Retire from Zeefaring Life

Retire from Zeefaring Life
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Linked to	Your Lodgings
Data ID	143688

Retire from Zeefaring Life is a Sunless Sea Story Event.

Trigger conditions

Retire from Zeefaring Life can be accessed in Your Lodgings by doing the Consider Retiring from Zeefaring Life action and if you have the following:

Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings ≥ 2

Story description

"You're ready to end your life at zee, before the Unterzee ends it for you."

Game note: If you've completed an Ambition, this is unambiguously a win: otherwise, perhaps, call it a draw. You must be retiring to at least an Elegant Townhouse, in any case. You have standards.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
VICTORY ... Retire to a Life of Luxury You have a handsome mansion. You will also need a retirement fund.	30000 x Echo Objective: Ambition = 2 [Retire to a life of luxury] Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 3 [A Zeeside Mansion]	Peace and luxury You didn't reach the farthest ends of the zee, or earn a chapter of your own in the histories. But you will live out your days in well-cushioned, pleasantly heated, chandelier-tinkling refinement and delight. Your cellar is full. Your servants are attentive. Beyond the windows of your study, the zee glimmers in the light of the false-stars. On quiet evenings, you raise a glass to it: your defeated foe. You have everything that money might conceivably buy. Everything else is beside the point. +1 x Trophy: An Impossible Restaurant Bill +5 x Hearts +5 x Veils Win the game!	Game note: This captain's career is complete.
VICTORY! ...Retire to a Life of Fame You have written the Zong of the Zee, an epic and comprehensive artistic response to the black unknowns of the Neath. It will stand the test of time. Perhaps if anyone betters it, you can have them disposed of.	1 x The Zong of the Zee Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings ≥ 2 Objective: Ambition = 3 [Become London's most venerated explorer]	Fame and fortune You are acclaimed as the Prophet of the Unterzee. Your work inspires a whole generation of new captains to risk their ships, crew and selves against the unknown rewards of the dark waters. Poets and scholars queue to consult you. Your secretary will juggle dinner invitations for years to come. You're at the summit of London's social order. Your crew, of course, is not. They are bit players: crowd scenes, even. Perhaps you keep in touch with them, help them with loans or comfort when their own schemes fail. Perhaps you're content on your lonely pinnacle. +1 x Trophy: An Autographed Copy of the Zong of the Zee +5 x Hearts +5 x Pages Win the game!	Game note: This captain's career is complete.
VICTORY! ...Retire with your Father's Bones restored You have the grim bundle wrapped respectfully in oilskins. Arrange a funeral.	1 x Your Father's Bones Objective: Ambition = 1 [Find your father's bones, and then retire]	A quiet afternoon Rain at funerals is decorous. The Neath chooses to grace this afternoon with one of its thin and melancholy showers. Water-drops glisten on the shovel, the coffin, the pale expanse of the vicar's forehead. Not many Londoners remember your father, but the sense of occasion - the long quest! the final return to rest! - has brought out a sizeable crowd. Mourners line up to shake your hand. When they speak, you hear only the zee. Afterwards, you give the servants an evening off. The house is empty. The clock ticks. The roof-beams creak companionably. You can still hear the zee. +1 x Trophy: A Daguerreotype of a Memorial +5 x Iron +5 x Mirrors Win the game!	Game note: This captain's career is complete.
Retire to an Elegant Townhouse It's time to come home, for good.	Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 2 [An Elegant Townhouse]	A peaceful conclusion It's a good life. It may not be the best of all possible lives; but you eat well, sleep well and never drown. You can write your memoirs, take up a hobby. Bee-keeping, perhaps. Basket-weaving. Cat-collecting. Bat-watching... +2 x Hearts The game ends in a stalemate!	Game note: This captain's career is complete.
Retire to a Zeeside Mansion Any earthly comfort you might reasonably desire.	Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 3 [A Zeeside Mansion]	An affluent conclusion Perhaps you look out of those grand windows in your study and dream of the East, or even of the North, of what could have come to you across those lightless waters. Perhaps you embroider the stories of your exploits, a little. But perhaps you only grow old in comfort and peace. +2 x Hearts +2 x Mirrors +2 x Pages The game ends in a stalemate!	Game note: This captain's career is complete.