| Station III | |
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| Station III (Map) | |
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| Station III (Gazetteer) | |
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| Located in | Shepherd's Wash |
| Ports | Yes |
| Shops | No |
| Shipyard | No |
| Data ID | 147948 |
Station III is located in the Shepherd's Wash, where also lies Depot (A). This island is a land of machinery, warehouses and industry.
In Sunless Sea you will learn that there are three additional stations: Station IV is the 
Salt Lions, Station V is the 
Grand Geode and Station VI is 
Aigul.
Port description[ | ]
We may infer a Station I and a Station II. We may conjecture a Station IV.
Port interactions[ | ]
STATION III[ | ]
Location description[ | ]
Machinery hums behind high steel walls. Up the hill, there are visible outlines of warehouses and a building with a spire. But the lamps are low where they burn at all, and your ship the only one in harbour.
Interactions[ | ]
This interaction is only available while 
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes ≤ 0.
| Actions | Requirements | Effects | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Train your telescope on shore
Might be best to get a look from a distance. |
Church? Or something else?
You stand on the high point of your ship and look to shore. There is a steepled building on the horizon, by far the largest thing in sight. No cross marks the top of it, nor any other symbol you recognise. |
Bring the report to The Admiralty Survey Office at London for +1 x Admiralty's Favour and +100 x Echo. | |
| Deliver a Long-Box
The only way past the walls is an unimposing, but sturdy-looking, triple-locked gate silvery metal. A sign beside it reads DELIVERIES. The gate stands open. |
 DELIVERIES. |
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| Try the gate
The only way past the walls is an unimposing, but sturdy-looking, triple-locked gate silvery metal. A sign beside it reads DELIVERIES. |
No way in
The metal is steel-hard, and icy cold to the touch. Attempts with chisels and crowbars fail. Perhaps if you could bring the ship's guns to bear... but no. |
Game note: If you return with a certain delivery, the gate will be open. You'll know if you find it. | |
| Put a blemmigan ashore
What will it do, in this place of oil and metal? |
 1 x Docile Blemmigan |
A creeping plague
The blemmigan sidles furtively into a pipe that protrudes from the wall. All is still. You see no more of it. As you turn to go, greasy smoke puffs suddenly from the pipe's end. You smell burning grease. Nevertheless, perhaps, it survived. |
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| Deliver the Lorn-Fluke and observe the Student's experiment
He is terribly excited, and requests your steadying presence - to ensure he maintains the appropriate scientific detachment. |
 The Fate of Needles = 10 [Bound for Station III with the Anxious University Student]
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After careful set up
The shed is empty, saving a writing desk and the gigantic mass of needles. The Anxious Student snaps off the tip of one and twirls it between his fingers. "I hypothesise that the flukes have a method of absorbing and storing our lived experiences. It follows, therefore, that there should exist a means of transmitting - reliving! - that experience. Like so!" He stabs the needle through his palm. His eyes dull. "You heard Captain Harris, zailor. Target the Ogedei and fire torpedoes. And if you hit one of the Lorn Flukes then by God and Her Majesty I will put you out of the airlock and let the spiny b_____ds take you!" He awakes from the reverie a moment later, beaming. "That will do, Addressed As. Pass me your notes; I'll carry on the experiment from here." The Fate of Needles = 15 [You witnessed the Anxious University Student relive history through the needle.]
 +2 x Extraordinary Implication
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| Search Shed Twelve
A long, low building propped against the wall. Boarded windows. A rusting padlock. |
 Under the Unterzee ≥ 1
Acquiring a Zubmarine = 20 [Retrieve zonar schematics from Station III or Khan's Shadow]
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Your bo'sun shatters the lock with a ball-pein hammer
Inside, your lamps reveal dust-choked workbenches strewn with discarded tools. Shelves of cardboard boxes filled with rivets and bolts, washers and screws. Blackboards, roughly scrubbed. Here is an old lunchbox - its half-eaten sandwiches encased in successive generations of exciting fungus. In a rusted filing cabinet you find the documents you need: a folder of tea-stained research into zonar. You leave the rotting workshop quietly and return to your ship. The next time you sneeze, your handkerchief comes away black with the workshop dust that crept into your lungs. Acquiring a Zubmarine = 30 [Return the zonar schematics to the hidden workshop in Port Carnelian]
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Game note: Return to Port Carnelian to complete your zubmarine research. |
| Search for signs of other visitors
It never hurts to know what you are up against. |
 Mirrors challenge (84 for 100%)
 Something Awaits You ≥ 1 and ≤ 25 |
Failed event | |
| No evidence
You walk the quays, looking for any little sign that might show what sort of ships dock here, and what they deliver. But you find nothing conclusive: not even so much as a smear of pitch or a damp footprint. If any ship but yours has been tied up here in recent days, it has left no evidence. | |||
| Successful event | |||
| A familiar smell
There is nothing to see along the narrow quays, but there is a smell, distinct enough to rise above the odours of brine and wood and wet rope. It is the smell of frankincense, burned recently and in substantial quantities.  +10 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
| Rare successful event (10%) | |||
| A familiar smell and an old brazier
