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The Eumenides
Maskedshade
Category Random Event
Type Random
Data ID 308191

The Eumenides is a Sunless Skies Random Event.

Story description[ | ]

Crew(Euripides)

Trigger conditions[ | ]

Terror icon Airs of Terror ≥ 51
Terror icon Terror ≥ 100
Condition icon Nightmares ≤ 3,
Maskedshade icon Served by Shades ≥ 3
Location: The High Wilderness
Area: The Sky
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions[ | ]

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Resist
Barricade yourself in your cabin.

Game note: Even if you succeed, you will lose many Crew and take damage to your Hull. Your Nightmares will worsen.

    • Crew icon Crew ≥ 1

    • Iron icon Iron challenge (125 for 100%)

Failed event
A new face
It is no use. The shades, with their undying persistence, eventually bash the door down. Hands, hard as steel, seize you and raise you up onto cold shoulders.

They process through the empty corridors of your engine. There is weeping from the cabins, but none come to your aid.

Finally, you come to the bridge, where they place you in the captain's chair. They take up the knife and the mask. It is time the shades had one of their own for their captain.
Successful event
What remains
Outside, the shades wait while their living leader rants and wails. The handle rattles, experimentally.

You raise your pistol, but are interrupted by a sudden burst of gunfire from outside. There are screams. Your living crew have come to your aid.

You emerge when all is quiet. Dead bodies litter the corridor. Cordite hangs on the air. Is anyone left alive? There is a final, distant, gunshot and an explosion as an ammunition store goes up. The last exchange in the battle for your engine.
Reign in glory
That night, the stars invite you to join them, and you set course for the brightest of their number. For a time, all is well.

Game note: Alone, there is nothing you can do to prevent your death.

An end
You are untroubled by lesser company. It is just you and the stars. Your chariot carries you through the heavens towards their resplendent courts.

Then, impertinently, your engines die. The cold begins to encroach. You order it back but icicles fringe the piping, despite your contrary desires. You are forced to dirty yourself with oil and manual labour. It is possible your newly elevated mindset causes you to make a mistake. A crossed fuel line, perhaps. A leak you missed. But when the engine reaches temperature, there is an explosion.

Briefly, a small, bright star joins the others in the sky.




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