Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box

Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box
Category	Curiosity
Type	Fallen London
Data ID	116273

Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box is considered a Misc Item in Sunless Sea.

Item description

"Speak the right phrase, and the tumblers will align and unlock it. But what is the right phrase?"

Game note: The Alarming Scholar may have some ideas.

Obtaining

Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box can be obtained by doing the Intruding upon Ratty Larceny action in Sunless Sea's browser-based predecessor and companion game, Fallen London, and choosing to Sell it to a zee-captain.

Usage

Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box is required to pursue Objective: The Box from the Sea.

A Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box

A Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	183088

Story description

If you've learnt the phrase that opens it, you can do so here. If not, what do you intend?

Trigger conditions

Triggered by clicking on Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Break it open The chest is reinforced with steel and probably Iremi riddlery. But if you actually turn the fire of your ship's guns on it, it will probably give up its contents. What's left of them.		BOOM A red-hot box-shard whizzes past your ear. You waft the smoke away, coughing. Not much remains in the shattered shell. Was this a Mirrorcatch Box? What's left of it, you can probably auction to the gullible of London. Claim it's a 'broken idol'. Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 +1 x Outlandish Artefact
Throw the box in the sea Enough of this. Whatever's in there isn't worth the trouble.		A single splash Perhaps the Drownies will find it. Perhaps they'll take it to their King. Perhaps he'll find the answer in his store of stolen secrets. Perhaps it will lie tarnishing in an abyss until time rolls to an end. Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0
Throw the box in the sea, as an offering to Salt	The Gods of the Zee: Defiant ≤ 0 The Gods of the Zee: Stone, Storm and Salt ≥ 1 [You know something of the three gods of the zee.]	A listening silence There is no splash as the box enters the waves. The horizon waits. The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Attention = 1 The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Curse = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0	Game note: This will give you Salt's Attention and remove Salt's Curse.
Open the Box "Only those who do nothing make no errors..."	Objective: The Box from the Sea ≥ 24 [Decide what to do with the box.]	A click as sweet and precise as a well-answered riddle Within: a soul glowing like a hidden star. Heaped sapphires from the Elder Continent. A Presbyterate heart-cup. A water-stained journal, blurred to near-unreadability - an account of a failed expedition to the Mountain of Light... Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 +1 x Judgements' Egg +1 x Extraordinary Implication +2 x A Casket of Sapphires +1 x Outlandish Artefact
		Rare event (50%)
		A click as sweet and precise as a well-answered riddle Books of poetry, pamphlets of a racier nature. A velvet-wrapped collection of ivory Chelonate carvings. And a Mirrorcatch box leaking sunlight. A handsome haul indeed. Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 +1 x Sunlight-Filled Mirrorcatch Box +10 x Romantic Literature +3 x Outlandish Artefact

Interactions in Brief

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Interaction	Action	Result Type	Change
The Alarming Scholar	'Ask the Scholar about the Whisper-Locked Box'	Requirement	≥ 1
Advice from the Alarming Scholar	'Sell him (her?) the box'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 0
The Boxmakers	'You will give them the box'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 0
The Widower	'Give him the box'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 0
The Widower	'Give him the box'	Rare Event	= 0
'Which is the cat's chiefest claw?'	'Sell them the box'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 0

Interactions in Detail

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Story	Action	Required	Effect
The Alarming Scholar	Ask the Scholar about the Whisper-Locked Box	Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box ≥ 1 Objective: The Box from the Sea ≤ 0	Default: Triggers Event: Advice from the Alarming Scholar
Advice from the Alarming Scholar	Sell him (her?) the box	None	Default: Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 +100 x Echo Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0
The Boxmakers	You will give them the box	None	Default: +4 x Bale of Parabola-Linen Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0
The Widower	Give him the box	Objective: The Box from the Sea ≥ 24	Default: Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 +1 x Judgements' Egg +2 x A Casket of Sapphires +1 x Extraordinary Implication Rare: Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 +1 x Sunlight-Filled Mirrorcatch Box +9 x Romantic Literature +2 x Outlandish Artefact
'Which is the cat's chiefest claw?'	Sell them the box	None	Default: Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box = 0 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 0 +500 x Echo

Triggered Events

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Story	Requirements	Type	Location
Advice from the Alarming Scholar	Objective: The Box from the Sea ≤ 0 Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box ≥ 1	Story Event (Always :100%)	London
The Boxmakers	Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box ≥ 1 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 1 [The Scholar suggested you seek answers in Irem, in the far north-east from London.]	Story Event (Always :100%)	Irem
The Widower	Objective: The Box from the Sea ≥ 21 ≤ 24 Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box ≥ 1	Story Event (Always :100%)	Fallen London
'Which is the cat's chiefest claw?'	Whisper-Locked Puzzle-Box ≥ 1 Objective: The Box from the Sea = 11 [The Scholar suggested you seek answers in Irem, in the far north-east from London.]	Story Event (Always :100%)	Isle of Cats