A Taste of You

A Taste of You
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	260488

A Taste of You is a Sunless Sea Story Event.

Story description[]

The Melliferous sister unlatches a tiny hatch in the cage. She places the opening against your right eye. The bee hums its wings, takes to the air. It is too close for your eyes to focus on it; just a bobbing, buzzing, shape. Isery leans eagerly forward.

Trigger conditions[]

A Taste of You is triggered when you do the Hear Isery's proposal action in An Invitation for Isery .

Interactions[]

Actions	Effects	Notes
Change your mind and withdraw The Melliferous Sister closes her cage. The bee settles. Isery tuts.	"So," Isery says, "if you change your mind in the future, my terms will stand." You take your leave. Triggers event: Port Cavendish
Permit this, but guard the memory of your first battle If this is what it takes, so be it. But you determine to guard the memory most important to you. Isery will not have it.	The process of the bee harvesting your memories is painful and invasive. But the experience several days later, when Isery consumes the resulting honey, is far, far worse. The Sisters chain you to a bed for your own safety. You can feel Isery crawling like a spider in your skull. Clawed finger-rings prick the stalk of your optic nerve. The Chiefest Claw gouges, graceless as a murderer, through your life. The pain is exactly as bad as you can imagine. It is likely that you are screaming. When the torture ends, you search your memories in a panic. What has Isery taken? What have you lost? You will never know. You expected it to feel like a wrenched tooth - a gaping raw absence where a memory used to be. But there is no such thing. There is no wound; there is simply less of you than there was. You are diminished. Recovery is slow. After several days, Isery visits and brings a gift: a decanter of Hungarian pálinka, in which Isery has drowned the bee that harvested you. "A reconciliatory gesture. I am satisfied and encouraged, and accept your invitation." They pour you each a glass of pálinka. The room fills with a fierce smell of apricots. "To immortality." Ambition: the Guide = 5 [Isery] -1 to -3 x Hearts -1 to -3 x Pages -1 to -3 x Mirrors -1 to -3 x Veils +10 x Terror +1 x Ambition: the Seven, Anew Triggers event: Port Cavendish	Game note: You will lose some of every skill except Iron.
Permit this, but guard the memory of your first kiss If this is what it takes, so be it. But you determine to guard the memory most important to you. Isery will not have it.	Same text as above. Ambition: the Guide = 5 [Isery] -1 to -3 x Pages -1 to -3 x Mirrors -1 to -3 x Veils -1 to -3 x Iron +10 x Terror +1 x Ambition: the Seven, Anew Triggers event: Port Cavendish	Game note: You will lose some of every skill except Hearts.
Permit this, but guard the memory of your various lies If this is what it takes, so be it. But you determine to guard the memory most important to you. Isery will not have it.	Same text as above. Ambition: the Guide = 5 [Isery] -1 to -3 x Hearts -1 to -3 x Pages -1 to -3 x Mirrors -1 to -3 x Iron +10 x Terror +1 x Ambition: the Seven, Anew Triggers event: Port Cavendish	Game note: You will lose some of every skill except Veils.
Permit this, but guard the memories of your travels If this is what it takes, so be it. But you determine to guard the memory most important to you. Isery will not have it.	Same text as above. Ambition: the Guide = 5 [Isery] -1 to -3 x Hearts -1 to -3 x Pages -1 to -3 x Veils -1 to -3 x Iron +10 x Terror +1 x Ambition: the Seven, Anew Triggers event: Port Cavendish	Game note: You will lose some of every skill except Mirrors.
Permit this, but guard the memory of your books and your education If this is what it takes, so be it. But you determine to guard the memory most important to you. Isery will not have it.	Same text as above. Ambition: the Guide = 5 [Isery] -1 to -3 x Hearts -1 to -3 x Mirrors -1 to -3 x Veils -1 to -3 x Iron +10 x Terror +1 x Ambition: the Seven, Anew Triggers event: Port Cavendish	Game note: You will lose some of every skill except Pages.