Your Lodgings

Your Lodgings
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	143503

Your Lodgings is a Sunless Sea Story Event. Your Lodgings is where you read your correspondence, rest and, eventually, retire. It is located in London.

Location description

Here you may catch up with your correspondence, rest, or retire altogether from sea-faring life. The better your Lodgings, the better the quality of your retirement. Naturally.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Read the morning papers The Unexpurgated Gazette, the Magazine Formerly Known as the London Magazine, the Spiteful Trumpeter. News.	Recent News ≤ 0	News from home The Echo Bazaar, that enigmatic marketplace, has increased its tax on love stories. The Traitor Empress has forbidden singing in the street outside her palace. The anarchists of the Calendar Council have inexplicably dynamited a drinking-fountain. The Ministry of Public Decency has located and destroyed a nest of gallblighter wasps... -1 x Terror +0 to 5 x Fragment Recent News = 1
		Rare event (50%)
		News from abroad The Khanate is threatening war. (They always are.) London's colonies on the Carnelian Coast want independence. (They always do.) The Unterzee, the papers report, has undergone another Alteration. (Not yet it hasn't: you'd know.) Oho! A promotional coupon from Mrs Plenty's Provisioners for a half-cask of salt herring. You could use that. -1 x Terror +1 x Supplies Recent News = 1
Visit your Study A private sanctuary.	Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings ≥ 2 ( An Elegant Townhouse )	Goes to: Your Study	Game note: Once your Lodgings are large enough to support a study, you can create items, such as an Ironclad Will, a Whispering Trophy-Case, or the Zong of the Zee.
See your Child Where is the little creature?	Romance: a Child in London = 1	Triggers event: A New Arrival	See Trouble, and romance.
Time with your Family Your sweetheart comes and goes. They have their own, complicated business. But they always return to your shared home, and your child.	1 x A Free Evening A Child in London ≥ 10	-1 x A Free Evening Triggers event: Time with your Family
Rest in a Room Above the Blind Helmsman If you don't have the Echoes to go out roistering, best stay at home.	1 x Terror 10 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 1 ( A Room above the Blind Helmsman )	The rats keep you awake of nights with their muttering and skirmishing, but the bed is warm and the door has a lock... -10 x Echo -1 x Terror -1 x Wound Restful Night = 1 -2 to -3 x Menaces: Yearning, Burning	Game note: This will reduce your Terror, heal a Wound, and give you a Restful Night.
Purchase an Elegant Townhouse A good address on Hollow Street. It won't be cheap.	1000 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 1 ( A Room above the Blind Helmsman )	Zailors' service You have your crew cart your things from the Blind Helmsman to your new address. If anyone respectable calls, they'll pass as servants. -1000 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 2 ( An Elegant Townhouse )	Game note: Resting is now more expensive, but more effective.
Rest in your Elegant Townhouse A pleasant interlude.	100 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 2 ( An Elegant Townhouse )	Sleep early, rise late Take the air in Tyrant's Gardens. Take coffee at Caligula's Coffee House. Take advantage of a zee-captain's reputation. You could get used to this. -100 x Echo -15 x Terror -2 x Wound Restful Night = 2 -2 to -3 x Menaces: Yearning, Burning	Game note: Resting here will reduce your Terror, heal two Wounds, and give you two Restful Nights.
Sell your Townhouse Times are hard. Perhaps you should return to a simpler life.	Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 2 ( An Elegant Townhouse ) Romance: a Child in London ≤ 9 Heirloom ≤ 0	A lesson in humility Penstock's Land Agency processes the paperwork and remits you your payment. A room at the Blind Helmsman awaits. It smells like onions. +500 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 1 ( A Room above the Blind Helmsman )	Game note: This will sell your Townhouse: after moving expenses and fees, you'll be 500 Echoes richer. You must also sell off any Heirlooms first.
