Speak with the Penitent Ape

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Speak with the Penitent Ape
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	310860

Speak with the Penitent Ape is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description

He has collected human souls, and now he is here to cultivate them.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Assist a Penitent Ape How did he even gain entry to the Sand Garden?	Assisting a Penitent Ape ≤ 0	Nonsensical chatter He tells you, in a low mutter: this soul was a gambler, but a good one, able to remember odds and figures, fast at seeing an opponent's bluff. Took bets where he shouldn't. Calculated the odds of dying in a knife fight and decided he didn't mind a ten percent risk, if the pot was large enough. A good soul, but it would be a better one if it could be coaxed, post-mortem, into a little more sense of mortality. That would make it more poignant. (At least, so you gather. The Ape does not use words like poignant. But you take its meaning.) Assisting a Penitent Ape = 1 [Assist a Penitent Ape by donating five Penance: Inescapable Truth or five Penance: Excess]
Give the Ape a truth Souls can't be polished post-death. Probably not, anyway.	Assisting a Penitent Ape = 1 [Assist a Penitent Ape by donating five Penance: Inescapable Truth or five Penance: Excess] Penance: Inescapable Truth ≥ 5 [You have five Penances: Inescapable Truth]	You offer the Ape understanding ...and it bites you on the arm. Not a little nip, either, but a deep, angry bite. It has seen nothing but contempt since it arrived here at Carillon. Your honesty, if you like to call it that, is the latest in a line of humiliations. It is finished; it is through. It does its business next to your shoe and scuffles off with its soul collection, leaving one or two trinkets behind. Assisting a Penitent Ape = 2 [[COMPLETE]You have assisted a Penitent Ape] +500 x Experience +2 x Uncanny Specimen -5 x Penance: Inescapable Truth Triggers event:  Sand Garden
Give the Ape some knowledge There are things you have seen and learned, in your sojourn in the Garden of Insatiable Roses.	Assisting a Penitent Ape = 1 [Assist a Penitent Ape by donating five Penance: Inescapable Truth or five Penance: Excess] Penance: Excess ≥ 5 [You have five Penances: Excess]	Excursions outside death It's true that the soul of a dead being cannot be significantly changed. But the gambler: does the Ape still have the corpse handy? Might it not be taken where Death is more forgiving? So sudden a resurrection alone might be enough to make useful alterations in the gambler's attitude to death...? It is a long journey from here to any place where Death is so forgiving. But the Ape seems game, and well provisioned. He pays you for your insight. Assisting a Penitent Ape = 3 [[COMPLETE]You have assisted a Penitent Ape] +500 x Experience +5 x Tale of Terror -5 x Penance: Excess Triggers event:  Sand Garden
Leave the Ape alone You've things to be getting on with.		undefined Triggers event:  Sand Garden

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