nameless
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You obtain "Something awaits you" Qualities while sailing through the Zee for a set period of time. This quality can be used to obtain storylets. Watch your journal, because when you obtain "Something Awaits You", a message will show up on your log. Some storylets will consume this quality, while others will not. How which storylets are picked is not yet well understood. Theory: There are many different types of SAY. When you get a message, the game rolls for which type of SAY you get, with different messages for each.
Messages are not unique, but can overlap each other. You can only have 1 x "Something Awaits You" at a time, however. If you have SAY, it will show up in your journal.
Also, this explains why you can't do hunters keep or mutton island and get your terror reduced to 50 at FL. You actually need to spend time away from the area to get it.
Some storylets have unique constraints on their usage. You cannot, for example, string two Port Cecil: Chess Games in a row.
When you dock, the game rolls for whatever Storylet you get. Some are rarer than others. Others are very common. In additions, rewards can vary.
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| That's All for Now |
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Common Messages: "On the Horizon, a sickly yellow light glimmers for a moment, then fades."
"The air trembles. A breath of change passes."
"The air carries the scent of salt and shadows."
"On the Horizon, a sickly yellow light glimmers for a moment, then fades."
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Location:Abbey Rock:
Storylet: Watch the covenant.
Reward: 5 fragments, a strange catch (rarely)
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Location: Quaker's Haven:
Storylet Quaker's Haven: Walk along the shore
Reward: A choice between an Outlandish artifact, 4 x Drowning Pearls, Unprepossessing Mass, and Judgement's Egg (rarely), which you can sell to University for 500 echoes.
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(rarely) Storylet: A Midnight Ceremony?
Reward: A tale of terror, 5 fragments
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Location: Gaider's Mourn
Storylet: Explore Gaider's Mourn
Reward: A view from above - Choice of stat gains, some unlocked by having a god's attention, others by having the right ambition or past.
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Location: Port Cecil
Storylet : Gather Scintillack
Reward: 1 x Scintillack OR 2 x Scintillack AND gives 10 ~ 20 terror
Storylet: Play Chess ( pages challenge, failing will net you terror or nothing )
Reward: + 1 Pages OR +1 Pages and X secrets
*This Storylet has unique constraint not yet well understood. If you figure it out, please post!*
Storylet : Explore the coral
Fragments OR possibly a outlandish artifact. (rare)
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Location: Khan's Heart
Storylet : Wander Khan's Heart
Reward: Terror Reduction (common) OR Fragments (common) OR Strange Catch (uncommon)
OR +3 Leopard's Condescension (Rarely), OR A Shop (Rarely).
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lady ciel
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7/3/2014
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Probably 
That is what you are told when you use "Something Awaits You" which is a quality you pick up while you are Zailing - if you read your log you will get a message which I think determines which option will appear. There are ones about bats, or thoughts of home and several others as well.
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nameless
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Hm, didn't notice that message part.
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lady ciel
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It is hard to keep an eye on everything when you are Zailing - you need to see where you are going, look for Beasties, check the terror, fuel and hunger gauges and read the log. Those messages can go by pretty fast - especially with all the "fed the crew" and the ones about the area where you are Zailing.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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nameless
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Well then... let's do some spading then. I ask that everyone put their "That's all for now messages here", and if possible, where they got their stories.
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Inky Petrel
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Hmm, I was assuming that you could "carry" one "something awaits you" quality, and it unlocked the options at whatever port you were in. Then you needed to sail around for a bit to gain another one. But I did wonder why you could sometimes go straight from Abbey Rock to Hunter's Keep and get storylets at both, and sometimes neither of them would be available. I just assumed my timing was off. I thought "that's all for now" simply indicated you didn't have any "something awaits you"?
...that paragraph made more sense in my head.
But yes, it would be cool to know definitively how this mechanic worked, at the moment it seems pretty random, sometimes ports have an action, sometimes they don't, and then chess at Cecil seems to run on it's own schedule entirely. Slightly confusing/frustrating.
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lady ciel
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That paragraph makes sense to me.