Purchase a Zeeside Mansion Something up by the Prickfinger Wastes, but not too near the Carnival. Something with a view.	10000 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 2 ( An Elegant Townhouse )	Grand estate The mansion has fallen on sad times, but your crew get it ship-shape: painting walls, polishing floors, rousting out the occasional nest of eye-stealing sorrow-spiders. -10000 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 3 ( A Zeeside Mansion )	This will allow you to pass on a greater number of Heirlooms: 16 instead of 12.
Rest in your Zeeside Mansion The life of quality.	1 x Terror 100 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 3 ( A Zeeside Mansion )	Breakfast in the breakfast-room; lunch on the lawn; dinner at Dante's Grill. Why exactly is it you go to sea again? Oh yes. The bills. -100 x Echo -20 x Terror Wound = 0 Restful Night = 3 0 or -1 x Menaces: Yearning, Burning	Game note: Resting here is expensive, but effective. It will reduce Terror, heal all Wounds and give you three Restful Nights.
Sell your Mansion Do you really need a Mansion? You don't have so very many things, do you?	Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 3 ( A Zeeside Mansion )	A simpler life Penstock, the land agent, looks over the Mansion with a gloomy eye. “Roof's going,” he suggests. “But it's a good size, I suppose.” +7500 x Echo Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings = 2 ( An Elegant Townhouse )	Game Note: This will sell your Townhouse: after moving expenses and fees, you'll be 7500 Echoes richer. You must have no more than 12 Heirlooms - that's all you can fit in a Townhouse.
Sell off an Heirloom Yes, yes, it's a piece of history. How much is it worth?	1 x Heirloom	A necessary measure You've sold it for what it will fetch. Perhaps even for what it's worth. -1 x Heirloom +801 to +1100 x Echo	Game note: You will usually get less than the item was originally worth. Warning! If you die without a Will in place, your next character will not inherit these.
Long-awaited prize money A letter! 'Addressed As - we have assessed the...dah dah dah... in accordance with the law of the Zee... dah dah dah... pleased to enclose a money-order for...'	Another Day: To the Victor, the Spoils ≥ 1	Spend it on something nice From the total value of the prizes you've sent home, the Crown and the Bazaar have deducted prize tax, prize tariffs, running costs, repairs and 'misery surcharge'. Nevertheless, a good sum remains. Spend it in good health. +(Another Day: To the Victor, the Spoils*2) x Crew +(Another Day: To the Victor, the Spoils*150) x Echo Another Day: To the Victor, the Spoils = 0
A neatly wrapped brown paper package The corners are crisp and tight. The address has been printed in large block letters with scrupulous care. The sender has applied double the necessary number of postage stamps. They must have been very determined it get here. There is no return address.	Nuncio: Deliverance ≥ 1	Gratitude The wrappings fall away. In a glass case, a stuffed Postal Rat is locked in mortal combat with a preserved blemmigan. The taxidermist's skill is evident: there is tension and fury in each line of their tiny bodies. There is also a note. "I was charged to deliver this elsewhere, but you did me a service I must repay. If the Bazaar can abandon its duty for a greater cause, so too may I." +1 x Secret +1 x Outlandish Artefact -1 x Nuncio: Deliverance	You acquire Nuncio: Deliverance in Nuncio at The Inky Blotter
Reconsider Serving Mr Sacks The Crimson Beast of Winter will not be drawn by a mere glass of sherry and a mince pie. But a lantern in the window may get its attention, if it is still watching.	Sacks and Snow: In the Service of Mr Sacks = 10 [You turned away Mr Sacks]	Triggers event: A Visit from Mr Sacks	Restarts the Mr Sacks event if you refused to help it earlier.
