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| An Outbreak of the Heart-Sickness | |
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| Category | Random Event |
| Type | Random |
| Data ID | 313367 |
An Outbreak of the Heart-Sickness is a Sunless Skies Random Event.
Story description[]
A mysterious outbreak of nostalgia is spreading through your crew.
Frequently, they stop work to stare away into misty remembrance. They gather during the evenings to meditate on times gone by, and debate the ways in which the past was superior to the present. The air is full of sighs.
Trigger conditions[]
Attention: the Storm that Speaks ≥ 10 ≤ 10,
Location: The High Wilderness
Area: The Sky
Frequency: Gods (100%)
Interactions[]
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| Hold a compulsory knees-up
Break out the brandy! String the fiddles!
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| A sinking of spirits
They drink the brandy. They join in a few half-hearted verses of Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay. But soon the mood turns melancholy again. Before you can stop it, the crew are sharing stories of the loved ones they left behind, and the lives they led in those long-gone days before London climbed into the sky.
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| A lifting of spirits
The crew attend reluctantly. But once the brandy has been passed around, you manage to get them telling tales of their recent adventures; of their narrow escapes and their small triumphs.
It's still reminiscence, but at least it's on fresher fare than the rose-hued days of their youth.
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| Sit with the most afflicted
And listen to their tales of times past. It won't help, but you might learn something.
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Old secrets
Nostalgia has lifted the veils that normally hide their hearts. They speak of the things they left behind, the things they regret, and the things they wish they'd done differently.
Sometimes, as they wonder amidst the mists of the past, they speak of things they should not.
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| Succumb, and write
Nostalgia is the fuel of melancholy, and melancholy is a fruitful muse. Perhaps you will be inspired.
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| The Storm that Speaks
Abandoning your crew to the plague of melancholy, you withdraw to your quarters. But today, the ink does not flow, and the words strangle one another. The page yawns, white and terrible and empty.
At some point you doze off, and are dragged down into dreams. You stand on a featureless heath. A storm rages above you, its thunder comprised of countless voices all shouting to be heard. Lightning stabs, writing a word upon the sky. But when you wake, you can't remember what it said.
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| Inspiration
You surrender to the welcoming embrace of nostalgia, which makes brass into gold, cruelty into glory, and hardship into virtue.
Stewed in melancholy, you begin to write. By the night's end you've produced a dozen stormy, opulent stanzas on the loneliness of the sky. It's no This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, but it'll do.
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