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==A Race against Unravelling Time== ''"The Sun flares, dims, pulsates. Beams of light lance through the air. Your hazard-suit is already flaking. You need to reach the vault, before the Steward kills you all. But time is coming apart at the seams, and you don't have much of it left. "''<p></p> ''Game note: <span style='color:#C03060;'>Time remaining before the Sun almost certainly explodes: [[A Race Against Unravelling Time#custodian_timer|A Race Against Unravelling Time(custodian_timer)]]</span>'' <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big> [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] ≥ 1 ≤ 1, <br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements ! colspan='2' style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Disable the locks}} <div>She's sealed herself beneath an iron door as thick as the hull of a ship, but you're sure the locking mechanisms can be defeated somehow.</div> | rowspan='4' | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:veils icon.png|23px]] [[Veils]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''115'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] ≥ 1<p></p> </ul> | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | ''Game note: <span style='color:#C03060;'>Time shifts. The clock-hand is somewhere different.</span>'' |- | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Time is running short '''</span> <div>The engineers scoff and insist it can't be done. You fetch your tools from the train, kneel at the vault door, and are frustrated to find that they are correct. They would have been better off had they been wrong, of course. An arc of light passes over your heads, and when it fades you see that one engineer's lips and nose have turned to glass. He turns blue, scrabbling frantically at his face, until a colleague chips his mouth open with a violent application of screwdriver. </div> <ul> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+5</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] = ((1 to 13) + 5)<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Mercy Timer]]<p></p> </ul> |- |colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''A satisfying click '''</span> <div>The engineers scoff and insist it can't be done. It's rather satisfying to fetch your tools from the train, spend a few minutes tinkering at the foot of the door, and yank it open. Their faces are mingled horror and relief. You hurry down the steps to confront the Steward. Deep in the bowels of the Sun, you find her working feverishly at a panel of levers and blinking buttons. The floor is heaped in complex tools. She doesn't even turn her head as you enter.</div> <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Steward is Behaving Oddly]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:fuel icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-3</span> x [[The Strength of the Sun]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] = 2<p></p> {{trigger event|The Steward's Sanctum||brokensteward}}<p></p> </ul> |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Take an unpleasant alternative route}} <div>The engineers mention pipes through which toxic smoke and chemical waste are siphoned.</div> | rowspan='4' | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:hearts icon.png|23px]] [[Hearts]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''110'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> </ul> | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | ''Game note: <span style='color:#C03060;'>Time shifts. The clock-hand is somewhere different.</span>'' |- | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Time is running short '''</span> <div>The engineers were lying when they said your hazard-suit would protect you. You wriggle halfway into the pipe, and your skin immediately begins to blister. You tug frantically on the rope and your crew pull you back into fresh air. Time continues to stammer. The machinery around you is rusting. A repair-crane sags and then collapses, burying one of your crew beneath a hundred tonnes of iron. </div> <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] = ((1 to 13) + 5)<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Mercy Timer]]<p></p> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+3</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> * [[File:crew icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Crew]]<p></p> * [[File:crew icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+1</span> x [[Another One, Lost]]<p></p> </ul> |- |colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''An unedifying success '''</span> <div>"Don't worry," the engineers assure you. "Your hazard-suit will protect you from the worst. And most of the chemicals won't kill you outright, probably, just shorten your lifespan a bit." With a deep breath, you wriggle into the pipe and are carried away in a rush of vapour. A short sickening while later, you are expelled somewhere deep within the Sun. After trudging in the dark for some time, you manage to find the Steward. She is working feverishly at a panel of levers and blinking buttons. The floor is heaped in complex tools. She doesn't even turn her head as you enter.</div> <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Steward is Behaving Oddly]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:fuel icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-3</span> x [[The Strength of the Sun]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] = 2<p></p> {{trigger event|The Steward's Sanctum||brokensteward}}<p></p> </ul> |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Rip the door from its hinges}} <div>Find some strong cables. Tie the door to your train's undercarriage. And fly.</div> | rowspan='4' | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Iron]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''112'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> </ul> | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | ''Game note: <span style='color:#C03060;'>Time shifts. The clock-hand is somewhere different.</span>'' |- | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Time is running short '''</span> <div>Your engine roars. A whistle shrieks. The cable is taut, thinning, thinning— And then, with hideous inevitability, it snaps. Your train goes flying and, naturally, crashes into a hundred-foot cog. One of the engineers begins to scream. Her hair has turned into a thousand needle-shards of glass. Another is ageing before your eyes, jowls sagging, skin pruning. The Sun continues to flicker and spark. </div> <ul> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+3</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] = ((1 to 13) + 5)<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Mercy Timer]]<p></p> * [[File:hull icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-6</span> x [[Hull]]<p></p> </ul> |- |colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | colspan='2' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''A triumph for brute force '''</span> <div>Your engine roars. A whistle shrieks. The cable goes taut, thinning. The vault door buckles, twists, and finally rips free of its hinges. You hurry down the steps to confront the Steward. Deep within the Sun, you find her working feverishly at a panel of levers and blinking buttons. The floor is heaped in complex tools. She doesn't even turn her head as you enter.