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{{Infobox journal |image = SS blackgaz.png |px = 260px |category = [[Story Event]] |linked = [[An Abyss]] |id = 168550 }} '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a [[Sunless Sea]] [[Story Event]]. ==Trigger conditions== '''{{PAGENAME}}''' will be triggered by 3 or 4 of the 15 [[Unterzee]] abysses when you do the <span style="color:teal;">'''Dive'''</span> action in the [[An Abyss]] event. The abysses leading to '''{{PAGENAME}}''' are randomly determined for each new captain. ==Story description== Your zubmarine's lights illuminate bas-reliefs carved into the walls of the chasm. They depict men and women rowing from a sunless city, then, far at zee, scuppering their ships. Symbols etched into the walls flicker with fire. ==Interactions== {| class="ss-table" style="width:100%;" !style="width:10%;"|Actions !style="width:15%;"|Requirements !style="width:15%;"|Effects !style="width:10%;"|Notes |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Forsake the Rite of the Hearth'''</span> So that you may partake in a different one. |<ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 2<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1</ul> |Your bo'sun mutters a rapid prayer to Salt, off whom blessings and curses alike slide. The St Brendan's fire in your lights gutters and dies. <ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 0<p></p> [[File:SS mirrorssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-20</span> x [[Mirrors]]<p></p> [[File:SS veilssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+10</span> x [[Veils]]</ul> |{{game note|You may only benefit from one rite at a time.}} |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Forsake the Rite of Feasting'''</span> So that you may partake in a different one. |<ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 3<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1</ul> |Your bo'sun mutters a rapid prayer to Salt, off whom blessings and curses alike slide. There is no immediate effect, but that night you dream of being vehemently, vigorously sick. You wake in a pensive mood. <ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 0<p></p> [[File:SS ironsmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-20</span> x [[Iron]]<p></p> [[File:SS mirrorssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+10</span> x [[Mirrors]]</ul> |{{game note|You may only benefit from one rite at a time.}} |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Forsake the Rite of Greeting'''</span> So that you may partake in a different one. |<ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 1<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1</ul> |Your bo'sun mutters a rapid prayer to Salt, off whom blessings and curses alike slide. Your vigorous coughing fit is unquestionably a coincidence. You are hoarse for the rest of the day, but swiftly recover. <ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 0<p></p> [[File:SS heartssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-20</span> x [[Hearts]]<p></p> [[File:SS ironsmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+10</span> x [[Iron]]</ul> |{{game note|You may only benefit from one rite at a time.}} |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Forsake the Rite of Solace'''</span> So that you may partake in a different one. |<ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 4<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1</ul> |Your bo'sun mutters a rapid prayer to Salt, off whom blessings and curses alike slide. There is no effect, of course. But that night you do not dream of a woman clad in black. Her absence is as notable as a missing tooth. <ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 0<p></p> [[File:SS veilssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-20</span> x [[Veils]]<p></p> [[File:SS heartssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+10</span> x [[Hearts]]</ul> |{{game note|You may only benefit from one rite at a time.}} |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Depart'''</span> You've seen what you came to see. |<ul>[[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1</ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''Away'''</span> You drift steadily up and out of the maw. <ul>[[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 0</ul> | |- | rowspan="4"| <span style="color:white;">'''Record their messages'''</span> A true zailor may survive reading these etchings, they say. | rowspan="4"| <ul>[[File:SS Pages.png|23px]] [[Pages]] challenge (<span style="color:teal;">'''50'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> [[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 0<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1 </ul> | style="background: #002020;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Failed event</span> | rowspan="4"| {{game note|This rite will increase your Hearts by 20 but decrease your Iron by 10. You may only benefit from one rite at a time.