| Mangrove College | |
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| Mangrove College (Map) | |
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| Mangrove College (Gazetteer) | |
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| Located in | Sea of Autumn |
| Ports | Yes |
| Shops | No |
| Shipyard | No |
| Data ID | 143391 |
The Mangrove College is located at one of the several flourishing swamp forest isles in the Sea of Autumn. Its map location is also called Melting Isles.
The Mangrove College became available in the Emerald release.
Port description[ | ]
The wise and the wicked seek sanctuary here, where the fruits are plenty and the woods wild.
Port interactions[ | ]
The Mangrove College[ | ]
Location description[ | ]
A steaming sprawl of parasynthetic vegetation - and a village. Barely a village. Holed walls, roofs in disrepair, stilts leaning dangerously. It looks to have been assembled by drunks in a hurry. Dock carefully.
Interactions[ | ]
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| Engage an Officer: Maybe's Daughter
At the end of the rotting dock, a woman perches on a suitcase. Both she and the suitcase are noticeably cleaner than everything else in view. “Hello! Where are you headed? On second thoughts, I don't mind. Can I come aboard? Yes, I'm an engineer, but I'm an engineer in a hurry.”
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Welcome aboard!
"If anyone comes looking for me, well, I'm not accepting callers. Can I trust you to pass that on? You don't want them distracting me from my duties."
Game note: Appoint your new Officer by dragging her from the Officers tab to her slot at the top of the screen. Do this in port, not at sea, or you may unsettle your crew.
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| Pick up a passenger
The Mangrove College is named for its scholars and philosophers. They have long abandoned civilised comforts for the life of the mind. Sometimes, they want those civilised comforts back. |
 0 x A Chequered Character
 0 x A Shady Sort
 Objective: Tomb-Colonists ≤ 59 or ≥ 61
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A Chequered Character
“The Principles. Port Cecil. Black and white and silver... please, take me there. Sooner, later, it doesn't matter. I know how complex the moves can be.” |
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| A Shady Sort
“The Corsair's Forest, please. Gaider's Mourn. No, I'm not in a hurry, but I think I might stay below decks. I don't carry the fee on me: you'll have to trust me for it when we arrive. Thank you. A pleasure.” +1 x A Shady Sort
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| Pick up an Absent Friend for Venderbight
The directions take you to a frondy hovel in the shade of a swamp-oak. When you knock, the whole thing quivers as if it's come unmoored. |
Objective: Tomb-Colonists = 60 [Bring a Shady Sort to Venderbight from the Mangrove College]
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A tall woman - imposing despite a layer of mud - opens the door. “Has he sent word?” she asks. She grins delightedly. “Let's be off. To Venderbight! Don't spare the engines. It's been too long.”
A Shady Sort = 1
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| Compile a Port Report
Sages, scholars, philosophers, naturalists, poets, dreamers - here to pursue their rarefied ideals in a land of muddy fecundity. |
All shall be well
The thinkers of the Mangrove College continue their untroubled and sedentary existence. New schools of philosophy are born and die like bubbles. Extraordinary poetries are written in water. The occasional retired pirate tries, and fails, to get invited to salons.  +1 x A Port Report: The Mangrove College
 +1 x Supplies
 Hunger = 0
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| Go beachcombing
Ships come and go to and from the Mangrove College, often in secret. What might they have flung overboard? |
 Beachcombing
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| Eat, drink, be merry
The philosophers of the College are not hospitable, but this whole shoreline is bursting with fruit and edible fungus. Reach up and it falls into your hand. Pick it up, and it's already fermented. |
An explosion of tastes
Tart morels and morel tart. The salty tang of zeeweed stew. A crawling berry that the locals assure you is a motile plant, not an insect. Eat your fill, and drink contemplatively.  -10 x Terror
Hunger = 0
 That's all for now
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| Gather supplies
You don't have time to stop and rest, but you can gather plenty of supplies. The College members will grumble, but there's enough to go around. |
Wonderful things
Your crew strips a stretch of shoreline bare. It'll have burgeoned again by next week, no doubt. +2 to +6 x Supplies
That's all for now
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| Gather supplies
You don't have time to stop and rest, but you can gather plenty of supplies. The College members will grumble, but there's enough to go around. |
Wonderful things
Your crew strips a stretch of shoreline bare. It'll have burgeoned again by next week, no doubt. +2 to +6 x Supplies
That's all for now
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| A rush of purple!
