Whale Bones

Whale Bones
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	243621

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Whale Bones is a Sunless Sea Story 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 discovering Whale Bones under the Zee with your Sonar, this event will trigger.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects
Examine the engravings Are these inscriptions?	Pages challenge (84 for 100%)	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. +1 x Terror +1 x Intriguing Snippet
		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. +6 to 15 x Fragment +1 x Intriguing Snippet
Collect unknown toxins The marrow of these beasts bear poisons. Harvest them.	Veils challenge (84 for 100%)	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. +5 x Terror +25 x Fragment
		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. +1 to +3 x Supplies +1 x Terror
Harvest stygian ivory The bones are intact, and valuable.	Iron challenge (84 for 100%)	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. +1 x Terror +1 x Stygian Ivory
		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. +3 x Stygian Ivory
		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. +1 x Stygian Ivory