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{{stub}} {{Infobox location |image = Avidhorizon ambience.png |px = 200px |ports = [[#The Home Office|The Home Office]] |shops = [[#The Hungry Traveller|The Hungry Traveller]] |shipyard = |part of = [[Albion]] |id = }} '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a [[platforms|platform]] in [[Albion]]. It is located near [[Avid Horizon]], at the edge of the [[Chart|chart]]. =Log Entries= ''A stair zig-zags down to the sea, where a flotilla of old ships lie mouldering.''<br> ''Below you, a graveyard of abandoned ships. Dark, thirsty waters lap at them.''<br> ''Ships rot on a silent sea. Only gloomy cults and homesick castoffs dwell here.'' =The Quiet Sea= {{Infobox story |name = The Stair to the Sea |image = |px = 260px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 313657 }} ''A narrow ledge is lodged into the ice here. A stair thin as a shaft of starlight, plunges into the mists below.'' ''This is the stairway down to the Flotilla, a makeshift raft of broken and abandoned ships, home to the similarly broken and abandoned.'' ''All came through the Avid Horizon but were forbidden, for legal reasons, from entering Albion. The nearby Home Office keeps them contained here. Left thus to their own devices, they have formed cults.'' ==Trigger conditions== Location: The Stair to the Sea<br> Area: The Quiet Sea<br> Frequency: Always (100%)<br> ==Interactions== {| class='ss-table' style='width:100%;' !style='width:15%;'| Actions !style='width:30%;'| Requirements !style='width:40%;'| Effects !style='width:15%;'| Notes |- | {{effect title|Descend the Stair}} <div>Board the Flotilla. It's considered polite to bring an offering. Food or fuel for preference, but anything that can eaten or burnt for warmth would suffice. </div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Down to a sunless sea '''</span> <div>The winds rattle the iron railings, as though trying to throw you from the stair into the churning sea hundreds of feet below. You cleave hard to the block of ice, its chill on your cheek, as you make the slow descent. Your fingers are thoroughly frozen by the time you reach the bottom, and stand on the rusted iron platform that marks the beginning of the Flotilla.</div> <ul> {{trigger event|On the Quiet Sea||avidhorizon_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |} {{Infobox story |name = On the Quiet Sea |image = |px = 100px |category = [[Story Event]] |type = Story |linked = |id = 281082 }} ===On the Quiet Sea=== ''The sea all around is shrouded in rolling mist. You can make out boats nearby, bobbing forlornly in the freezing water. Some are roped together, others set apart. Lights speckle the water; cultists still dwell in at least some of the old steamships. '' ''This platform is deathly silent however. No one is here to greet you.'' <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|Search for your Driver}} <div>A few cultists point to a crater in the ice, and a long trail leading deeper into the mists. The Driver is somewhere ahead.</div> | <ul> * [[File:supplies square icon.png|23px]] 1 x [[Supplies]]<p></p> * [[File:fuel square icon.png|23px]] 1 x [[Fuel]]<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[Location of your Driver]] = 3 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The Driver has crashed near the Stair to the Sea, by Avid Horizon</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''A Driver returned '''</span> <div>You scour the wreckage of the Flotilla, and finding nothing, head away from the cults on the habitable ships, and strike out into the frigid reaches of the Quiet Sea. Your crew carry lanterns aloft, which sends shadows skittering across the ice floes. Your voices are soon raw with shouting. And then, when you were on the verge of giving up β A familiar voice cries out. "[[Addressed As#CapitalInformal|Addressed As(CapitalInformal)]]! Over here. Afraid the engine's totalled. But I'm in one piece!" As the lantern light reveals the extent of the damage, you're forced to concede the Driver's assessment. Their grin is unmistakable even in the gloom.