Here! A few quays over from the one where your own ship is docked, a brass burner is placed on a tripod. There's a heady scent of frankincense, and some sticky residue still clings to the bottom of the bowl. A scrap of gauze-thin black silk is tied to one leg of the tripod. This is an unusual amount of ceremony to attach to the unloading of a ship. +20 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
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Mirrors challenge (84 for 100%)
Something Awaits You ≥ 26 and ≤ 50 |
Failed event | ||
| No evidence
You walk the quays, looking for any little sign that might show what sort of ships dock here, and what they deliver. But you find nothing conclusive: not even so much as a smear of pitch or a damp footprint. If any ship but yours has been tied up here in recent days, it has left no evidence. | |||
| Successful event | |||
| An abandoned log
A few pages torn from a log book record a long passage of doggerel that makes no sense at all. The verses go on and on about purple fires and upside-down houses; a fistful of roses the color of brandy, and dolls with buttons for teeth. The pages end just as they are reaching the nonsense refrain. +10 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
| Rare successful event (10%) | |||
| An abandoned log
A few pages torn from a log book begin with a passage of music, a sweet low children's tune. After that come many verses that make no sense at all. They go on and on about purple fires and upside-down houses; a fistful of roses the color of brandy, and dolls with buttons for teeth; the soft glossy pelt of an octopus and the sweet juice of a brazil nut. By the end you are humming along to yourself. It is terribly soothing, this song. +20 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
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Mirrors challenge (84 for 100%)
Something Awaits You ≥ 51 and ≤ 75 |
Failed event | ||
| No evidence
You walk the quays, looking for any little sign that might show what sort of ships dock here, and what they deliver. But you find nothing conclusive: not even so much as a smear of pitch or a damp footprint. If any ship but yours has been tied up here in recent days, it has left no evidence. | |||
| Successful event | |||
| A shattered box
A box lies broken on the ground at one of the far quays. No one has cleared away the debris: a torn label reading SOOTHE & COO.... Curved shards of apothecary bottles. A curious oval of silvered metal the size of a cameo brooch. +10 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
| Rare successful event (10%) | |||
| A shattered box
A box lies broken on the ground at one of the far quays. No one has cleared away the debris: a torn label reading SOOTHE & COO.... Curved shards of apothecary bottles. A curious oval of silvered metal the size of a cameo brooch. And a delivery address on the Surface. +20 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
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Mirrors challenge (84 for 100%)
Something Awaits You ≥ 76 and ≤ 100 |
Failed event | ||
| No evidence
You walk the quays, looking for any little sign that might show what sort of ships dock here, and what they deliver. But you find nothing conclusive: not even so much as a smear of pitch or a damp footprint. If any ship but yours has been tied up here in recent days, it has left no evidence. | |||
| Successful event | |||
| Ironmongers' tools
Stacked near the stairs is a pile of worn out tools: tongs whose hinges have given way, a hammer whose head is coming loose from its haft. An anvil whose surface is mazed with deep cracks. +10 x Fragment
That's all for now | |||
| Rare successful event (10%) | |||
| Ironmongers' tools
Stacked near the stairs is a pile of worn out tools: tongs whose hinges have given way, a hammer whose head is coming loose from its haft. An anvil whose surface is mazed with deep cracks. Next to them a sign: REPLACE. +100 x Fragment
That's all for now |
Triggered interactions[ | ]
These only trigger when you are docked in Station III.
Station III again[ | ]
See the Station III again page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes ≥ 1 and ≤ 2 Inside the Little Gate[ | ]
See the Inside the Little Gate page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Errands for the Acolyte[ | ]
See the Errands for the Acolyte page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Something Awaits You ≥ 1
Station III: Earning the Acolyte's Favour ≥ 1
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes ≥ 3 and ≤ 4 Questions for the Acolyte[ | ]
See the Questions for the Acolyte page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Something Awaits You ≥ 1
Station III: Earning the Acolyte's Favour ≥ 10
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes ≥ 3 and ≤ 4 Observing the Latest Autopsies[ | ]
See the Observing the Latest Autopsies page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Something Awaits You ≥ 1
Station III: Earning the Acolyte's Favour ≥ 1
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes = 4 Summons to the Low Building[ | ]
See the Summons to the Low Building page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Once more[ | ]
See the Once more page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes ≥ 7 and ≤ 8 Picnic with the Acolyte[ | ]
See the Picnic with the Acolyte page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Meeting the Heartmetal Smith[ | ]
See the Meeting the Heartmetal Smith page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
1 x Irrepressible Cannoneer
Station III: Acquainted with a Heartmetal Smith ≤ 0
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes ≥ 3
Learning About: the Irrepressible Cannoneer ≥ 150 Visit to the Smith's Emporium[ | ]
See the Visit to the Smith's Emporium page.
This interaction appears if you have the following:
Something Awaits You ≥ 1
Station III: Acquainted with a Heartmetal Smith ≥ 1
Station III: Trading in Long Boxes ≥ 3Gallery[ | ]
Station III