False-Summer bathes London in a syrupy heat, and Londoners, tired of the inclement good weather, set zail to melancholy Mutton Island to take the air. But the zees are quiescent, and the King-in-Coral holds court…
The Fruits of the Zee Festival
Fruits of the Zee is our free, annual festival of the bounty of the zee. The festival begins today, the 5th of September, and ends on September the 19th.
Supplicate the zee with sacrifices to turn Mutton Island’s fortunes around. Dive beneath the waters of Shepherd’s Wash and explore the wrecks that linger beneath that forlorn isle. Descend as deep as you dare, and unearth what treasures courage allows. Bargain with the King-in-Coral for ownership of the bounties you wrest from the zee.
Encounter the island’s visitors, trade your winnings, restore the festival to its former glory, and perhaps even meet the Green-Gilled Shipwright and see the works of his craft.
You don’t need to own a ship to participate: anyone can catch a ferry from Wolfstack Docks to Mutton Island to join the festivities. When you arrive at Mutton Island, playing the storylet ‘Mutton Island, Unadorned’ will unlock the festival’s activities.
Wreck-Diving
In the first week of the Festival, you’ll be able to dive the wrecks off Mutton Island for treasures. To begin, you’ll need to raise your Five-Fold Devotion by Supplicating the Shore-line.
Once you begin diving, you’ll be able to push your luck as far as you dare, before emerging with a treasure. These treasures can be traded in the second week of the Festival. You can check the value of your treasures by reading ‘A Fruits of the Zee Primer’, available throughout the Festival.
The first week will conclude with, as is becoming tradition, a ceremonial drowning.
Trading
In the second week of the festival, you’ll be able to trade your treasures for Thalassic Favour at the Fruits Market. You can then exchange Thalassic Favour for new items, items from previous Fruits of the Zee festivals, and economy items.
Items from previous years, as well as this year, are also available for Fate from the Fruits Market. You may also trade several of the new items with visiting characters in exchange for cosmetic variants with identical statistics.
Finally, if you own a ship, you can also trade high amounts of Thalassic Favour for new ships from the Green-Gilled Shipwright. These ships are also available at sporadic times during the year, but are cheapest during the Fruits of the Zee. Your ship’s value will be factored into the purchase – you may only have one ship at a time.
As always, those who have the Cladery Heart will need to stash it in London, but may trade in their other ship.
What’s Different in 2024?
We’ve added a couple of new things to the festival this year, and made a few changes to the new activities introduced last year.
The Roving Colossus
Encounter the Roving Colossus – a giant of stone, wading through the Unterzee!
The Roving Colossus is a vignette that adds three cards to your zailing deck that can be drawn in every zee locale. Help the Colossus about its quiet duties while you zail, and learn a little about the mysterious duties it is conducting in all corners of the Unterzee. These cards progress a small, repeatable side-story alongside your normal zailing progress, and can be turned on and off at will while zailing.
The Roving Colossus costs 10 Fate.
New Developments!
- Uncover a new type of coral while Wreck-Diving – Spinebound Oddities! These can later be traded for one of three brand new Adornments.
- If you possess your own ship, you’ll be able to unlock zailing headers for use on your Profile Page – five for free, and two for Fate.
- Spend Thalassic Favour on a wider range of more expensive items, including Samples of Lacreous Affection and Oneiric Pearls.
Changes and Tweaks
- All branches in ‘Supplication on the Shore’ now give out more ‘Fivefold Devotion’.
- A maximum of 10 Skulls in Coral can now be sourced from dives, after which Skulls in Coral are replaced by a new dive treasure of equivalent value.
- A maximum of 10 Skulls in Coral can be traded into the Fruits Market.
Lastly, Destinies
Those without a Destiny, or wishing to change their Destiny, may travel to Irem during the Fruits of the Zee Festival and do so via ‘The Riddlefishers: Matters of Destiny’.
Those without a Destiny may also acquire one from the Drowning Feast, once the Fruits of the Zee Festival is back in full swing during the second week.