}} |- |<span style="color:white;">'''You don your diving gear'''</span> You brush away the sand half-filling the carving. Your lamp gives its pattern a sharp shadow. It's uncomfortably warm. Focus: this carving resembles a whirlpool. The lines spiralling outwards brush against the ships. Ignore the sweat trickling into your eye. The ancient rowers push into the whirlpool; splinter their own vessels. This must be their destination. To the right of the image is a symbol: ''A parabolic approach to-'' D__m! Your eyebrows are aflame. The seven minute bell rings urgently. A crewman hauls you back to the zubmarine. Someone remove this blasted helmet! <ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 1<p></p> [[File:SS heartssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+20</span> x [[Hearts]]<p></p> [[File:SS ironsmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-10</span> x [[Iron]]<p></p> [[File:SS bloodstainsmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:red'>+1</span> x [[Menaces: Wounds]]</ul> |- | style="background: #002020;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Successful event</span> |- |<span style="color:white;">'''You don your diving gear'''</span> You brush away the sand half-filling the carving. Your lamp gives its pattern a sharp shadow. It's uncomfortably warm. Focus: this carving resembles a whirlpool. The lines spiralling outwards brush against the ships. The ancient rowers push into the whirlpool; splinter their own vessels. This must be their destination. To the right of the image is a symbol: ''A parabolic approach to an object of fascination.'' The seven minute bell rings. You must return to your zubmarine. <ul>[[File:SS gleamgaz.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Rite]] = 1<p></p> [[File:SS heartssmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+20</span> x [[Hearts]]<p></p> [[File:SS ironsmall.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-10</span> x [[Iron]]</ul> |- | rowspan="4"| <span style="color:white;">'''Dive deeper'''</span> There is something even further down in the darkness. | rowspan="4"| <ul>[[File:SS heartssmall.png|23px]] [[Hearts]] challenge (<span style="color:teal;">'''70'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1</ul> | style="background: #002020;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Failed event</span> | rowspan="4"| |- |<span style="color:white;">'''Deeper still'''</span> Your helmsman obeys the order silently, driving the vessel even deeper down. Soon, the zubmarine creaks against the pressure. The weight of the zee is crushing, and though your shell can hold, it suffers. Your zubmarine's pinprick of light shines onto a cliff side, illuminating only a spot of a vast, inverted cathedral: a Fathomless Church. <ul>[[File:SS Hull.png|23px]] <span style="color:red;">-10</span> x [[Hull]]<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 2</ul> |- | style="background: #002020;" align="center" |<span style="color:white;">Successful event</span> |- |<span style="color:white;">'''Deeper still'''</span> Your helmsman's response is unjustifiably foul-mouthed, but she assents. Your zubmarine's pinprick of light shines onto a cliff side, illuminating only a spot of a vast, inverted cathedral: a Fathomless Church. <ul>[[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 2</ul> |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Perform the Ritual of Greeting'''</span> The church's niches all possess the same decoration: statues of men and women standing before a door, bells in their hands. Follow their example. |<ul>[[File:SS drownedsmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Approaching Her Ladyship]] = 0<p></p> [[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 2</ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''You don your diving gear'''</span> You swim into the nave. Your bubbles float upward, toward the tiled floor. Though the mosaic is entirely black, there is form in its formlessness. At the end of the aisle is an archway. Inside, a kelp-rope floats upward from a deep chasm. When it drifts within reach, you snatch it and pull. A great weight moves at the other end - you pull again. It rings out - once! Twice! Thrice! The waters stir. A strong current throws you into the nave, and carries you back out the mouth of the Church. <ul>[[File:SS drownedsmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Approaching Her Ladyship]] = 1</ul> |{{game note|Performing the abyssal rituals in the correct order will lead to a discovery.}} |- | <span style="color:white;">'''Ascend'''</span> You have seen enough of darkness for now. |<ul>[[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 2</ul> |<span style="color:white;">'''Rising'''</span> With every yard climbed the possibility of meeting an untimely death declines. <ul>[[File:SS Submarineblacksmall.png|23px]] [[Abyssal Rites: Diving...]] = 1</ul> | |} [[Category:Sunless Sea story event]]
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