The Venturer's Desires

The Venturer's Desires
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Linked to	Fallen London
Data ID	159414

The Venturer's Desires is a Sunless Sea Story Event.

Trigger conditions

The Venturer's Desires is triggered when you do the Speak to the Merchant Venturer action in The Merchant Venturer event and have the following:

The Venturer's Venture ≥ 1 and ≤ 49

Story description

""I will need your help.""

Game note: If he has made two requests, you can fulfil either one.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects
"Something deep." "Five hundred Echoes for seven peculiar fish-corpses. A very fine price."	7 x Strange Catch The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire = 1	"Thank you. This is perfect. I can buy cave-trout down at the docks any day of the week, but I'll need something a little different. Something for the shapelings. But now, I have further need of your services..." -7 x Strange Catch +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +10 x Fragment +500 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something savage." "I imagine you'll need to, ah, hunt things. Fierce things. Five hundred Echoes for seven pieces."	7 x Hunting-Trophy The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 1 and ≤ 2	"This will do nicely. I need persuasive threats, not weapons - and these are persuasive. Now, I have further need of your services..." -7 x Hunting-Trophy +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +500 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something bright." "Port Cecil, in the Principles of Coral. It's usually north-east, or thereabouts. That's where scintillack comes from. A round thousand Echoes, for seven."	7 x Scintillack The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 2 and ≤ 3	"Thank you. Where I'm going... there will be light enough, eventually. But we'll need something we can manage ourselves. But now, I have further need of your services..." -7 x Scintillack +2 x The Venturer's Venture +1000 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something romantic." "They publish this stuff in the Khanate, to the East. But they don't trade readily... and there's a customs duty on love stories. Still, I'll pay a thousand Echoes for the seven."	7 x Romantic Literature The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 3 and ≤ 4	"There's something about the Revenue's touch. They don't change the words, but I never find the works quite so thrilling. Still, they're not for my eyes. Beyond the gate, there will be many appetites. I cannot even be sure how much use these will be - but I can hope. Now, something else..." -7 x Romantic Literature +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +1000 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something silky." "I'll offer you a better price than you'll get in Wolfstack. Much better. Fifteen hundred Echoes for the lot. You'll find silk in Saviour's Rocks, far to the East. Or in the Khanate, near the zee's heart."	21 x Bolts of Spider-Silk The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 4 and ≤ 5	"Spiders. Spiders... they are the first to know the speech of stars. I will be the last. But I need something more..." -21 x Bolts of Spider-Silk +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +1500 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something warming." "They sell it in Mt Palmerston, somewhere in the North of the Unterzee. One thousand Echoes for seven sealed skins."	7 x Zzoup The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 5 and ≤ 6	"It's a specialist taste. But where I'm going, there are specialist customers. One more thing - " -7 x Zzoup +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +1000 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something spicy." "They harvest it in Whither, to the north along the coast. Seven hundred Echoes."	7 x Mutersalt The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 6 and ≤ 7	"We won't need it for its taste. There are voices which must be drowned. Now -" -7 x Mutersalt +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +700 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something perilous." "They sell these in Mt Palmerston, somewhere in the North of the Unterzee. Five hundred for seven barrels of the things. You won't find a better price."	7 x Devilbone Dice The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 7 and ≤ 8	"When I was a boy, I asked my nurse: when you break a law, what happens to the pieces? Now I know. Now I know. But I need something else - " -7 x Devilbone Dice +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +500 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something intricate." "Find them in buried treasure, broken museums, pirate cargoes. Now and then, the stomachs of monsters. Good luck. I need seven. Don't ask why. Fifteen hundred Echoes will answer all your questions."	7 x Outlandish Artefact The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 8 and ≤ 9	"Oh, thank you. Thank you. When I look at these, I want so much to travel again; but there's only one journey left in me, I think. You, on the other hand - " -7 x Outlandish Artefact +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +1500 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something forlorn." "You can find it in Irem... or dreams. I don't know which is easier to find. (Actually, they sell it down at Wolfstack, but where's the romance in that? Or the profit.) Seven hundred Echoes for seven bales."	7 x Bale of Parabola-Linen The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 9 and ≤ 10	-7 x Bale of Parabola-Linen +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +700 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something durable." "Murder enough monsters. Or you can purchase it in the Chelonate, far to the East. They're flooded with dead monsters. I'm not. Five hundred Echoes. Yes, it's generous. Be quick."	