Encroachment of Salt

 is considered a Hidden Quality Opening Narrative in Sunless Skies.

Hidden description
"The shade in Captain Whitlock's black box is turning into salt."

Quality status
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Root

 * [ 1 ] Its skin is beginning to peel with flakes the colour of fresh salt.
 * [ 2 ] Wherever your gaze falls, the shade's substance begins to desiccate, turning into coarse salt. Already its movements have begun to stiffen.
 * [ 3 ] Much of the shade's substance has stiffened to salt, now. One entire hand is an inert, glistening block of it. It will not survive further encroachment.
 * [ 4 ] The shade has passed the point of no return, now. Its transformation into salt accelerates, consuming the last of its substance."

Process

 * [ 0 ] Process
 * [ 1 ] You notice a faint discolouration spreading around the shade's neck and shoulders: a mottle of salty white.
 * [ 2 ] In places the shade's skin is hardening to a glistening white crust, like salt. The contagion worsens the more you examine it, as if the very act of perceiving it was fueling its spread.
 * [ 3 ] The salt-contagion now covers most of the shade's substance. Some of its extremities are solid chunks of salt, like a sculptor's most delicate work. Any further encroachment will lead to its destruction.
 * [ 4 ] The spirit's calcification has progressed too far, now. Its salt-flesh crumbles as you watch.

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