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| Number Thirteen, Jubilee Road | |
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| Category | Story Event |
| Type | Story |
| Data ID | 318571 |
Number Thirteen, Jubilee Road is a Sunless Skies Story Event.
Story description[]
The house's interior is funereal. Since it only has one remaining occupant (apart from the butler, the housekeeper, two maids-of-all-work, the cook and a decrepit gardener, who hardly count) many of its rooms are in disuse, their furniture covered by sheets.
Now that you are inside, how will you acquire the letters?
Trigger conditions[]
Infernal Appetites ≥ 15 ≤ 20,
Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)
Interactions[]
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| Bring the conversation around to the letters
Listening patiently to the widow's complaints about her family has given you an idea. You claim to be an acquaintance of her eldest son, the ambassador to the Empyrean.
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| Unconvinced
Try as you might, you can't divert her from her interminable monologue about the perfidy of husbands, the ingratitude of daughters, and the weakness of sons. Before she can move onto uncles, aunts, and cousins, you take your leave.
Perhaps you can try again another day, or look to other methods.
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| Spinning a yarn
You and he, you suggest, were engaged in a number of briefly profitable and enduringly questionable activities. Furthermore, you fear he unwisely revealed said activities in his letters to his departed sister. Were his rivals to acquire them, your reputation – and his – would be ruined.
For a long minute she decides whether to destroy or save her son's career. Then she stands. "My children's correspondence will be in the attic. Help yourself." She returns to her accounts. Several hours later, grey with attic-dust, you leave the house with a handful of letters in your inside pocket.
The Ambassador's Letters
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| Search the attic
Where else would you find a family's forgotten memorabilia? You will need to be careful, though. The dogs sleep on the stairs.
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| Seen off
Alas, these particular sleeping dogs refuse to lie. One of them, stricken by a potent bout of indigestion, wakes. It catches your scent, and raises such a clamour that the butler fetches his blunderbuss from under his bed.
You make a frantic departure, pursued by baying dogs, the butler's erratic aim, and the shrieks of a maid convinced you represent the vanguard of an invading Tackety army. You may have to try again another time, or vary your methods.
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| Gently does it
Giving the stairs a wide berth, you locate the attic hatch, open it, clamber up, and draw it up behind you.
In a corner filled with cobwebbed rocking horses and fractured china dolls, you find a box of old letters. Among them are several matching the devil's specifications: franked from the Empyrean and dated February, 1902. You can hear the dogs snuffling about in the corridor below, so you are forced to make your exit through a skylight and across the roof. Once safely away, you pause and examine your prize. You have a decision to make.
The Ambassador's Letters
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| Make a discreet exit
You are having second thoughts.
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Other business
As soon as an opportunity presents itself, you quietly leave number thirteen, Jubilee Road. Perhaps you will return later.
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Links[]
Links In[]
Retrieve the 'Retired' Devil's Letters
Links Out[]
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