The Admiral Nelson

The Admiral Nelson
Category	Story Event
Type	Story
Data ID	276053

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The Admiral Nelson is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description[]

The Admiral Nelson is Port Prosper's most exclusive tea house. West-Enders congregate here to sit amongst the many little tables of ornamental shepherds and bulldogs and drink tea from little saucers with Her Renewed Majesty's face on them. The Admiral Nelson is so exclusive, in fact, that it opens only occasionally and never does anything so crass as advertise. People know by word of mouth. Initially, at least. Afterwards, most Prosperans join the queue.

Interactions[]

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Sneak teacakes for the porters A few East-End staff are kept on retainer, for the less rarefied requirements of the Nelson's running.	Eastward Reputation ≥ 3 [You are embraced by the impoverished East-Enders]	You cram a few dozen small cakes into a bag and make a quick exit out the back. The porters are exceedingly grateful. "It's considered impolite to tip these days, according to the new etiquette books," one grumbles through a mouthful of scone. "Hardly make enough to pay off the uniform." A few stolen and discarded pieces of crockery exchange hands. "Last seasons. Too modern for the Nelson." Amusements on Port Prosper = (1 to 100) Days on Port Prosper = Date+15 2* Eastward Reputation x Crate of Nostalgic Crockery Triggers event: Explore Port Prosper	Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
Take tea with the ladies who brunch A reading circle has gathered near the western window..	Westward Reputation ≥ 3 [You are embraced by the prosperous West-Enders. Or, you would be, were that not a terrible breach of decorum]	Improving Literature for the New Generation is passed around the table like cards at a particularly vicious game of bridge. Clemence has underlined the passages she thinks Florence most needs to hear, whilst Jeremy has brought something of his own devising, likening the other members of the circle to the seven deadly sins. The atmosphere is tense and lightened only by jam and scones. You leave burdened by both books and gloomy thoughts on your own moral character. Amusements on Port Prosper = (1 to 100) Days on Port Prosper = Date+15 2* Westward Reputation x Ministry-Approved Literature Triggers event: Explore Port Prosper	Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
Eavesdrop There is much that can be learned here at the heart of polite society. If you're discreet.	Veils challenge (33 for 100%)	Failed event
		You make yourself as unobtrusive as possible behind a complicated flower arrangement, but you are soon noticed by a formidable society matron. "Excuse me," she demands, "Have you dropped something? Besides your dignity, that is." +1 x Eastward Reputation -1 x Westward Reputation Amusements on Port Prosper = (1 to 100) Days on Port Prosper = Date+15 Triggers event: Explore Port Prosper
		Successful event
		You make yourself as unobtrusive as possible behind a complicated flower arrangement. A vice-reine and a duchess are engaged in a most unbecoming war of words, as they jab their butter knives into a shared meringue. A young diplomat is apparently thinking of a fresh start for himself in Albion, having quite ruined himself with dissolution in the 'unknown frontier'. A sky-farer long thought dead has returned, to general disappointment. Her stories about life in the Reach are very much Not The Thing. +1 x Eastward Reputation Amusements on Port Prosper = (1 to 100) Days on Port Prosper = Date+15 Triggers event: Explore Port Prosper
Engage in pointed gossip It is almost the Nelson's raison d'etre.	Hearts challenge (33 for 100%)	Failed event	Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.
		You engage in the great game of Port Prosper with aplomb, commenting on this dignitary's hemline and that gentleman's awful propensity for trying to keep pace with the Albion fashions. You are just starting to enjoy yourself when one of the waiting staff catches your eye. "Don't I know you?" You make your excuses. +1 x Westward Reputation -1 x Eastward Reputation Amusements on Port Prosper = (1 to 100) Date+15 x Days on Port Prosper Triggers event: Explore Port Prosper
		Successful event
		You join a circle of very energetic critics, who always take the table by the east window. You dispense acidic bon mots as you pass the cream to your left, and compliments if you don't listen too closely with the jam to your right. You comment merrily on the flaws and foibles of a number of people you have met and a great many more you haven't. It is a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. +1 x Westward Reputation Amusements on Port Prosper = (1 to 100) Days on Port Prosper = Date+15 Triggers event: Explore Port Prosper
Rescue your rabbit The Obviously Delicious Rabbit sits doe-eyed among the selection of cakes. What is it doing there?	Date ≥ Where's the Rabbit got to now? Obviously Delicious Rabbit ≥ 1	Nelson's discretion "That one?" an attendant points to the Obviously Delicious Rabbit, who has begun nibbling on an adjacent cake. "All right." The animal is served to you on a plate: crushed cake, fluffy tail and all. It is dusted with icing sugar, its rump is marred by frosting, but it is unharmed. No one has even nibbled on it. No one moves to sanitise its previous habitat. No one comments on the fact there was an Obviously Delicious Rabbit in the cake display. Where's the Rabbit got to now? = Date+15 -(1 to 5) x Terror	Advanced query needs investigation Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.

Links[]

Links In[]

Explore Port Prosper

Links Out[]

Explore Port Prosper

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