# Fate of Needles (Potential Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Sunless Sea\ **Created:** [November 8, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.failbettergames.com/t/fate-of-needles-potential-spoilers/16748 "2016-11-08T22:24:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mr\_mercutio](https://community.failbettergames.com/user_avatar/community.failbettergames.com/mr_mercutio/32/353_2.png) [@mr\_mercutio](https://community.failbettergames.com/u/mr_mercutio)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.failbettergames.com/t/fate-of-needles-potential-spoilers/16748/1 "2016-11-08T22:24:58Z")
Hello delicious friends. Can someone tell me what the Fate of Needles is all about? I saw a reference to it on the wiki while I was looking up something else, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what story it connects to. ---
**Author:** ![gulal-ahlaam](https://community.failbettergames.com/user_avatar/community.failbettergames.com/gulal-ahlaam/32/595_2.png) [@gulal-ahlaam](https://community.failbettergames.com/u/gulal-ahlaam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.failbettergames.com/t/fate-of-needles-potential-spoilers/16748/2 "2016-11-08T23:21:10Z")
It’s from Sunless Sea, and tracks your progress on one of the new starting quests. This one, in particular, has to deal with a Benthic student who wants to dissect a Fluke. No idea what it’s doing on the FL wiki, though. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_mercutio](https://community.failbettergames.com/user_avatar/community.failbettergames.com/mr_mercutio/32/353_2.png) [@mr\_mercutio](https://community.failbettergames.com/u/mr_mercutio)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.failbettergames.com/t/fate-of-needles-potential-spoilers/16748/3 "2016-11-08T23:34:26Z")
Sorry, by starting quests, do you mean like giving passage for the August Travel-Writer or that one lady looking for Lady Black? Because I’ve not seen this one. If it is, do you know what background you have to take for it? Also, it’s on the SS wiki, not FL, no worries. ---
**Author:** ![charlotte\_de\_witte](https://community.failbettergames.com/user_avatar/community.failbettergames.com/charlotte_de_witte/32/197_2.png) [@charlotte\_de\_witte](https://community.failbettergames.com/u/charlotte_de_witte)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://community.failbettergames.com/t/fate-of-needles-potential-spoilers/16748/4 "2016-11-09T00:25:42Z")
Yep, those are the ones :) From what I can tell who you get out of the four is set randomly with each new captain regardless of background, but I might be reading that wrong. 1 = August Travel Writer 2 = Gnomic Gallivant 3 = Anxious University Student - the one you’re after. Fate of Needles is their story progress tracking value. 4 = Unsettled Salvager The value for setting which one is ‘A Request for Passage’ if you wanted to check it on the wiki? Hope that helps. . edited by Charlotte\_de\_Witte on 11/9/2016 ---
**Author:** ![mr\_mercutio](https://community.failbettergames.com/user_avatar/community.failbettergames.com/mr_mercutio/32/353_2.png) [@mr\_mercutio](https://community.failbettergames.com/u/mr_mercutio)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://community.failbettergames.com/t/fate-of-needles-potential-spoilers/16748/5 "2016-11-09T01:49:05Z")
Thank you! That helps a lot. I’ve had the travel-writer 4 times and the salvager once, haha. Damn the RNG, no matter where I go.