Between Seconds

Between Seconds
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	312393

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Between Seconds is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description[ | ]

Sudden snowflakes snag on your eyelashes. The snow is not falling, frozen in place. You cut a tunnel through. Behind you is a moor, blanketed in white. There are no menhirs in sight.

Before you is a slab of stone, lit by a final slant of winter sunlight.

Visited Sky Henge(InsideRoot)

Trigger conditions[ | ]

Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions[ | ]

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Gift a barrel of hours to the beings that live between seconds This is what the stories say they desire, after all.	Visited Sky Henge ≤ 0 Donated ≤ 0	Aloof; lonely The beings consider you, but say nothing. They wait Your crew lift the barrel of hours onto the stone slab. A stoker prises the lid off. As a geode tumbles out, there is a flurry of motion. The translucent beings cluster around the barrel, gathering up the geodes with boneless limbs. They pass them out, cradling each one gently. One being spills a shimmer of bright gemstones – their colour riotous in this white place – into your arms. The others begin to croon, softly, to the hours. -1 x Barrel of Unseasoned Hours +1 x Vision of the Heavens +1 x Visited Sky Henge Donated = 1 +1 x Cask of Navaratine Gemstones
Gift a barrel of hours to the beings that live between seconds They accepted the last barrel so eagerly.	Visited Sky Henge = 1 Donated ≤ 0	Hissed acknowledgement The translucent beings turn towards you in unison. As you hoist the barrel onto the altar, their heads arch over it. Even as you are prising off the lid, they reach boneless limbs towards the geodes inside. Tenderly, the hours are passed out, are pressed to feather-robed breasts. There are not enough to go around – a keening goes up from two. Their black eyes fix on you balefully, before turning away. Another being spills a shimmer of bright gemstones – this time a torrent of them – into your arms. It turns back to the altar. You are forgotten. -1 x Barrel of Unseasoned Hours +1 x Visited Sky Henge +2 x Cask of Navaratine Gemstones Donated = 1
Gift a barrel of hours to the beings that live between seconds They accepted the last barrel so eagerly.	Visited Sky Henge = 2 Donated ≤ 0	Expectation The stone slab is cushioned with down. The beings hiss as a stoker goes to lever the barrel open – his hands are too coarse, too ungentle. You are given your reward: a pile of glass lenses filled with dazzling souls. The being thrusts them towards you, before joining its fellows. -1 x Barrel of Unseasoned Hours +1 x Visited Sky Henge +1 x Selection of Immaculate Souls Donated = 1
Leave with your hours You have changed your mind. Game note: You will have to wait before you can return inside.	Donated ≤ 0	An anxious welcome The tunnel you cut through the unfalling snowflakes leads you out. The closer you get to where the stones should be, the more the air thickens, until it feels like fording a river. Abruptly, you are on the other side. Fortunately, your engine is here to greet you. A navigator hurries to meet you, obviously concerned. Whatever the date should be, it is not. (1 to 7) x Date Triggers event: Skyhenge	Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
Return to your engine The creatures are entirely occupied with the hours. They have nothing more for you.	Visited Sky Henge ≤ 2 Donated ≥ 1	An anxious welcome The tunnel you cut through the unfalling snowflakes leads you out. The closer you get to where the stones should be, the more the air thickens, until it feels like fording a river. Abruptly, you are on the other side. Fortunately, your engine is here to greet you. A navigator hurries to meet you, obviously concerned. Whatever the date should be, it is not. Donated = 0 (1 to 7) x Date Triggers event: Skyhenge	Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
Return to your engine The creatures are entirely occupied with your gift. They have lost interest in you. Game note: There is always a price.	Visited Sky Henge ≥ 3 Donated ≥ 1	The missing Once more, the tunnel you cut through the unfalling snowflakes leads you out. Abruptly, you are on the other side. But you are fewer. Crew who went inside the stones have not returned with you. You call for them: there is no answer. You light a flare, but there is no response. You wait – but they do not return. Donated = 0 -7 x Crew (1 to 7) x Date Triggers event: Skyhenge	Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.