton Island is only available in the All is Well storyline, and then only when Another Day: Time, the Healer ≤ 119. This is not too concerning, since the A Firkin of Red Honey received in the Isle of Cats is a much better reward than the 75 x echo received on Mutton Island.
Low Barnet: Lucrative Beliefs: The option to offer passage to the Low Barnet: Wandering Parson will disappear after Approach Mutton Island for all storylines except All is Well, and will disappear from the All is Well storyline when Another Day: Time, the Healer is greater than 120. The Low Barnet: Wandering Parson can still be collected in Visage.

Port interactions[ | ]

Quaker's Haven[ | ]

Location description[ | ]

Once, this simple fishing village was part of the London suburbs, before London fell and the waters rushed in. Smoke spirals from cottage chimneys. A lonely hill rises behind town.

Availability[ | ]

Quaker's Haven is available in this form until the first time the player docks with Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 40, triggering the event Approach Mutton Island.

Interactions[ | ]

Note: Most interactions have a complicated requirement based on the values of Another Day: Time, the Healer and Mutton Island: Another Day. With the exception of “Chat to the fishermen”, none of these requirements affect interactions prior to triggering Approach Mutton Island, so have not been included in this interaction list.

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Drinks at the Cock and Magpie There's only one public house on the island. The Cock and Magpie is famed for its local cider and, of course, the zee-food.	20 x Echo Terror ≥ 1	Cider and cave-dory The trees of the Neath are scraggly and wretched - scraping a living with parasynthesis - but the apples of Mutton Island are tart and powerful, perfect for zider. Zider? Cider! This stuff is stronger than it looks. You stretch out in your seat, stare through the leaded window at your safely moored ship, and find yourself whistling. The landlord gives you a friendly grin and goes back to whetting his cleaver. -20 x Echo -1 x Terror
		Rare event (10%)
		Fresh Rubbery Lumps Tonight they're serving Rubbery Lumps, the Mutton Island way! They make them down in London, but they're not the same. These are like gristle if gristle could be golden. Saltier than any decent food should be, but somehow you can't stop eating them. “It's the well water, see,” slurs a young man who has been making friends with cider. “Can't make proper Rubbery Lumps without a proper well. Stands to reason. We look after the well here. Treat it right. And the Drowned Man looks after us.” The landlord comes over, slaps the young fellow, and takes his cider away. -50 x Echo -3 x Terror +1 x Iron (if ≤ 50) +1 x Veils (if ≤ 50)
Pick up a Wretched Mog “Mrrow. Mrrrowww.” A yellow-eyed, mangy, piebald thing winds around your ankles like a manacle-chain. You've never seen a cat's mouth open that wide. Presumably it's hungry. Game note: This is a Mascot, one variety of an Officer.	0 x Wretched Mog 3 x Supplies	What's that smell? It jumps down from your arms and disappears into the darkness of the ship. An hour later, five brutally executed rats are found on the foredeck. Game note: Appoint your new Mascot by dragging him from the Officers tab to his slot at the top of the screen. If you do this at sea rather than in port, you may affect crew morale. -3 x Supplies +1 x Wretched Mog
Explore the shore Wander a little way along the shore.	Something Awaits You ≥ 1 and ≤ 25	Triggers event: A Glittering Eye	This interaction and triggered events lead to a That's all for now.
	Something Awaits You ≥ 26 and ≤ 50	Triggers event: A Contest of Riddles	This interaction and triggered events lead to a That's all for now.
	Something Awaits You ≥ 51 and ≤ 75	Triggers event: Beachcombing	This interaction and triggered events lead to a That's all for now.
	Something Awaits You ≥ 76 and ≤ 85	Triggers event: A castaway	This interaction and triggered events lead to a That's all for now.
	Crew ≥ 4 Something Awaits You ≥ 86 and ≤ 100	Triggers event: A Concert event	This interaction and triggered events lead to a That's all for now.
A midnight ceremony? A warm night on Mutton Island. A balmy wind blows from the East, rich with promise. There are torches bobbing up the hill. Whatever's happening, it's for locals only, but you could follow them.	Veils challenge (84 for 100%) Something Awaits You ≥ 80 and ≤ 100	Failed event
		Too late You don't know the hill paths like the locals do, and you have to climb more than walk. Your skin is sheened with sweat by the time you reach the top. The black rocks greet you with empty indifference. If something happened up here, you're too late to see it. Still, the climb was good practice. +5 x Fragment That's all for now
		Successful event
		You don't know the cliff paths like the locals do, and you have to climb more than walk. Your skin is sheened with sweat by the time you reach the top. They've started without you. How rude. An elderly fellow wears a feathered head-dress and not much else: he seems to be leading the ceremony. One assistant holds an ear of corn (where did he find that down here?), another a stone jug, another a clay tablet. The elderly priest addresses them all to his congregation. You catch snatches of it: “The Drowned Man is not a god.” (The villagers hiss a reply.) “He came from the North, and to the North he will return.” (Another reply.) “The North is too cold for gods.” (“Too cold for gods,” they intone delightedly.) Finally, they nod in agreement. The circle turns as one to grab one of their number, a man (or woman?) with a lamp. They carry him (or possibly her) to the precipice and hurl the flailing body over the edge, down into the oily black waves far below. Their business done, the locals remove their robes and wander amiably back to town. They all seem quite jolly. Apparently the night's business went well. They retreat to the Cock and Magpie for a pint. +3 x Terror +1 x Tale of Terror!! +40 x Fragment That's all for now