As for chess I think I'm going to have to hover around Port Cecil and see if I can track down which message actually unlocks it - I've only seen the option twice and only won once.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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nameless
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Fallen London should just reduce the terror to 50 whenever you get into port, having it depend on "Something awaits you" messes up your mutton island or hunter's keep rotations.
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Nenjin
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"The waves are flecked with lights"
"Green glass and basalt. Salt and Silence."
"Luminescent beasts like eyeless dolphins play in your wake."
"Zee bats cry out. They are nothing like birds."
"The scent of the zee! Salt and frost and cellars. Black spices."
"A breeze stirs your hair, and dies."
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Lashkar
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7/4/2014
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Has anybody gotten the "moustachioed women" storylet (sorry can't remember what the actual title is) in locations that seem kind of weird? Just now I got it in the Iron & Misery Funging Company.
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nameless
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7/4/2014
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The one where you recruit her?
Also, Anyone have any idea what the port cecil chess rules are?
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lady ciel
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I'm still not sure about this - I was going on the Fallen London Airs system - where words signify a number for which actions are available. Here we have no way of knowing which numbers give which message or result and there is obviously some overlap.
So in Gaider's Mourn both "Laughter From the Foredeck" and "The Air Trembles. A Breath of Change Passes" gave a Patriotic Dispute. But Laughter from the Foredeck also gave The View from Above.
As for playing chess in Port Cecil I have no idea on the unlock. I do know that as long as you keep winning you can keep playing but once you lose the match is over until the next time the option is available.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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Zack Oak
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lady ciel wrote:
I'm still not sure about this - I was going on the Fallen London Airs system - where words signify a number for which actions are available. Here we have no way of knowing which numbers give which message or result and there is obviously some overlap.
So in Gaider's Mourn both "Laughter From the Foredeck" and "The Air Trembles. A Breath of Change Passes" gave a Patriotic Dispute. But Laughter from the Foredeck also gave The View from Above.
As for playing chess in Port Cecil I have no idea on the unlock. I do know that as long as you keep winning you can keep playing but once you lose the match is over until the next time the option is available.
I'm pretty sure that storylet locks after you have time the healer trigger, or after you lose. I played it until my pages was 110, and got about 50+ secrets from it (I had inherited 78 pages from my glorious victory), and the storylet locked after I went to London, even when my pages was so high I couldn't lose if I wanted to.
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nameless
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Right, but is it locked forever?
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lady ciel
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I think part of the problem with chess is that it is so rarely available. I must say that I don't visit Port Cecil on every voyage but I have only had the opportunity to play chess 3 times. First time I lost; second I won one then lost; third time I had a bit of a winning streak - it was nice to find out that there was a chance of getting a Secret for a win.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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Spacemarine9
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I'm pretty sure that, going off of the unlock, it just becomes available at certain (but not all) levels of Something Awaits You; it's operated on its own mystical schedule since before Time the Healer in London was a thing, at least. There might be a fancy rich effect at play to narrow/widen the range involved, though, idk
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nameless
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7/4/2014
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Levels of 'Something Awaits You' huh...
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Nenjin
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Could be. For reference I made about 25 runs to Mutton Island last night, trying to get the Judgement Egg. Most of the time I reached there having got SAY once. Occasionally I had "two" SAYs, if that is indeed a thing. The distance you need to travel to get SAY seems fairly consistent. On the way up to the Tomb Colonies, I'd usually get a message sometime after Davies Bay but before Venderblight. On the way down, it'd usually be well south of Davies Bay. If I kept going I'd usually get a second message North of the Murray Straits.
My feeling is its pretty random, but maybe...maybe each port stores a secret value for its most valuable storylets, so that they have a cool down timer of sorts.
2 Judgment Eggs, the whole night.
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nameless
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It might just be luck based. But that doesn't explain why Port Cecil: Chess has been locked for ever in my playthrough.
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Nenjin
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Nor why the thing that says it's locked; Something Awaits, if different than the Something Awaits that makes the normal storylet available.
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