7 x Stygian Ivory The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 10 and ≤ 11	"All these are lessons. Contours of history. There will be scholars and marvellers... but enough of that. I have another task for you." -7 x Stygian Ivory +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +500 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something azure." "Sapphires, as of course you know, come from Port Carnelian, in the south-west of the zee. One thousand Echoes. There and back again. Hurry. I have candles to light."	7 x A Casket of Sapphires The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 11 and ≤ 12	"That blue! I will confess something to you. This is my least practical purchase - but I wanted something to remember the blue. Thank you. Cheap at the price. But there's something else - " -7 x A Casket of Sapphires +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +1000 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something... difficult." "You, ah, might need to destroy a Lorn-Fluke - or find someone who already has. There's a thousand Echoes in it for you. One thousand. One thousand exactly. One thousand is the num - one thousand."	1 x Colossal Fluke-Core The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 12 and ≤ 13	"The Flukes. The greatest of the shapelings. And the Lorns are the greatest of the Flukes. By accepting this Core, I make myself an accomplice in a crime... but perhaps, in a sense, this one will return home. Perhaps. One more thing - " -1 x Colossal Fluke-Core +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +1000 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something sorrowful." "We all know where to find human skulls. I appreciate that it can be difficult to negotiate for them. Five hundred Echoes... and no questions asked."	7 x Lamentable Relic The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 13 and ≤ 15	"Seven. It's always seven. I don't know why. But if we are to profit by this scheme, we have to hew to the rules. We're close, now. But another thing - " -7 x Lamentable Relic +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +500 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
"Something dark." "They grow it in the Elder Continent, to the South. You can find it in Adam's Way, or Port Carnelian, or the Khanate, perhaps. Seven hundred Echoes. Yes. Perhaps I just drink a lot of coffee."	7 x Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans The Venturer's Venture ≤ 10 Venturer's Desire ≥ 14 and ≤ 15	"This will put fire in our belly. In all our bellies. We'll need that: it's cold out there. One more thing - " -7 x Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans +1 to +2 x The Venturer's Venture +700 x Echo Venturer's Desire = 1 to 15
The Venturer has a plan "My operations here will continue without me... and I have gathered all the supplies I need for my greatest endeavour yet. I need to charter your ship." Will you hear what he has to say?	The Venturer's Venture ≥ 11 and ≤ 14	"Time to go." "You and I: we are not numbered among the timid. Now is the time to complete what we have begun. Come with me. Come North, to Avid Horizon, to the High Gate." The Venturer's Venture = 15 Venturer's Desire = 0
North! Take the Venturer to Avid Horizon, where the sea ends and the Watchers wait. The Venturer, and his forty units of essential cargo.	The Venturer's Venture = 15	"Let us sail when you're ready. All that you've assembled for me - it's here. Treasures too great for this world. Take me North, to Avid Horizon, in Void's Approach." +40 x Materials for the Passage The Venturer's Venture = 20
Avid Horizon! Absolutely not. It's a place of evil reputation. The High Gate won't open on anything good. His motives are plainly not rational. Bid him farewell.	The Venturer's Venture = 15	"You are not who I thought you were. I'll admit I'm disappointed. But I've come to far to fail now. I'll find another. I have a parting gift for you. Listen - " His eyes are wide and dark. His voice is low. These things he speaks of - the disposition of darkness, the shadows of land, the path the quiet wind walks - these were laws once. But here, so far from the Sun, the laws have decayed. Their force is spent. This is why the zee changes eternally, like a sleeper twisting in dreams. At least, now, you understand a little of how it might change. You awake from a long cold reverie. The Venturer is gone. +5 x Terror +1 x Pages +1 x Mirrors +1 x Secret The Venturer's Venture = 100
Purchase more supplies for the Venturer's expedition You've made mistakes: you may yet correct them.	The Venturer's Venture = 20 Materials for the Passage ≤ 39 100 to 4000 x Echo	Perhaps going North is the mistake. Time to find out. -100 to -4000 x Echo Materials for the Passage = 40
A shipment from the Lady of the Cages "Hand it over then. But quietly. No need to attract any... unwanted attention."	1 x Vials of Red Honey Lady of the Cages' Patronage = 2	Middlemen The Venturer hands you a black medallion. "Tell the Lady I'll send the usual payment. By the expected channels. Mostly urchins, this time," he adds. "The Admiralty's cracking down." -1 x Vials of Red Honey +1 x Venturer's Medallion Lady of the Cages' Patronage = 3 Go to Fallen London
Betray Zaira "I'll pay you a thousand Echoes for it, right now. Just tell the Lady of the Cages you lost the shipment at sea."	1 x Vials of Red Honey Lady of the Cages' Patronage = 2	Explanations due It is a good deal for both of you. The Merchant Venturer's handshake is warm and surprisingly firm. Is that a look of pity in his eyes? -1 x Vials of Red Honey +1000 x Echo