Speak with the Rubbery Man

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Speak with the Rubbery Man
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	310843

Speak with the Rubbery Man is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description

No one has dressed him for the chess game, or let him enter the board.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Speak with the Rubbery Man He stands off to one side, tentacles squirming.	Assisting a Rubbery Penitent ≤ 0	Writhing introductions He is surprised that you approach him. He moves to make room for you, in case you are merely trying to occupy his space. When you speak to him, he offers you a squishy handshake. By various signals, gestures, and directions of his eyes, he indicates that he has come here looking for his place in the world. Assisting a Rubbery Penitent = 1 [Assist the Rubbery Penitent by donating five Penance: Shift of Perspective, or one Penance: Shift of Perspective and one Penance: Enlightenment]
Ask the Rubbery Man about the Devil with the rose-coloured gloves ...and then hope you can understand the answer.	Assisting a Rubbery Penitent = 1 [Assist the Rubbery Penitent by donating five Penance: Shift of Perspective, or one Penance: Shift of Perspective and one Penance: Enlightenment] Initiate of Carillon ≥ 30 and ≤ 40	Startling The Rubbery Man holds up one tentacle, representing the Devil with the rose-coloured gloves. Then he holds up another tentacle. After a moment, he twists the two together. Are the tentacles meant to be kissing? Is that what that is? When you look blank, the Rubbery Man repeats the pantomime several times. Perhaps the Devil has a lover. Perhaps the Devil loves the Rubbery Man. Perhaps the Devil enjoys exotic forms of dance.
Redemption of a Rubbery Man Conversion requires a change of understanding, an alteration of state both sudden and permanent.	Assisting a Rubbery Penitent = 1 [Assist the Rubbery Penitent by donating five Penance: Shift of Perspective, or one Penance: Shift of Perspective and one Penance: Enlightenment] Penance: Shift of Perspective ≥ 5 [You have five Penances: Shift of Perspective]	Two lumps You offer the Penance. May the Rubbery use a human penance? Are such penances, well, compatible? The Rubbery Man accepts it; takes it into an orifice; digests it. His eyes close. Then they open again: they are your eyes. Your eye colour. The same pattern in the iris you know from mirrors. He stares around as though seeing everything for the first time. "Thank you," he says. Perhaps he has grown your tongue and teeth, too. Then he places two damp objects in your hand, and walks away towards the staircase. Well, it stands to reason that his original eyes had to go somewhere. Assisting a Rubbery Penitent = 2 [[COMPLETE]You have assisted the Rubbery Penitent] +500 x Experience +2 x Uncanny Specimen -5 x Penance: Shift of Perspective Triggers event:  Chequerboard Garden
Elevation of a Rubbery Man What would such a person need? Perhaps understanding cut with ambition.	Assisting a Rubbery Penitent = 1 [Assist the Rubbery Penitent by donating five Penance: Shift of Perspective, or one Penance: Shift of Perspective and one Penance: Enlightenment] Penance: Enlightenment ≥ 1 [You have a Penance: Enlightenment] Penance: Shift of Perspective ≥ 1 [You have a Penance: Shift of Perspective]	Transferred Enlightenment for a start; conversion for a chaser. He consumes both. Tentacles are involved, and the twitching of excessively mobile... would one call those lips? But then. What a transformation! His features smooth and flatten. His tentacles retract. From a distance, one might take him for a human gentleman with an especially prominent brow. He assesses you. Then – no thanks, no comment, not even the wave of a tentacle, what an ingrate! – he takes up someone's freshly discarded crozier. As a Bishop, he joins the game in play. Assisting a Rubbery Penitent = 3 [[COMPLETE]You have assisted the Rubbery Penitent] +500 x Experience +1 x Vision of the Heavens -1 x Penance: Enlightenment -1 x Penance: Shift of Perspective Triggers event:  Chequerboard Garden
Leave the Rubbery Man alone Perhaps the game of chess is a better diversion.		undefined Triggers event:  Chequerboard Garden

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