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Origin: Zailor
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Category Facet
Type Origin
Data ID 131144

Origin: Zailor is considered a Origin Facet in Sunless Skies.

Accomplishment description[ | ]

"Once, you zailed the Unterzee: those wide black waters, far beneath the earth. "

Obtaining[ | ]

Origin: Zailor is one of the eight character origins you can select at the character creation.

You were a zee-captain.
You remember bats winging across the still, black sea. The distant lights of London, calling you home. Salty prayers offered to heedless gods.

It was a hard life, and often a short one, but you made your mark.

What were you known for?

Iron icon Iron = 25
Hunger icon Fermented = 1

You smuggled You explored You bought and you sold
Her Majesty's navy had a great many opinions on what should and shouldn't be sold in her territories. Your own opinions were rather different. You ran souls and sunlight to Gaider's Mourn and the Isle of Cats. You sailed, lampless, through the concealing dark. You lurked in hidden coves while the excisemen passed by.
Yours were far, lonely journeys. You endured nameless hardships. You rallied your crew in the face of utmost uncertainty.
You sought the edges of maps and sailed beyond them, into unknown domains where everything you knew proved false. What new discoveries might the sky hold for you?
You were a merchant. A precarious life, lived on the knife-edge between fortune and ruin.
It took a keen mind to coax a profit from the hungry waters, and keener eyes to spot the pirates and monsters drawn to your precious cargo. After a good haul, you made sure to enjoy the finer things.

Quality status[ | ]

Origin: Zailor has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

Journal description[ | ]

  • [10] You were a smuggler
  • [20] You were an explorer
  • [30] You were a merchant

Variable Interaction description[ | ]

These desciptions appear when a specific group is called for text.

Magdalene[ | ]

  • [0]
  • [1] Your old captain has her boots on the desk. She's playing with her pistol when you enter. \"Suppose I ought to congratulate you for finally equalling me in rank. Though, I must say a train's a bit easier to manage than a ship.\" She laughs. \"It's been years since I went so much as near a dinghy. Come 'ere.\" She opens her arms to embrace you as you brace yourself for impact."

Storm1[ | ]

  • [1] The voice you heard out over the black waves of the zee one night, coming from a direction where there was no land nor vessel..."

OverTheEdge[ | ]

  • [0]
  • [1] The names of all your old crew, and what became of them."

Ghost[ | ]

  • [0] Ghost

Interactions[ | ]

Interactions in Brief[ | ]

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Interaction Action Result Type Change
Who Were You? 'You smuggled' Default / Challenge Fail = 10
Who Were You? 'You explored' Default / Challenge Fail = 20
Who Were You? 'You bought and you sold' Default / Challenge Fail = 30
Pasts 'Worse Things Happen at Zee' Requirement ≥ 1
Approaching the Avid Horizon 'A memory of escape' Requirement ≥ 10 ≤ 10
Approaching the Avid Horizon 'A memory of desire' Requirement ≥ 20
Ambition: an Old Friend '...an Earnest Mariner' Requirement ≥ 10

Interactions in Detail[ | ]

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Story Action Required Effect
Who Were You? You smuggled None Default:
    • Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor = 10 [You were a smuggler]
    • Hunger icon Fermented = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as pungent, febrile and unappetising.]
    • Pastscandal icon Flickering = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as intermittently tantalising with an aftertaste of disappointment.]
You explored None Default:
    • Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor = 20 [You were an explorer]
    • Hunger icon Fermented = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as pungent, febrile and unappetising.]
    • Drink icon Stained = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as over-rich, cindered and irrevocably damaged.]
You bought and you sold None Default:
    • Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor = 30 [You were a merchant]
    • Hunger icon Fermented = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as pungent, febrile and unappetising.]
    • Mirrors icon Lightless = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as distressingly bland, inoffensive and liable to dissatisfaction.]


Pasts Worse Things Happen at Zee Default:


Approaching the Avid Horizon A memory of escape
    • Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor = 10 [You were a smuggler]
Default:
A memory of desire
    • Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor ≥ 20
Default:


Ambition: an Old Friend ...an Earnest Mariner
    • Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor ≥ 10
Default:
    • Dyingstar icon Ambition: the Truth = 15 [Your old friend associates with a group of seasoned captains that meet at the Promise of Days in New Winchester. Seek her there]



Facets
Type
Origins Originpoet icon Origin: Poet
Originpriest icon Origin: Priest
Originurchin icon Origin: Urchin
Flag icon Origin: Revolutionary
Originsoldier icon Origin: Soldier
Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor
Originacademic icon Origin: Academic
Searingenigma icon Origin: Auditor
Past Book icon Past: Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Momentofinspiration icon Past: An Hour in Gethsemane
Pastunlikelyhaul icon Past: An Unlikely Haul
Genericcharacter icon Past: The Liberation of Night
Smokinggun icon Past: The Battlefield
Porthole icon Past: Worse Things Happen at Zee
Unlicensedchart icon Past: Your Masterpiece
Searingenigma icon Past: A Letter of Resignation
Pastscandal icon Past: Scandal
Stainedglass icon Past: Lost Love
Pastmentor icon Past: Mentor
Bronzewood icon Past: Family Footsteps
Amberblue icon Past: Pestilence
Youarenotalone icon Past: Haunted
Key icon Past: a Metamorphosis
Pastspellinprison icon Past: A Spell in Prison
CrateofNostalgicCrockery icon Past: Below Stairs
Pastsmoggystreets icon Past: The Smoggy Streets
Cobwebs icon Past: the Great Game
Terror icon Past: The Bell Tolls
Rubberyman icon Past: Rubbery Inclinations
Repentantdevil icon Past: the Devil you Know
Pastscarred icon Past: Scarred
Drink icon Past: Black Sheep
Fire icon Past: the Blockade of New Winchester
Locomotive icon Past: Steam & Soot
Hunger icon Past: Sunday Dinners
Undistinguishedsouls icon Past: Spirifered
Wind icon Past: An Exercise Regimen
Boot icon Past: the Long Arm of the Law
Ratronaut icon Past: an Honorary Rat
Pastinterlude icon Past: An Interlude in Red and Gold
Stovepipe icon Past: The August Avenues
BarrelofUnseasonedHours icon Past: A Promise of Days
Homestead icon Past: a Settler
Stormthatspeaks icon Past: the Seance
Envelope icon Past: Correspondent
Ringmaster icon Past: a House of Cards
Deeds Hull icon Deed: a Narrow Escape
Transitrelay icon Deed: Far-Travelled
Wreckgeneric icon Deed: an Esteemed Predecessor
Wreckgeneric icon Deed: a Disgraced Predecessor
Affiliationacadame icon Deed: a Secret Symposium
Affiliationbohemia icon Deed: a Coterie
Affiliationestablishment icon Deed: Your Club
Affiliationvillainy icon Deed: a Thief-Oath
Clock icon Deed: the Keeper of the Clocks
Smuggling icon Deed: Seasoned Smuggler
Originzeecaptain icon Deed: the Call of the Sea
Maskedshade icon Deed: A Jar with your Death in it
Devilshell icon Deed: A Knight of the Brazen Brigade
Mirrors icon Deed: the Witness
Bloody icon Deed: The Final Month
Ambition Heirloomwealth icon Past: Your Inheritance Heirloomsongofthesky icon Past: the Song of the Sky Unaccountablypeckish icon Past: a Terrible Secret Martyrkingscup icon Past: the Martyr-King's Cup
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