Time with your Family

Time with your Family
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Linked to	Fallen London
Data ID	150964

Time with your Family is a Sunless Sea Story Event.

Trigger conditions

Time with your Family is triggered when you do the Time with your Family action in Your Lodgings.

Story description

It's a delight. But will it always be a delight? The zailor knows two worlds.

Game note: If you give suitable presents to your child, they will gain Sea Fever. If Sea Fever reaches 25, they will decide to run away to sea, becoming your Scion. This will establish a permanent dynasty of future zee-captains!

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Tell tales of far lands There is something you saw, far across the black ocean. Share it.	1 x Memory of Distant Shores Scion ≤ 0	Your child's eyes grow round as pennies. They store up the memories as dream-fuel. Much later, you find the scene you described, scrawled on a foolscap sheet by a childish hand... -1 x Memory of Distant Shores -20 x Terror +5 x Memoirs: Zee Fever
Tell tales of the zee You've come home safe, but you nearly didn't. Tell them how.	1 x Zee-ztory Scion ≤ 0	The zee-fog coils fat and white against the window. With a delighted shriek, your child disappears under the blanket. -1 x Zee-ztory -20 x Terror +5 x Memoirs: Zee Fever
Tell your child and your sweetheart of the Surface “The Sun is bright and cruel, and sweet as peaches...”	1 x Vision of the Surface Scion ≤ 0	Someday Neither of them has ever seen the Surface; not yet - -1 x Vision of the Surface -20 x Terror +4 x Memoirs: Zee Fever
Give your child a pet It is remotely possible that it will escape and eat someone. Probably just the parlour-maid.	1 x Live Specimen Scion ≤ 0	Fear and wonder Your child is disinclined to hug it; but its tank will take pride of place in their bedroom. Its staring eyes and pulsing fangs will inspire glorious fantasies of zee-monster hunting... -1 x Live Specimen -20 x Terror +7 x Memoirs: Zee Fever
Give them a souvenir There's a space for it on that shelf, there.	1 x Outlandish Artefact Scion ≤ 0	Danger of breakage Your child seems powerfully inclined to play with the Artefact. Perhaps it will break. Perhaps there's a jewel inside it, or a map, or a spirit. Perhaps it is edible. Perhaps you should employ a more vigilant nurse. -1 x Outlandish Artefact -20 x Terror +7 x Memoirs: Zee Fever
Give your child a Judgements' Egg It will coil and glow silently on their night-stand. It's a bit of a peculiar thing to give a child, honestly.	1 x Judgements' Egg Scion ≤ 0	Enchantment “One day,” your child breathes - eyes wide and fixed, gleaming in the soul-light - “I will set this at the bow of my ship. I will sail east for always, until the sky goes out.” -1 x Judgements' Egg -20 x Terror +15 x Memoirs: Zee Fever
Just enjoy their company An evening in the parlour with your child and your sweetheart. And so to bed.		Crumpets and bolete jam, and what happens when you spin a child round so fast they're very nearly sick. Quiet at evening's end; shared stories; bats beating at the windows. And much later, the warmth of renewed passion after the cold salt of the sea. -20 x Terror +1 x Restful Night (If < 2)