Whale Bones | |
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Category | Random Event |
Type | Random |
Data ID | 243621 |
Whale Bones is a Sunless Sea Random Event.
Story description[ | ]
The zee has not been kind. The colossal skull is intact, but the body has been reduced to a gnawed frame of bones. Carvings have been scored into the bones.
Trigger conditions[ | ]
Upon zailing into Whale Bones on the zee-floor, this event will trigger.
Interactions[ | ]
Actions | Requirements | Effects | Notes |
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Examine the engravings
Are these inscriptions? |
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Failed event | |
You don your diving gear
Whatever the words read, they are now lost. Someone has further defaced each bone of the whale with a knife, obliterating every line. This is the censorship of Scrimshander, meted out on aberrant histories.
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Successful event | |||
You don your diving gear...
Someone has made a palimpsest of the bones. This is not a corpse, but a bone-book. A zee-voyage is engraved on the skull, from a city at a confluence of three rivers. A woman is at the helm. On the underside of a rib, the same image reversed. She returns. An ancient language is scrawled over everything. Someone has attempted to score out the words, but was prevented half-way through, or gave up.
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Collect unknown toxins
The marrow of these beasts bear poisons. Harvest them. |
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Failed event | |
You and your crew don diving suits and swim out, armed with flasks and bonesaws. It takes three of you to hold a rib in place, another two to wield the saw. Someone slips; the saw descends too fast, biting deep into the bone. There is a snap. You are all covered in viscous liquid that spews from the break. | |||
Successful event | |||
You and your crew don diving suits and swim out, armed with flasks and bonesaws. It takes three of you to hold a rib in place, another two to wield the saw. Your doctor insists on collecting the marrow personally. It is backbreaking labour; the snap of bones, the dribble of pallid marrow. Eventually, every bone is snapped and hollow. You have taken enough. | |||
Harvest stygian ivory
The bones are intact, and valuable. |
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Failed event | |
You don your diving gear
You set to with the bone saw. While you work, curious shoals of angler-fish swim past, providing a brief moment of light. How pretty! They draw closer. Your navigator shines a torch to ward them away. Their many teeth reflect the light beautifully. A quick retreat seems wise.
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Rare failed event (30%) | |||
You don your diving gear
You set to with the bone saw. While you work, curious shoals of angler-fish swim past, providing a brief flurry of light. The beast's bones are notched, as though others had attempted this before. The marrow is curiously absent of colour - thin and oily, seeping slowly into the water when the bone is snapped.
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Successful event | |||
You don your diving gear
You set to with the bone saw. While you work, curious shoals of angler-fish swim past, providing a brief moment of light. The beast's bones are notched, as though others had attempted this before. The marrow is curiously absent of colour - thin and oily, seeping slowly into the water when the bone yields.
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