Elaina Schill
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10/3/2018
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Considering the nature of...well...everything in the Neath, shouldn't average seasickness be Worse in some way? I don't believe it's ever mentioned, but I'd like to hear some people's thoughts. I would stick this in the Sunless Sea wiki but it's as quiet as the Tomb Colonies over there, unfortunately. I know that zee-terror is extremely common just because it's dark and scary out there, but what about those with weak stomachs? Do they just die because they are weak? I wouldn't be surprised, honestly. The zee doesn't particularly care one way or another. It kills no matter what, from what I've seen.
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Ixc
Posts: 365
10/3/2018
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No, the Zee is, ironically, calmer than the Surface. Might be the lack of sunlight and thus comparative drafts that cause wind, among other things.
The Zee’s like a lawyer: polite on the surface, but a vicious shark underneath. Or other types of Zee monster.
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Plynkes
Posts: 631
10/3/2018
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Rough seas seem to be one of the less common hazards of the Unterzee. Only a couple of the hazard cards encountered when zailing mention wind or waves. Seems that most of the time the Unterzee is as still as a mill pond, and therefore unlikely to induce seasickness.
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Elaina Schill
Posts: 191
10/4/2018
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WAIT I found a sidebar snippet!
"What can you expect when zailing the Unterzee?
Perhaps you will encounter the colossal Black Mountain! Perhaps you will meet mermen and sirens and lotus-eaters! Perhaps you will spend the whole voyage confined to your cabin with zee-sickness!"
Of course, there are no mermen, sirens, or lotus-eaters but the POINT is that zeesickness was mentioned in the first place. And those three are more ore less Drownies, Drownies again, and pretty much Drownies.
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Main, Phiri Ulfur, the Cunning Shadow. Their heart belongs to a Pirate-Poet across the Zee.
Alt Vermillion Liminate, the Tragic Scholar.
Alt #2,Lady Jacqueline Blackwood, the Savage Beauty.
Alt #3, Veracity Taylor, the Dame of the Docks.
The Dogged Seeker, self explanatory.
I will accept any social actions on Fallen London(unless its a box of live rats. I already got rid of the d---ned things once and am not eager to repeat the endeavor).
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phryne
Posts: 1351
12/20/2018
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I wouldn't be surprised if the existence of waves on the sunless sea was solely due to Nuncio's slow but irresistible pull. 
edited by phryne on 12/20/2018
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
12/20/2018
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Volf wrote:
What makes these waves anyway if there's no sun?
Wind and currents. These are going to exist anywhere where you have a significant differential between temperatures. The Elder Continent is warm (having its own source of heat, not to mention the Wax-Wind), the North is cold, and so are the waters of each; you've already got what you need for convection.
Add to this other factors (chiefly Storm, but Salt and megafauna also, on a local scale) and you've got all you need to occasionally disturb the night-dark sea.
P.S. I don't think Nuncio would really affect the waves much. It's made explicit that the Pull chiefly affects the post--and postmen, while not affecting things like ships and navigation. This implies rather strongly that the Zee itself is not particularly influenced. (One does wonder about its effect on a certain messenger currently in London, but we're moving too deep here to breathe without spoiler tags.)
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