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Old Friend
Old Friend
Category Officers
Position First Officer
Effects

Hearts icon +2 Hearts

Iron icon +2 Iron

Mirrors icon +2 Mirrors

Veils icon +2 Veils

Data ID 139450
Interaction ID 309635

Old Friend is considered a Officer First Officer in Sunless Skies.

Officers description[ | ]

"Your friendship began back when London still lay beneath the earth."

Obtaining[ | ]

Reunited with an Old Friend[ | ]

You have known the Friend(ID2) since the days before London came to the heavens. They were simpler times.

Now, you are both fleeing the wrath of the suns and their bloodhound: the Fire that Follows. The knowledge you have learned is the scent that leads it to you. There is nowhere to hide, in all the wide, wild skies.

Interactions

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Lay your plans
Night after night, you meet in your cabin and try to come up with a way out of your predicament.
Bad choices
You soon rediscover what good foils you made for each other. Thinking is easier with two minds doing it.

After scouring your shared knowledge of the skies, and considering (and discarding) countless fruitless ideas, you are left with a single conundrum and no good recourse.

There is no refuge for you in the sky. Therefore you have two choices: flee the heavens, or flee your selves.
Discuss fleeing the heavens
London entered the sky through the Avid Horizon, but that door has been closed for years. On the far side lies the Neath, a vast subterranean cavern where suns hold no sway.
    • Dyingstar icon Ambition: the Truth = 210 [Visit the Empyrean and acquire the knowledge you need to flee the heavens via the Avid Horizon, or change yourselves beyond recognition at Piranesi]

To escape the sky
No one knows why the Avid Horizon closed. One day, people just stopped coming through it. Attempts to reopen it have been unsuccessful.

Of course, you would only need to open it a crack. Just wide enough and long enough for the two of you to slip through.

"The Eagle Khan provided insight and machinery that helped Her Majesty open, and hold open, the door," your friend says. "If we are to do so again, we'll need some of that ingenuity. It won't come cheap. Then we'll need to establish a base at the gate itself."

Jochi Collection(Quest)
Discuss hiding yourselves
The Fire that Follows is hunting you and the things you have learned. But what if you were to become someone else entirely?
    • Dyingstar icon Ambition: the Truth = 210 [Visit the Empyrean and acquire the knowledge you need to flee the heavens via the Avid Horizon, or change yourselves beyond recognition at Piranesi]

Blank slates
In Eleutheria there is a prison called Piranesi. Those who are cast into its deepest cells emerge changed beyond recognition.

"It would mean giving ourselves up," Your friend warns. "We would become new people, with new memories, new faces, new selves."

Game note: Visit Piranesi in Eleutheria to pursue this course of action.



Quality status[ | ]

Old Friend has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

Interaction description[ | ]

These desciptions appear specifically when the value changes.

  • [0] Your old friend leaves your engine to begin her work.
  • [1] Your old friend has joined you. She will serve as your First Officer, if you ask.

Interactions[ | ]

Interactions in Brief[ | ]

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Interaction Action Result Type Change
On the Quiet Sea 'Ambition: Establish a base at the foot of the Gate' Default / Challenge Fail = 0
The Fire has Followed 'Flee together; ignore the words of your extraneous mouth' Default / Challenge Fail +1

Interactions in Detail[ | ]

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Story Action Required Effect
On the Quiet Sea Ambition: Establish a base at the foot of the Gate
    • Dyingstar icon Ambition: the Truth = 210 [Visit the Empyrean and acquire the knowledge you need to flee the heavens via the Avid Horizon, or change yourselves beyond recognition at Piranesi]
Default:


The Fire has Followed Flee together; ignore the words of your extraneous mouth None Default:
    • Locket icon +1 x Old Friend
    • Dyingstar icon Ambition: the Truth = 200 [Talk to your old friend aboard your locomotive, and make an escape plan]



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