The Sun beneath the Sea

The Sun beneath the Sea
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Linked to	The East
Data ID	175583

The Sun beneath the Sea is a Sunless Sea Story Event.

Trigger Conditions

Sail past the east border of the map when not submerged with a zubmarine to trigger this event.

Story description

We will sail East, and the islands will fall behind. The zee will be troubled by greater waves. The false-stars will pale, until the Neath-roof grows invisible above. New scents will prickle the air: something like spice and something like pine.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
The light below At first, the sea will still be the colour of night behind glass, but then we'll see the light below. The colour of the water will change: rain-wet slate, then darkest jade, then deep rich green. Green as fresh emeralds. Green as remembered rivers.	0 x At Last: Salt's Song	The death of words It will be silent, that place where the sun lies beneath the sea. The engines will toil without sound. Words will issue from our mouths and puff into vapours. The silence will be too much, and the scrutiny of the golden light rising beneath us. We will have no choice to turn back, to Irem, where the world becomes real. -3 x Fuel -3 x Supplies +1 x The Mark of the East (if ≤ 0) Goes to: Irem
		Rare event (50%)
		The death of words It will be silent, that place where the sun lies beneath the sea. The engines will toil without sound. Words will issue from our mouths and puff into vapours. The silence will be too much, and the scrutiny of the golden light rising beneath us. We will have no choice to turn back, to Kingeater's Castle, where the world ends. -3 x Fuel -3 x Supplies +1 x The Mark of the East (if ≤ 0) Goes to: Kingeater's Castle
Once again, the light below Once again, the colour of night behind glass, then rain-wet slate, then darkest jade, then deep rich green. Emerald-green, river-green.	1 x At Last: Salt's Song	Salt's Song Your zailors line the rail. All are silent, until the bo'sun raises his voice in song. Echo = 0 Iron = 1 Veils = 1 Mirrors = 1 Pages = 1 Scion = 0 An Ironclad Will = 0 Heirloom = 0 Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 1 [A Room above the Blind Helmsman] At Last: the Threshold = 8 [Do you recall how we came to that place?] Triggers event: Green and Gold	Your Hearts are left intact. Given that every other captain stat and all wealth are obliterated, you probably want to plan to choose the Shipmate Legacy, and to pass on your Hearths and an Officer. Note that if you don't care about stats (or simply because your Hearts got too low to grant any real bonus because of the Eastern storyline), the only other Legacy that makes any sense here is the Rival (as you can keep your Memento Mori that way, although no Iron bonus will be given). Other legacies would either give you nothing (Salvager, Pupil) or simply (in case of Correspondent) rob you of discovery Fragments but offer you no Pages in return.