Watchful skull

Watchful skull
Category	Random Event
Type	Random
Data ID	243616

Watchful skull is a Sunless Sea Random Event.

Story description

A vast skull, grotesquely elongated, glowers up at you. Its eye sockets gleam with sharp blue light. Its jaw is long and strong as a ship's bow.

Trigger conditions

Upon zailing into the Watchful Skull on the zee-floor, this event will trigger.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Look into the skull's eye socket Violant luminescence shines within.	Pages challenge (84 for 100%)	Failed event	Advanced alteration value probably needs examination. SuccessEvent is [d:10]+5, but DefaultEvent is 10 + [d:15]....
		You press the glass of your suit against the bone. Your helmet fills with stabbing light. You remember. Door on door on door on black stone. You walk along dark battlements, knives clasped to your breast. The hunger grows. Not all those who process will be returning. You are pulled from the bone by the firm hands of your navigator. +1 x Terror 6 to 10 x Fragment
		Successful event
		You place your gloved hands to the bone, peering into the socket is if it were a shop window. Behind the light is darkness. Black stone walls rise. A thousand stone doors; an ancient hunger. In your hands, a knife coral-black. Someone writhes upon the altar. Hooded figures enfold. You draw back from the socket. The light lingers. +1 x Terror 11 to 25 x Fragment
Don't interfere It is, after all, a vast skull with an eery light in its eyes.		There is relieved laughter when you give the order to depart. The uncharted depths are infinitely preferable to poking about the monstrous skulls of the long dead. -3 to -1 x Terror
		Rare event (50%)
		There is relieved laughter when you give the order. The light in the skull's eyes grow distant, reflected in the glass of your viewing port. That night you dream of a place of dark walls and vast stones. In your hands, a knife, a shroud. In your heart, hunger. The dream does not come again. -3 to -1 x Terror