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Sunless Sea
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&quotThis is what the call prisoner’s honey, wrung by the lamplighter bee from the exile’s rose. 'I wonder 'oo made up these names,'remarks Able Seaman* Cargit. 'Someone ‘oo as** read a sight too many books, I’m finking.’&quot

I enjoyed the recursive fun-poking.

  • (sic) but: no Z? This may be one of the many exceptions?
    ** also (sic) for missing apostrophe.
    edited by Ewan C. on 6/20/2014
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(On opening a Cache of Curiosities; this must I think be a rare success.)[li]

&quotAn intriguingly lumpy sack. It’s probably not a sack full of skulls.&quot

&quotIt is, in fact, a sack full of skulls. Who the hell puts skulls in a sack?&quot You’ve gained 3 Lamentable Relics.