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A Bump in the Night
Wreck generic a ambience
Category Random Event
Type Random
Data ID 272718

A Bump in the Night is a Sunless Skies Random Event.

Story description[ | ]

Midnight (London time). You are alone on the bridge. While consulting your chart, a loud thump makes you look up.

A frozen corpse is pressed against your forward windows, trapped there by your speed. The winds must have plucked it from some lost wreck and carried it into your path. The corpse's glare is insistent. Its moustache is bristled with frost.

Trigger conditions[ | ]

Condition icon Nightmares ≥ 1
Taleofterror icon Suffering from Nightmares ≤ 0,
Terror icon Airs of Terror ≤ 34,
Calendar icon DateCalendar icon Visitation,
Location: The High Wilderness
Area: The Sky
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions[ | ]

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Send a member of the crew out to remove it
Murgatroyd's Thermal Sky-suits were invented for exactly such occasions.
Failed event
A tragic accident. Somehow, the crewman you volunteered for the task became tangled in the corpse's arms as he freed it, and it dragged him away into the mist. You turn back and search for them, but they have been swallowed by the sky.
Successful event
You watch from the comparative warmth of the bridge while a bleary engineer wrestles clumsily with the corpse. He is successful in prying it free, although it slides from his grip and spins into the fog. It leaves behind a few patches of skin, frozen to the glass.
Try to shake the corpse off
By employing a series of drastic manoeuvres.
    • Iron icon Iron challenge (42 for 100%)

Failed event Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


Your vessel lurches one way, then the other. A burst of acceleration. A dramatic brake. Something in the belly of the engine makes a metallic shriek of protest. Hopefully it wasn't anything too important. The corpse is gone, though, flung into the endless mists.
Successful event
A sudden brake; a cant to starboard. With the squeal of flesh on glass, the body slides from the windows and is lost to view. A scrap of its sleeve remains caught on a rivet, flapping like a tiny, celebratory flag.

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