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Staircase Spelunking
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Category Progress Quality WHAT TYPE
Type Eleutheria: Langley Hall WHAT TYPE
Data ID 136058

Staircase Spelunking is considered a WARNINGWARNING in Sunless Skies.

Progress description[ | ]

"You are traversing the nooks and crannies of Langley Hall."

Obtaining[ | ]

Quality status[ | ]

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

Journal description[ | ]

  • [1] You are walking the stairs of Langley Hall
  • [5] A creak of an old wooden stair; the feel of soft carpet under your feet
  • [10] A sharp laugh, somewhere far above. The sound of a cork popping. Cheers
  • [15] The smell of champagne rises from below, along with the unmistakable scent of fireworks
  • [20] Hushed whispers from behind the wall. Where has Lord Langley gone?
  • [25] From somewhere close by you can hear the sound of running feet and breathless laughter
  • [30] Moonlight limns the stair ahead in lustrous white
  • [35] A fervent knocking on a door above. A bellow in response: \"No one's here.\"
  • [40] The smell of good hotpot rises tantalisingly through the stairwells
  • [45] The sound of shattering glass, like the breaking of a mirror, from far above
  • [50] Murmurs from around the corner: soft, fervent, indiscreet
  • [55] The scratchy sounds of a gramophone playing something dangerously up-tempo float down through the stairwells. Lord Langley's Waltz
  • [60] You can hear someone playing a piano, mournful and elegiac, somewhere far, far away
  • [65] A clock chimes the second hour on a landing above
  • [70] A door bangs overhead. A furious argument breaks out. \"Why don't you do a Lord Langley and get lost?\"
  • [75] Snoring nearby
  • [80] Movement above; whispers in the moonlit gloom
  • [85] Lanternlight falls in coloured shafts hue on the stairs below
  • [90] A woman laughs when asked her name. \"You may call me Lord Langley, and I demand a dance of you.\"
  • [95] Candles burn ahead. The scent of lavender and fresh linen pervades the air
  • [100] Silvered light shivers the landing ahead. Notes ring out from a piano, played in the dark

Interaction description[ | ]

These desciptions appear specifically when the value changes.

  • [5] A creak of an old wooden stair; the feel of soft carpet under your feet.
  • [10] A sharp laugh, somewhere far above. The sound of a cork popping. Cheers.
  • [15] The smell of champagne rises from below, along with the unmistakable scent of fireworks.
  • [35] A fervent knocking on a door above. A bellow in response: \"No one's here.\"
  • [40] The smell of good hotpot rises tantalisingly through the stairwells.
  • [65] A clock chimes the second hour on a landing above.
  • [70] A door bangs overhead. A furious argument breaks out. \"Why don't you do a Lord Langley and get lost?\"
  • [75] Snoring nearby.
  • [80] Movement above; whispers in the moonlit gloom.
  • [90] A woman laughs when asked her name. \"You may call me Lord Langley, and I demand a dance of you.\"

Variable Interaction description[ | ]

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

root[ | ]

  • [0] Going from floor to floor, or even from room to room, one is often confronted with a staircase. These can vary between three and three hundred stairs, and there's no guarantee that on descending one you won't immediately be confronted with one going up.
  • [1] Going from floor to floor, or even from room to room, one is often confronted with a staircase. These can vary between three and three hundred stairs, and there's no guarantee that on descending one, you won't immediately be confronted with one going up.
  • [5] Guests wander by, up and down the stairs. They gossip idly, sharing early morning confessions: wistful, yearning, of events long past.
  • [10] Three doors on one landing, all opening onto the same room. A bed, draped in black silk, trimmed with silver. Guests lounge on it, drinking wine and lamenting fine cheese.
  • [15] Footsteps on the staircase above. A horn sounds. Guests thunder by, dressed in pinstripe. A deviless in a golden gown scowls at the stampede. \"Just because anything goes here doesn't mean that it should.\"
  • [20] You can smell cooking (sausages frying, bread toasting) and hear the sound of champagne being opened.
  • [25] An antique grandmother clock on the landing below begins to chime. Its face shows two suns, one bright, the other pale as the moon.
  • [30] The smell of incense and candle-smoke is strong. Curls of smoke dance like pale fire about a ruby chandelier.
  • [40] A hush has fallen over this landing. Austere portraits line the walls, glaring out of their frames as though daring you to comment on their antiquated hairlines.
  • [45] High laughter, raised voices, a bang, and then the smell of smoke. A contingent of veterans are remembering happier times on the staircase below.
  • [50] You can hear the sound of water running and concerned voices coming from the landing above.
  • [55] A clink of glasses from somewhere nearby. A giggle. An indecorous comment on the succession to the throne. Whose throne? The voices move on ahead.
  • [60] Rustling and giggling and other indecorous noises, but all you can see is a cupboard. Its doors are closed."
  • [65] A woman in a velvet gown is remonstrating with a Benthic Professor over proposed laws for a new London. She believes in the sovereignty of Parliament, he in the right of kings. Neither pays any attention to you.
  • [70] The scent of magnolia is strong. A glass door opens onto a garden. Flowers cut from Titania and Port Avon, fungus from Hybras and wilder growths stolen from Traitor's Wood languish here.
  • [75] Moonlight filters down through a dome of shivered glass. Conversation filters gently through the air, discreet and entirely un-repeatable.
  • [80] The smell of must and scholarly habits pervades the air. Books line the steps. Someone in a university cap dozes, their head resting by a seven volume compendium of the History of Hell's Grievances.
  • [85] Moonlight washes over the stairs, rendering them pale as bone. A moon, horned as the Morningstar, rises in a window to the south.
  • [90] The air is heady here; like spilt wine. Whispers from somewhere just out of sight.
  • [95] The stirrings of music nearby. A brief, passionate series of arpeggios played on a piano long out of tune.
  • [100] Beyond the next doorway, a dark room – massive and spooled in shadow. A single candle flashes on the diamonds of a monstrous chandelier.

