The Thing in the Kitchen

The Thing in the Kitchen
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Linked to	Hunter's Keep
Data ID	143010

The Thing in the Kitchen is a Sunless Sea Story Event.

Trigger conditions

The Thing in the Kitchen is triggered when you dock in Hunter's Keep and have the following:

Acquaintance: Sojourning with the Sisters ≥ 25 and ≤ 30

Story description

"The Yellow-Eyed Maid clings to the ceiling like a lizard, fierce and wiry in her ragged uniform. She hisses furiously. When you advance a step, she scurries away to the far end of the room, still on the ceiling, weeping."

Interactions

This interaction is not useful if you want to save The Scarred Sister. You should do The Silent House event instead.

Actions	Requirements	Effects
Coax her down Whoever and whatever she is, she's suffering.	Hearts challenge (100 for 100%)	Failed event
		"What do maids eat?" The diet of domestic servants is a mystery to you. Of traumatised, ceiling-clinging maids who may not even be human, still less so. You offer her milk, bread, wine, ship's biscuits. She shakes her head and cries like a wounded fox. -1 x Supplies +1 to +3 x Acquaintance: Sojourning with the Sisters
		Successful event
		"Down she comes" You try to question her. "Those poor zailors!" she spits. You realise that in all the time you spent at Hunter's Keep, she had never spoken. "The poor zailors! I didn't come here for this! Damn them to the well!" She's finished the meat. She returns to the ceiling in a single inhuman bound. -1 x Supplies +1 to +3 x Acquaintance: Sojourning with the Sisters +50 x Fragment
Catch her with a net She's dangerous. And somehow, you suspect you may not have much time.	Iron challenge (84 for 100%)	Failed event
		"Remarkable agility!" She runs round the ceiling like a squirrel - drops to hiss and claw at one of your zailors - retreats into the scullery - slithers through the window there and returns through the chimney, black with soot. You glare at each other, panting. +1 x Acquaintance: Sojourning with the Sisters +2 x Terror
		Successful event
		"Hauled down" It's like trying to get a jaguar out of a tree. Three of your crew are badly bitten, but at last you restrain her and she lies on the table, glaring and growling. What now? You try to question her. "Those poor zailors!" she spits. You realise that in all the time you spent at Hunter's Keep, she had never spoken. "The poor zailors! I didn't come here for this! D__n them to the well!" With a serpentine wriggle, she's free of the net. She returns to the ceiling in one inhuman leap. +1 x Acquaintance: Sojourning with the Sisters +5 x Terror +50 x Fragment