| Forging a Companion | |
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| Category | Story Event |
| Type | Story |
| Data ID | 306079 |
Forging a Companion is a Sunless Skies Story Event.
Story Description[]
"The Forged Companion(ForgeRoot)"
Trigger conditions[]
Location: The Forge of Souls
Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)
Interactions[]
| Storylet Name | Unlocked With | Effects | Notes |
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| Forge a Poetic Companion
A sensitive officer who can turn the experiences of your voyage into literature. |
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Total immersion The spirit pumps scalding water into a copper bath from a pipe beside the furnace. Steam fills the room, but while your clothes stick to your skin, the spirit's robes flow weightlessly around its insubstantial frame. Once the bath is full, the spirit gestures for you to stand back. It uncorks the green bottle and takes a deep and reverential swig before emptying it into the water, which froths up immediately. The spirit lowers the skin into the foam, where it softens, ballooning as the mixture bubbles through it.
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Game note: A Poetic Forged Companion will bolster your Hearts. The Poetic Forged Companion is a Quartermaster with +10 Hearts |
| Forge a Studious Companion A scholarly officer, adept at devising solutions and innovations. |
Total immersion The spirit pumps scalding water into a copper bath from a pipe beside the furnace. Steam fills the room, but while your clothes stick to your skin, the spirit's robes flow weightlessly around its insubstantial frame. Once the bath is full, the spirit gestures for you to stand back. It uncorks the green bottle and takes a deep and reverential swig before emptying it into the water, which froths up immediately. The spirit lowers the skin into the foam, where it softens, ballooning as the mixture bubbles through it.
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Game note: A Studious Forged Companion will sharpen your Mirrors. The Studious Forged Companion is a Quartermaster with +10 Mirrors | |
| Forge an Illusive Companion An officer adept at conjuring tricks, for both entertainment and deception. |
Total immersion The spirit pumps scalding water into a copper bath from a pipe beside the furnace. Steam fills the room, but while your clothes stick to your skin, the spirit's robes flow weightlessly around its insubstantial frame. Once the bath is full, the spirit gestures for you to stand back. It uncorks the green bottle and takes a deep and reverential swig before emptying it into the water, which froths up immediately. The spirit lowers the skin into the foam, where it softens, ballooning as the mixture bubbles through it.
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Game note: An Illusive Forged Companion will thicken your Veils. The Illusive Forged Companion is a Quartermaster with +10 Veils | |
| Forge a Pugilistic Companion A physically imposing officer who will deploy their brawn in both protective and offensive capacities. |
Total immersion The spirit pumps scalding water into a copper bath from a pipe beside the furnace. Steam fills the room, but while your clothes stick to your skin, the spirit's robes flow weightlessly around its insubstantial frame. Once the bath is full, the spirit gestures for you to stand back. It uncorks the green bottle and takes a deep and reverential swig before emptying it into the water, which froths up immediately. The spirit lowers the skin into the foam, where it softens, ballooning as the mixture bubbles through it.
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Game note: A Pugilistic Forged Companion will strengthen your Iron. The Pugilistic Forged Companion is a Quartermaster with +10 Iron | |
| A pragmatic companion would be best |
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Elbow grease The spirit opens the Companion's mouth as wide as it will go, and gestures that you should push the paper inside. You tear out a page and crumple it into a ball before thrusting it deep within the empty skin, using your fingers to work the paper inside the Companion's foot and force a wad into each of its toes. The interior of the body is damp and warm against your skin. It pulsates irregularly, contracting gently around your arm.  -1 x Ministry-Approved Literature The Forged Companion = [Your companion has no eyes. Acquire a Cask of Navaratine Gemstones or a Sack of Verdant Seeds to rectify the situation.] |
Descriptions vary based on choices |
| The Companion shall be visionary |
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A delicate procedure The spirit places a funnel to your Companion's slack mouth, gesturing that you should pour the starshine into it. As the iridescent liquid fills the Companion's skin, the body starts to take shape. Its feet inflate first, its toes swelling into shape one by one. The thighs and chest bulge, the light from the starshine gleaming through where the skin is stretched thinnest.
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Descriptions vary based on choices |
| Use Navaratine Gemstones for their eyes The sparkling jewels will make your companion entrancing. |
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An entracing sight. A Visionary Companion(EyesGems)A Pragmatic Companion(EyesGems)
The spirit takes a tiny needle and runs gold thread through the loose skin around the gemstones before pulling it tight, anchoring them beneath sphincters of puckered skin. Your Companion will be unable to close its eyes, but the spirit seems unconcerned.
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Descriptions vary based on choices |
| Verdant seeds are a better choice This will render the companion unnerving, especially when they start to germinate. |
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An unnerving sight A Visionary Companion(EyesSeeds)A Pragmatic Companion(EyesSeeds)
The spirit takes a tiny needle and runs gold thread through the loose skin around the seeds before pulling it tight, anchoring them beneath sphincters of puckered skin. Your Companion will be unable to close its eyes, but the spirit seems unconcerned.
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Descriptions vary based on choices |
| Leave, and return later Perhaps you do not have what you need to make your desired companion. Perhaps you just wish to give matter some thought. |
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 The Forge of Souls |
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| Thank the spirit for their help It would not do to offend one capable of creating life. |
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The process can begin anew It is not clear whether the spirit understands your sentiments, because they turn their back before you have finished talking to pull a lever next to the furnace.
There is a distant clanking of machinery, and an acrid smell fills the air. The spirit peers through the furnace grate. After a few moments, they open it to reveal a steaming bundle, which they remove from the flames with a metal shovel and deposit on the plinth. The spirit peels open the bundle, revealing it to be another empty skin. They lower their head to it, and take a long sniff.
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| Ignore the spirit There is nothing to thank them for; you provided most of the materials yourself. |
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The process can begin anew The spirit appears unconcerned by your snub, turning their back on you to pull a lever next to the furnace.
There is a distant clanking of machinery, and an acrid smell fills the air. The spirit peers through the furnace grate. After a few moments, they open it to reveal a steaming bundle, which they remove from the flames with a metal shovel and deposit on the plinth. The spirit peels open the bundle, revealing it to be another empty skin. They lower their head to it, and take a long sniff.
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| Bring your Forged Companion Aboard They shall be an asset to your locomotive. |
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An asset! You begin to lead your Poetic Forged Companion(Name)Studious Forged Companion(Name)Pugilistic Forged Companion(Name)Illusive Forged Companion(Name) Forged Companion towards the port, but it holds up its A Visionary Companion(BringAboard)A Pragmatic Companion(BringAboard) hand.
"Please do not trouble yourself," it says in a toneless voice. "I will locate your locomotive, and install myself aboard.Poetic Forged Companion(BringAboard2)Studious Forged Companion(BringAboard2)Pugilistic Forged Companion(BringAboard2)Illusive Forged Companion(BringAboard2)
The Forge of Souls |
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