Flirt[ | ]

  • [0] \"I've seen your type so many times that I could swear you were an attendant at Magdalene's,\" she says without looking up.
  • [1] \"I've seen your type so many times that I could swear you were an attendant at Magdalene's,\" she says without looking up.
  • [10] \"I've never seen such a lousy facsimile of a specimen,\" she says, through a mouthful of wine. \"And I've been to the Forge of Souls. Twice.\"
  • [20] \"What's the matter? Verdant eaten your brain? You look like you've never seen a woman before.\" She practically inhales her whiskey.
  • [30] \"My goodness, even the Curators would throw you back.\" She finishes her absinthe in one long gulp.
  • [40] \"So, how was your spell in the Midnight Cells?\"
  • [50] \"What's a girl got to do to get a drink around here?\"

Interactions[ | ]

Interactions in Brief[ | ]

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Interaction Action Result Type Change
Traversing the Staircases 'Open the Kitchen door' Requirement ≥ 10
Traversing the Staircases 'Enter the Little Lounge' Requirement ≥ 20
Traversing the Staircases 'Knock for admittance to the Yellow Drawing Room' Requirement ≥ 50
Traversing the Staircases 'Peek inside the Upstairs Laundry Cupboard' Requirement ≥ 80
Traversing the Staircases 'Climb up to the Solarium' Requirement ≥ 40
Traversing the Staircases 'Intrude upon the Bathroom' Requirement ≥ 30
Traversing the Staircases 'Knock for admittance to the Study' Requirement ≥ 60
Traversing the Staircases 'Enter the Ballroom' Requirement ≥ 100
Traversing the Staircases 'Send out an expedition into Langley Hall' Default / Challenge Fail +15
Traversing the Staircases 'Send out an expedition into Langley Hall' Success +20
Traversing the Staircases 'Embark on an expedition into Langley Hall' Default / Challenge Fail +5
Traversing the Staircases 'Embark on an expedition into Langley Hall' Success +10
Traversing the Staircases 'Embark on an expedition into Langley Hall' Default / Challenge Fail +5
Traversing the Staircases 'Embark on an expedition into Langley Hall' Success +10
Traversing the Staircases 'Exchange an Unlicensed Chart for help with your map of Langley Hall' Default / Challenge Fail +15
Traversing the Staircases 'Exchange a Moment of Inspiration for help with your map of Langley Hall' Default / Challenge Fail +15
Traversing the Staircases 'Find the study' Requirement ≥ 60

Interactions in Detail[ | ]

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Story Action Required Effect
Traversing the Staircases Open the Kitchen door Default:
Enter the Little Lounge Default:
Knock for admittance to the Yellow Drawing Room Default:
Peek inside the Upstairs Laundry Cupboard Default:
Climb up to the Solarium Default:
Intrude upon the Bathroom Default:
Knock for admittance to the Study Default:
Enter the Ballroom Default:
Send out an expedition into Langley Hall Default: Success:
    • Boot icon +20 x Staircase Spelunking
Embark on an expedition into Langley Hall Default:
    • Boot icon +5 x Staircase Spelunking
Success:
    • Boot icon +10 x Staircase Spelunking
Embark on an expedition into Langley Hall Default:
    • Boot icon +5 x Staircase Spelunking
Success:
    • Boot icon +10 x Staircase Spelunking
Exchange an Unlicensed Chart for help with your map of Langley Hall Default:
Exchange a Moment of Inspiration for help with your map of Langley Hall Default:
Find the study Default:


Triggered Events[ | ]

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Story Requirements Type Location
Traversing the Staircases
    • Staircase Spelunking ≥ 1
Story Event (Always :100%) Limbo

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