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The Carious Official
Whitewell ambience
Category Story Event
Type Story
Data ID 303424

The Carious Official is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story Description[ | ]

"Yes, I have an invitation to the Machabaeorum," says the Official. "No, I'm not going. And no, you can't have it either. I don't know how it works where you're from, but here it's generally frowned upon to pass your unused invitations to oddly insistent strangers."

Trigger conditions[ | ]

Location: The White Well
Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions[ | ]

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Dangle him out the window by his ankles
Falling such a long way probably wouldn't kill him, but it would be embarrassing and inconvenient, and may require paperwork afterwards.
    • Iron icon Iron challenge (92 for 100%)

Failed event
Whoops
You lose your grip.

The Official falls a long way for a long time, occasionally bouncing off the bleak stone wall of the Court. About halfway down you hear him declare, in an exasperated tone, "Ugh." There is a soft thud as he hits the frozen ground.

A heavy hand falls on your shoulder. It's a Graven guard, his skull looking oddly delicate atop a mountain of muscles and armour. He frogmarches you out of the Stone-Faced Court and, in full view of the queue, he pulls your entry permission-slip from your pocket and tears it into ribbons.
Successful event
An effective threat
"Ugh," says the Official, hanging upside-down above a spectacular drop. "Ugh. This is absolutely absurd. You can have the stupid invite, just haul me in, I'm getting cold."
Offer to take over his duties for the day
The Official leads you to his cramped room in the cellars. The only furnishings are a narrow bed and a desk piled mountainously with paperwork.
An ordeal in triplicate
"Sign everything in triplicate," says the Official, putting on his hat and coat. "Except those that must be signed in quintuplicate or umbilicate or Formal Correspondence. Don't forget that the Beseechment of Sorrowful and Earnest Supplication must be completed underwater. If you misspell anything, melt it all and start again. Good luck."

You sit at the desk. You write. And write. You can actually feel the life being sapped out of you.

When the Official returns, he hands you his invite with a chuckle. "Half the rules I told you were nonsense, by the by. Not the underwater requirement, though. That was very important."
On second thoughts...
You'll have to rethink your approach.


Links[ | ]

Links In[ | ]

Jewelledjudge The Stone-Faced Court

Links Out[ | ]

Maskedshade Urd Jewelledjudge The Stone-Faced Court


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