The Minute to Midnight

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The Minute to Midnight
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Category	Story Quality WHAT TYPE
Type	Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup WHAT TYPE
Data ID	139267

The Minute to Midnight is considered a WARNINGWARNING in Sunless Skies.

Story description

"A fountain pen. An umbrella. A lantern. The Minute to Midnight had many guises, but when they were melted down and reforged, it took its original shape: a sword."

Quality status

The Minute to Midnight has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

Interaction description

These desciptions appear specifically when the value changes.

• [1] You have acquired a Minute to Midnight, making you a true quester for the Martyr-King's Cup

Decreased Interaction description

These desciptions appear specifically when the value decreases.

• [0] You no longer possess the Minute to Midnight

Interactions

Interactions in Brief

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Interaction	Action	Result Type	Change
The Shadow of the Sun	'Ambition: Break into the Arbiter's vault'	Requirement	≥ 1
Ambition: the Unseen Queen	'Present the Unseen Queen with the Minute to Midnight'	Requirement	≥ 1
Ambition: the Unseen Queen	'Collect the reforged Minute to Midnight'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 1
A Defeated Knight	'Prise the fountain pen from his twitching fingers'	Default / Challenge Fail	= 1
The Arbiter's Vault	'Raise the Minute to Midnight'	Requirement	≥ 1

Interactions in Detail

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Story	Action	Required	Effect
The Shadow of the Sun	Ambition: Break into the Arbiter's vault	A Vermilion Brand ≥ 1 A Cerulean Cinder ≥ 1 A Golden Spark ≥ 1 The Minute to Midnight ≥ 1 Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 17 [Head to the Shadow of the Sun, in Death's Door, and break into the Arbiter's vault to finally retrieve the Martyr-King's Cup] Blue Kingdom Status = 3 [Yoked] The Portrait of the Unseen Queen ≥ 1	Default: A Vermilion Brand = 0 A Cerulean Cinder = 0 A Golden Spark = 0 Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – The Fires of the Logoi = 2 [[COMPLETE]You have used the flames of the Logoi to enter the Arbiter's vault] Triggers event:  The Arbiter's Vault
Ambition: the Unseen Queen	Present the Unseen Queen with the Minute to Midnight	Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 5 [Return to the Unseen Queen and present her with the Minute to Midnight] The Minute to Midnight ≥ 1	Default: Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 6 [Prove yourself worthy of finding the Cup] Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – Proving Your Worth = 1 [The Unseen Queen has assigned you two tasks to prove you are worthy of the Martyr-King's Cup] Proving your Worth: The Blindness Throne = 1 [Travel to Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus and prove you are worthy of the Martyr-King's Cup by sitting upon the Blindness Throne without losing your eyes] Proving your Worth: The Cloak of the Lion = 1 [Travel to Pan and prove you are worthy of the Martyr-King's Cup by recovering the Cloak of the Lion]
	Collect the reforged Minute to Midnight	Date Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 12 [Return in two weeks, when the Minutes to Midnight will have been reforged as one]	Default: Ambition: The Martyr-King’s Cup – Stealing Time from the Tower of Chimes = 1 [Make preparations in London for your heist at the Tower of Chimes] Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 13 [Gather 1 Cryptic Benefactor and 500 Sovereigns and head to London to arrange matters for your upcoming heist at the Tower of Chimes] The Minute to Midnight = 1 [You have acquired a Minute to Midnight, making you a true quester for the Martyr-King's Cup] +2500 x Experience
A Defeated Knight	Prise the fountain pen from his twitching fingers	None	Default: The Minute to Midnight = 1 [You have acquired a Minute to Midnight, making you a true quester for the Martyr-King's Cup] Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 5 [Return to the Unseen Queen and present her with the Minute to Midnight] Triggers event:  The Bit Between
The Arbiter's Vault	Raise the Minute to Midnight	The Minute to Midnight ≥ 1 Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 17 [Head to the Shadow of the Sun, in Death's Door, and break into the Arbiter's vault to finally retrieve the Martyr-King's Cup]	Default: +4 x Terror Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 18 [The Minute to Midnight has kept you safe. Now steal the Martyr-King's cup from the vault]

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