</div> <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Steward is Behaving Oddly]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:fuel icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-3</span> x [[The Strength of the Sun]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] = 2<p></p> {{trigger event|The Steward's Sanctum||brokensteward}}<p></p> </ul> |- | {{effect title|Blow a hole in the Sun}} <div>You just happen to have some powerful explosives and an enormous drill handy. Why bother with the door?</div> | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:mining tier1 icon.png|23px]] [[Mining]] ≥ 1<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] ≥ 1<p></p> </ul> |colspan='2'| <span style='color:white'>'''An explosion that shakes the Sun '''</span> <div>When the dust clears, you find the Steward staring up at you from a crater, her expression one of frank astonishment. She's surrounded by a forest of levers and blinking buttons. The floor is heaped in complex tools.</div> <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[A Race Against Unravelling Time]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:fuel icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-3</span> x [[The Strength of the Sun]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] = 2<p></p> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Steward is Behaving Oddly]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Steward's Sanctum||brokensteward}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Time's up}} <div>And down. And backwards.</div> | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Mercy Timer]] ≤ 0<p></p> </ul> |colspan='2'| <span style='color:white'>'''A flash of light '''</span> <div>The Sun brightens; brightens until your goggles crack. A few brief impressions are scorched into your mind: the thundering collapse of machinery, the engineers sprawled, aglow from every pore, the agony-twisted faces of your crew. And then the sun dims, duller than you've ever seen it. Dust clears. The scream of the engines falls to a rumble. The vault-door finally swings open. Crew and engineers are scattered around you, wretched and blind and insensate. Alone, you descend. Deep below, you find the Steward slumped motionless over a panel of levers and blinking buttons. The floor is heaped in complex tools. "I give up," she says.</div> <ul> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Steward is Behaving Oddly]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+5</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> * [[File:fuel icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-10</span> x [[The Strength of the Sun]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] = 2<p></p> {{trigger event|The Steward's Sanctum||brokensteward}}<p></p> </ul> | |} {{Infobox story |name = The Steward's Sanctum |image = brokensteward.png |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 284530 }} ===The Steward's Sanctum=== ''You demand explanation. She removes her helmet, flashes you a tired broken-glass smile. "I'm not trying to destroy the Sun. I'm trying to fix it," she says. "For too long we've settled for just keeping it running while it deteriorates, a little more each time. Something had to change. "If I had more time, I'd be careful. But I don't. I was taking risks. Shortcuts. Putting the Sun under stress, pushing its limits, finding where it's weakest."'' <big>'''Trigger conditions'''</big> [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] ≥ 2 ≤ 2, <br> <big>'''Interactions'''</big> {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Why now?}} <div>She's been maintaining the Sun for years.</div> | <ul> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[Asked Why]] ≤ 0<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The Steward's Sanctum '''</span> <div>"When I visited the prisoners with you, and saw first-hand the torments the Sun was visiting upon them..." The Steward sighs. "I knew something had to be done. The Sun knows it's dying. It's lashes out, full of rage and spite. It's afraid. It had thought itself immortal."</div> <ul> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[Asked Why]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:unaccountablypeckish icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Savage Secret]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Offer to bring her Hours}} <div>Time can be supplied.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''The Steward's sanctum '''</span> <div>You can help her compress months into weeks and years into months. If she needs time, she can have it. "Thank you," she says, sagging with palpable relief. "Honestly, I don't think the Sun is fixable. But I have to try. After I've slept for about a week." </div> <ul> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Desperate Measures(quality)|Desperate Measures]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Deliver 3 Barrels of Unseasoned Hours to the Broken Steward on the Clockwork Sun</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Steward is Fixing the Sun]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Age of the Steward]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Clockwork Sun#The Clockwork Sun{{!}}The Clockwork Sun||hull}}<p></p> </ul> | ''Game note: <span style='color:#C03060;'>You can now bring Hours to the Broken Steward. She will require 3 Barrels at a time.</span>'' |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Persuade her to stop this madness}} <div>The Sun can't be fixed. For London's sake, she should focus on keeping it functional in its twilight years.</div> | rowspan='4' | <ul> * [[File:hearts icon.png|23px]] [[Hearts]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''127'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] ≥ [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Steward Persuasion Timer]]<p></p> </ul> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | Advanced query needs investigation |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''She won't listen '''</span> <div>There must be a way, she insists. Defiantly, ludicrously, there's always hope.</div> <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Steward Persuasion Timer]] = [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] + 7<p></p> </ul> |- |colspan='1' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | colspan='1' style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''Reluctantly, she listens '''</span> <div>The light in her eyes goes out. Her mouth takes on a grim cast. "You're right," she says. "But I'd have appreciated being allowed that shred of hope."</div> <ul> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Time is Unravelling]]<p></p> {{trigger event|The Steward Emerges from her Sanctum||brokensteward}}<p></p> </ul> |- | {{effect title|Refuse to help her}} <div>You're not concerned with the wellbeing of the Sun. She can do this on her own.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''A diffident shrug '''</span> <div>"I never asked for your help," she says. "The stress-testing is complete, in any case. The day-to-day operation of the Sun can go back to normal for a while." She picks a tool from the floor and returns to her work. "Why are you still here?"</div> <ul> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Steward is Fixing the Sun]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:clockworksun icon.png|23px]] [[The Age of the Steward]] = 1<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Desperate Measures(quality)|Desperate Measures]]<p></p> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Time is Unravelling]] = 0<p></p> {{trigger event|The Clockwork Sun#The Clockwork Sun{{!}}The Clockwork Sun||hull}}<p></p> </ul> | |}
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