Pursuing: Isery

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Pursuing: Isery
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Category	Journal
Type	Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup
Data ID	139337

Pursuing: Isery is considered a Journal Quality Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup in Sunless Skies.

Objective description

"You are in pursuit of one of the Unseen Queen's other questers. You hope to persuade them to relive the King's last hours (and, in the process, die)."

Quality status

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

Journal description

• [1] Track down Isery at their home in London
• [2] Survive Isery's betrayal
• [3] You have defeated Isery
• [4] [COMPLETE]Isery will accompany you to relive the King's final hours
• [10] [COMPLETE]You've decided not to take Isery to their doom

Interaction description

These desciptions appear specifically when the value changes.

• [1] Track down Isery at their home in London.
• [2] Survive Isery's betrayal.
• [3] You have defeated Isery.
• [4] Isery will accompany you to relive the King's final hours.
• [10] You've decided not to take Isery to their doom.

Variable Interaction description

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

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• [0]
• [1] Isery turns, pulls a knife from their boot, and hurls it at you with startling speed and accuracy. It sinks to the hilt in your shoulder. \n\nWhile you're still processing this unfortunate event, Isery flips open a secret compartment in their wall and withdraws a military sabre. \n\n\"I never thought you'd actually find it!\" they snarl. \"Give it to me. I must have it.\"\n\nYou put down your cup of tea.
• [2] Isery stands above you, their sabre at your throat. \n\n\"Last chance,\" they say. \"Where is the Cup?\"
• [3] Isery staggers to their armchair and sinks into the cushions, one hand clamped over their fresh wound.\n\n\"You win,\" they mutter. You explain why you're here. As Isery listens, their face takes a grim cast. \"If I have to die to finally lie my eyes on the Cup, then so be it,\" they say. \"I agree to your terms.\"

Interactions

Interactions in Brief

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Interaction	Action	Result Type	Change
Explore London	'Track down Isery'	Requirement	≥ 1 ≤ 1
Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen	'Ask her about the Cup'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 1
Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen	'Introduce the Unseen Queen to Isery'	Requirement	≥ 4
Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen	'Introduce the Unseen Queen to Isery'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 5
Isery's Betrayal	'Defend yourself'	Requirement	≥ 1 ≤ 1
Isery's Betrayal	'Defend yourself'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 2
Isery's Betrayal	'Defend yourself'	Success	= 3
Isery's Betrayal	'Call upon the help of the Unseen Queen'	Requirement	≥ 2 ≤ 2
Isery's Betrayal	'Call upon the help of the Unseen Queen'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 3
Isery's Betrayal	'Leave Isery behind, in obscurity'	Requirement	≥ 3 ≤ 3
Isery's Betrayal	'Leave Isery behind, in obscurity'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 10
Isery's Betrayal	'Carry Isery aboard'	Requirement	≥ 3 ≤ 3
Isery's Betrayal	'Carry Isery aboard'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 4
Isery's Betrayal	'Flee while you can'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 10

Interactions in Detail

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Story	Action	Required	Effect
Explore London	Track down Isery	Pursuing: Isery = 1 [Track down Isery at their home in London] The Dismal Chamberlain ≤ 0	Default: Triggers event:  Isery's Betrayal
Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen	Ask her about the Cup	Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 20 [Once you are safely back on your locomotive, talk to the Unseen Queen]	Default: Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 21 [Hunt down either the Dismal Chamberlain (last seen in Brabazon) or the Final Champion (last seen in London)] Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – Pursuing a Sacrifice = 1 Pursuing: Isery = 1 [Track down Isery at their home in London] Pursuing: the Dismal Chamberlain = 1 [Perhaps someone at Brabazon, where you saw him last, or the Mausoleum, his old haunt, can tell you the Chamberlain's current whereabouts]
	Introduce the Unseen Queen to Isery	Isery ≥ 1 Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 21 [Hunt down either the Dismal Chamberlain (last seen in Brabazon) or the Final Champion (last seen in London)] Pursuing: Isery ≥ 4	Default: Pursuing: Isery = 5 [[COMPLETE]Isery will accompany you to relive the King's final hours] Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 22 [You must travel to the Storm That Speaks and have a dying quester speak the words that killed him. The Storm That Speaks is reliably found near the Mausoleum, by the corpse of Albion's Sun] +2000 x Experience
Isery's Betrayal	Defend yourself	Pursuing: Isery = 1 [Track down Isery at their home in London] Iron (67 for 100%)	Default: Pursuing: Isery = 2 [Survive Isery's betrayal] +5 x Terror Success: +1 x Moored to Reality Pursuing: Isery = 3 [You have defeated Isery]
	Call upon the help of the Unseen Queen	Pursuing: Isery = 2 [Survive Isery's betrayal]	Default: +1 x Silver Dreams of a Golden Day Visions in Silver = 1 [You are seeing what really ought to be.] Pursuing: Isery = 3 [You have defeated Isery]
	Leave Isery behind, in obscurity	Pursuing: Isery = 3 [You have defeated Isery]	Default: Pursuing: Isery = 10 [[COMPLETE]You've decided not to take Isery to their doom] Triggers event:  Explore London
	Carry Isery aboard	Pursuing: Isery = 3 [You have defeated Isery]	Default: Pursuing: Isery = 4 [[COMPLETE]Isery will accompany you to relive the King's final hours] Isery = 1 [Isery has boarded your engine.] Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – Pursuing a Sacrifice = 2 [[COMPLETE]You have found a quester to relive the King of Hours' last hours] +1 x Terror Triggers event:  Explore London
	Flee while you can	None	Default: Pursuing: Isery = 10 [[COMPLETE]You've decided not to take Isery to their doom] Triggers event:  Explore London

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