</div> <ul> * [[File:supplies square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Supplies]]<p></p> * [[File:fuel square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-1</span> x [[Fuel]]<p></p> * [[File:unlicensedchart icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+1</span> x [[Unlicensed Chart]]<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[Location of your Driver]] = 0<p></p> * [[Driver Randomiser]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[The Driver's Progress]] = 0<p></p> * [[Driver at the Royal Society]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:#C03060;'> [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[Secondment: Incautious Driver]]</span> x [[Incautious Driver]]<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[Secondment: Incautious Driver]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:#C03060;'> [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[Secondment: Judicious Driver]]</span> x [[Judicious Driver]]<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[Secondment: Judicious Driver]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:incautiousdriver icon.png|23px]] [[A Driver Down]] = 0<p></p> </ul> | Advanced alteration value probably needs examination. Advanced alteration value probably needs examination. |- | {{effect title|Leave an offering}} <div>The sea is peopled with the forgotten and the abandoned. It is customary to leave an offering at the Flotilla. For help; for hope; for home. Perhaps someone will come to collect it.</div> | <ul> * [[File:unaccountablypeckish icon.png|23px]] [[An Offering Made]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|An Offering at the Gate||avidhorizon_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Sit in contemplation}} <div>There is little else to do here.</div> | <ul> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Hic sunt dracones '''</span> <div>Why are you here? At the edge of the Horizon, on an all but empty flotilla. Far from the place where you were born, no way back. If you even wanted to return. How many waited for the Gate to open? How many came through, unable to go further, unable to return. Where are they now? Are there any still there? You would need to fly to the Gate itself to find out. The water burbles. You see your face emerge in the sea below, visible through the mist. </div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|A voice in the mist}} <div>A figure in a soaked oilskin steps out of the mists. "We noted your sacrifice."</div> | <ul> * [[File:unaccountablypeckish icon.png|23px]] [[An Offering Made]] = 3 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You left flesh at the end of the Horizon</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pastscandal icon.png|23px]] [[Entirely Displeased]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:avidhorizon icon.png|23px]] [[Initiated]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|A Conversation with a Careful Masquerader||veils}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|A voice in the mists}} <div>A figure in a hooded cloak steps out of the mists. "Your sacrifice was most perspicant!"</div> | <ul> * [[File:unaccountablypeckish icon.png|23px]] [[An Offering Made]] = 2 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You left fuel at the end of the Horizon</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pastscandal icon.png|23px]] [[Entirely Sanctified]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:avidhorizon icon.png|23px]] [[Initiated]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|A Conversation with a Jolly Anchorite||avidhorizon_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|A voice in the mists}} <div>A figure in an antiquated frockcoat steps out of the mist. "A fine evening to you. We were impressed with your offering."</div> | <ul> * [[File:unaccountablypeckish icon.png|23px]] [[An Offering Made]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You left food at the end of the Horizon</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:pastscandal icon.png|23px]] [[Entirely Supralapsarian]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:book icon.png|23px]] [[An Initiate of the Supralapsarians]] β€ 0<p></p> * [[File:avidhorizon icon.png|23px]] [[Initiated]] β€ 0<p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> {{trigger event|A Conversation with an Illuminated Archivist||avidhorizon_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Sacrifice hours to appease the Burrower Below}} <div>A half-mad skyfarer once told you that the Burrower devours time, and that the door at the Avid Horizon was sacred to her.</div> | <ul> * [[File:burrowerbelow icon.png|23px]] [[Attention: the Burrower Below]] β₯ 20 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>The Burrower is angry with you</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> * [[File:BarrelofUnseasonedHours square icon.png|23px]] 5 x [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours]]<p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''Appeased '''</span> <div>You pour barrel after barrel of hours into the sea at the statues feet. There is no sign that your offering is accepted. The sea does not tremble. The statues do not stir. You must simply hope that this was enough. You row away, your little boat much lighter without its lucrative cargo.