The Incarnadine Robe of Mr Sacks It sits on your chair. This has possibilities.	Sacks and Snow: In the Service of Mr Sacks ≥ 70 and ≤ 75 [Something awaits you in your Lodgings]	HO HO HO Londoners give generously to Mr Sacks. Is it really that time of the year, some of them ask; but a shake of the sack is all that it takes to convince them it is better to give than to receive the Crimson's Beast of Winter's displeasure. You return home with a bulging sack of shiny new toys. When you next wake, the robe is gone. +1 x Judgements' Egg +2 x Scintillack +2 x Approved Romantic Literature +1 x Zzoup +3 x Secret +4 x Drowning-Pearl +2 xStrategic Information Sacks and Snow: In the Service of Mr Sacks = 80 [Your service is concluded]	Game note: Have 5 spaces of cargo clear before collecting this. Completing this interaction ends the possibility of obtaining the Snow Child at Avid Horizon. Be sure to acquire the Snow Child first.
A delivery from a grateful friend Several crates of wine sit in your Lodgings. The note on the top reads "For your service and discretion - J"	Sacks and Snow: In the Service of Mr Sacks ≥ 70 and ≤ 80  Vial of Highly Questionable Blood >= 1	A medley of fine vintages No - it can't be. Greyfields 1868? A few bottles of Broken Giant 1844... isn't that from before the Fall? Only Mr Wines is said to stock these in any quantity, and it reserves them for itself and the very few with whom it considers itself on intimate terms. You extract the best ones for personal consumption. The rest will fetch a fine price.  +10 x Cask of Mushroom Wine  Vial of Highly Questionable Blood = 0	Game note: Have 10 spaces of cargo clear before collecting this.
A calling card A smoky flake of hand-lettered vellum. The Wistful Deviless has come to visit.	Encounters with the Wistful Deviless ≥ 100 and ≤ 109	Triggers event: The Wistful Deviless comes calling	Available when you've brought the Wistful Deviless to London from the Mount Palmerston Crater.
A fish-skin parcel Each layer is translucent, but a dozen layers together are a soggy grey. It smells of things that die at zee.	Memoirs: Glory's Bones = 40 [You invented a tale of the Glory's death]	Glory's Story The Scrimshaw Chronicler has sent you a gift: a harpoon of Stygian ivory, dark as the Gant Pole, engraved up and down with the heroes you invented, and their deaths. Each death-agony is beautifully presented. The courage of these tiny shapes, arrayed against the ancient monster, would stir the most peaceable heart. The turtle called Glory dies at length along the harpoon's length, and at its leather-wrapped handle, the Chelonate is shown triumphant. This piece would grace any museum - it would ennoble any duke's fire-place. It's a lie, of course. Probably no one but you will ever know that. +1 x Iron +1 x Captivating Treasure Memoirs: Glory's Bones = 41
Peruse your Comprehensive Port Report in private Perhaps you are unwilling or unable to take it to the Admiralty...	A Comprehensive Port Report: Empire of Hands ≥ 1	Much to sift through The Empire of Hands: no equal to London, but certainly a power in waiting. A labyrinth of simian complexities! Consider the opportunities. Someone else has also considered the opportunities. You have an invitation... Game note: Something new awaits in your Lodgings A Comprehensive Port Report: Empire of Hands = 0 Monkey Business = 10 Surveyed: Empire of Hands = 1 +1 x Secret	Game note: This will give you a single Secret rather than a fee.
An invitation to Benthic College Your travels have caught someone's attention.	Monkey Business = 10	Triggers event: A Delightful Invitation
The Delightful Adventuress She still seeks passage to the Empire of Hands.	Monkey Business = 16	Triggers event: A Delightful Invitation	A chance to accept if you previously refused.
Consider Retirement from Zeefaring Life Maybe it's time.	Memoirs: Quality of Lodgings ≥ 2 ( An Elegant Townhouse )	Triggers event: Retire from Zeefaring Life	Game note: This allows you to review options which will end the game. You can safely scrutinise them without choosing one.
Back to the rest of the city What's waiting for you in London?		Goes to: Fallen London	Game note: Or you could click the London! card on the right.