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Spirifer Engine
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Type Outlaw
Location The Blue Kingdom

Spirifer Engines are poachers and smugglers of souls encountered in The Blue Kingdom.

Description[ | ]

Spirifer Engines aggressive locomotives that resembles heavily modified London Dreadnaughts and will attack on sight. Their main gun fires a missile with high homing capabilities which deal a total of 12 damage. Their turret gun rapidly fires multiple (number?) projectiles that deal 3(?) damage per hit. The side thrusters can be used to dodge, although Spirifers are quite maneuverable and fairly durable.

They will also attack other Sky-Beasts in the Blue Kingdom, and can often be found already engaged in combat.

A Spirifer Engine, Stopped[ | ]

A Spirifer Engine, Stopped
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Category Story Event
Type Story
Data ID 306440

Spirifage, or the trade in souls, is ceaselessly prohibited in the Blue Kingdom. Nevertheless, spirifers flock here, drawn by the quality and abundance of souls available in the Kingdom. They will take lost spirits they can lead astray, or ransack the soul-troves locked in unplundered vaults. The engine is covered in gaudy pennants, brass gongs and copper bells, in a poorly-grasped imitation of funeral customs intended to hoodwink Kingdom officials.

Interactions

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Loot the engine's plundered haul
It must rattle with stolen souls.
Failed event
A return, thwarted
The captain's cabin is poorly hidden behind an array of funerary hangings. Perhaps they hoped to fool any officials that the engine might have encountered. Inside, you discover that he was part way through charting a course back to the transit relay. In his logs, the captain expresses disappointment with his haul. Looking at it, you can't help but agree.
Successful event
Gold stored in lead
After a thorough and rapacious search of the engine, you unearth a concealed chamber in the hold. Inside, a battered and unpromising looking trunk. Have they already sold their cargo? Opening the tunk, you find a collection of London-made jars, cheaply manufactured, but housing a collection of unparalleled souls. You collect up the souls and depart the engine.
Scrap the engine
Salvage what you can to repair your Hull.

Game note: You will recover up to 20 points of Hull.

An annoyance
Spirifer Engines disguise themselves when entering the domain of the dead. They bedeck their hulls with clanking bells and tattered pennants and the detritus of scavenged burial customs. This rarely fools the Logoi who scour the Kingdom and mostly serves to frustrate your crew as they search for intact plating.
    • Hull icon 10+(1 to 10) x Hull

Advanced query needs investigation

Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


Invite the survivors to join your crew
A light moves at a window on the wreckage. Some still live, despite your barrage.
    • Iron icon Iron challenge (100 for 100%)

    • Wreckgeneric icon Looting ≥ 34 and ≤ 66

Failed event
A cold calculation of odds
The bleak-eyed crew (all lower-deck; your guns have blasted the command of this Engine from the sky) huddle to consider your offer. At last, one of their stokers, approaches you for a cigarette. He does not seem inclined to return to the rest; who view him with expressions of alternately contempt and disgust. They will remain with their engine; you leave them to their fate.
Successful event
Acceptance
The bleak-eyed crew consider your offer. The leader (a junior signaller) looks at the burnt jars of souls; the scorched log books; the remains of her superior officers scattered across the bridge. The decision is unanimous.
Retrieve an Otherworldy Artefact
Canny spirifers know that certain artefacts can open the Vaults of souls found across the Blue Kingdom.
Amidst the detritus of practical spirifage
The engine has accumulated an astonishing amount of useless paraphernalia – some to disguise itself as a merchant engine, some to disguise itself as a funerary vessel, some more obscure in purpose. Your engineer dismisses it as the worthless trash it is. A hidden compartment in the battery contains what you're after: a glistening artefact to unseal a Blue Kingdom vault.
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