Sphinx Stone, Bright-Eyed Sequencer and Lionised

Sunless Sea
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[li]Hi, first post here, hello to all
[li]It had been a while since I last played and I recently reinstalled and started a new game after the Sapphire release. A lot had changed since my last play, such as the Tomb Colonist runs being done away with and I hadn’t tried the new combat at all. Anyway I was lucky enough to get the Salt Lions not too far from London so I started grinding that a bit so I could buy some new weapons and a few rats to get out there and make sure my inexperience with the combat wouldn’t hinder me too much when I got far out to zee. All was going well and I’d bought a few bits and pieces and decided I would make one last run to get some money together for fuel and supplies, silly me. I got to the Salt Lions, bought my stone and quit. The next day (Tuesday) I loaded up and had some new stories to download so I did, then I set off to London and it autosaved as I docked. I’m guessing it’s from the new stories, but now the option to offload my stone is gone, and instead I have a quality of 14 &quotLionised&quot(which has the same icon pic of the Salt Lions as the sphinx stone did) and the option of The Bright-Eyed Sequencer, that requires Lionised 10-49 and 1x Key of Mouths which I don’t have (Though If I remember rightly from a previous play that may have something to do with the Genial Magician, I could be wrong). Anyway, I can’t choose that option and I now have a hold full of stone and not a lot of money, I could dump it and risk a run to find more cash to stock up for a big explore, but it seems such a waste. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this or has taken that storyline further and can give me any hints, will finding a key of mouths and progressing that line allow me to sell the stone in my hold, or have I reached a trade limit that’s been implemented, or has my game just glitched and the option disappeared? Any info would be appreciated.
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[li]Cheers Kris

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Hey Kris, welcome to the forums, I had the same problem on my last captain, ended up sailing around with 59 chunks of stone in the cargo hold that I couldn’t get rid of, there’s a fix on the way for it and a new storyline as far as I’m aware, but it hasn’t arrived yet. Bit of a problem for those of us who do lots of stone runs, but it is still a work in progress. Haven’t seen anything to do with a key of mouths myself, but it’s like a number of the keys that are needed out there, they may well be out there, but I haven’t seen anything of them.

Sorry there’s no better news, but glad to have you with us, keep sailing :)

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Hi, cheers for the quick reply, yeah I knew there are certain keys and placeholder keys out there, just wasn’t sure if now I needed this one to progress this. Guess not, if it’s a bug other people have had(Though maybe this is the fix). Suppose I should look at the positives though, it’ll stop me from getting tempted to do &quotjust one more run&quot and end up spending another 2 hours greedily hoarding echoes until I have enough to take most of the risk from the game. Though I’d have liked not to waste the stone I have, but I have no room for fuel :( Suppose I could just give up my invictus token and dump it before going for a wander into the unknown, then come back later if It proves ill, I’m curious to know what this Lionised quality is now, the profitability of the sphinx stone may have a dark consequence which leave me regretting ferrying any of it after all… Oooooh lol.

Happy sailing to you too :)[li]
edited by Kris370 on 12/11/2014

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All things to those who wait for them :) Try the tomb colonists in venderbight again, that’s a good source of income now :)

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Just a head’s up if you haven’t seen it yet: the newest content for Sunless Sea adds an ending to the Sphinxstone story (and you can offload your cargo and net a very tidy profit).

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Haven’t got to the end of that one yet, some part of me figured that it might remove the salt lions as a landmark and I didn’t want to do that :)

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Well, I’m at Irem, and I have no idea what exactly I’m supposed to do with my Sphinxstone. I remember Penstock saying I’m supposed to sink it, but how?

Edit: After the latest update, it works now! I didn’t get an Legacy Item though, so it’s probably at another ending.
edited by Curious Foreigner on 12/15/2014

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Rocket Heeled Jack - well they don’t disappear but the option of what to do there changes.

Curious Foreigner - Sorry I don’t know as that wasn’t where Penstock sent me, what I had to do with it popped up as soon as I entered port. But apparently there are 6 possible endings so I hope someone else can help.

Edit - I meant to ask has anyone found the Easter Egg legacy yet? If so I would love a PM
edited by reveurciel on 12/14/2014

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[quote=lady ciel ]Rocket Heeled Jack - well they don’t disappear but the option of what to do there changes.
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That’ll do, as long as there’s still some lions to drift past, that’ll do :)

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[quote=lady ciel ]Rocket Heeled Jack - well they don’t disappear but the option of what to do there changes.

Curious Foreigner - Sorry I don’t know as that wasn’t where Penstock sent me, what I had to do with it popped up as soon as I entered port. But apparently there are 6 possible endings so I hope someone else can help.

Edit - I meant to ask has anyone found the Easter Egg legacy yet? If so I would love a PM
edited by reveurciel on 12/14/2014[/quote]

I’ve not encountered anything yet which would suggest there’s a story as such with the sphinxstone - I’ve just been running a LOT of it. Would you mind letting me know how to start the story?

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Keep running Sphinxstone. Someone else with an agenda concerning it will appear in London at some point.

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Great, thanks CF!

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If someone could PM me what to do to get the easter egg for this quest, I would be very thankful.

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I don’t think any one has got it yet … at least if they have they are not sharing. I would still love to know as well.