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| The Arbiter's Vault | |
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| Category | Story Event |
| Type | Story |
| Data ID | 309049 |
The Arbiter's Vault is a Sunless Skies Story Event.
Story description[]
Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup(vault_description)
Trigger conditions[]
Location: Death's Door
Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)
Interactions[]
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| Raise the Minute to Midnight
A shard of killing time, honed until it can puncture the defences of suns.
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Frozen fires
The wall of fire freezes. The fire simply stops moving, each glowing tongue as static as if it had been carved from stone.
It is still hot enough at this distance to raise blisters across your flesh, however. You sheathe the Minute to Midnight and walk further into the vault.
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| Steal the other treasures
First things first.
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A quick inventory
If only you had a team of wagons and horses! Or even a large canvas sack would be nice.
As it is, you are forced to comb the vault for items small enough to fit in a pocket. You almost weep when you are forced to ignore a diamond as large as two cows. You find a brass toy soldier who barks commands and waves his sword in the air. You pocket an emerald which, while smaller than two cows, is larger than your fist. You gather up a roll of self-mapping maps and a jar of frozen words.
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| Step into your moonlit dreams
"You can't steal the Cup," says the Unseen Queen. "But that's why you brought me, isn't it?"
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A knight ends their quest
The Cup floats before you, suspended within a beam of moonlight. It is a simple stone goblet, far smaller and humbler than expected.
The Unseen Queen places her hand on your shoulder. "Take it, my knight," she whispers in your ear. "You earned it." The Cup seems to float between your fingers. You turn, kneel, and hand it reverently to your Queen.
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| Abscond
Symbols on the walls crackle and flare. Logoi tear themselves furiously from the Correspondence and into life, crackling and burning with newborn intensity.
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The Logoi's pursuit
You flee back upstairs, flames lashing at your heels, but the Logoi are enraged and far faster than you. You stumble and curl into a ball, expecting them to burn you into a few drifting cinders, but they pass overhead without giving you so much as a blister.
"I've bewildered them with visions," says the Unseen Queen. "But their minds aren't as malleable as humans'. We don't have much time. Go." You flee safely to the surface, and return to your engine with the Queen's portrait under your arm.
 The Shadow of the Sun
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