Chat to the fishermen They sail the zee around the island: they mend their nets by the harbour. They see all that happens here, but you'll need coin to open their mouths.	0 x A Port Report: Quaker's Haven 1 x Echo	Little ships and little secrets Pirates plying the waves. Smugglers at their work. Khanate ships putting in to resupply. Nothing dramatic, but enough to interest the Admiralty. -1 x Echo +1 x A Port Report: Quaker's Haven	Bring the report to The Admiralty Survey Office at London for +1 x Favours: Admiralty's Favour and +5 x Echo.
Chat to the fishermen They sail the zee around the island: they mend their nets by the harbour. They see all that happens here, but you'll need coin to open their mouths.	0 x A Port Report: Quaker's Haven 1 x Echo Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 30	Nothing to report! Two fresh-faced fisherman are glad to greet you. “Can't think of anything, captain! We've 'ad a good catch!” You present another coin. The other fisherman shakes his head. “It's true, captain. No news, here.” The first nods. “You can tell the Admiralty 'ow all's in order.” Their eyes brighten with their smiles. +1 x A Port Report: Quaker's Haven	If the player docks with Another Day: Time, the Healer between 30 and 39, both “Chat to the fishermen” options will be available. Both will provide A Port Report: Quaker's Haven.
Visit the hilltop above town There's not much wind on the Unterzee. But Mutton Island suffers eery gusts and buffets from an inexplicably local fragment of weather, and the air on the hilltop sometimes carries interesting scents...	Pages challenge (34 for 100%) Something Awaits You ≥ 1	Failed event
		Peace You stand on the cliff-top, looking over the Island's village. Smoke from the chimneys of the Cock and Magpie drifts straight upwards. There's not a breeze to ruffle your hair nor to lift your collar. Below you, a young woman carries what could be real flowers, handing them out with a curtsey to everyone she meets. -1 x Terror That's all for now
		Successful event
		Toasting the wind You stand on a cliff-top, looking over the little whitewashed village. Smoke from the chimney of the Cock and Magpie drifts straight upwards. As you watch, the smoke tilts. The sudden wind thins it to a pencil smudge, then nothing. The wind screams unexpectedly, like a god cut in half. What a noise! It must be the caves around the island channelling the air. At least, that's the most comforting explanation. Below you, the locals each take nips from a shared flask and make a toast towards the mainland. The wind is a Southerly. +2 x Terror +1 to +50 x Fragment That's all for now
		Rare successful event (5%)
		The voice of the wind You stand on a cliff-top, looking over the little whitewashed village. Smoke from the chimney of the Cock and Magpie drifts straight upwards. As you watch, the smoke tilts. The sudden wind thins it to a pencil smudge, then nothing. The wind screams unexpectedly, like a god cut in half. The scream subsides, giving way to a susurrus that surrounds you suddenly with the illusion of whispering voices. You could swear you hear words - ‘in the depths’, ‘under seven poles’, ‘nowhere nowhere nowhere nowhere...’ It must be the caves around the island channeling the air. At least, that's the most comforting explanation. Below you, the locals each take nips from a shared flask and make a toast towards the mainland. The wind is a Southerly. +1 x Secret That's all for now
Put a blemmigan ashore Fertile, quiet and occasionally boggy: Mutton Island is perfect blemmigan country.	1 x Docile Blemmigan Propagation: Quaker's Haven ≤ 0	Disapproval A fisherman watches the violet shape scurry off down the beach. “‘Tain't right,” she says severely. “‘Tain't natural. Worse than dandelions.” -1 x Docile Blemmigan +1 x Blemmigans Abroad +1 x Propagation: Quaker's Haven
A delivery for Mr Sacks The Cheery Man's fellow is drinking in the pub.	Sacks and Snow: In the Service of Mr Sacks = 40	No good deed “Our little lost birdie? Well, there's a thing. You have my patron's thanks and here is your reward what was promised and is well deserved.” “Only fing is, there's only two folks what might have his Cheeriness' property, and that's the one what stole it, and the one what bought it and figured they could sell it back like indeed you are doing right here. So, and it's nothing personal, mind, I'm afraid I must break something. Little warning to any others out there who might be thinking of being clever. Tell you what, how's about we make it fair? Use the coin. Heads or legsies?” He flips it. High. Almost to the rafters. Rather than waiting for it to fall, you punch him hard in the face. The pub's clientele grumbles, but are soon mollified by free drinks all round. Paid for with the money in the chap's pocket of course, leaving a little for yourself. +78 Echo Sacks and Snow: In the Service of Mr Sacks = 49 Enables event: The Third Delivery
A Wandering Parson He glances nervously back at the Cock and Magpie, but his handshake is strong.	Low Barnet: Lucrative Beliefs ≤ 0 Under the Unterzee ≥ 1 Zubmarine ≥ 1 [Your ship is capable of zubmarine travel.]	Triggers event: A Wandering Parson at Mutton Island