Your crew returns sooner than you expected. One is nursing a badly bitten arm. Another bleeds from a scalp wound. A third is missing altogether. “Swarmed by blemmigans, captain,” a survivor tells you, shivering. “Never saw the little monsters coming.” | |||
| Into the Wisp-Ways
The swamps around the village are full of mud, crocodiles and vegetable treasures, including the notorious parasite called ‘solacefruit’. The fogs and spreading branches occlude all light.
Game note: Take plenty of candles if you venture in. |
 1 x Foxfire Candles
1 x Supplies
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Raise your lanterns high
Game note: You can leave at any time, but if you get in far enough, you'll generally find something interesting. -1 x Foxfire Candles
-1 x Supplies
Another Day: Navigating the Swamps = 1 to 50
Triggers event:  The Wisp-Ways
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| Unpick the Mysteries of other Lands
The scholars of the College are hungry for lore. They'll help you put the pieces together. |
 7 x Memory of Distant Shores
 77 x Fragment
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A dozen strands, a single knot
It all makes sense now! Or sense enough, at least. -77 x Fragment
-7 x Memory of Distant Shores
 +1 x Secret
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Game note: This will convert these items to a Secret. |
| Unpick the Mysteries of the Zee
Some of the ‘philosophers’ of the College have the grizzled air of old zailors. Retired mariners? Or pirates who've come here to avoid attention? |
Vivid stories
A Wary Hermit, her eyes bright, helps you sift truth from nonsense. By the end of it, she sighs with longing. ‘The zee...’ she says. “But no. I'm here for good.” |
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| Put a blemmigan ashore
The college is already a crumbling mess more plant than village. Unleashing a blemmigan here will only hasten the decline. No matter. |
Into the wild
It shows no interest in the village - it disappears straight into the jungle. There, little blemmigan. Thrive. Thrive and multiply. |
This negatively affects Gather supplies, and has effect on The Wisp-Ways, converting "An abandoned fort" into "A fort infested", allowing no Terror loss for characters with high Veils but resulting in Crew loss and Terror gain in case of failed Veils check. | |
| Meet your contact
An Enigmatic Gentleman lives a comfortable life in the largest hut. He won't see you without an appointment, but the Admiralty has arranged that appointment. |
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An island of civilisation
Once inside the hut, you might imagine yourself back in London. Bright candle-light, thick carpets (a little spotted with damp), even wallpaper (similarly spotted). Two philosophers wait on you both, a little sulkily. The Enigmatic Gentleman will say nothing until you've both eaten dinner (a fine, if eclectic meal: cavern-trout, swamp-fruits, spices from Adam's Way and Whither, served on Delft ware at a lacquered Ming table). When you're done, he gives you a carefully itemised list of ship sightings, some excellent port and a little something to take away. “Remember me to the Admiral,” he says fondly.  +1 x Strategic Information
 +1 x Mutersalt
Hunger = 0
 Objective: An Admiralty Commission = 0 [No Current Commission]
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| An intent stare
There's a gentleman watching you rather closely. He may be mumbling to himself. |
 Hideaway: The Impolite Investigator ≤ 0
 Hideaway: The Truth ≤ 0
 Under the Unterzee ≥ 1
 Zubmarine ≥ 1 [Your ship is capable of zubmarine travel.]
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 Well Intended Questions
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| Mangrove College story events | |
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| The Wisp-Ways | |