Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen

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Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	309043

Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description

Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup(cup_description)

Trigger conditions

Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup ≥ 15 ≤ 22,
Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Tell her you have the three flames of the Logoi You subdued three of the Blue Kingdom's greatest enforcers, and stole their smouldering essence.	A Vermilion Brand ≥ 1 [A red spark has been recovered.] A Cerulean Cinder ≥ 1 [A blue spark has been recovered.] A Golden Spark ≥ 1 [A golden spark has been recovered.] The Fires of the Logoi: Aureate = 2 [You have stolen the fire from an Aureate Logos] The Fires of the Logoi: Blue = 2 [You have stolen the fire from a Blue Logos] The Fires of the Logoi: Red = 2 [You have stolen the fire from a Red Logos] Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 16 [Defeat three different kinds of Logoi in the Blue Kingdom and recover a vestige of their flames, then speak with the Unseen Queen, serving as an officer aboard your engine]	Perilously close "Excellent." Her cut-glass voice echoes down the corridor, but your crew never seem to hear her. "We must now travel to the Shadow of the Sun and break into the Arbiter's vault. The Cup is within our grasp, my knight." Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 17 [Head to the Shadow of the Sun, in Death's Door, and break into the Arbiter's vault to finally retrieve the Martyr-King's Cup] The Fires of the Logoi: Aureate = 3 [[COMPLETE]You have acquired all three flames, and should now travel to the Shadow of the Sun] The Fires of the Logoi: Blue = 3 [[COMPLETE]You have acquired all three flames, and should now travel to the Shadow of the Sun] The Fires of the Logoi: Red = 3 [[COMPLETE]You have acquired all three flames, and should now travel to the Shadow of the Sun] +5000 x Experience
Ask about the Golden Day The Queen mentioned that the original purpose of the Minute to Midnight was to destroy the Golden Day. What did she mean?	Asked about the Golden Day ≤ 0	The Golden Day "The day that lasted a thousand years." Her voice is bitter. "How I hated it. What use am I, during an endless day? Where is my light to shine? Even before I was unmade, I was unseen. "Blame my father's arrogance. He couldn't bear to conceal his light, even for a moment. The people loved it, of course, because they did not age. When he died, of course, time caught up with them, and they became less than dust." +1 x Savage Secret Asked about the Golden Day = 1
Ask about the King of Hours Suns, it seems, can be murdered. Suns can suffer.	Asked about the King of Hours ≤ 0	The Martyr-King "The King of Hours was betrayed and murdered by the Blue Kingdom. But he discovered a way to persist." Her voice is brittle. "I always wondered why I was born. Apparently, I was a contingency. "As he died, he stole the moment of my birth and used it to preserve the moment of his death. Now he is forever dying, forever in torment, but never dead. A shadow. "And what does that make me? He erased me. He stole my existence to preserve his own. I am not even the shadow of a shadow. But I will claw my way back." Asked about the King of Hours = 1 +1 x Searing Enigma
Ask her about the Cup You found it. What now? You won't be able to drink from it if it's hidden within a faded portrait.	Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 20 [Once you are safely back on your locomotive, talk to the Unseen Queen]	The Queen's schemes "Earning immortality from the Cup is not as easy as drinking from it." The Queen pauses. "This Cup holds the moment of my father's death and the final gasps of a dying realm, after all. "Immortality requires a complex ritual. We must take the Cup before the Storm That Speaks and recite the poisoned words that killed my father. Those words were banished from all language, but there is a way I can recover them. "With my moonlight, I can force a quester to relive my father's last moments. It kills them, of course. I don't suppose you'll volunteer, but perhaps you know someone who will?" Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 21 [Hunt down either the Dismal Chamberlain (last seen in Brabazon) or the Final Champion (last seen in London)] Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – Pursuing a Sacrifice = 1 Pursuing: Isery = 1 [Track down Isery at their home in London] Pursuing: the Dismal Chamberlain = 1 [Perhaps someone at Brabazon, where you saw him last, or the Mausoleum, his old haunt, can tell you the Chamberlain's current whereabouts]
Introduce the Unseen Queen to the Dismal Chamberlain You lead the Chamberlain to the portrait that hangs outside your quarters. He gasps when he sees the Cup in her hand.	The Dismal Chamberlain ≥ 1 [The Dismal Chamberlain has boarded your engine.] Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 21 [Hunt down either the Dismal Chamberlain (last seen in Brabazon) or the Final Champion (last seen in London)] Pursuing: the Dismal Chamberlain ≥ 3 [[COMPLETE]You have found the Dismal Chamberlain]	The Chamberlain and the Queen "We've met," says the Queen. "When last we spoke, he pledged his fealty to me." The Chamberlain bows stiffly before her. "That oath still rings true, Your Majesty." "And you are ready to die?" "As I'll ever be, Your Majesty." "Then the time draws near." The Queen turns her attention to you. "Take us to the Storm That Speaks, and we will begin the ritual." Game note: The Storm That Speaks is reliably found near the Mausoleum, by the corpse of Albion's Sun. Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 22 [You must travel to the Storm That Speaks and have a dying quester speak the words that killed him. The Storm That Speaks is reliably found near the Mausoleum, by the corpse of Albion's Sun] Pursuing: the Dismal Chamberlain = 5 [[COMPLETE]You have found the Dismal Chamberlain] +2000 x Experience
Introduce the Unseen Queen to Isery You support the hobbling Isery as they make their way to the portrait that hangs outside your quarters. They gasp when they see the Cup.	Isery ≥ 1 [Isery has boarded your engine.] Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 21 [Hunt down either the Dismal Chamberlain (last seen in Brabazon) or the Final Champion (last seen in London)] Pursuing: Isery ≥ 4 [[COMPLETE]Isery will accompany you to relive the King's final hours]	Isery and the Queen "We've met," says the Queen. "Isery is, after all, my second-greatest knight." The bald quester smiles crookedly. "I'm not sure I like the prize for second place, Your Majesty." "Are you ready to die?" "I am. At least, if the alternative is to give up and never see this story to its end." "Then the time draws near." The Queen turns her attention to you. "Take us to the Storm That Speaks, and we will begin the ritual." Game note: The Storm That Speaks is reliably found near the Mausoleum, by the corpse of Albion's Sun. Pursuing: Isery = 5 [[COMPLETE]Isery will accompany you to relive the King's final hours] Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 22 [You must travel to the Storm That Speaks and have a dying quester speak the words that killed him. The Storm That Speaks is reliably found near the Mausoleum, by the corpse of Albion's Sun] +2000 x Experience
Leave her be As you walk down the corridor, you're sure you can hear the distant sound of a herald's bugle.		Worried looks When you return to the mess hall, you find your crew staring at you with something like concern in their eyes. Have they never seen someone converse with a portrait before?

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