</div> <ul> * [[File:burrowerbelow icon.png|23px]] [[Attention: the Burrower Below]] = 0<p></p> * [[File:BarrelofUnseasonedHours square icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>-5</span> x [[Barrel of Unseasoned Hours]]<p></p> * [[File:experience icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:green;'>+500</span> x [[Experience]]<p></p> </ul> | |- | rowspan='4' | {{effect title|Approach the Gate}} <div>Once, thousands spilled through from the world you left behind. Now it is half-submerged and there have been no newcomers in more than a year. Your crew plead with you to stay.</div> | rowspan='4' border-bottom: 1px solid #A36A00; | <ul> * [[File:iron icon.png|23px]] [[Iron]] challenge (<span style='color:#C03060;'>'''50'''</span> for 100%)<p></p> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] [[Terror]] β€ 85<p></p> </ul> | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Failed event</span> | rowspan='4' | |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952;' | <span style='color:white'>'''On a Sunless Sea '''</span> <div>Two vast winged shapes guard a gate of something like resin, smooth but uneven. It is deep gant β the colour that remains when all other colours have been eaten. Ice crusts over the crack between its valves. You approach. Your breath freezes, falls tinkling from the air. A merciless wind blows from everywhere to everywhere. It passes without effort through your bridge-coat, your flesh, your lungs. There is no way forward. Turn back.</div> <ul> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+10</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> </ul> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #1D4952; background: #002020;' align='center' | <span style='color:white;'>Successful event</span> |- | style='border-bottom: solid 1px #RAREREPL;' | <span style='color:white'>'''On a Sunless Sea '''</span> <div>The air is still and frigid. Your teeth chatter. Ice floes drift by in the mists. The Gate is far from the flotilla. Your breath freezes in the air. A little craft loosely moored to the rest appears serviceable. Oars nest in the berth. You cut the rope and jump in, pushing out into the mist. The Gate rises like a sepulchre. Its statues β twin cowled figures β raise their wings in an arch. The Gate between the statues is gant, the colour that remains when all other colours are devoured. It is sealed, sarcophagus-tight. When you touch it, it sears your fingers with the bitterest cold. It will not open for you. This is the end of the sky. You can go no further.</div> <ul> * [[File:skystory icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:#C03060;'>(1 to 3) </span> x [[Sky-Story]]<p></p> * [[File:terror icon.png|23px]] <span style='color:red;'>+15</span> x [[Terror]]<p></p> </ul> |- | {{effect title|Search for the 'Displeased'}} <div>The Parson asked you to meet with them, to encourage them to join him at Worlebury.</div> | <ul> * [[File:pastscandal icon.png|23px]] [[Conspiring with the Cult]] = 11 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Take leaflets to the Avid Horizon</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> | <span style='color:white'>'''On a Sunless Sea '''</span> <div>There's nothing here save for the cold and the teethed wind, tracing fingers down your spine. No one is nearby. If you're going to talk to the Displeased, you'll need to go further. You'll need to find the acolytes here and gain their favour before you'll be able to persuade them to travel. {{game note|If you have not yet encountered the acolytes who reside here, leave an offering to convince them of your piety. You will need to be embraced by the Displeased before you can speak of this subject.}} </div> <ul> </ul> | |- | {{effect title|Return to the Flotilla}} <div>Lights in the mist suggest the various mystics have returned from their contemplations. </div> | <ul> * [[File:calendar icon.png|23px]] [[Date]] β₯ [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[A Time for Contemplation]]<p></p> * [[File:avidhorizon icon.png|23px]] [[Welcomed at the Flotilla]] β₯ 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>You are known to the mystics at the Gate.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> * [[File:clock icon.png|23px]] [[Hours of the Quiet Sea]] = 1 <span style='color:#C03060;'>[</span><span style='color:white;'>Mists roll in, grey as unwashed ghosts. Starlight washes in like a tide.</span><span style='color:#C03060;'>]</span><p></p> {{trigger event|Aboard the Flotilla ||avidhorizon_ambience}}<p></p> </ul> | Advanced query needs investigation |- | {{effect title|Depart}} <div>What is there here for you?</div> | <ul> </ul> |<div></div> <ul> </ul> | |} {{Navbox Locations}} [[Category:Locations]] [[Category:Ports]] [[Category:Platforms]] [[Category:Albion]]
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