Follow your Ambition: the Song of the Sky

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Follow your Ambition: the Song of the Sky
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	297915

Follow your Ambition: the Song of the Sky is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description

The Song of the Sky looms in your mind, an unfinished monument.

Trigger conditions

Ambition: The Song of the Sky ≥ 1 ≤ 57,
Area: Wolvesey Station
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Ponder your Ambition Where to begin?	Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 10 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era]	You take advantage of a quiet moment to pull out your journal. The blank page sits before you, smug and unblemished. The horror. At last – Inspiration strikes. You need fresh material. That's the ticket. Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 11 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era]	Game note: Go out and explore the High Wilderness. Gather Sky-Stories and Tales of Terror to begin the Song of the Sky.
Begin writing the Song of the Sky You've amassed a collection of tales that linger after the telling.	Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 11 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] Sky-Story ≥ 7 Tale of Terror ≥ 7	The First Canto You sit at your desk. The blank page yawns before you like an abyss. Memories crawl from the depths – the spiteful howl of the sky-winds, the honey-roar of a well-kept engine. The darkness. The stars. -7 x Tale of Terror -7 x Sky-Story Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 15 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] +1000 x Experience Triggers event:  Ambition: The Song of the Sky	Game note: This is the first step in your Ambition: The Song of the Sky.
Write the second canto of the Song of the Sky You've accomplished something so remarkable, so singular, it can't be perfectly translated into words. But you'll try.	Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 20 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] Momentous Exploit ≥ 1 [Your deeds are worth publishing.]	The Second Canto You sit at your desk. You stand, you pace, you sit again. You stare from the window. Where to begin? You remember the look in the Publisher's vaguely reptilian eyes when you first told him this story – a mix of disbelief, awe, and half-concealed greed. He'd been a kinder audience than the blank page. You begin to type, remembering how you worded your story in that first telling. Soon, the typewriter is clacking and ringing merrily. The story stirs in your mind like some disturbed undersea monster, unspooling its tendrils, before rushing Leviathan-like to the surface. Momentous Exploit = 0 [You have a momentous adventure to write about.] Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 25 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] +1500 x Experience Triggers event:  Ambition: The Song of the Sky
Write the third canto of the Song of the Sky The Second Canto caught the public's eye. The Third must somehow live up to its predecessor.	Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 30 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] Vision of the Heavens ≥ 3 Savage Secret ≥ 3	The Third Canto No contemplation, no procrastination, no hours of prolonged hesitation – not this time. Your story catches you like a fever and your fingers whirl so fast you threaten to tangle your typewriter's keys. -3 x Savage Secret Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 35 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] -3 x Vision of the Heavens +2500 x Experience Triggers event:  Ambition: The Song of the Sky
Write the fourth canto of the Song of the Sky Your previous typewriter died an ignoble death under your hammering fingers, and you've had to procure a new one. Time to make use of it.	Momentous Exploit ≥ 1 [Your deeds are worth publishing.] Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 40 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era]	The Fourth Canto The blank page is no longer a source of panic. It's a field waiting to be sown. A block of marble, hiding a hundred sculptures. A sail that will whisk you to seas unknown. You sit down, crack your knuckles, and prepare to write. Momentous Exploit = 0 [You have a momentous adventure to write about.] Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 45 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] +5000 x Experience Triggers event:  Ambition: The Song of the Sky
Write the fifth canto of the Song of the Sky Put the success of the four Cantos out of your mind. The Fifth must exceed them all, somehow.	Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 50 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] Unlicensed Chart ≥ 2 Moment of Inspiration ≥ 2	The Fifth Canto A horde of fanatical readers await your words with rabid anticipation. The Song isn't yours any more, it's theirs – you're just the unlucky shepherd who must steer it to the right ending. If you fail, they'll skin you alive and write a better conclusion in your blood. Best get on with it, then. You sit down to write, and find that the words come easily, like friends who've been waiting at the door. You invite them onto the page. Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 55 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] -2 x Unlicensed Chart -2 x Moment of Inspiration +10000 x Experience Triggers event:  Ambition: The Song of the Sky
Speak to the Omnivorous Publisher The First Canto was a quiet success, quickly forgotten. That's not good enough.	Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 20 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era] Momentous Exploit ≤ 0 [You have a momentous adventure to write about.]	The Omnivorous Publisher The Publisher's office – which you suspect is also his house – is even more dilapidated than when you first visited. The doorknob comes off in your hand. "If you want to make the Second Canto an extraordinary success, write about something extraordinary," says the Publisher, jabbing his cigarette into his desk for emphasis. "Something that no one will be able to ignore." Triggers event:  The Omnivorous Publisher	Game note: To write the Second Canto, you must complete a Momentous Exploit that will inspire awe in the population of New Winchester.
Speak to the Omnivorous Publisher You suspect you've accomplished something suitably extraordinary.	Momentous Exploit ≤ 0 [You have a momentous adventure to write about.] Ambition: The Song of the Sky = 40 [Become the High Wilderness' most venerated explorer, and write the story that defines the era]	Triggers event:  The Omnivorous Publisher

Links

Links In

Ambition: The Song of the Sky, The Omnivorous Publisher, An Unpromising Address

Links Out

Ambition: The Song of the Sky, The Omnivorous Publisher

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